As You Like It: ACT V , SCENE III. The forest.

As You Like It: ACT V


	Introduction

	ACT I

	ACT II

	ACT III

	ACT IV

	ACT V

		SCENE I. The forest.

		SCENE II. The forest.

		SCENE III. The forest.

		SCENE IV. The forest.

		EPILOGUE

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SCENE III. The forest.

Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY

TOUCHSTONE

To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will
we be married.

AUDREY

      I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is
      no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
5     world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.

Enter two Pages

First Page

Well met, honest gentleman.

TOUCHSTONE

By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.

Second Page

We are for you: sit i' the middle.

First Page

      Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or
10    spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only
      prologues to a bad voice?

Second Page

I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two
gipsies on a horse.

SONG.

      It was a lover and his lass,
15    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
      That o'er the green corn-field did pass
      In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
      When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
      Sweet lovers love the spring.
20    Between the acres of the rye,
      With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
      These pretty country folks would lie,
      In spring time, &c.
      This carol they began that hour,
25    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
      How that a life was but a flower
      In spring time, &c.
      And therefore take the present time,
      With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
30    For love is crowned with the prime
      In spring time, &c.

TOUCHSTONE

      Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great
      matter in the ditty, yet the note was very
      untuneable.

First Page

35 You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.

TOUCHSTONE

      By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear
      such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend
      your voices! Come, Audrey.

Exeunt

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