...as intrinsically good in contrast to modern corruption, after the manner of Orlando's words to Adam: O good old man ! How well in thee appears The constant...antique world When service sweat for duty, not for meed. (As You Litke It, n, iii, 56) So here the beauteous boy is, in comparison with the showy flamboyance...

...naivete can be high. Here is Adam, the most loyal servant to Orlando in As You Like It. Orlando says: "O good old man, how well in thee appears / The constant...world, /When service sweat for duty, not for meed!" (As You Like It 2.3.57—59). Adam is a good, loyal character. But he also has good luck: his master,...

...more than lovingly map the bare ruin'd choirs of Shakespeare's London. It offered a benign account of the antique world, when 'service sweat for duty not for meed' (As You Like It 2.4.19), a world which had been lost in the dismantling of the early Tudor religious...

...disjunction, where language breaks down. PART TWO THE POETICS OF THE SILENT LANGUAGE AND WILL POWER O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...service up Even with the having; it is not so with thee. As You Like It Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies...

...her Teutonic sensibility." 1 By contrast, her Orlando (Olivier) seems wooden. His praise for old Adam ("O good old man, how well in thee appears / The constant service of the antique world" (2.3.56)) sounds singsong and uninflected, like a sullen pupil called on to read aloud in class. It...

...lost. The idea is centred on old Adam, whom Orlando addresses as the last survivor of better days: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...service up Even with the having; it is not so with thee. , ... (n. in. 56-62) Orlando looks back to a world of decent order and harmony, as opposed to the new...

...old servant Adam are contrasted by Orlando with the general rule that obtains in this environment: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee. (II, iii, 56-62) And it is Adam himself who gives what is perhaps the most striking evidence of the...

...virtue, although it is poor and powerless. His choice evokes a tribute from his chosen master: Oh, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...service up Even with the having. It is not so with thee. (AYL 2.3.56-62) Adam's virtuous service wins him Orlando's reciprocal affection and loyalty, and, since...

...me go with you. I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities. ORLANDO O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant...these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, 60 And having that do choke their service up Even with the having — it is not so with thee. But,...

...Adam, Orlando now remembers another 'world', where order, service, and duty were all respected : 0 good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world t When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou are not for the fashion of these times , Where none...