Page 1922 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

And wherefore are you gentle, strong, and valiant?
Why would you be so fond to overcome
The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?
Your praise is come too swiftly home before you.

Know you not master, to some kind of men, [10]
Their graces serve them but as enemies?
No more do yours. Your virtues, gentle master,
Are sanctified and holy traitors to you.

O what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it! [15]

ORLANDO
Why, what’s the matter?

ADAM
O unhappy youth,
Come not within these doors; within this roof

The enemy of all your graces lives.
Your brother, no, no brother, yet the son −
Yet not the son, I will not call him son − [20]
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,
And you within it. If he fail of that,
He will have other means to cut you off. [25]

I overheard him, and his practices.
This is no place: this house is but a butchery.
Abhor it, fear it, do not enter it.

ORLANDO
Why whither Adam would’st thou have me go?

ADAM
No matter whither, so you come not here. [30]

ORLANDO

What, wouldst thou have me go and beg my food,