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or a Devil, they never wanted for the marvellous. In the old Romance of Lancelot of the Lake, we have the doctrine and discipline of the Church as formally delivered as in Bellarmine himself. "La confeffion (Jays

the preacher) ne vaut rien fi le coeur n'eft repentant; " & fi tu es moult & eloigné de l'amour de noftre "Seigneur, tu ne peus eftre raccordé fi non par trois "chofes premierement par la confeffion de bouche; "fecondement par une contrition de cœur, tierce"ment par peine de cœur, & par oeuvre d'aumône " & charité. Telle eft la droite voye d'aimer Dieu. "Or va & fi te confeffe en cette maniere & recois la "difcipline des mains de tes confeffeurs, car c'eft le "figne de merite. Or mande le roy fes evefques, "dont grande partie avoit en l'oft, & vinrent tous en "fa chapelle. Le roy vint devant eux tout nud en "pleurant, & tenant fon plein point de menuës verges, "Îles jetta devant eux, & leur dit en foupirant,

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qu'ils priffent de luy vengeance, car je fuis le plus "vil pecheur, &c.-Apres prinft difcipline & d'eux " & moult doucement la receut. Hence we find the divinity-lectures of Don Quixote and the penance of his Squire, are both of them in the ritual of Chivalry. Laftly, we find the Knight-errant, after much turmoil to himself, and difturbance to the world, frequently ended his course, like Charles V. of Spain, in a Monaftery; or turn'd Hermit, and became a Saint in good earneft. And this again will let us into the fpirit of thofe Dialogues between Sancho and his mafter, where it is gravely debated whether he should not turn Saint or Archbishop.

There were feveral caufes of this ftrange jumble of nonsense and religion. As first, the nature of the fubject, which was a religious War or Crufade: 2dly, The quality of the firft Writers, who were religious Men: And 3dly, The end in writing many of them, which was to carry on a religious purpose. We learn,

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that Clement V. interdicted Jufts and Tourneaments, because he understood they had much hindered the Crufade decreed in the Council of Vienna. "Tor"neamenta ipfa & Haftiludia five Juxtas in regnis "Franciæ, Angliæ, & Almanniæ, & aliis non

nullis provinciis, in quibus ea confuevere frequen"tiùs exerceri, fpecialiter interdixit." Extrav. de Torneamentis C. unic. temp. Ed. I. Religious men, I conceive, therefore, might think to forward the defign of the Crufades by turning the fondnefs for Tilts and Torneaments into that channel. Hence we fee the books of Knight-errantry fo full of folemn Jufts and Torneaments held at Trebizonde, Bizance, Tripoly, &c. Which wife project, I apprehend, it was Cervantes's intention to ridicule, where he makes his Knight propofe it as the best means of fubduing the Turk, to affemble all the Knights-errant together by Proclamation. 4

4 See Part 2. 1. 5. c. I.

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DUKE.

Dramatis Perfonæ.

Frederick, Brother to the Duke, and ufurper of his dukedom.

Amiens, Lords attending upon the Duke in his banishJaques, S

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Le Beu, a courtier attending on Frederick.

Oliver, eldest fon to Sir Rowland de Boys, who had formerly been a fervant to the Duke.

Jaques Younger brothers to Oliver.
Orlando,

Adam, an old fervant of Sir Rowland de Boys, now following the fortunes of Orlando.

Dennis, fervant to Oliver.

Charles, a wrestler, and fervant to the ufurping Duke Frederick.

Touchstone, a clown attending on Celia and Rofalind. Corin,

Sylvius,} Shepherds.

A Clown, in love with Audrey.

William, another clown, in love with Audrey.

Sir Oliver Mar-text, a country curate.

Rofalind, Daughter to the Duke.

Celia, Daughter to Frederick.

Phebe, a fhepherdess.

Audrey, a country wench.

Lords belonging to the two Dukes; with pages, forefters, and other attendants.

The SCENE lyes, firft, near Oliver's house; and, afterwards, partly in the Duke's Court; and partly in the Foreft of Arden.

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ACT I. SCENE I.

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OLIVER's Orchard.

Enter Orlando and Adam.

ORLANDO.

SI remember, Adam, it was upon this, my Father bequeath'd me by Will, but a poor thousand crowns; and, as thou fay'st, charged my brother on his Bleffing to breed me well; and there begins my fadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at fchool, and report fpeaks goldenly of his profit; for my part, he keeps me ruftically at home; (or, to fpeak more

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1 As I remember, Adam, it was upon this FASHION bequeathed me by Will, but a poor thousand crowns, &c] The Grammar, as well as fenfe, fuffers cruelly by this reading. There are two nominatives to the verb bequeathed, and not fo much as one to the verb charged: and yet, to the nominative there wanted, [bis bleffing] refers. So that the whole fentence is confused and obfcure. A very small alteration in the reading, and pointing fets all right. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this MY FATHER bequeathed me, &c. The Grammar is now rectified, and the fense alfo; which is this, Orlando and Adam were difcourfing together on the caufe why the younger brother had

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