SparkNotes: Complete Text of As You Like It: Act II, Scene vi

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Act II, Scene vi:
Another part of the Forest.

[Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.]

ADAM:

Dear master, I can go no further: O, I die for food! Here

lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewell, kind master.

ORLANDO:

Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Live a

little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little. If this uncouth

forest yield anything savage, I will either be food for it or

bring it for food to thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy

powers. For my sake be comfortable: hold death awhile at the

arm's end: I will here be with thee presently; and if I bring

thee not something to eat, I'll give thee leave to die: but if

thou diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well

said! thou look'st cheerily: and I'll be with thee quickly.—Yet

thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear thee to some

shelter; and thou shalt not die for lack of a dinner if there

live anything in this desert. Cheerily, good Adam!

[Exeunt.]

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