As I remember, Adam, it was upon this 1 fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand 2 crowns, and, as thou sayst, charged my brother on 3 his blessing to breed me well
Scene 1
Enter Orlando and Adam.
ORLANDO
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this 1
fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand 2
crowns , and, as thou sayst, charged my brother on 3
his blessing to breed me well . And there begins my 4
sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school , and 5
report speaks goldenly of his profit . For my part, he 6
keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more 7
properly, stays me here at home unkept ; for call you 8
that “keeping” for a gentleman of my birth , that 9
differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are 10
bred better, for, besides that they are fair with their 11
feeding , they are taught their manage and, to that 12
end, riders dearly hired . But I, his brother, gain 13
nothing under him but growth, for the which his 14
animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him 15
as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives 16
me, the something that nature gave me his counte-17
nance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with 18
his hinds , bars me the place of a brother, and, as 19
much as in him lies , mines my gentility with my 20
education . This is it, Adam, that grieves me, and the 21
spirit of my father, which I think is within me, 22
begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no 23
longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy 24
how to avoid it. 25
