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Act V

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[Dramatis Personae

Duke Senior, living in banishment

Duke Frederick, his brother, and usurper of his dominions

Amiens,

Jaques, lords attending on the banished Duke

Le Beau, a courtier attending upon Duke Frederick

Charles, wrestler to Duke Frederick

Oliver,

Jaques,

Orlando, sons of Sir Rowland de Boys

Adam,

Dennis, servants to Oliver

Touchstone, a clown

Sir Oliver Martext, a vicar

Corin,

Silvius, shepherds

William, a country fellow, in love with Audrey

A person representing Hymen

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Rosalind, daughter to the banished Duke

Celia, daughter to Duke Frederick

Phebe, a shepherdess

Audrey, a country wench

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Lords, Pages, Foresters, and Attendants

Scene: Oliver’s house; Duke Frederick’s court; and the forest of Arden]

First Folio

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Enter Orlando and Adam.

Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeath’d me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou say’st, charg’d 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 me, begins to mutiny against this servitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.