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The forest.
[A table set out. Enter DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, and Lords like outlaws]
DUKE SENIOR
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I think | he be | transformed | into | a beast,
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For I | can no|where find | him, like | a man.
FIRST LORD
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My lord,| he is | but even | now gone hence,
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Here was | he mer|ry, hear|ing of | a song.
DUKE SENIOR
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If he | compact | of jars,| grow mus/ical,
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We shall | have short|ly dis|cord in | the
spheres:
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Go seek | him, tell | him I | would speak | with
him.
[Enter JAQUES]
FIRST LORD
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He saves | my lab|or by | his own | approach.
DUKE SENIOR
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Why how now | monsieur,| what a life | is this
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That your / poor friends | must woo | your
comp|any,
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What, you | look mer/rily. \\
JAQUES
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A fool,| a fool:| I met | a fool | in the forest,
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A mot|ley fool |(a mis|era|ble world)
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As I | do live | by food,| I met | a fool,
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Who laid | him down,| and basked | him in | the sun,
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And railed | on La|dy Fort|une in / good terms,
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In good set terms,| and yet | a mot|ley fool.
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Good mor|row fool |(quoth^I):| No sir,| quoth^he,
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Call me not*| fool, till | heaven hath | sent me
| fortune,
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And then | he drew | a di|al from | his poke,
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And look|ing on | it, with / lack-lust|er eye,
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Says, very wise|ly, It | is ten |o'clock:
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Thus we | may see |(quoth^he)| how the / world
wags:
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'Tis but | an hour | ago,| since^it | was nine,
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And after | one hour more,| 'twill be | eleven,
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And so | from hour | to hour,| we ripe,| and
ripe,
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And then | from hour | to hour,| we rot,| and
rot,
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And there|by hangs | a tale.| When I | did hear
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The mot|ley fool,| thus^mor|al on | the time,
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My lungs | began | to crow | like chant|icleer,
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That fools | should be | so deep-|contemp|lative:
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And I | did laugh,| sans int|ermis|sion
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An ho|ur by | his dial.| O nob|le fool,
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A worth|y fool:| Motley's | the on|ly wear.
DUKE SENIOR
What fool is this?
JAQUES
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O worth|y fool:| One that hath | been a |
courtier
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And says,| if lad|ies be | but young,| and fair,
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They have | the gift | to know it:| and in | his
brain,
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Which is | as dry | as the re|mainder | biscuit
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After a | voyage:| he hath / strange pla|ces
crammed
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With ob|serva|tion,| the which | he vents
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In mang|led forms.| O that | I were | a fool,
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I am | ambit|ious for | a mot|ley coat.
DUKE SENIOR
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Thou shalt | have one.
JAQUES
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It is | my on|ly suit,
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Provid|ed that | you weed | your bet|ter
judg||ments
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Of all | opin|ion that / grows rank | in them,
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That I | am wise.| I must | have lib|erty
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Withal,| as large | a chart|er as | the wind,
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To blow | on whom | I please,| for so fools have:
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And they | that are | most galled / with my |
folly,
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They most | must laugh:| And why | sir, must |
they so?
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The why | is plain,| as way | to par|ish church:
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He, that | a fool | doth ve|ry wise|ly hit,
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Doth^ve|ry fool|ishly,| although | he smart
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Not to seem sense|less of | the bob.| If not,
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The wise | man's fol/ly is | anat|omized
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Even by | the squan|dering glan|ces of | the
fool.
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Invest | me in | my mot|ley: give | me leave
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To speak | my mind,| and I | will through | and
through
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Cleanse the | foul bo/dy of the | infec|ted
world,
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If they will | patient|ly re|ceive my | medicine.
DUKE SENIOR
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Fie on | thee. I | can tell | what thou | wouldst
do.
JAQUES
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What, for | a count|er, would | I do,| but good?
