Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ad. Be comfort to my age: here is the gold,
Ad. All this I giue you, let me be your seruant,
Ad. Though I looke old, yet I am strong and lustie;
Ad. For in my youth I neuer did apply
Ad. Hot, and rebellious liquors in my bloud,
Ad. Nor did not with vnbashfull forehead woe,
Ad. The meanes of weakensse and debilitie,
Ad. Therefore my age is as a lustie winter,
Ad. Frostie, but kindely; let me goe with you,
Ad. Ile doe the seruice of a yonger man
Ad. In all your businesse and necessities.
Orl. Orl.
Orl. Oh good old man, how well in thee appeares
Orl. The constant seruice of the antique world,
Orl. When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede:
Orl. Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Orl. Where none will sweate, but for promotion,
Orl. And hauing that do choake their seruice vp,
Orl. Euen with the hauing, it is not so with thee:
Orl. But poore old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree,