As You Like It — Act 2 Scene 5

Song.

Vnder the greene wood tree,who loues to lye with mee,And turne his merrie Note,vnto the sweet Birds throte:Come hither, come hither, come hither:Heere shall he see no enemie,But Winter and rough Weather.

Iaq.More, more, I pre'thee more.

Amy.It will make you melancholly Monsieur Iaques.

Iaq.I thanke it: More, I prethee more,I can sucke melancholly out of a song,As a Weazel suckes egges: More, I pre'thee more.

Amy.My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please you.

Iaq.I do not desire you to please me,I do desire you to sing:Come, more, another stanzo: Cal you'em stanzo's?

Amy.What you wil Monsieur Iaques.

Iaq.Nay, I care not for their names, they owe mee nothing. Wil you sing?

Amy.More at your request, then to please my selfe.

Iaq.Well then, if euer I thanke any man, Ile thanke you: but that they cal complement is like th'encounter of two dog-Apes. And when a man thankes me hartily, me thinkes I haue giuen him a penie, and he renders me the beggerly thankes. Come sing; and you that wil not hold your tongues.

Amy.Wel, Ile end the song. Sirs, couer the while, the Duke wil drinke vnder this tree; he hath bin all this day to looke you.

Iaq.And I haue bin all this day to auoid him:He is too disputeable for my companie:I thinke of as many matters as he, but I giueHeauen thankes, and make no boast of them.Come, warble, come.

Song.Altogether heere.

Who doth ambition shunne,and loues to liue i'th Sunne:Seeking the food he eates,and pleas'd with what he gets:Come hither, come hither, come hither,Heere shall he see. &c

Iaq.Ile giue you a verse to this note,That I made yesterday in despight of my Inuention.

Amy.And Ile sing it.

Amy. Thus it goes.If it do come to passe, that any man turne Asse:Leauing his wealth and ease,A stubborne will to please,Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:Heere shall he see, grosse fooles as he,And if he will come to me.

Amy.What's that Ducdame?

Iaq.'Tis a Greeke inuocation, to call fools into a circle. Ile go sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all the first borne of Egypt.

Amy.And Ile go seeke the Duke,His banket is prepar'd. Exeunt.