I love to cope him in these sullen fits,

For then he's full of matter.

2 LORD. I'll bring you to him straight. [Exeunt.

SCENE II.

A Room in the Palace.

Enter Duke FREDERICK, Lords, and Attendants.

DUKE F. Can it be possible, that no man saw them?

It cannot be: some villains of

my court Are of consent and sufferance in this.

1 LORD. I cannot hear of any that did see her. The ladies, her attendants of her chamber, Saw her a-bed; and, in the morning early, They found the bed untreasur'd of their mistress. 2 LORD. My lord, the roynish clown, (8) at whom so oft

Your grace was wont to laugh, is also missing.
Hesperia, the princess' gentlewoman,
Confesses, that she secretly o'er-heard

Your daughter and her cousin much commend
The parts and graces of the wrestler

That did but lately foil the sinewy Charles;
And she believes, wherever they are gone,

That youth is surely in their company.

DUKE F. Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;

If he be absent, bring his brother to me,

cope him] Encounter. Cope malicious censurers." H. VIII. I. 2. Wols. "Cope your wife," Othel. IV. 1. Iago.

I'll make him find him: do this suddenly;
And let not search and inquisition quail (9)

To bring again these foolish runaways. [Exeunt.

SCENE III.

Before Oliver's House.

Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting..

ORL. Who's there?

ADAM. What! my young master?-O, my gentle master,

O, my sweet master, O you memory (10)

Of old sir Rowland! why, what make you here?
Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you?
And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant?
Why would you be so fond to overcome
The bonny priser of the humorous duke?"
Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.
Know you not, master, to some kind of men
Their graces serve them but as enemies?
No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master,
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.

O, what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it?

ORL. Why, what's the matter?

ADAM.

O unhappy youth, Come not within these doors; within this roof

fond to overcome] Simple, of so little thought, as to, &c. b bonny prizer of the humorous duke] Gallant prize-fighter of the capricious duke. See I. 2. Le Beau.

sanctified and holy traitors to you]

"Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds,

"The better to deceive." Haml. I. 3. Polon.

The enemy of all your graces lives;

Your brother-(no, no brother; yet the son-
Yet not the son; I will not call him son-
Of him I was about to call his father,)—
Hath heard your praises; and this night he means
To burn the lodging where you use to lie,
And you within it: if he fail of that,
He will have other means to cut you off:
I overheard him, and his practices.

This is no place, this house is but a butchery;
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.

ORL. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?

ADAM. No matter whither, so you come not here. ORL. What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food?

Or, with a base and boisterous sword, enforce
A thievish living on the common road?
This I must do, or know not what to do:
Yet this I will not do, do how I can;

I rather will subject me to the malice

Of a diverted blood, and bloody brother.

ADAM. But do not so: I have five hundred crowns,

The thrifty hire I sav'd under your father,
Which I did store, to be my foster-nurse,
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown;
Take that and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow,
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you: Let me be your servant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty:

• place] Abiding-place, place of security for you.

ba diverted blood] Affections alienated and turned out of their natural course; as a stream of water is said to be diverted. * and he that doth the ravens feed, &c.] St. Luke, xii. 6. and DOUCE.

24.

D

For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood:
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility; ("
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you;
I'll do the service of a younger man
In all your business and necessities.

3

ORL. O good old man; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee. But poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield, In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry: But come thy ways, we'll go along together: And ere we have thy youthful wages spent, We'll light upon some settled low content.

ADAM. Master, go on; and I will follow thee, To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.From seventeen years till now almost fourscore Here lived I, but now live here no more. At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore, it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better, Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. [Exeunt.

• The constant service of the antique world] Invariably faithful. Even with the having] Even with the promotion gained by service is service extinguished. JOHNSON.

The fo. of 1632 concurs with that of 1623, and reads "seventy:" but the second line following demonstrates, that it was a misprint in 1623.

SCENE IV.

The Forest of Arden.

Enter ROSALIND in boy's clothes, CELIA drest like a Shepherdess, and TOUCHSTONE.

Ros. O Jupiter! how merry are my spirits!" TOUCH. I care not for my spirits, if my legs were not weary.

Ros. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel, and to cry like a woman: but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat: therefore, courage, good Aliena.

* O Jupiter! how merry are my spirits!

Touchst. I care not-if my legs were not weary.

Ros. I could find in my heart to disgrace my man's apparelbut I must comfort the weaker vessel] The modern editors for merry read weary: but Mr. Whiter insists, that, from Rosalind's reply, it is manifest that her language was no less than her dress in an assumed character; and is- To speak the truth, though I pretend, in my mannish character, to be in good spirits, and not to be weary, yet," &c. And this construction, he adds, is confirmed not only by the context, but the reasoning as well as the instances given by Mr. Malone, although brought forward diverso intuitu.

"She invokes Jupiter, because he was supposed to be always in good spirits. A jovial man was a common phrase in our author's time. One of Randolph's plays is called ARISTIPPUS, or The Jovial Philosopher; and a comedy of Broome's, The Jovial Crew, or The Merry Beggars." Specimen of a Comm. &c. p. 15.

bdoublet and hose] Waistcoat and breeches: doublet, as making the dress double. JOHNSON.

"O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose."
L. L. L. IV. 3. Bir.