The dramatic works of Shakespeare Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PERSONS REPRESENTED. Duke, living in exile. Frederick, brother to the duke, and usurper ofhi dominions. y ' ) lords attending upon the duke in his banis... more »hment. Le Beau, a courtier attending upon Frederick. Charles, his wrestler. Oliver, j Jaques, sons of sir Rowland de Bois. Orlando, J Dennis, ) Senani to Oliver- Touchstone, a clown. Sir Oliver Mar-text, a vicar. Cohin, ) , , j SlLVIUS, ... William, a. country fellow, in love with Audrey. A person representing Hymen. Rosalind, daughter to the bunished 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. AS YOU LIKE IT. ACT 1. SCENE I—An Orchard near Oliver's House. Enter Orlando and Adam. Orlando. AS I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion 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 golden- ly 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 counten...« less