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As You Like It - Act 4, scene 2
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As You Like It - Act 4, scene 2Act 4, scene 2
Scene 2
Synopsis:
Duke Senior’s courtiers celebrate their having killed a deer.
Enter Jaques and Lords, ⌜like⌝ foresters.JAQUES 2180 Which is he that killed the deer?
⌜FIRST⌝ LORD 2181 Sir, it was I.
JAQUES, ⌜to the other Lords⌝ 2182 Let’s present him to the
2183 Duke like a Roman conqueror. And it would do well
2184 5 to set the deer’s horns upon his head for a branch of
2185 victory.—Have you no song, forester, for this
2186 purpose?
⌜SECOND⌝ LORD 2187 Yes, sir.
JAQUES 2188 Sing it. ’Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
2189 10 make noise enough.
Music. Song.
⌜SECOND LORD sings⌝
2190 What shall he have that killed the deer?
2191 His leather skin and horns to wear.
2192 Then sing him home.
(The rest shall bear this burden:)
2193 Take thou no scorn to wear the horn.
2194 15 It was a crest ere thou wast born.
2195 Thy father’s father wore it,
2196 And thy father bore it.
2197 The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
2198 Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
They exit.