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Full of the pasture, jumps along by him
And never stays to greet him. ‘Ay’, quoth Jaques,
‘Sweep on you fat and greasy citizens, [55]
’Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look

Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?’
Thus most invectively he pierceth through
The body of country, city, court,
Yea, and of this our life, swearing that we [60]

Are mere usurpers, tyrants, and what’s worse,
To fright the animals and to kill them up
In their assign’d and native dwelling-place.

DUKE SENIOR
And did you leave him in this contemplation?

SECOND LORD
We did my lord, weeping and commenting [65]

Upon the sobbing deer.

DUKE SENIOR
Show me the place:
I love to cope him in these sullen fits,
For then he’s full of matter.

FIRST LORD
I’ll bring you to him straight.

Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter Duke (Frederick) with lords.

DUKE FREDERICK
Can it be possible that no man saw them?

It cannot be; some villains of my court
Are of consent and sufferance in this.