As You Like It
Act IV, Scene 2
Another part of the Forest of Arden.
What shall he have that kill’d the deer?
W. Brooks, S.O. Beeton, John Gilbert, circa 1875
- Enter Jaques and Lords as foresters.
Jaques
1- Which is he that kill’d the deer?
First Lord in Arden
2- Sir, it was I.
Jaques
3 - 6- 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?
Second Lord in Arden
7- Yes, sir.
Jaques
8 - 9- Sing it. ’Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise
- enough.
- Music.
- Song.
Second Lord in Arden
10 - 19- 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.
'As You Like It', Act IV, Scene 2
Frederick William Davis, 1907