TPTT As You Like It: ACT II
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
SCENE I. The Forest of Arden.
SCENE II. A room in the palace.
SCENE III. Before OLIVER'S house.
SCENE IV. The Forest of Arden.
SCENE V. The Forest.
SCENE VI. The forest.
SCENE VII. The forest.
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE V. The Forest.
Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others
SONG.
AMIENS
      Under the greenwood tree
      Who loves to lie with me,
      And turn his merry note
      Unto the sweet bird's throat,
5     Come hither, come hither, come hither:
      Here shall he see No enemy
      But winter and rough weather.
JAQUES
      More, more, I prithee, more.
AMIENS
      It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
JAQUES
10    I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck
      melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs.
      More, I prithee, more.
AMIENS
      My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.
JAQUES
      I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to
15    sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you 'em stanzos?
AMIENS
      What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
JAQUES
      Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me
      nothing. Will you sing?
AMIENS
      More at your request than to please myself.
JAQUES
20    Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you;
      but that they call compliment is like the encounter
      of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily,
      methinks I have given him a penny and he renders me
      the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will
25    not, hold your tongues.
AMIENS
      Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the
      duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all
      this day to look you.
JAQUES
      And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is
30    too disputable for my company: I think of as many
      matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make no
      boast of them. Come, warble, come.

SONG.

      Who doth ambition shun

All together here

      And loves to live i' the sun,
35    Seeking the food he eats
      And pleased with what he gets,
      Come hither, come hither, come hither:
      Here shall he see No enemy
      But winter and rough weather.
JAQUES
40    I'll give you a verse to this note that I made
      yesterday in despite of my invention.
AMIENS
      And I'll sing it.
JAQUES
      Thus it goes:--
      If it do come to pass
45    That any man turn ass,
      Leaving his wealth and ease,
      A stubborn will to please,
      Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:
      Here shall he see
50    Gross fools as he,
      An if he will come to me.
AMIENS
      What's that 'ducdame'?
JAQUES
      'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a
      circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll
55    rail against all the first-born of Egypt.
AMIENS
      And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is prepared.
Exeunt severally
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