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As You Like It - Act 4, scene 2

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Act 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.
JAQUESto 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.