【英文原著类】as you like it(皆大欢喜).pdf

AS YOU LIKE IT
AS YOU LIKE IT
William Shakespeare
1601
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AS YOU LIKE IT
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
DUKE, living in exile FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his
dominions AMIENS, lord attending on the banished Duke JAQUES, " " "
" " " LE BEAU, a courtier attending upon Frederick CHARLES, wrestler
to Frederick OLIVER, son of Sir Rowland de Boys JAQUES, " " " " " "
ORLANDO, " " " " " " ADAM, servant to Oliver DENNIS, " " "
TOUCHSTONE, the court jester SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a vicar
CORIN, shepherd SILVIUS, " WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with
Audrey A person representing HYMEN
ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke CELIA, daughter to
Frederick PHEBE, a shepherdess AUDREY, a country wench
Lords, Pages, Foresters, and Attendants

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ACT I.
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SCENE I. Orchard of OLIVER'S house
Enter ORLANDO and ADAM
ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say'st,
charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well; and there begins
my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks
goldenly of his profit. For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to
speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you that
keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an
ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their
feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hir'd;
but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his
animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this
nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me
his countenance seems to take from me. He lets me feed with his hinds,
bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my
gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the
spirit of my father, which I think is within