Unquiet meals make ill digestions, Thereof the raging tire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? A most outrageous fit of madness took him; That desperately he burried through the street (With him his bondman, all as mad as he,) Thou say'st, his sports were hinder'd by thy Doing displeasure to the citizens brawls : Sweet recreation barr'd, what doth ensue, 'Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair ;) Why bear you these rebukes, and answer not? Abb. No, not a creature enters in my house. Adr. Then, let your servants bring my husband forth. Abb. Neither; he took this place for sanctuary, And it shall privilege him from your hands, Adr. I will attend my husband, be his nurse, prayers, To make of him a formal man again : * Therefore depart, and leave him here with me. Adr. I will not hence, and leave my husband here; And ill it doth beseem your holiness, Abb. Be quiet, and depart, thou shalt not Adr. Come, go; I will fall prostrate at his feet, And never rise until my tears and prayers Mer. By this, I think, the dial points at five: Mer. To see a reverend Syracusan merchant, Who put unluckily into this bay Against the laws and statutes of this town, Ang. See, where they come; we will behold his death. Luc. Kneel to the duke, before he pass the abbey. Enter DUKE attended; ÆGEON bare-headed; Duke. She is a virtuous and a reverend lady; It cannot be, that she hath done thee wrong. Adr. May it please your grace, Antipholus, my husband, Whom I made lord of me and all I bad, By rushing in their houses, bearing thence And, with his mad attendant and himself, swords, Met as again, and, madly bent on us, Chas'd us away; till raising of more aid, We came again to bind them: then they fled Into this abbey, whither we pursued them; And here the abbess shuts the gates on us, And will not suffer us to fetch him out, Nor send him forth, that we may bear him hence. Therefore, most gracious duke, with thy command, Let him be brought forth, and borne hence for help. Duke, Long since, thy husband serv'd me in my wars; And I to thee engag'd a prince's word, Enter a SERVANT. Serv. O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself! My master and his man are both broke loose, Beaten the maids a-row, and bound the doctor, Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire; And ever as it blazed they threw on him Adr. Peace, fool, thy master and his man are here; And that is false thou dost report to us. Serv. Mistress, upon my life, I tell you true; I have not breath'd almost, since I did see it. He cries for you, and vows if he can take you, To scorch your face, and to disfigure you : [Cry within. Hark, hark, I hear him, mistress; fly, be goue. Duke. Come, stand by me, fear nothing: Guard with balberts. ..... To make measures. + know. 1. Successively, one after another. I. e. Cuts his hair close. That bath abused and dishonour'd me, That she this day bath shameless thrown on me. Ant. E. This day, great duke, she shut the doors upon me, While she with barlots feasted in my house. Duke. A grievous fault: Say, woman, didst thou so? Adr. No, my good lord ;-myself, he, and my To-day did dine together: So befal my soul, Luc. Ne'er inay I look on day, nor sleep on But she tells to your highness simple truth! sworn. In this the madman justly chargeth them. Ant. E. My liege, I am advised what I say; Could witness it, for he was with me then; I went to seek him in the street I met him; Ant. E. I never came within these abbey Nor ever didst thou draw thy sword on me: Duke. Why, what an intricate impeach is I think you all have drank of Circe's cup. Dro. E. Sir, he dined with her there, at the Cour. He did; and from my finger snatch'd Ant. E. 'Tis true, my leige, this ring I had of ber. Duke. Saw'st thou him enter at the abbey wilt. Ege Is not your name, Sir, call'd Antipho- There did this perjur'd goldsmith swear me And is not that your bondman Dromio ? down, That I this day of him receiv'd the chain. Dro. E. Within this hour I was his bondman, Which, God he knows, I saw not: for the But he, I thank him, gnaw'd in two my cords: which, He did arrest me with an officer. I did obey; and sent my peasant home For certain ducats: he with none return'd. To go in person with me to my house. By the way we met, My wife, her sister, and a rabble more Of vile confederates; along with them A mere anatomy, a mountebank, A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller; Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, For these deep shames and great indignities. him; Ang. He had, my lord: and when he ran in here, These people saw the chain about his neck. Mer. Besides, I will be sworn, these ears of Heard you confess you had the chain of him, • Harlot was a term of reproach applied to cheats among meu as well as to wantons among women. Now am I Dromio, and his man, unbound. to believe him. Age. Not know my voice; O time's extremity! Hast thou so crack'd and splitted my poor tongue, In seven short years, that here my only son Ant. E. I never say my father in my life. Can witness with me that it is not so; Duke. I tell thee, Syracusan, twenty years Abb. Most mighty duke, behold a nran much wrong'd. [All gather to see him. Adr. I see two husbands, or mine eyes deceive me. Duke. One of these men is Genius to the And so of these: Which is the natural man, Dro. E. 1, Sir, am Dromio; pray let me stay. Ant. S. Egeon, art thou not? or else bis ghost? Dro. S. O my old master! who hath bound him here ? Abb. Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, And gain a husband by his liberty :- Ege. If I dream not, thou art Æmilia; Abb. By men of Epidamnum, he, and I, And the twin Dromio, all were taken up ; But, by and by, rude fishermen of Corinth By force took Dromio and my son from them, And me they left with those of Epidamnum : What then became of them, I cannot tell; I, to this fortune that you see me in. Duke. Why here begins his morning story right; These two Antipholuses, these two so like, Ant. S. No, Sir, not I; I came from Syracuse. Duke. Stay, stand apart; I know not which is which. Ant. E. I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord. Dro. E. And I with him. Ant. E. Brought to this town with that most famous warrior Duke Menaphon, your most renowned uncle. Adr. Which of you two did dine with me to-day ? Ant. S. I, gentle mistress. Adr. And are you not my husband? Ant. S. And so do I, yet did she call me so; Ang. That is the chain, Sir, which you had of me. Ant. S. I think it be, Sir, I deny it not. Ant. E. And you, Sir, for this chain arrested me. Ang. I think I did, Sir; I deny it not. Adr. I sent you money, Sir, to be your bail, By Dromio; but I think he brought it not. Dro. E. No, none by me. Ant. S. This purse of ducats I receiv'd from you, And Dromio my man did bring them me: Duke. It shall not need, thy father hath his life. Cour. Sir, I must have that diamond from you. Ant. E. There, take it; and much thanks for And all that are assembled in this place, The duke, my husband, and my children both, Duke. With all my heart, I'll gossip at this Come, go with us: we'll look to that anon: [Exeunt ANTIPHOLUS S. and E. ADR. Dro. S. There is a fat friend at your master's house, That kitchen'd me for you to-day at dinner; She now shall be my sister, not my wife. Dro. E. Methinks, you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you, I am a sweet fac'd youth. Dro. S. We will draw cuts for the senior: till then, lead thou first. [ther; Dro. E. Nay, then thus: We came into the world, like brother and bro The morning story is what Egeon tells the Duke in And now let's go hand in hand, not one be. the first scene of this play. fore another. [Exeunt. AS YOU LIKE IT. LITERARY AND HISTORICAL NOTICE. MALONE ascertains the date of this play by the following singular coincidence of an allusion made by Rosalind with a circumstance recorded by Stowe. "I will weep for nothing, (says Rosalind) like Diana in the Fountain.” In 1598, at the east side of the cross in Cheapside, was set up (says the latter in his survey of London,) “a curious wrought tabernacle of grey marble, and, in the same, an alabaster image of Diana, and water, con. veyed from the Thames, prilling from her naked breast." A trifling novel or pastoral romance, by Dr. Thomas Lodge, called Euphues's Golden Legacy, is the foundation of As you Like it. In addition to the fable, which is pretty exactly followed, the outlines of certain principal personages may be traced in the novel; but the characters of Jaques, Touchstone, and Audrey, originated entirely with the poet. Few plays contain so much instructive sentiment, poignant satire, luxuriant fancy, and amusing incident, as this: it is altogether "wild and pleasing." The philosophic reader will be no less diverted by the sententious shrewdness of Touchstone, than instructed by the elegant and amiable lessons of the moralizing Jaques.---Shakspeare is saió to have played the part of Adam în As you like it. DUKE, living in exile. DRAMATIS PERSONE. SIR OLIVER MARTEXT, a Vicar. FREDERICK, Brother to the Duke, and Usur- CURIN, Shepherds. per of his Dominions. AMIENS, Lords attending upon the Duke in LE BEAU, a Courtier attending upon Fre- CHARLES, his Wrestler. SYLVIUS, WILLIAM, & country Fellow in love with A Person representing Hymen. ROSALIND, Daughter to the banished Duke. AUDREY, a country Wench. Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, The SCENE lies, first, near Oliver's House; afterwards, partly in the Usurper's Court, and partly in the Forest of Arden. ACT I. SCENE I.-An Orchard, near OLIVER'S Enter ORLANDO and ADAM. Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me: By will, but a poor 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 mie 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 1, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dung. hills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that be so plentifully gives me, the something that natore gave me his countenance |