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As You Like It - Act 5, scene 3Act 5, scene 3
Scene 3
Synopsis:
Touchstone and Audrey listen while two pages sing.
Enter ⌜Touchstone⌝ and Audrey.TOUCHSTONE 2586 Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey. Tomorrow
2587 will we be married.
AUDREY 2588 I do desire it with all my heart, and I hope it is
2589 no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
2590 5 world.
Enter two Pages.
2591 Here come two of the banished duke’s pages.
FIRST PAGE 2592 Well met, honest gentleman.
TOUCHSTONE 2593 By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and
2594 a song.
SECOND PAGE 2595 10We are for you. Sit i’ th’ middle.
⌜They sit.⌝
FIRST PAGE 2596 Shall we clap into ’t roundly, without
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hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which2598 are the only prologues to a bad voice?
SECOND PAGE 2599 I’ faith, i’ faith, and both in a tune like
2600 15 two gypsies on a horse.
Song.
⌜PAGES sing⌝
2601 It was a lover and his lass,
2602 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
2603 That o’er the green cornfield did pass
2604 In springtime, the only pretty ⌜ring⌝ time,
2605 20 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
2606 Sweet lovers love the spring.
2607 Between the acres of the rye,
2608 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
2609 These pretty country folks would lie
2610 25 In springtime, the only pretty ⌜ring⌝ time,
2611 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
2612 Sweet lovers love the spring.
2613 This carol they began that hour,
2614 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
2615 30 How that a life was but a flower
2616 In springtime, the only pretty ⌜ring⌝ time,
2617 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
2618 Sweet lovers love the spring.
2619 And therefore take the present time,
2620 35 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey-nonny-no,
2621 For love is crownèd with the prime,
2622 In springtime, the only pretty ⌜ring⌝ time,
2623 When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
2624 Sweet lovers love the spring.
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TOUCHSTONE
2625
40Truly, young gentlemen, though there2626 was no great matter in the ditty, yet the note was
2627 very untunable.
FIRST PAGE 2628 You are deceived, sir. We kept time. We lost
2629 not our time.
TOUCHSTONE 2630 45By my troth, yes. I count it but time lost
2631 to hear such a foolish song. God be wi’ you, and
2632 God mend your voices.—Come, Audrey.
They ⌜rise and⌝ exit.