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Shakespeare's Opening Lines: The Quiz

Question #7: CORRECT!

ORLANDO. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion
bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns,
and, as thou sayest, charged my brother, on his
blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my
sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and
report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part,
he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more
properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call you
that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that
differs not from the stalling of an ox?
As You Like It (1.1)

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Rosalind. From As you Like It. Booklovers Edition. (1901)