Understanding Shakespeare: As You Like It by Robert A. Albano - HTML preview

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AMBLES: Time ambles (moves very slowly) for a priest who knows no Latin because he does not study – since religious books are written in Latin – and can thus sleep most of the day. Time also ambles with the rich man who has no gout (a painful condition of the foot that comes from eating rich foods) since he can live and easy and carefree life without pain.

 

STANDS STILL: Time stands still for lawyers on vacation. Shakespeare is criticizing Elizabethan lawyers who worked for only short periods of time each year and spent the rest of the time taking vacations. Their vacations seemed to last forever.

 

Orlando is pleased with the witty manner of Ganymede (Rosalind) and begins to ask him questions about where he lives and where he comes from.