Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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SCENE I.
OLIVER's Orchard.
Enter Orlando and Adam.
Orlando.
As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
bequeath'd me. By Will, but a poor thousand
crowns1 note
; and, as thou say'st, 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.
-- 4 --
For my part, he keeps me rustically at home; or, to
speak more properly, stays me here at home, unkept;2 note
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, 3 note
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, tho' yet I know no wise remedy how
to avoid it.
-- 5 --
Samuel Johnson [1765], The plays of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of Various Commentators; To which are added notes by Sam. Johnson (Printed for J. and R. Tonson [and] C. Corbet [etc.], London) [word count] [S11001].
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