The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
64: _you,_] _your_ F1.
73: _shepherd_] _a shepherd_ Rowe.
76: _recks_] Hanmer. _wreakes_ F1 F2. _wreaks_ F3 F4.
78: _cote_] Hanmer. _coate_ F1 F2. _coat_ F3 F4.
89, 90: Arranged as in Cappell. As three lines ending
_wages...could...it_ Ff. As three lines ending _wages...waste...it_
Rowe (ed. 2).
89: _wages_] _wage_ Lloyd conj.
94: _feeder_] _factor_ W. Walker conj.
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SCENE V. _The forest._
_Enter_ AMIENS, JAQUES, _and others._
SONG.
_Ami._ Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me,
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither: 5
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
_Jaq._ More, more, I prithee, more.
_Ami._ It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques. 10
_Jaq._ I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck
melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More,
I prithee, more.
_Ami._ My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.
_Jaq._ I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to 15
sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you ’em stanzos?
_Ami._ What you will, Monsieur Jaques.
_Jaq._ Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me
nothing. Will you sing?
_Ami._ More at your request than to please myself. 20
_Jaq._ Well then, if ever I thank any man, I’ll thank
you; but that they call compliment is like the encounter
of two dog-apes, and when a man thanks me heartily, methinks
I have given him a penny and he renders me the
beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, hold 25
your tongues.
_Ami._ Well, I’ll end the song. Sirs, cover the while;
the Duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all this
day to look you.
_Jaq._ And I have been all this day to avoid him. He 30
is too disputable for my company: I think of as many
matters as he; but I give heaven thanks, and make no
boast of them. Come, warble, come.
SONG.
Who doth ambition shun, [_All together here._
And loves to live i’ the sun, 35
Seeking the food he eats,
And pleased with what he gets,
Come hither, come hither, come hither:
Here shall he see
No enemy 40
But winter and rough weather.
_Jaq._ I’ll give you a verse to this note, that I made
yesterday in despite of my invention.
_Ami._ And I’ll sing it.
_Jaq._ Thus it goes:— 45
If it do come to pass
That any man turn ass,
Leaving his wealth and ease
A stubborn will to please,
Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame: 50
Here shall he see
Gross fools as he,
An if he will come to me.
_Ami._ What’s that ‘ducdame’?
_Jaq._ ’Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. 55
I’ll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I’ll rail against all the
first-born of Egypt.
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