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| Enter Orlando and Adam. | Enter Orlando and Adam from opposite sides | | AYL II.iii.1 | |
| Orl. | ORLANDO | | | |
| Who's there? | Who's there? | | AYL II.iii.1 | |
| Ad. | ADAM | | | |
| What my yong Master, oh my gentle master, | What, my young master? O my gentle master, | gentle (adj.) well-born, honourable, noble | AYL II.iii.2 | |
| Oh my sweet master, O you memorie | O my sweet master, O you memory | memory (n.)memorial, remembrance | AYL II.iii.3 | |
| Of old Sir Rowland; why, what make you here? | Of old Sir Rowland, why, what make you here? | make (v.)do, have to do | AYL II.iii.4 | |
| Why are you vertuous? Why do people loue you? | Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? | virtuous (adj.)showing fine qualities, praiseworthy | AYL II.iii.5 | |
| And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? | And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? | gentle (adj.)courteous, friendly, kind | AYL II.iii.6 | |
| Why would you be so fond to ouercome | Why would you be so fond to overcome | fond (adj.)foolish, stupid, mad | AYL II.iii.7 | |
| The bonnie priser of the humorous Duke? | The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke? | prizer (n.)prize-fighter, champion | AYL II.iii.8 | |
| | humorous (adj.)capricious, moody, temperamental | | |
| | bonny (adj.)strong, stalwart, strapping | | |
| Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. | Your praise is come too swiftly home before you. | | AYL II.iii.9 | |
| Know you not Master, to seeme kinde of men, | Know you not, master, to some kind of men | | AYL II.iii.10 | |
| Their graces serue them but as enemies, | Their graces serve them but as enemies? | | AYL II.iii.11 | |
| No more doe yours: your vertues gentle Master | No more do yours; your virtues, gentle master, | gentle (adj.)well-born, honourable, noble | AYL II.iii.12 | |
| Are sanctified and holy traitors to you: | Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. | sanctified (adj.)sanctimonious, hypocritical, deceiving | AYL II.iii.13 | |
| Oh what a world is this, when what is comely | O, what a world is this, when what is comely | comely (adj.)graceful, becoming, decent | AYL II.iii.14 | |
| Enuenoms him that beares it? | Envenoms him that bears it! | envenom (v.)poison, taint, destroy | AYL II.iii.15 | |
| ORLANDO | | | |
| Why, what's the matter? | Why, what's the matter? | | AYL II.iii.16.1 | |
| Ad. | ADAM | | | |
| O vnhappie youth, | O unhappy youth, | | AYL II.iii.16.2 | |
| Come not within these doores: within this roofe | Come not within these doors; within this roof | | AYL II.iii.17 | |
| The enemie of all your graces liues | The enemy of all your graces lives. | | AYL II.iii.18 | |
| Your brother, no, no brother, yet the sonne | Your brother – no, no brother – yet the son – | | AYL II.iii.19 | |
| (Yet not the son, I will not call him son) | Yet not the son, I will not call him son | | AYL II.iii.20 | |
| Of him I was about to call his Father, | Of him I was about to call his father – | | AYL II.iii.21 | |
| Hath heard your praises, and this night he meanes, | Hath heard your praises, and this night he means | | AYL II.iii.22 | |
| To burne the lodging where you vse to lye, | To burn the lodging where you use to lie, | use (v.)be accustomed, make a habit [of] | AYL II.iii.23 | |
| And you within it: if he faile of that | And you within it. If he fail of that, | | AYL II.iii.24 | |
| He will haue other meanes to cut you off; | He will have other means to cut you off. | | AYL II.iii.25 | |
| I ouerheard him: and his practises: | I overheard him, and his practices. | practice (n.)scheme, plot, stratagem, intrigue | AYL II.iii.26 | |
| This is no place, this house is but a butcherie; | This is no place, this house is but a butchery; | place (n.)proper place, safe place | AYL II.iii.27 | |
| | butchery (n.)slaughter-house | | |
| Abhorre it, feare it, doe not enter it. | Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it. | | AYL II.iii.28 | |
| Ad. | ORLANDO | | | |
| Why whether Adam would'st thou haue me go? | Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go? | | AYL II.iii.29 | |
| Ad. | ADAM | | | |
| No matter whether, so you come not here. | No matter whither, so you come not here. | so (conj.)provided that | AYL II.iii.30 | |
| Orl. | ORLANDO | | | |
| What, would'st thou haue me go & beg my food, | What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food, | | AYL II.iii.31 | |
| Or with a base and boistrous Sword enforce | Or with a base and boisterous sword enforce | enforce (v.)gain by force, exact | AYL II.iii.32 | |
| | base (adj.)dishonourable, low, unworthy | | |
| | boisterous (adj.)violent, fierce, savage | | |
| A theeuish liuing on the common rode? | A thievish living on the common road? | | AYL II.iii.33 | |
| This I must do, or know not what to do: | This I must do, or know not what to do: | | AYL II.iii.34 | |
| Yet this I will not do, do how I can, | Yet this I will not do, do how I can. | | AYL II.iii.35 | |
| I rather will subiect me to the malice | I rather will subject me to the malice | | AYL II.iii.36 | |
| Of a diuerted blood, and bloudie brother. | Of a diverted blood and bloody brother. | diverted (adj.)turned from its natural course, deviant | AYL II.iii.37 | |
