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Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this

fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thou-

sand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged my

brother on his blessing, to breed me well: and

there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques

he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly

of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically

at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me

here at home unkept; for call you that keeping

for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from

the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better;

for, besides that they are fair with their feeding,

they are taught their manage, and to that end

riders dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain

nothing under him but growth, for the which

his animals on his dunghills are as much bound

to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so

plentifully gives me, the something that nature

gave me his countenance seems to take from

 2 Cf. n.

poor a: i.e., a beggarly

5 Jaques; cf. n.

6 at school: at college

7 rustically: i.e., without opportunity to see the world

8 stays: detains

13 manage: ''action and paces to which a horse is trained. Cf. French manège''

19 countenance: favor, patronage 