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When service should in my old limbs lie lame,.. And unregarded aged 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.

be your servant:

Let me

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;

For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, was

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.

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 prunest 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.

SCENE IV. The Forest of
Arden.

Enter ROSALIND for Ganymede, CELIA for Aliena, and TOUCHSTONE.

Ros. O Jupiter! how weary 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 doub

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