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My mafter is of churlish difpofition,

And little wreaks to find the way to heav'n
By doing deeds of hofpitality:

Befides, his coate, his flocks, and bounds of feed
Are now on fale, and at our sheep-coate now,
By reafon of his abfence, there is nothing
That you will feed on; but what is, come see;
And in my voice moft welcome fhall you be.

Rof. What is he, that shall buy his flock and pasture ? Cor. That young fwain, that you faw here but ere while, That little cares for buying any thing.

Rof. I pray thee, if it ftand with honesty,
Buy thou the cottage, pafture, and the flock,
And thou shalt have to pay for it of us.
Cel. And we will mend thy wages.

I like this place, and willingly could wafte
My time in it.

Cor. Affuredly the thing is to be fold;
Go with me; if you like, upon report,
The foil, the profit, and this kind of life,
I will your very faithful feeder be;

And buy it with your gold right fuddenly.

[Exeunt.

SCENE changes to a defart Part of the

Foreft.

Enter Amiens, Jaques, and others.

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Under the green-wood tree,,

Who loves to lie with me,

And tune his merry note,

Unto the fweet bird's throat,

Come hither, come hither, come hither:

Here fhall he fee

No enemy,

But winter and rough weather.

Jaq. More, more, I pr'ythee, more.

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Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monfieur Jaquet. Jaq. I thank it; more, I pr'ythee, more; I fuck melancholy out of a fong, as a weazle fucks

I pr'ythee, more.

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eggs: more, Ami. My voice is rugged; I know, I cannot pleafe you. Jaq. I do not defire you to please me, I do defire you to fing; come, come, another ftanzo; call you 'em ftanzo's? Ami. What you will, Monfieur Jaques.

Jaq. Nay, I care not for their names, they owe me nothing.Will you fing?

Ami. More at your requeft, than to please myself. Faq. Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but that, they call compliments, is like the encounter of two dog-apes. And when a man thanks me heartily, methinks, I have given him a penny, and he renders me. the beggarly thanks. Come, fing; and you that will not, hold your tongues..

Ami. Well, I'll end the fong, Sirs, cover the while; the Duke will dine under this tree; he hath been all this day to look you.

Jaq. And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too difputable for my company: I think of as many matters as he, but I give heav'n thanks, and make no boaft of them. Come, warble, come.

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And loves to lie i'th' fun,

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleas'd with what he gets;.

Come hither, come hither, come hither;

Here fhall he fee

No enemy,

But winter and rough weather.

Faq I'll give you a verse to this note, that I made. yesterday in defpight of my invention.

Ami. And I'll fing it.

Jug. Thus it goes.

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If

If it do come to pass,

That any man turn afs;
Leaving his wealth and ease
A ftubborn will to please,
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame;
Here shall he fee

Grofs fools as he,

And if he will come to me.

Ami What's that ducdame ?

Jaq. 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. F'll go fleep if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the firft-born of Egypt.

Ami. And I'll go feek the Duke: his banquet is prepar'd. [Exeunt, feverally.

Enter Orlando and Adam.

Adam. Dear mafter, I can go no further; O, I die for food! here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewel, kind mafter.

Orla. Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee?
live a little; comfort a little; cheer thy felf a little. If
this uncouth foreft yield any thing favage, I will either be
food for it, or bring it for food to thee: thy conceit is
nearer death, than thy powers. For my fake be com-
fortable, hold death a while at the arm's end; I will be
here with thee presently, and if I bring thee not fome-
thing to eat, Fll give thee leave to die. But if thou
dieft before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour..
Well faid, thou look'ft cheerly. And I'll be with thee
quickly; yet thou lieft in the bleak air. Come, I will
bear thee to fome fhelter, and thou shalt not die for lack.
of a dinner, if there live any thing in this defart. Cheerly,
good Adam.
[Exeunt.

Enter Duke Sen. and Lords. [A table fet out.
Duke Sen. I think, he is transform'd into a beast,
For I can no where find him like a man.

1. Lord. My Lord, he is but even now gone hence;

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Here was he merry, hearing of a fong.

Duke Sen. If he, compact of jars, grow mufical,
We shall have fhortly difcord in the spheres:
Go, feek him; tell him, I would fpeak with him.
Enter Jaques,

1 Lord. He faves my labour by his own approach. Duke Sen. Why, how now, Monfieur, what a life is this, That your poor friends must woo your company? What! you look merrily.

faq. A fool, a fool;

I met a fool i'th' foreft, A motley fool; a miferable world!

As I do live by food, I met, a fool,

Who laid him down and bafk'd him in the fun,
And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good fet terms, and yet a motley fool.

Good morrow, fool, quoth I: No, Sir, quoth he,
Call me not fool, 'till heaven hath sent me fortune;
And then he drew a dial from his poke,
And looking on it with lack-luftre eye,
Says, very wifely, it is ten a clock:

Thus may we fee, quoth he, how the world wags:
'Tis but an hour ago fince it was nine,
And after one hour more 'twill be eleven;
And fo from hour to hour we ripe and ripe,
And then from hour to hour we rot and rot,
And thereby hangs a tale. When I did hear
The motley fool thus moral on the time,
My lungs began to crow like chanticleer,
That fools fhould be fo deep contemplative:
And I did laugh, fans intermiffion,
An hour by his dial. O noble fool,
A worthy fool! motley's the only wear.
Duke Sen. What fool is this?

Jaq. O worthy foo!! one that hath been a courtier,
And fays, if Ladies, be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it: And in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder bisket
After a voyage, he hath ftrange places cram'd
With obfervation, the which he vents
In mangled forms. O that I were a fool!

Jam ambitious for a motley coat.

Duke Sen. Thou fhalt have one.
Jaq. It is my only fuit;

Provided, that you weed your better judgments.
Of all opinion, that grows rank in them,
That I am wife. I must have liberty
Withal, as large a charter as the wind,

To blow on whom I please, for fo fools have;
And they that are most gauled with my folly,
They moft muft laugh: And why, Sir, mutt they for
The why is plain, as way to parish church;
(12) He, whom a fool doth very wifely hit,
Doth very foolishly, although he smart,
Not to feem fenfelefs of the bob.

The wife man's folly is anatomiz'd

If not,

Even by the fquandring glances of a fool.
Inveft me in my motley, give me leave

To fpeak my mind, and I will through and through.
Cleanfe the foul body of th' infected world,

If they will patiently receive my medicine.

Duke Sen. Fy on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do Jaq. What, for a counter, would I do but good? Duke Sen. Moft mifchievous foul fin, in chiding fin: For thou thyself haft been a libertine,

As fenfual as the brutish fting itself;

And all th' emboffed fores and headed evils,
That thou with licence of free foot haft caught,
Would't thou difgorge into the general world.
Jaq. Why, who cries out on pride,
That can therein tax any private party?
Doth it not flow as hugely as the fea,
'Till that the very very means do ebb?
What woman in the city do I name,

(12) He, whom a fool doth very wifely bit,

Doth very forlifbly, although be fmart, Seem fenfelefs of the bob. If not, &c.] Befides that the thi verfe is defective one whole foot in meafore, the tenour of what fiques · continues to fay, and the reafoning of the paffage, fhew it is no leis defective in the fenfe. There is no doubt, but the two little mono. fyllables, which I have fupply'd, were either by accident wanting in the Manufcript copy, or by inadvertence were left out at prefs.

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