Cel. Something that hath a reference to my state; No longer Celia, but Aliena. Ros. But, cousin, what if we assay'd to steal The clownish fool out of your father's court? Would he not be a comfort to our travel? Cel. He'll go along o'er the wide world with me; Leave me alone to woo him: Let's away, And get our jewels and our wealth together; Devise the fittest time, and safest way To hide us from pursuit that will be made After my flight: Now go we in content, To liberty, and not to banishment. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. The Foreft of Arden. Enter Duke senior, AMIENS, and other Lords, in the dress of Foresters. Duke S. Now, my co-mates, and brothers in exik, Hath not old custom made this life mere sweet Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, books in the running Sermons in stones, and good in every thing. change it: Happy is your Grace, That can translate the stubbornness of fortune Duke S. Come, shall we go and kill us venison ? And yet it irks me, the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should, in their own confines, with forked heads Have their round haunches gor'd. Lord. Indeed, my Lord, The melancholy Jaques grieves at that; And, in that kind, swears you do more usurp Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Stood on the extremest verge of the swift brook, Duke S. But what said Jaques ? Did he not moralize this spectacle? 1 Lord. O, yes, into a thousand similes, First, for his weeping in the needless stream: Poor deer, quoth he, thou mak'st a testament As wordlings do, giving thy sum of more To that which had too much: Then, being alone, Left and abandon'd of his velvet friends; 'Tis right, quoth he; thus misery doth part The flux of company: Anon, a careless herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him, And never stays to greet him; Ay, quoth Jaques, 2 Lord. We did, my Lord, weeping and commenting Upon the sobbing deer, Duke S. Show me the place; I love to cope him in these sullen fits, 2 Lord. I'll bring you to him straight. [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Room in the Palace. Enter Duke FREDERICK, Lords, and Attend ants. 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, at whom so oft Your Grace was wont to laugh, is also missing. Your daughter nud her cousin much commend Duke F. Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither; If he be absent, bring his brother to me, SCENE IIL Before Oliver's House. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting. Orl. Who's there? Adam. What! my young Master? gentle Master, O, my O, my sweet Master, O you memory No more do yours; your virtues, gentle Master, O, what a world is this, when what is comely Orl. Why, what's the matter? Come not within these doors; within this roof 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 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 |