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Vyte Matrial, and are not unworthy of a place even in a
Shakespeare:

Love in my bosom like a bee

Doth suck his sweet:

Now with his wings he plays with me,
Now with his feet.

Within mine eyes he makes his nest,
11 bed amidst my tender breast,
My kisses are his daily feast,
And yet he robs me of my rest.
Ah, wanton, will ye?

And if I sleep, then percheth he

With pretty flight;

And makes a pillow of my knee

The livelong night.

Strike I my lute, he tunes the string,

11e music plays, if so I sing,

11e lends me every lovely thing;
Yet cruel he my heart doth sting

legel.

Whist, wanton, still ye?

PERSONS REPRESENTED.*

Duke, living in exile.

FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions.

AMIENS, Lords attending upon the Duke in his
JAQUES
banishment.

LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick.
CHARLES, his Wrestler.

OLIVER,

JAQUES,

Sons of Sir Rowland de Bois.

ORLANDO,

ADAM, Servants to Oliver.

DENNIS,

TOUCHSTONE, a Clown.

SIR OLIVER MAR-TEXT, a Vicar.

CORIN, Shepherds.

SILVIUS, S

WILLIAM, a country Fellow, in love with Audrey.

A Person representing Hymen.

ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke.

CELIA, Daughter to Frederick.

PHEBE, a Shepherdess.

AUDREY, a country Wench.

Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants.

The SCENE lies, first, near Oliver's House; afterwards, partly in the Usurper's Court, and partly in the Forest of Arden.

* This list of the Dramatis Personæ is not in the old copies, it was added by Rowe.

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OS I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion1 bequeathed me by will but a poor thousand crowns; and, as thou say'st, 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, sties 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

1 Malone inserted He here, at the instance of Sir W. Blackstone; the absence of the pronoun, which had passed off long before, helps to mark the speech as the continuation of a conference, not the commencement of a set statement.

2 The old orthography staies was an easy corruption of sties; which I think with Warburton the true reading. So Caliban says: "And here you sty me

In this hard rock."

dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth: for the which his animals on his dung-hills 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 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. Oli. What mar you then, sir?

Orl. Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.

Oli. Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.

3 What make you here? i. e. what do you here? See note in Love's Labour's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3.

Be naught awhile. Mr. Gifford has shown, by very numerous quotations, that Warburton was right in his explanation of this phrase. See Jonson's Bartholomew Fair, vol. iv. p. 421: "Be naught," says Mr. Nares, "or go and be naught, was formerly a petty execration of common usage between anger and contempt, which has been supplanted by others that are worse, as, be hanged, be curst, &c.; awhile, or the while, was frequently added merely to nd the phrase." So in The Story of King Darius, 1565:

"Come away, and be naught a whyle."

wetnam, a comedy, 1620:

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'get you both in, and be naught awhile." Labour's Lost, Act v. Sc. i. note 29.

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