Peer Reviewed
As You Like It (Modern)
2.5.0.3[A table is set out.]
890Song
[Sings]
Under the greenwood tree
2.5.7 No enemy
More, more, I prithee, more.
It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.
I thank it. More, I prithee, more. 901I can suck melancholy out of a song 902as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.
My voice is ragged. I know I cannot please904 you.
I do not desire you to please me, 906I do desire you to sing. 907Come, more; another stanzo. Call you 'em "stanzos"?
What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me 910nothing. Will you sing?
More at your request than to please myself.
Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank 913you. But that they call "compliment" is like th'encounter 914of two dog-apes; and when a man thanks me heartily, 915methinks I have given him a penny, and he renders me 916the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, 917hold your tongues.
Well, I'll end the song. -- Sirs, cover the while; 919the Duke will drink under this tree. -- He hath been all this 920day to look you.
[Food and drink are set out.]
And I have been all this day to avoid him. 922He is too disputable for my company. 923I think of as many matters as he, but I give 924heaven thanks and make no boast of them. 925Come, warble, come.
926Song
[Sings]
Who doth ambition shun,
All together here
2.5.26 No enemy
2.5.27But winter and rough weather.
I'll give you a verse to this note 934that I made yesterday in despite of my invention.
And I'll sing it.
Thus it goes:
What's that "ducdame"?
'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. 945I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all 946the first-born of Egypt.
And I'll go seek the Duke. 948His banquet is prepared.
Exeunt [separately].