DUKE SENIOR
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Most mis|chievous / foul sin,| in chid|ing sin:
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For thou | thyself | hast been | a lib|ertine,
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As sens|ual as | the brut|ish sting | itself;
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And all | the embossed | sores, and | headed |
evils,
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That thou | with lic|ense of / free foot | hast
caught,
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Wouldst thou | disgorge | into | the gene|ral
world.
JAQUES
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Why who | cries^out | on pride, \\
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That can | therein | tax any | private | party:
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Doth it not flow | as huge|ly as | the sea,
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Till that | the wear|y ver|y means | do ebb.
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What wom|an in | the cit|y do | I name,
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When that | I say | the cit|y-wom|an bears
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The cost | of princ|es on un|worthy | shoulders?
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Who can | come^in,| and say | that I | mean her,
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When such | a one | as she,| such is her |
neighbor?
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Or what | is he | of bas|est func|tion,
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That says | his brav/ery is | not of my cost,
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Thinking | that I | mean him,| but there|in suits
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His fol|ly to | the met|tle of | my speech,
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There then,| how then,| what then,| let me see |
wherein
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My tongue | hath wronged | him: if | it do | him
right,
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Then he | hath wronged | himself:| if he | be
free,
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Why then | my tax|ing like | a wild-goose flies
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Unclaimed | of an|y man.| But who | comes^here?
[Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn]
ORLANDO
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Forbear,| and eat | no more.
JAQUES
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Why I have | eat none yet. (tri with prev)
ORLANDO
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Nor shalt | not, till | neces|sity | be served.
JAQUES
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Of what kind | should this | cock come of?
DUKE SENIOR
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Art thou | thus bold|ened man | by thy |
distress?
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Or else | a rude | despis|er of good | manners,
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That in | civil|ity | thou seemst | so emp||ty?
ORLANDO
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You touched | my vein | at first,| the thorn|y
point
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Of bare | distress,| hath tane | from me | the
show
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Of smooth | civil|ity: yet | am I in|land bred,
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And know | some nurt|ure: But | forbear,| I say,
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He dies | that touch|es an|y of | this fruit,
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Till I | and my | affairs | are ans|wered.
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And you | will not | be ans|wered | with reason,
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I must^|die.
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What would | you have?|
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Your gent|leness | shall force,| more than | your
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Move us | to gent|leness. \\
ORLANDO
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I al|most die | for food,| and let | me have it.
DUKE SENIOR
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Sit down | and feed,| and wel|come to | our
table.
ORLANDO
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Speak you | so gent|ly? Pardon | me I | pray you,
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I thought | that all | things had | been sav|age
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And there|fore put | I on | the count|enance
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Of stern | command|ment. But | whatere | you are
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That in | this des|ert in|acces|sible,
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Under | the shade | of mel|anchol|y boughs,
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Lose and | neglect | the creep|ing hours | of
time:
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If ev|er you | have looked | on bet|ter days:
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If ev|er been | where bells | have knolled | to
church:
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If ev|er sat | at any | good man's feast:
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If ev|er from | your eye|lids wiped a tear,
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And know | what 'tis | to pi|ty, and / be
pit||ied:
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Let | gentleness | my strong | enforce|ment be,
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In the / which hope,| I blush,| and hide | my
sword.
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True is | it, that | we have | seen better days,
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And have | with hol|y bell | been knolled | to
church,
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And sat | at good men's feasts,| and wiped | our
eyes
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Of drops,| that sac|red pity | hath en|gendered:
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And there|fore sit | you down | in gent|leness,
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And take | upon | command,| what help | we have
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That to | your want|ing may | be min|istered.
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Then but | forbear | your food | a lit|tle while:
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Whiles (like a doe)| I go | to find | my fawn,
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And give | it food.| There is an | old poor man,
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Who aft|er me,| hath ma|ny a wear|y step
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Limped in pure love:| till* he | be first |
sufficed,
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Oppressed | with two | weak evils, age,| and
hung||er,
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I will / not touch | a bit.
