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As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion, -bequeathed me by will but poor a thousandcrowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there beginsmy sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for mypart, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept: forcall you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth that differs not from the stalling of an ox? Hishorses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired; but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for thewhich his animals on his dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he soplentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me, his countenance seems to take from me: helets me feed with his hinds, bars me the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines mygentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which Ithink is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude; I will no longer endure it, though yet Iknow no wise remedy how to avoid i

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