4As I remember Adam, it was vpon this fashion

5bequeathed me by will, but poore a thousand

6Crownes, and as thou saist, charged my bro-

7ther on his blessing to breed mee well: and

8there begins my sadnesse: My brother Iaques he keepes

9at schoole, and report speakes goldenly of his profit:

10for my part, he keepes me rustically at home, or (to speak

11more properly) staies me heere at home vnkept: for call

12you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that dif-

13fers not from the stalling of an Oxe? his horses are bred

14better, for besides that they are faire with their feeding,

15they are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders

16deerely hir'd: but I (his brother) gaine nothing vnder

17him but growth, for the which his Animals on his

18dunghils are as much bound to him as I: besides this no-

19thing that he so plentifully giues me, the something that

20nature gaue mee, his countenance seemes to take from

21me: hee lets mee feede with his Hindes, barres mee the

22place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my

23gentility with my education. This is it Adam that

24grieues me, and the spirit of my Father, which I thinke

25is within mee, begins to mutinie against this seruitude.

26I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise

27remedy how to auoid it.

29Adam. Yonder comes my Master, your brother.

30Orlan. Goe a-part Adam, and thou shalt heare how

31he will shake me vp.

32Oli. Now Sir, what make you heere?

33Orl. Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing.

34Oli. What mar you then sir?

35Orl. Marry sir, I am helping you to mar that which

36God made, a poore vnworthy brother of yours with

37idlenesse.

38Oliuer. Marry sir be better employed, and be naught

39a while.

40Orlan. Shall I keepe your hogs, and eat huskes with

41them? what prodigall portion haue I spent, that I should

42come to such penury?

43Oli. Know you where you are sir?

44Orl. O sir, very well: heere in your Orchard.

45Oli. Know you before whom sir?

46Orl. I, better then him I am before knowes mee: I

47know you are my eldest brother, and in the gentle con-1751

48dition of bloud you should so know me: the courtesie of

49nations allowes you my better, in that you are the first

50borne, but the same tradition takes not away my bloud,

51were there twenty brothers betwixt vs: I haue as much

52of my father in mee, as you, albeit I confesse your com-

53ming before me is neerer to his reuerence.

54Oli. What Boy.

56Oli. Wilt thou lay hands on me villaine?

57Orl. I am no villaine: I am the yongest sonne of Sir

58Rowland de Boys, he was my father, and he is thrice a vil-

59laine that saies such a father begot villaines: wert thou

60not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy

61throat, till this other had puld out thy tongue for saying

62so, thou hast raild on thy selfe.

63Adam. Sweet Masters bee patient, for your Fathers

64remembrance, be at accord.

65Oli. Let me goe I say.

66Orl. I will not till I please: you shall heare mee: my

67father charg'd you in his will to giue me good educati-

68on: you haue train'd me like a pezant, obscuring and

69hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities: the spirit

70of my father growes strong in mee, and I will no longer

71endure it: therefore allow me such exercises as may be-

72come a gentleman, or giue mee the poore allottery my

73father left me by testament, with that I will goe buy my

74fortunes.

75Oli. And what wilt thou do? beg when that is spent?

76Well sir, get you in. I will not long be troubled with

77you: you shall haue some part of your will, I pray you

78leaue me.

79Orl. I will no further offend you, then becomes mee

80for my good.

81Oli. Get you with him, you olde dogge.

82Adam. Is old dogge my reward: most true, I haue

83lost my teeth in your seruice: God be with my olde ma-

85Oli. Is it euen so, begin you to grow vpon me? I will

86physicke your ranckenesse, and yet giue no thousand

87crownes neyther: holla Dennis.

89Den. Calls your worship?

90Oli. Was not Charles the Dukes Wrastler heere to

91speake with me?

92Den. So please you, he is heere at the doore, and im-

93portunes accesse to you.

94Oli. Call him in: 'twill be a good way: and to mor-

95row the wrastling is.

97Cha. Good morrow to your worship.

98Oli. Good Mounsier Charles: what's the new newes

99at the new Court?

100Charles. There's no newes at the Court Sir, but the

101olde newes: that is, the old Duke is banished by his yon-

102ger brother the new Duke, and three or foure louing

103Lords haue put themselues into voluntary exile with

104him, whose lands and reuenues enrich the new Duke,

105therefore he giues them good leaue to wander.

106Oli. Can you tell if Rosalind the Dukes daughter bee

107banished with her Father?

108Cha. O no; for the Dukes daughter her Cosen so

109loues her, being euer from their Cradles bred together,

110that hee would haue followed her exile, or haue died to

111stay behind her; she is at the Court, and no lesse beloued

112of her Vncle, then his owne daughter, and neuer two La-

113dies loued as they doe.

114Oli. Where will the old Duke liue?

115Cha. They say hee is already in the Forrest of Arden,

116and a many merry men with him; and there they liue

117like the old Robin Hood of England: they say many yong

118Gentlemen flocke to him euery day, and fleet the time

119carelesly as they did in the golden world.

120Oli. What, you wrastle to morrow before the new

121Duke.

122Cha. Marry doe I sir: and I came to acquaint you

123with a matter: I am giuen sir secretly to vnderstand, that

124your yonger brother Orlando hath a disposition to come

125in disguis'd against mee to try a fall: to morrow sir I

126wrastle for my credit, and hee that escapes me without

127some broken limbe, shall acquit him well: your brother

128is but young and tender, and for your loue I would bee

129loth to foyle him, as I must for my owne honour if hee

130come in: therefore out of my loue to you, I came hither

131to acquaint you withall, that either you might stay him

132from his intendment, or brooke such disgrace well as he

133shall runne into, in that it is a thing of his owne search,

134and altogether against my will.

135Oli. Charles, I thanke thee for thy loue to me, which

136thou shalt finde I will most kindly requite: I had my

137selfe notice of my Brothers purpose heerein, and haue by

138vnder-hand meanes laboured to disswade him from it;

139but he is resolute. Ile tell thee Charles, it is the stubbor-

140nest yong fellow of France, full of ambition, an enuious

141emulator of euery mans good parts, a secret & villanous

142contriuer against mee his naturall brother: therefore vse

143thy discretion, I had as liefe thou didst breake his necke

144as his finger. And thou wert best looke to't; for if thou

145dost him any slight disgrace, or if hee doe not mightilie

146grace himselfe on thee, hee will practise against thee by

147poyson, entrap thee by some treacherous deuise, and ne-

148uer leaue thee till he hath tane thy life by some indirect

149meanes or other: for I assure thee, (and almost with

150teares I speake it) there is not one so young, and so vil-

151lanous this day liuing. I speake but brotherly of him,

152but should I anathomize him to thee, as hee is, I must

153blush, and weepe, and thou must looke pale and

154wonder.

155Cha. I am heartily glad I came hither to you: if hee

156come to morrow, Ile giue him his payment: if euer hee

157goe alone againe, Ile neuer wrastle for prize more: and

159 Farewell good Charles. Now will I stirre this Game-

160ster: I hope I shall see an end of him; for my soule (yet

161I know not why) hates nothing more then he: yet hee's

162gentle, neuer school'd, and yet learned, full of noble

163deuise, of all sorts enchantingly beloued, and indeed

164so much in the heart of the world, and especially of my

165owne people, who best know him, that I am altogether

166misprised: but it shall not be so long, this wrastler shall

167cleare all: nothing remaines, but that I kindle the boy