Original text | Modern text | Key line |
Yonder comes my Master, your brother. | Yonder comes my master, your brother. | AYL I.i.24 |
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Sweet Masters bee patient, for | Sweet masters, be patient; for | AYL I.i.59 |
your Fathers remembrance, be at accord. | your father's remembrance, be at accord. | AYL I.i.60 |
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Is old dogge my reward: most true, I haue lost my | Is ‘ old dog ’ my reward? Most true, I have lost my | AYL I.i.77 |
teeth in your seruice: God be with my olde master, he | teeth in your service. God be with my old master! He | AYL I.i.78 |
would not haue spoke such a word. | would not have spoke such a word. | AYL I.i.79 |
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What my yong Master, oh my gentle master, | What, my young master? O my gentle master, | AYL II.iii.2 |
Oh my sweet master, O you memorie | O my sweet master, O you memory | AYL II.iii.3 |
Of old Sir Rowland; why, what make you here? | Of old Sir Rowland, why, what make you here? | AYL II.iii.4 |
Why are you vertuous? Why do people loue you? | Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? | AYL II.iii.5 |
And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? | And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant? | AYL II.iii.6 |
Why would you be so fond to ouercome | Why would you be so fond to overcome | AYL II.iii.7 |
The bonnie priser of the humorous Duke? | The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke? | AYL II.iii.8 |
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, | AYL II.iii.12 |
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you: | Are sanctified and holy traitors to you. | AYL II.iii.13 |
Oh what a world is this, when what is comely | O, what a world is this, when what is comely | AYL II.iii.14 |
Enuenoms him that beares it? | Envenoms him that bears it! | AYL II.iii.15 |
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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, | 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. | AYL II.iii.26 |
This is no place, this house is but a butcherie; | This is no place, this house is but a butchery; | AYL II.iii.27 |
Abhorre it, feare it, doe not enter it. | Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it. | AYL II.iii.28 |
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No matter whether, so you come not here. | No matter whither, so you come not here. | AYL II.iii.30 |
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But do not so: I haue fiue hundred Crownes, | But do not so. I have five hundred crowns, | AYL II.iii.38 |
The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | 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, | 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, | AYL II.iii.49 |
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, | AYL II.iii.52 |
Frostie, but kindely; let me goe with you, | Frosty, but kindly. Let me go with you, | 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 |
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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 |
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Deere Master, I can go no further: / O I die for food. | Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for food. | AYL II.vi.1 |
Heere lie I downe, / And measure out my graue. Farwel | Here lie I down and measure out my grave. Farewell, | AYL II.vi.2 |
kinde master. | kind master. | AYL II.vi.3 |
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So had you neede, | So had you need; | AYL II.vii.170.2 |
I scarce can speake to thanke you for my selfe. | I scarce can speak to thank you for myself. | AYL II.vii.171 |