Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Oli. Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancie,
Oli. Loe vvhat befell: he threw his eye aside,
Oli. And marke what obiect did present it selfe
Oli. Vnder an old Oake, whose bows were moss'd with age
Oli. And high top, bald with drie antiquitie:
Oli. A wretched ragged man, ore‑growne with haire
Oli. Lay sleeping on his back; about his necke
Oli. A greene and guilded snake had wreath'd it selfe,
Oli. Who with her head, nimble in threats approach'd
Oli. The opening of his mouth: but sodainly
Oli. Seeing Orlando, it vnlink'd it selfe,
Oli. And with indented glides, did slip away
Oli. Into a bush, vnder which bushes shade
Oli. A Lyonnesse, with vdders all drawne drie,
Oli. Lay cowching head on ground, with catlike watch
Oli. When that the sleeping man should stirre; for 'tis
Oli. The royall disposition of that beast
Oli. To prey on nothing, that doth seeme as dead:
Oli. This seene, Orlando did approach the man,
Oli. And found it was his brother, his elder brother.