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Title: Typical tales of fancy, romance, and history from Shakespeare's plays; in narrative form, largely in Shakespeare's words, with dialogue passages in the original dramatic text
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Raymond, Robert Reikes, 1817-1888, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: New York, Fords, Howard, and Hulbert
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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to learn for himself how harsh and unkind a brother could be. Oliver, richly dressed in the fashion of the day, came into the orchard, and inan extremely rude and disagreeable manner addressed Orlando, whose clotheswere those of a peasant, saying, ■—■ Now, sir, what are you doing here ? a This beautiful character is rendered doubly interesting to us by a curious tradition thatShakespeare himself played it upon the stage. The poet had a brother Gilbert, who sur-vived him more than forty years, and who, when a very infirm old man, with faculties few andfeeble, being asked if he had ever seen his brother play, answered that he rememberedhim in one of his own comedies, wherein, being to personate a decrepit old man, he worea long beard, and appeared so weak and drooping that he was forced to be carried byanother person to a table, at which he was seated among some company who were eating,and one of them sung a song. This could have been none other than the good old Adam.(See p. in.)
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Orlandos victory over charles, the dukes wrestler. 84 SHAKESPEARE FOR THE YOUNG FOLK. Nothing, replied Orlando; I am not taught to do anything, but am leftto spoil with idleness. Well then, be better employed, confound you ! retorted the elder brother. What shall I do? Feed your hogs, and eat husks with them? I believe Ihave nt spent the prodigal sons portion yet, that I should be brought so low asthat. Know you where you are, .sir? O, sirj very well: here, in your orchard. Know you before whom, sir? Ay, better than he I am before knows me. I know you are my elder brother,but you should also know me as being of the same blood as yourself. I have asmuch of our father in me as you; though I confess your coming before me hasbrought you nearer to his estate. This taunt stung Oliver to the quick, and calling his brother boy andvillain, he rushed forward as if about to strike him. But in this he made agreat mistake, for Orlando was much the stronger of the two, and he seized Oliverby the th

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