Within an hour; and, pacing through the forest, 339 Under an oak, whose boughs were moss'd with age, And high top bald with dry antiquity, A wretched ragged man, o'er-grown with hair, A green and gilded snake had wreath'd itself, Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away Into a bush: under which bush's shade A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis 350 Lay couching, head on ground, with cat-like watch, The royal disposition of that beast, To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead: This seen, Orlando did approach the man, And found it was his brother, his elder brother. Cel. O, I have heard him speak of that same bro ther; And he did render him the most unnatural That liv'd 'mongst men. Oli. And well he might so do, For well I know he was unnatural. ვნი Ros. But, to Orlando ;-Did he leave him there, Food to the suck'd and hungry lioness? Oli. Oli. Twice did he turn his back, and purpos'd so: But, kindness, nobler ever than revenge, And nature, stronger than his just occasion, Who quickly fell before him; in which hurtling Cel. Are you his brother? Ros. Was it you he rescu’d? 370 Cel. Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him? To tell you what I was, since my conversion Ros. But, for the bloody napkin ? Oli. By and by. When from the first to last, betwixt us two, Tears our recountments had most kindly bath'd, As how I came into that desert place ; 380 In brief, he led me to the gentle duke. There stripp'd himself, and here upon his arm Which all this while had bled; and now he fainted, Brief, I recover'd him; bound up his wound; And, after some small space, being strong at heart, To tell this story, that you might excuse 391 Dy'd |