TPTT As You Like It: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
SCENE I. The forest.
SCENE II. The forest.
SCENE III. The forest.
ACT V
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SCENE II. The forest.
Enter JAQUES, Lords, and Foresters
JAQUES
      Which is he that killed the deer?
A Lord
      Sir, it was I.
JAQUES
      Let's present him to the duke, like a Roman
      conqueror; and it would do well to set the deer's
5     horns upon his head, for a branch of victory. Have
      you no song, forester, for this purpose?
Forester
      Yes, sir.
JAQUES
      Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it
      make noise enough.
SONG.
Forester
10    What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
      His leather skin and horns to wear.
      Then sing him home;

The rest shall bear this burden

      Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;
      It was a crest ere thou wast born:
15    Thy father's father wore it,
      And thy father bore it:
      The horn, the horn, the lusty horn
      Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
Exeunt
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