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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: 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 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 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 servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it.ADAMYonder comes my master, your brother.ORLANDOGo apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up.[Enter OLIVER]OLIVERNow, sir! what make you here?ORLANDONothing: I am not taught to make any thing.OLIVERWhat mar you then, sir?ORLANDOMarry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness.OLIVERMarry, sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.ORLANDOShall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come to such penury?OLIVERKnow you where your are, sir?ORLANDOO, sir, very well; here in your orchard.OLIVERKnow you before whom, sir?ORLANDOAy, better than him I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me. The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the first-born; but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me as you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is nearer to his reverence.OLIVERWhat, boy!ORLANDOCome, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.OLIVERWilt thou lay hands on me, villain?ORLANDOI am no villain; I am the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys; he was my father, and he is thrice a villain that says such a father begot villains. Wert thou not my brother, I would not take this hand from thy throat till this other had pulled out thy tongue for saying so: thou hast railed on thyself.ADAMSweet masters, be patient: for your father's remembrance, be at accord.OLIVERLet me go, I say.

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