Lord Ellesmere's copy agrees with Capell's literatim, and reads, not 'bleat,' as Mr Collier says, but 'bleake.' Mr Halliwell says that line 74, Why...lamb, is omitted in one copy of Heyes's Quarto which he has seen, but that it is found in three other copies. NOTE XIV. IV. I. 21O. Warburton has claimed this conjecture in a MS. note to our edition of Theobald, but he did not adopt it in his own text. NOTE XV. IV. I. 303. Mr Knight incorrectly says that this line is first found in the Folio of 1623. It is in all the quartos. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ1. DUKE, living in banishment. FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his dominions. AMIENS, } JAQUES, lords attending on the banished Duke. LE BEAU, a courtier attending upon Frederick. WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with Audrey3. A person representing Hymen. ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke. CELIA, daughter to Frederick. PHEBE, a shepherdess. AUDREY, a country wench. Lords, pages, and attendants, &c. SCENE-Oliver's house; Duke Frederick's court; and the Forest of Arden. 1 DRAMATIS PERSONE] First given by Rowe. 2 LE BEAU] LE BEU. Rowe. See note (1). 3 WILLIAM] 'Clown in love with Audrey,' and 'William, another clown in love with Audrey.' Rowe (ed. 2). AS YOU LIKE IT. ACT I. SCENE I. Orchard of OLIVER'S house. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM. Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion. bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me his countenance seems to take from me: he lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and, as much as in 1. fashion] Ff. my father Hanmer (Warburton). fashion; my father Heath conj. fashion. He Malone (Blackstone conj.). fashion he Ritson conj. 2. me by me. poor a] F1. By Johnson. a poor F2 F3 F4 3. charged my brother] my brother 7. stays] Ff. stys Warburton. 15, 16. countenance] discountenance 5 ΙΟ 15 him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it. Adam. Yonder comes my master, your brother. Orl. Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up. Enter OLIVER. Oli. Now, sir! what make you here? Orl. Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing. Orl. Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God Orl. Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come to such penury? Oli. Know you where you are, sir? Orl. O, sir, very well: here in your orchard. Oli. Know you before whom, sir? Orl. Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the firstborn; but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is nearer to his reverence. this. 23. 25. Oli. What, boy! Orl. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in SCENE II. Pope. Enter...] Ff (after line 23). 26. here] F3 F4. heere F1. F2 31. 34. prodigal] prodigal's Seymour conj. 39. him] he Pope. heare 46. be naught] do aught Hanmer. he wrought Jackson conj. reverence] revenues Anon MS. conj. revenue Hanmer (Warburton). See note (11). 20 25 30 35 40 |