As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 6

           Enter ORLANDO and ADAM.

      ADAM
  1   Dear master, I can go no further. O, I die for
  2   food! Here lie I down, and measure out my
  3   grave. Farewell, kind master.

      ORLANDO
  4   Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee?

5. comfort: take heart.

5 Live a little; comfort a little; cheer thyself a little.

6. uncouth forest: wilderness. any thing savage: i.e., a wild animal.

6 If this uncouth forest yield any thing savage, I
7 will either be food for it or bring it for food to

8. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers: Your imagination is nearer death than your physical condition. 9. be comfortable: be cheerful. 10. presently: immediately.

  8   thee. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers.
  9   For my sake be comfortable; hold death awhile at
10   the arm's end: I will here be with thee presently;
11   and if I bring thee not something to eat, I will
12   give thee leave to die: but if thou diest before I

13. Well said: well done. —Apparently Adam is beginning to show some signs of recovery.

13   come, thou art a mocker of my labour. Well said!
14   thou lookest cheerly, and I'll be with thee quickly.
15   Yet thou liest in the bleak air: come, I will bear
16   thee to some shelter; and thou shalt not die for
17   lack of a dinner, if there live any thing in this
18   desert. Cheerly, good Adam!

           Exeunt.

As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 6

As You Like It : Act 2, Scene 6