As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 6
Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.
ADAM
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Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for 2
food! Here lie I down, and measure out my 3
grave. Farewell, kind master.
ORLANDO
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Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? 5. comfort: take heart.
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Live a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.6. uncouth forest: wilderness. any thing savage: i.e., a wild animal.
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If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I 7
will either be food for it or bring it for food to8. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers: Your imagination is nearer death than your physical condition. 9. be comfortable: be cheerful. 10. presently: immediately.
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thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. 9
For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at 10
the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently; 11
and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will 12
give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I13. Well said: well done. Apparently Adam is beginning to show some signs of recovery.
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come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said! 14
thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly. 15
Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear 16
thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for 17
lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this 18
desert. Cheerly, good Adam!
Exeunt.