Duke S. I love to cope him3 in these sullen fits, Show me the place; For then he's full of matter. 2 Lord. I'll bring you to him straight. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Room in the Palace. Enter Duke FREDERICK, Lords, and Attendants. Duke F. Can it be possible, that no man saw them? It cannot be some villains of my court Are of consent and sufferance in this. 1 Lord. I cannot hear of any that did see her. 2 Lord. My lord, the roynish clown, at whom so oft Your daughter and her cousin much commend That youth is surely in their company. Duke F. Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither: If he be absent, bring his brother to me, 5 6 7---- [Exeunt. to cope him —] To encounter, or engage with him. SCENE III. Before Oliver's House. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting. Orl. Who's there? Adam. What! my young master?-O, my gentle master, O, my sweet master, O you memory 8 Of old sir Rowland! why, what make you here? you Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, O, what a world is this, when what is comely Orl. Why, what's the matter? Adam. O unhappy youth, Come not within these doors; within this roof The enemy of all your graces lives: Your brother (no, no brother; yet the son Yet not the son; I will not call him son Hath heard your praises; and this night he means 8 O you memory-] Shakspeare often uses memory for memorial; and Beaumont and Fletcher sometimes. 9 so fond-] i. e. so indiscreet, so inconsiderate. 1 The bony priser—] The word bonny occurs more than once in the novel from which this play of As You Like It is taken. It is likewise much used by the common people in the northern counties. I believe, however, bony to be the true reading. MALONE. To burn the lodging where you use to lie, He will have other means to cut you off; I overheard him, and his practices. This is no place2, this house is but a butchery; Orl. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go? Adam. No matter whither, so you come not here. Orl. What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food? Or, with a base and boisterous sword, enforce A thievish living on the common road? This I must do, or know not what to do: I rather will subject me to the malice Of a diverted blood, and bloody brother. Adam. But do not so: I have five hundred crowns, The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father, Which I did store, to be my foster-nurse, When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown; Take that and He that doth the ravens feed, : Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; 2 This is no place,] i. e. for you. 3 diverted ] turned out of the course of nature. Orl. O good old man; how well in thee appears Adam. Master, go on; and I will follow thee, [Exeunt. SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden. Enter ROSALIND in boy's clothes, CELIA drest like a Ros. O Jupiter! how weary are my spirits! not weary. Ros. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman: but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show 4 Even with the having:] Even with the promotion gained by service is service extinguished. JOHNSON. itself courageous to petticoat: therefore, courage, good Aliena. Cel. I pray you, bear with me; I cannot go no further. Touch. For my part, I had rather bear with you, than bear you: yet I should bear no cross, if I did bear you; for, I think, you have no money in your purse. Ros. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touch. Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home, I was in a better place; but travellers must be content. Ros. Ay, be so, good Touchstone:- Look you, who comes here; a young man, and an old, in solemn talk. Enter CORIN and SILVIUS. Cor. That is the way to make her scorn you still. Cor. Into a thousand that I have forgotten. Thou hast not lov'd: Or if thou hast not sat as I do now, + Wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, 5 — no cross,] A cross was a piece of money stamped with a On this our author is perpetually quibbling. cross. "Wearing." MALONE. |