> Oh good old man, how well in thee appeares > The constant seruice of the antique world, > When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede: > Thou art not for the fashion of these times, > Where none will sweate, but for promotion, > And hauing that do choake their seruice vp, > Euen with the hauing, it is not so with thee: > **But poore old man, thou prun’st a rotten tree,** > **That cannot so much as a blossome yeelde,** > **In lieu of all thy paines and husbandrie,** > But come thy waies, weele goe along together, > And ere we haue thy youthfull wages spent, > Weele light vpon some setled low content Orlando i //As You Like It// (ca.1599-1600) Act II, scene 3 William Shakespeare Henta frå [[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/As_You_Like_It|Wikisource]]