AS YOU LIKE IT
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by William Shakespeare




Persons represented.

DUKE, living in exile.
FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usurper of his Dominions.
AMIENS, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment.
JAQUES, Lord attending on the Duke in his Banishment.
LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Frederick.
CHARLES, his Wrestler.
OLIVER, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois.
JAQUES, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois.
ORLANDO, Son of Sir Rowland de Bois.
ADAM, Servant to Oliver.
DENNIS, Servant to Oliver.
TOUCHSTONE, a Clown.
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar.
CORIN, Shepherd.
SILVIUS, Shepherd.
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.



ACT I.

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 poor a 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, 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 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