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- Edition: As You Like It
As You Like It (Modern)
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Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey; tomorrow 2533will we be married.
I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is 2535no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world. 2536Here come two of the banished Duke's pages.
2537Enter two Pages.
Well met, honest gentleman.
By my troth, well met. Come sit, sit, and a song.
[They sit.]
We are for you. Sit i'th' middle.
Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking, 2542or spitting, or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to 2543a bad voice?
I'faith, i'faith, and both in a tune, like two 2545gypsies on a horse.
2546Song.
It was a lover and his lass,
5.3.12When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
5.3.18When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
5.3.19Sweet lovers love the spring.
5.3.24When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
5.3.25Sweet lovers love the spring.
5.3.30When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding.
5.3.31Sweet lovers love the spring.
Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no 2566great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.
You are deceived, sir; we kept time, we lost not 2568our time.
By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear 2570such a foolish song. God b'wi' you, and God mend your 2571voices. -- Come, Audrey.
Exeunt [the Pages one way, Touchstone and Audrey another].