d by to be provision for me when
my old limbs should become unfit for service; take that, and he that
doth the ravens feed be comfort to my age! Here is the gold; all this I
give to you: let me be your servant; though I look old I will do the
service of a younger man in all your business and necessities." "O good
old man!" said Orlando, "how well appears in you the constant service of
the old world! You are not for the fashion of these times. We will go
along together, and before your youthful wages are spent, I shall light
upon some means for both our maintenance."

Together then this faithful servant and his loved master set out; and
Orlando and Adam travelled on, uncertain what course to pursue, till
they came to the forest of Arden, and there they found themselves in the
same distress for want of food that Ganymede and Aliena had been. They
wandered on, seeking some human habitation, till they were almost spent
with hunger and fatigue. Adam at last said, "O my dear master, I die for
want of food, I can go no farther!" He then laid himself down, thinking
to make that place his grave, and bade his dear master farewell.
Orlando, seeing him in this weak state, took his old servant up in his
arms, and carried him under the shelter of some pleasant trees; and he
said to him, "Cheerly, old Adam, rest your weary limbs here awhile, and
do not talk of dying!"

Orlando then searched about to find some food, and he happened to arrive
at that part of the forest where the duke was; and he and his friends
were just going to eat their dinner, this royal duke being seated on the
grass, under no other canopy than the shady covert of some large trees.

Orlando, whom hunger had made desperate, drew his sword, intending to
take their meat by force, and said, "Forbear and eat no more; I must
have your food!" The duke asked him, if distress had made him so bold,
or if he were a rude despiser of good manners? On this Orlando said, he
was dying with hunger; and then the duke told him he was welcome to sit
down and eat with them. Orlando hearing him speak so gently, put up his
sword, and blushed with shame at the rude manner in which he had
demanded their food. "Pardon me, I pray you," said he: "I thought that
all things had been savage here, and therefore I put on the countenance
of stern command; but whatever men you are, that in this desert, under
the shade of melancholy boughs, lose and neglect the creeping hours of
time; if ever you h