DUKE, living in banishment. FREDERICK, his brother, and usurper of his dominions. AMIENS, lord attending on the banished Duke. JAQUES, ” ” ” LE BEAU[2], a courtier attending upon Frederick. CHARLES, wrestler to Frederick. OLIVER, son of Sir Rowland de Boys. JAQUES, ” ” ” ORLANDO, ” ” ” ADAM, servant to Oliver. DENNIS, ” ” TOUCHSTONE, a clown. SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a vicar. CORIN, shepherd. SILVIUS, ” WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with Audrey[3]. A person representing Hymen. ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke. CELIA, daughter to Frederick. PHEBE, a shepherdess. AUDREY, a country wench. Lords, pages, and attendants, &c. SCENE—_Oliver’s house; Duke Frederick’s court; and the Forest of Arden._ ~~~~~ Footnotes: 1: DRAMATIS PERSONÆ] First given by Rowe. 2: LE BEAU] LE BEU. Rowe. See note (I). 3: WILLIAM] ‘Clown in love with Audrey,’ and ‘William, another clown in love with Audrey.’ Rowe (ed. 2). ~~~~~ AS YOU LIKE IT. ACT I. SCENE I. _Orchard of_ OLIVER’S _house_. _Enter_ ORLANDO _and_ ADAM. _Orl._ As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, 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: 5 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 10 taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired: 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 15 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 20 servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it. _Adam._ Yonder comes my master, your brother. _Orl._ Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up. 25 _Enter OLIVER._ _Oli._ Now, sir! what make you here? _Orl._ Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing. _Oli._ What mar you then, sir? _Orl._ Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness. 30 _Oli._ Marry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.