As You Like It
Act V, Scene 3
Another part of the Forest of Arden.
Like two gypsies on a horse
Hugh Thomson, 1910
- Enter Clown (Touchstone) and Audrey.
Touchstone
1 - 2- Tomorrow is the joyful day, Audrey, tomorrow will we be
- married.
Audrey
3 - 5- I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is no
- dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the world. Here
- come two of the banish’d Duke’s pages.
- Enter two Pages.
First Page
6- Well met, honest gentleman.
Touchstone
7- By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.
Second Page
8- We are for you, sit i’ th’ middle.
First Page
9 - 11- Shall we clap into’t roundly, without hawking or spitting or
- saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad
- voice?
Second Page
12 - 31- I’ faith, i’ faith, and both in a tune, like two gypsies on
- a horse.
- Song.
- It was a lover and his lass,
- With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
- That o’er the green corn-field did pass,
- In spring time, the only pretty ring time,
- When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding,
- Sweet lovers love the spring.
- Between the acres of the rye,
- With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
- These pretty country folks would lie,
- In spring time, etc.
- This carol they began that hour,
- With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
- How that a life was but a flower,
- In spring time, etc.
- And therefore take the present time,
- With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
- For love is crowned with the prime,
- In spring time, etc.
Touchstone
32 - 33- Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great matter in
- the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.
First Page
34- You are deceiv’d, sir, we kept time, we lost not our time.
Touchstone
35 - 37- By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear such a
- foolish song. God buy you, and God mend your voices! Come,
- Audrey.
- Exeunt.
Audrey
Hugh Thomson, 1910