As You Like It Act 4 Scene 2 by William Shakespeare
As You Like It Act 4 Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

As You Like It Act 4 Scene 2

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As You Like It Act 4 Scene 2 by William Shakespeare

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One of the lords in the hunting party has killed a deer. Jaques suggests one of the foresters sing a hunting song to celebrate. The forester agrees, and his song is full of double entendres about cuckoldry.

As You Like It Act 4 Scene 2 Annotated

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
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
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:
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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