| | blood (n.)blood relationship, kinship | | |
| Ad. | ADAM | | | |
| But do not so: I haue fiue hundred Crownes, | But do not so. I have five hundred crowns, | crown (n.)coin [usually showing a monarch's crown], English value: 5 shilllings | AYL II.iii.38 | |
| The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | hire (n.)wages, payment, earnings | AYL II.iii.39 | |
| Which I did store to be my foster Nurse, | Which I did store to be my foster-nurse | | AYL II.iii.40 | |
| When seruice should in my old limbs lie lame, | When service should in my old limbs lie lame | | AYL II.iii.41 | |
| And vnregarded age in corners throwne, | And unregarded age in corners thrown. | | AYL II.iii.42 | |
| Take that, and he that doth the Rauens feede, | Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed, | | AYL II.iii.43 | |
| Yea prouidently caters for the Sparrow, | Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, | | AYL II.iii.44 | |
| Be comfort to my age: here is the gold, | Be comfort to my age. Here is the gold; | | AYL II.iii.45 | |
| All this I giue you, let me be your seruant, | All this I give you. Let me be your servant. | | AYL II.iii.46 | |
| Though I looke old, yet I am strong and lustie; | Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty, | lusty (adj.)vigorous, strong, robust, eager | AYL II.iii.47 | |
| For in my youth I neuer did apply | For in my youth I never did apply | | AYL II.iii.48 | |
| Hot, and rebellious liquors in my bloud, | Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood, | rebellious (adj.)not obeying, disobedient, mutinous | AYL II.iii.49 | |
| | liquor (n.)[alcoholic] drink | | |
| Nor did not with vnbashfull forehead woe, | Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo | | AYL II.iii.50 | |
| The meanes of weaknesse and debilitie, | The means of weakness and debility; | | AYL II.iii.51 | |
| Therefore my age is as a lustie winter, | Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, | lusty (adj.)merry, cheerful, lively | AYL II.iii.52 | |
| Frostie, but kindely; let me goe with you, | Frosty, but kindly. Let me go with you, | kindly (adv.)in accordance with human nature, expressing normal humanity | AYL II.iii.53 | |
| Ile doe the seruice of a yonger man | I'll do the service of a younger man | | AYL II.iii.54 | |
| In all your businesse and necessities. | In all your business and necessities. | | AYL II.iii.55 | |
| Orl. | ORLANDO | | | |
| Oh good old man, how well in thee appeares | O good old man, how well in thee appears | | AYL II.iii.56 | |
| The constant seruice of the antique world, | The constant service of the antique world, | antic, antick(e), antique (adj.)ancient, olden, former | AYL II.iii.57 | |
| When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede: | When service sweat for duty, not for meed! | meed (n.)reward, prize, recompense | AYL II.iii.58 | |
| Thou art not for the fashion of these times, | Thou art not for the fashion of these times, | | AYL II.iii.59 | |
| Where none will sweate, but for promotion, | Where none will sweat but for promotion, | | AYL II.iii.60 | |
| And hauing that do choake their seruice vp, | And having that do choke their service up | | AYL II.iii.61 | |
| Euen with the hauing, it is not so with thee: | Even with the having; it is not so with thee. | | AYL II.iii.62 | |
| But poore old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, | But, poor old man, thou prunest a rotten tree | | AYL II.iii.63 | |
| That cannot so much as a blossome yeelde, | That cannot so much as a blossom yield | yield (v.)bring forth, produce | AYL II.iii.64 | |
| In lieu of all thy paines and husbandrie, | In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry. | lieu of, in (prep.)in return for, in recompense for | AYL II.iii.65 | |
| But come thy waies, weele goe along together, | But come thy ways, we'll go along together, | | AYL II.iii.66 | |
| And ere we haue thy youthfull wages spent, | And ere we have thy youthful wages spent | | AYL II.iii.67 | |
| Weele light vpon some setled low content. | We'll light upon some settled low content. | low (adj.)humble, lowly, inferior | AYL II.iii.68 | |
| | content (n.)pleasure, satisfaction, happiness | | |
| Ad. | ADAM | | | |
| Master goe on, and I will follow thee | Master, go on, and I will follow thee | | AYL II.iii.69 | |
| To the last gaspe with truth and loyaltie, | To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. | | AYL II.iii.70 | |
| From seauentie yeeres, till now almost fourescore | From seventeen years till now almost four score | | AYL II.iii.71 | |
| Here liued I, but now liue here no more | Here lived I, but now live here no more. | | AYL II.iii.72 | |
| At seauenteene yeeres, many their fortunes seeke | At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, | | AYL II.iii.73 | |
| But at fourescore, it is too late a weeke, | But at four score it is too late a week. | | AYL II.iii.74 | |
| Yet fortune cannot recompence me better | Yet fortune cannot recompense me better | | AYL II.iii.75 | |
| Then to die well, and not my Masters debter. | Than to die well, and not my master's debtor. | | AYL II.iii.76 | |
| Exeunt. | Exeunt | | AYL II.iii.76 | |