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  • Title: As You Like It (Folio 1, 1623)
  • Editor: David Bevington

    • ISBN: 978-1-55058-369-4

    Copyright David Bevington. This text may be freely used for educational, non-profit purposes; for all other uses contact the Editor.
    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: David Bevington
    Peer Reviewed

    As You Like It (Folio 1, 1623)

    2530Scœna Tertia.
    Enter Clowne and Audrey.
    Clo. To morrow is the ioyfull day Audrey, to morow
    will we be married.
    Aud. I do desire it with all my heart: and I hope it is
    2535no dishonest desire, to desire to be a woman of y^e world?
    Heere come two of the banish'd Dukes Pages.
    Enter two Pages.
    1. Pa. Wel met honest Gentleman.
    Clo. By my troth well met : come, sit, sit, and a song.
    25402. Pa. We are for you, sit i'th middle.
    1. Pa. Shal we clap into't roundly, without hauking,
    or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the onely
    prologues to a bad voice.
    2. Pa. I faith, y'faith, and both in a tune like two
    2545gipsies on a horse.
    Song.
    It was a Louer, and his lasse,
    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
    That o're the greene corne feild did passe,
    2550 In the spring time, the onely pretty rang time.
    When Birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
    Sweet Louers loue the spring,
    And therefore take the present time.
    With a hey, & a ho, and a hey nonino,
    2555For loue is crowned with the prime.
    In spring time, &c.
    Betweene the acres of the Rie,
    With a hey, and a ho, & a hey nonino:
    These prettie Country folks would lie.
    2560 In spring time, &c.
    This Carroll they began that houre,
    With a hey and a ho, & a hey nonino:
    How that a life was but a Flower,
    In spring time, &c.
    2565Clo. Truly yong Gentlemen, though there vvas no
    great matter in the dittie, yet y^e note was very vntunable
    1 Pa. you are deceiu'd Sir, we kept time, we lost not
    our time.
    Clo. By my troth yes: I count it but time lost to heare
    2570such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend your
    voices. Come Audrie. Exeunt.
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