Page 1894 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

OLIVER

Now sir, what make you here?

ORLANDO
Nothing. I am not taught to make anything.

OLIVER
What mar you then sir?

ORLANDO
Marry sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy
brother of yours, with [30] idleness.

OLIVER

Marry sir, be better employed, and be naught awhile.

ORLANDO

Shall I keep your hogs and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I
spent that I should [35] come to such penury?

OLIVER
Know you where you are sir?

ORLANDO
O sir, very well: here in your orchard.

OLIVER
Know you before whom sir?

ORLANDO
Ay, better than him I am before knows me. I [40] 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 firstborn, but the
same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt
us. I have as much of [45] my father in me as you, albeit I confess your

coming before me is nearer to his reverence.