SCENE

II.

A Room in the Palace.

Enter Duke FREDERICK, Lords, and Attendants.

DUKE F. Can it be poffible, that no man faw
them?

It cannot be fome villains of my court
Are of confent and fufferance in this.

I LORD. I cannot hear of any that did fee her.
The ladies, her attendants of her chamber,
Saw her a-bed; and, in the morning early,
They found the bed untreafur'd of their mistress.

2 LORD. My lord, the roynish clown, at whom
fo oft

Your grace was wont to laugh, is also miffing.
Hefperia, the princefs' gentlewoman,
Confeffes, that the fecretly o'er-heard

Your daughter and her coufin much commend
The parts and graces of the wrestler'
That did but lately foil the finewy Charles;

the roynifh clown,] Roynish from rogneux, Fr. mangy, fcurvy. The word is used by Chaucer, in The Romaunt of the Rofe, 988:

"That knottie was and all roinous." Again, by Dr. Gabriel Harvey, in his Pierce's Supererogation, 4to. 1593. Speaking of Long Meg of Westminster, he faysAlthough he were a lufty bouncing rampe, fomewhat like Gallemetta or maid Marian, yet was the not such a roinish rannel, fuch a diffolute gillian-flirt," &c.

We are not to fuppofe the word is literally employed by Shakfpeare, but in the fame fenfe that the French ftill ufe carogne, a term of which Moliere is not very sparing in fome of his pieces. STEEVENS.

5 of the wreftler-] Wreftler, (as Mr. Tyrwhitt has obferved in a note on The Two Gentlemen of Verona,) is here to be founded as a trifyllable. STEEVENS.

again, ibid. 6190:

"

This argument is all roignons-"

And the believes, wherever they are gone,
That youth is furely in their company.

DUKE F. Send to his brother; fetch that gallant hither;

If he be absent, bring his brother to me,
I'll make him find him: do this fuddenly;
And let not fearch and inquifition quail'
To bring again these foolish runaways.

[Exeunt.

Enter ORLANDO and ADAM, meeting.

ORL. Who's there?

ADAM. What! my young master?-O, my gentle

master,

O, my fweet mafter, O you memory

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Of old fir Rowland! why, what make you here? Why are you virtuous? Why do people love you? And wherefore are you gentle, ftrong, and valiant?

Send to his brother;] I believe we should read-brother's. For when the Duke fays in the following words: "Fetch that gallant hither;" he certainly means Orlando. M. MASON.

quail-] To quail is to faint, to fink into dejection. So, in Cymbeline:

which my falfe fpirits

Quail to remember." STEEVENS.

8 O you memory-] Shakspeare often ufes memory for memorial: and Beaumont and Fletcher fometimes. So, in the Humorous Lieutenant:

"I knew then how to feek your memories."

Again, in The Atheist's Tragedy, by C. Turner, 1611: "And with his body place that memory

"Of noble Charlemont."

Again, in Byron's Tragedy:

"That ftatue will I prize paft all the jewels

"Within the cabinet of Beatrice,

"The memory of my grandame." STEEVENS.

Why would you be fo fonds to overcome
The bony prifer' of the humorous duke?
Your praife is come too fwiftly home before you.
Know you not, mafter, to fome kind of men *
Their graces
ferve them but as enemies?
No more do yours; your virtues, gentle mafter,
Are fanctified and holy traitors to you.

O, what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it!

ORL. Why, what's the matter?

ADAM.

O unhappy youth,
Come not within thefe doors; within this roof
The enemy of all your graces lives:

Your brother-(no, no brother; yet the fon-
Yet not the fon;-I will not call him fon-
Of him I was about to call his father,)—

Hath heard your praises; and this night he means
To burn the lodging where you use to lie,

8 -fo fond-] i. e. fo indifcreet, fo inconfiderate. So, in The Merchant of Venice:

- I do wonder,

"Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art fo fond

"To come abroad with him—. STEEVENS.

9 The bony prifer-] In the former editions-The bonny prifer. We fhould read-bony prifer. For this wrestler is characterised for his strength and bulk, not for his gaiety or good humour. WARBURTON,

So, Milton: "Giants of mighty bone." JOHNSON.

So, in the Romance of Syr Degore, bl. 1. no date:
** This is a man all for the nones,

"For he is a man of great bones."

Bonny, however, may be the true reading. So, in K. Henry VI. P. II. A&. V:

"Even of the bonny beast he lov'd fo well." STEEVENS. The word bonny occurs more than once in the novel from which this play of As you Like it is taken. It is likewife much used by the common people in the northern counties. I believe, however, bony to be the true reading. MALONE.

to fome kind of men-] Old copy-feeme kind. Corrected by the editor of the fecond folio. MALONE.

And you within it: if he fail of that,

He will have other means to cut you off:
I overheard him, and his practices.

This is no place, this house is but a butchery ;
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.

Vol. VIII. ORL. Why, whither, Adam, wouldst thou have me go?

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ADAM. No matter whither, so you come not here.
ORL. What, wouldst thou have me go and beg
my food?

Or, with a base and boisterous fword, enforce
A thievifh living on the common road?
This I must do, or know not what to do:
todo:
Yet this I will not do, do how I can;

I rather will fubject me to the malice
Of a diverted blood, and bloody brother.

ADAM. But do not fo: I have five hundred crowns,
The thrifty hire I fav'd under your father,
Which I did ftore, to be my fofter-nurse,
When fervice fhould in my old limbs lie lame,

This is no place,] Place here fignifies a feat, a manfion, a refidence. So, in the first Book of Samuel: "Saul fet him up a place, and is gone down to Gilgal." We ftill ufe the word in compound with another, as-St. James's place, Rathbone place; and Crosby place in K. Richard III. &c. STEEVENS.

Our author ufes this word again in the fame fenfe in his Lover's Complaint:

"Love lack'd a dwelling, and made him her place." Plas, in the Welch language, fignifies a manfion-houfe. MALONE. Steevens's explanation of this paffage is too refined. Adam means merely to fay-" This is no place for you." M. MASON. di

And unregarded age in corners thrown;
Take that and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea, providently caters for the fparrow,+
Be comfort to my age! Here is the gold;
All this I give you: Let me be your fervant;
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lufty:
For in my youth I never did apply

Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; '
Nor did not with unbafhful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lufty winter,
Frofty, but kindly: let me go with you;
I'll do the fervice of a younger man
In all your business and neceffities.

ORL. O good old man; how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will fweat, but for promotion;
And having that, do choke their fervice up
Even with the having: it is not fo with thee.
But, poor old man, thou prun'ft a rotten tree,
That cannot fo much as a bloffom yield,
In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry:
But come thy ways, we'll go along together;

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and He that doth the ravens feed,

Yea, providently caters for the fparrow, &c.] See Saint Luke, xii. 6. and 24. DOUCE.

srebellious liquors in my blood;] That is, liquors which inflame the blood or fenfual paffions, and incite them to rebel against Reafon. So, in Othello:

"For there's a young and fweating devil here,
"That commonly rebels." MALONE.

Perhaps he only means liquors that rebel against the constitution.

STEEVENS.

Even with the having:] Even with the promotion gained by fervice is fervice extinguished. JOHNSON.