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[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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