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As You Like It

Act II, Scene 3

Before OLIVER'S house.
 
[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM]
 
ORLANDO
Who's there?
 
ADAM
        ,         ,    ,                  x      ,
      What my | young mas/ter, oh | my gentle | master,
                ,    ,       ,        ,    ,
      Oh my / sweet mast|er, O | you mem|ory
          ,         ,         ,           ,          ,
      Of old | Sir^Row|land; why,| what make | you here?
       ,     2       ,  2       ,         ,             ,
      Why are you | virtuous?| Why do | people | love you?
            ,         ,           x        ,           ,  2
      And where|fore are | you gentle,| strong, and | valiant?
            ,          ,        ,        ,     ,
      Why would | you be | so fond | to ov|ercome
           ,       ,      ,        ,   2      ,
      The bon|ny pris|er of | the hum|orous duke?
                 x       ,          ,         ,       ,
      Your praise is | come too | swiftly | home be|fore you.
        ,         ,   ,              T    T   .  T
      Know you | not mas/ter, to | some kind of men,
              ,       ,           ,        ,    ,
      Their grac|es serve | them but | as en|emies,
           ,         ,            ,         x      ,
      No more | do yours:| your virt|ues gentle | master
            ,      ,         ,      ,      2    ,
      Are sanc|tified | and ho|ly trait|ors to you:
           ,        ,          ,             x       ,
      Oh what | a world | is this,| when what is | comely
         ,       ,              x
      Enven|oms him | that bears it?  \\
 
ORLANDO
       ,                 ,
      Why, what's | the mat|ter?
 
ADAM
                                  ,      ,       ,
                                  O | unhap|py youth,
            ,        ,            ,         ,           ,
      Come not | within | these doors:| within | this roof
           ,   ,       ,           ,       ,
      The en|emy | of all | your grac|es lives
             ,        ,        ,        ,         ,
      Your broth|er, no,| no broth|er, yet | the son
            ,         ,        ,          ,         ,
      (Yet not | the son,| I will | not call | him son)
          ,       ,     x           ,          ,
      Of him | I was | about to | call his | father,
             ,            ,        ,           ,          ,
      Hath heard | your prais|es, and | this night | he means,
           ,          ,        ,          ,        ,
      To burn | the lodg|ing where | you use | to lie,
           ,        ,         ,        ,         ,
      And you | within | it: if | he fail | of that
           ,          ,       ,         ,         ,
      He will | have oth|er means | to cut | you off;
         ,     ,          ,          ,     ,
      I ov|erheard | him and | his prac|tices:
        T   .  T   T               x      ,        ,   2
      This is no place,| this house is | but a | butchery;
         ,          ,         ,    ,   ,
      Abhor | it, fear | it, do | not ent/er it.
 
ORLANDO
            ,       ,        ,             ,        ,
      Why whith|er Ad|am, wouldst | thou have | me go?
 
ADAM
          ,        ,        ,         ,          ,
      No mat|ter whith|er, so | you come | not here.
 
ORLANDO
        ,                    ,        ,        ,         ,
      What, wouldst | thou have | me go | and beg | my food,
           ,        ,          ,    2      ,         ,
      Or with | a base | and bois|terous sword | enforce
          ,        ,       ,        ,        ,
      A thiev|ish liv|ing on | the com|mon road?
           ,         ,        ,          ,        ,
      This I | must do,| or know | not what | to do:
            ,        ,         ,       ,       ,
      Yet this | I will | not do,| do how | I can,
          ,       ,         ,        ,          x
      I rath|er will | subject | me to | the malice
       ,  2     ,        ,            ,        ,
      Of a di|verted | blood, and | bloody | brother.
 
ADAM
           ,        ,              ,    ,         ,
      But do | not so:| I have / five hund|red crowns,
             ,       ,        ,      ,   2         ,
      The thrift|y hire | I saved | under your | father,
            ,         ,         ,        ,       ,
      Which^I | did store | to be | my fost|er-nurse,
             ,         ,       2    ,      T    T    T
      When serv|ice should | in my old | limbs lie lame,
           ,     ,      ,         ,         ,
      And un|regard|ed age | in corn|ers thrown.
        T    T    .   T          ,         ,        ,
      Take that, and he | that doth | the rav|ens feed,
       ,     ,    2        ,        ,          ,
      Yea, prov/idently | caters | for the | sparrow,
          ,        ,       ,      ,             ,
      Be com|fort to | my age:| Here is | the gold,
           ,      ,        ,           2    ,          ,      ->
      And all | this I | give you,| Let me be | your serv||ant,
            2      ,   ,     ,   2        ,          ,
      Though I / look old,| yet I am | strong and | lusty;
           ,        ,        ,      ,       ,
      For in | my youth | I nev|er did | apply
       ,            ,          ,       ,        ,
      Hot, and | rebel|lious liqu|ors in | my blood,
           ,          ,        ,        ,        ,
      Nor did | not with | unbash|ful fore|head woo,
            ,          ,        ,       ,    ,
      The means | of weak|ness and | debil|ity,
        ,               x      ,       ,       ,
      Therefore | my age is | as a | lusty | winter,
        ,            ,       ,        ,         ,
      Frosty,| but kind|ly; let | me go | with you,
            ,         ,       ,       ,       ,
      I'll do | the serv|ice of | a young|er man
          ,          ,         ,       ,      ,
      In all | your bus|iness and | neces|sities.
 
ORLANDO
           ,         ,          ,         ,        ,
      Oh good | old man,| how well | in thee | appears
            ,         ,                 ,  ,     ,
      The const|ant serv|ice of the // antique world,
             ,        ,          ,      ,          ,
      When serv|ice sweat | for dut|y, not | for meed:
        ,         ,              ,             ,     ,
      Thou art | not for | the fash|ion of / these times,
              ,           ,          ,        ,    ,
      Where none | will sweat,| but for | promo|tion,
           ,        ,         ,             ,       ,
      And hav|ing that | do choke | their serv|ice up,
        x      2       ,           ,        ,          ,
      Even with the | having,| it is | not so | with thee:
            ,         ,            ,        ,        ,
      But poor | old man,| thou prunst | a rot|ten tree,
            ,       ,         ,       ,        ,
      That can|not so | much^as | a bloss|om yield,
           ,        ,          ,          ,      ,
      In lieu | of all | thy pains | and hus|bandry,
            ,          ,      ,     2    ,       ,
      But come | thy ways,| we'll go a|long to|gether,
           ,         ,          ,        ,       ,
      And ere | we have | thy youth|ful wag|es spent,
              ,       ,          ,        ,         ,
      We'll light | upon | some set|tled low | content.
 
ADAM
       ,           ,       ,         ,        ,
      Master | go on,| and I | will fol|low thee
                 ,    ,           ,          ,     ,
      To the / last gasp,| with truth | and loy|alty,
             x          ,           ,     .  T    T   T
      From sevent|een^years,| till now | almost fourscore
        T    T   T        ,           ,         ,
      Here lived I,| but now | live^here | no more
           x          ,      ,             ,         ,
      At sevent|een^years,| many | their fort|unes seek
           ,     ,   ,              T    T  .   T
      But at | fourscore,/ it is | too late a week,
            ,       ,       ,      ,           x
      Yet fort|une can|not rec|ompense | me better
                 ,    ,         ,         ,          x
      Than to / die well,| and not | my mast|er's debtor.
 
[Exeunt]

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