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Description of the play file

file name:asyoulik.txt
abbreviation:play
description:Shakespeare
file size:125179 bytes

Sample of contents of asyoulik.txt
(Lines 81 to 100)

 [Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]

 ORLANDOAs I remember, Adam, it was upon this¬
fashion
 bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,
 and, as thou sayest, 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
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