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| <H3>SCENE III. Before OLIVER'S house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Who's there?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>What, my young master? O, my gentle master!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>O my sweet master! O you memory</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Of old Sir Rowland! why, what make you here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Why are you virtuous? why do people love you?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>And wherefore are you gentle, strong and valiant?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Why would you be so fond to overcome</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>The bonny priser of the humorous duke?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Know you not, master, to some kind of men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Their graces serve them but as enemies?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>No more do yours: your virtues, gentle master,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>O, what a world is this, when what is comely</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Envenoms him that bears it!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=16>Why, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>O unhappy youth!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Come not within these doors; within this roof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>The enemy of all your graces lives:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Your brother--no, no brother; yet the son--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Yet not the son, I will not call him son</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Of him I was about to call his father--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Hath heard your praises, and this night he means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>To burn the lodging where you use to lie</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>And you within it: if he fail of that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>He will have other means to cut you off.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>I overheard him and his practises.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>This is no place; this house is but a butchery:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=31>No matter whither, so you come not here.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>A thievish living on the common road?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>This I must do, or know not what to do:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Yet this I will not do, do how I can;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>I rather will subject me to the malice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Of a diverted blood and bloody brother.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=39>But do not so. I have five hundred crowns,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>The thrifty hire I saved under your father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Which I did store to be my foster-nurse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>When service should in my old limbs lie lame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>And unregarded age in corners thrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>And all this I give you. Let me be your servant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>For in my youth I never did apply</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>The means of weakness and debility;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>I'll do the service of a younger man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>In all your business and necessities.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>ORLANDO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=57>O good old man, how well in thee appears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>The constant service of the antique world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>When service sweat for duty, not for meed!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Thou art not for the fashion of these times,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Where none will sweat but for promotion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>And having that, do choke their service up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Even with the having: it is not so with thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>That cannot so much as a blossom yield</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>But come thy ways; well go along together,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>And ere we have thy youthful wages spent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>We'll light upon some settled low content.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>ADAM</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>Master, go on, and I will follow thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>From seventeen years till now almost fourscore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Here lived I, but now live here no more.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>At seventeen years many their fortunes seek;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>But at fourscore it is too late a week:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>Yet fortune cannot recompense me better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>Than to die well and not my master's debtor.</A><br> | |
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