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Published according to the true originall copies.—Mr. VVilliam Shakespeares comedies, histories, & tragedies—Bodleian  \nFirst Folio, Arch. G c.7  \nThis text was downloaded from [http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/](http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/), where you can also find digital images of the Bodleian First Folio. It is published by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, under a CC BY 3.0 licence.  \nThe first phase of the Bodleian First Folio project, to conserve the book, photograph it, and publish the images freely online, was funded, with grateful thanks, by donations from the public.  \nThe second phase of the Bodleian First Folio project was made possible by a lead gift from Dr Geoffrey Eibl-Kaye and generous support from the Sallie Dickson Memorial Fund/Dallas Shakespeare Club Fund, Mr James Barber, and a private individual. The Bodleian Libraries are very grateful for this additional support, which brings new features to the digitized First Folio, enabling more efficient and intuitive use for all with an interest in Shakespeare, early modern drama, theatre and book history.  \nFind out more about this book’s remarkable history, the campaign, and the work that led to its digitization.  \nAs You Like It.  \n[Page 185]  \nActus primus. Scœna Prima.  \n[Act 1, Scene 1]  \nEnter Orlando and Adam.  \nOrlando.  \nAS I remember Adam, it was vpon this fashion bequeathed me by will, but poore a thousand Crownes, and as thou saist, charged my brother on his blessing to breed mee well: and  \nthere begins my sadnesse: My brother Iaques he keepes at schoole, and report speakes goldenly of his profit:  \nfor my part, he keepes me rustically at home, or (to speak more properly) staies me heere at home vnkept: for call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an Oxe? his horses are bred better, for besides that they are faire with their feeding, they are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd: but I (his brother) gaine nothing vnder him but growth, for the which his Animals on his dunghils are as much bound to him as I: besides this nothing that he so plentifully giues me, the something that  \nnature gaue mee, his countenance seemes to take from me: hee lets mee feede with his Hindes, barres mee the place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it Adam that grieues me, and the spirit of my Father, which I thinkeis within mee, begins to mutinie against this seruitude. I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to auoid it.  \nEnter Oliuer.  \nAdam.  \nYonder comes my Master, your brother.  \nOrlan.  \nGoe a-part Adam, and thou shalt heare how he will shake me vp.  \nOli.  \nNow Sir, what make you heere?  \nOrl.  \nNothing: I am not taught to make any thing.  \nOli.  \nWhat mar you then sir?  \nOrl.  \nMarry sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poore vnworthy brother of yours with idlenesse.  \nOliuer.  \nMarry sir be better employed, and be naught a while.  \nOrlan.  \nShall I keepe your hogs, and eat huskes with  \nthem? What prodigall portion haue I spent, that I should come to such penury?  \nOli.  \nKnow you where you are sir?  \nOrl.  \nO sir, very well: heere in your Orchard.  \nOli.  \nKnow you before whom sir?  \nOrl.  \nI, better then him I am before knowes mee: I  \nknow you are my eldest brother, and in the gentle condition of bloud you should so know me: the courtesie of nations allowes you my better, in that you are the first borne, but the same tradition takes not away my bloud, were there twenty brothers betwixt vs: I haue as much of my father in mee, as you, albeit I confesse your comming before me is neerer to his reuerence.  \nOli.  \nWhat Boy.  \nOrl.  \nCome, come elder brother, you are too yong in (this.  \nOli.  \nWilt thou lay hands on me villaine?  \nOrl.  \nI am no villaine: I am the yongest sonne of Sir Rowland de Boys,","cbCaikJhQn93nglP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikJhQn93nglP","pdf",450726,74,"English","# Act 1, Scene 1\n## Orlando and Adam enter\n## Orlando confronts Oliver\n## Charles the wrestler arrives","[{\"question\":\"What conflict begins Act 1, Scene 1?\",\"answer\":\"Orlando explains that his elder brother gives him poor treatment and restricts his education, leaving Orlando to feel trapped and deprived.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Orlando respond to Oliver’s orders?\",\"answer\":\"Orlando rejects his assigned lifestyle and demands exercises suited to a gentleman, or the inheritance he believes his father left him.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Oliver mention wrestling and who arrives afterward?\",\"answer\":\"Oliver refers to an upcoming wrestling event and brings in Charles, the Duke’s wrestler, to provide court-related news.\"}]","As You Like It - Act 1, Scene 1 | PDF",1789939481,114]