DUKE SENIOR
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Go find | him out,
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And we | will noth|ing waste | till you | return.
ORLANDO
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I thank | ye, and | be blest | for your good |
comfort.
[Exit]
DUKE SENIOR
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Thou seest,| we are not | all al|one un|happy:
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This wide | and un|iver|sal the|ater
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Presents | more woe|ful page|ants than | the
scene
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Wherein | we play | in.
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All | the world's | a stage,
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And all | the men | and wom|en, mere|ly players;
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They have | their ex|its and | their ent|rances,
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And one man in | his time | plays many parts,
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His acts | being seven | ages.| At first | the
in||fant,
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Mewl|ing, and | puking | in the nurse|'s arms:
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Then, the | whining | school-boy / with his |
satchel
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And shin|ing morn|ing face,| creeping |
like^snail
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Unwill|ingly | to school.| And then | the lover,
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Sighing | like furn/ace, with a | woeful | ballad
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Made to his | mistress'| eyebrow. Then, a |
soldier,
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Full of strange oaths,| and beard|ed like | the
pard,
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Jealous | in hon|or, sudden,| and quick | in
quarrel,
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Seeking | the bub|ble rep|uta|tion
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Even in the | cannon's | mouth: And | then, the |
justice,
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In fair round bel|ly, with / good cap|on lined,
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With eyes | severe,| and beard | of form|al cut,
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Full of wise saws,| and mod|ern ins|tances,
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And so | he plays | his part.| The sixth age
shifts
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Into | the lean | and slip|pered pant|aloon,
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With spec|tacles | on nose,| and pouch | on side,
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His youth|ful hose | well saved, a world |
too^wide,
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For his / shrunk shank,| and his / big man|ly
voice,
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Turning | again | toward child|ish treb|le pipes,
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And whist|les in | his sound.| Last scene of all,
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That ends | this strange | event|ful his|tory,
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Is sec|ond child|ishness,| and mere | obliv|ion,
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Sans teeth, sans | eyes, sans taste,| sans
eve/rything. (hex with prev)
[Enter ORLANDO, with ADAM]
DUKE SENIOR
Welcome: Set down your venerable burden, and let him feed.
ORLANDO
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I thank | you most | for him.
ADAM
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So had | you need,
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I scarce | can speak | to thank | you for |
myself.
DUKE SENIOR
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Welcome,| fall to:/ I will | not troub/le you,
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As yet,| to ques|tion you | about | your
fort||unes:
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Give us | some mus|ic, and / good cous|in, sing.
SONG.
AMIENS
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Blow*, blow,| thou wint|er wind,
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Thou art | not so | unkind,| as man's |
ingrat|itude
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Thy tooth | is not | so keen,| because | thou art
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although | thy breath | be rude.
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Heigh ho*, sing^|heigh ho*, un|to the green |
holly,
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Most friend|ship, is feign|ing; most^lov|ing,
mere* fol|ly:
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The heigh | ho*, the hol||ly,
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This life is | most jol|ly.
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Freeze*, freeze,| thou bit|ter sky | that dost |
not bite | so nigh
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as ben|efits | forgot:
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Though* thou | the wat|ers warp,| thy sting | is
not | so sharp,
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as friend | remem|bered not.
Heigh ho, sing, etc.
DUKE SENIOR
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If that | you were | the good | Sir Row|land's
son,
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As you | have whisp|ered faith|fully | you were,
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And as | mine eye | doth his | effigies |
witness.
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Most tru|ly limned,| and liv|ing in | your face,
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Be tru|ly wel|come hith|er: I | am the duke
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That loved | your father,| the res|idue | of your
fort||une,
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Go | to my cave,| and tell | me. Good | old man,
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Thou art / right wel|come, as | thy mast|er is:
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Support | him by | the arm:| Give me | your hand,
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And let | me all | your fort|unes und|erstand.
[Exeunt]