Page 1979 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Scene II IT

Enter Jaques and lords, (like) foresters.

JAQUES
Which is he that killed the deer?

FIRST 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 horns upon his head for a branch of victory. Have you no
song, forester, [5] for this purpose?

SECOND LORD
Yes sir.

JAQUES
Sing it. ’Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise enough.
(Given a note, they sing.)

What shall he have that kill’d the deer? [10]
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.

Scene III IT

Enter Rosalind and Celia.