DUKE,
           living in exile

    FREDERICK,
           his brother,
         and usurper of his dominions

    AMIENS,
           lord attending
               on the banished Duke

    JAQUES,
           lord attending
               on the banished Duke

    LE BEAU,
           a courtier attending upon Frederick

    CHARLES,
           wrestler to Frederick

    OLIVER,
        son of Sir Rowland
                 de Boys

    JAQUES,
         son of Sir Rowland
                 de Boys

    ORLANDO,
        son of Sir Rowland
                 de Boys

    ADAM,
             servant to Oliver

    DENNIS,
            servant to Oliver

    TOUCHSTONE,
           the court jester

    SIR OLIVER MARTEXT,
           a vicar

    CORIN,
              shepherd

    SILVIUS,
              shepherd

    WILLIAM,
           a country fellow,
         in love with Audrey

    A person representing HYMEN

    ROSALIND,
           daughter to the banished Duke

    CELIA,
           daughter to Frederick

    PHEBE,
           a shepherdes

    AUDREY,
           a country wench

    Lords,
           Pages,
         Foresters,
           and Attendants

   SCENE:

    OLIVER'S house;
        FREDERICK'S court;
           and the Forest of Arden
 
  ACT I. SCENE I. Orchard of
       OLIVER'S house

    Enter ORLANDO and ADAM

    ORLANDO.

    As I remember,
           Adam,
         it was upon this fashion
               bequeathed me by will
             but poor a thousand crowns,
           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.

    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 hir'd;
        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.

    Enter OLIVER

    ADAM.

    Yonder comes my master,
           your brother.

    ORLANDO.

    Go apart,
           Adam,
         and thou shalt hear
             how he
                will shake me up.

    [ADAM retires]

    OLIVER.

    Now,
           sir!

    what make you here?