ACT IV - SCENE II

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_ ACT IV. SCENE II.
The forest.

[Enter JAQUES and LORDS, in the habit of foresters.]

JAQUES.
Which is he that killed the deer?

LORD.
Sir, it was I.

JAQUES.
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?

LORD.
Yes, sir.

JAQUES.
Sing it; 'tis no matter how it be in tune,
so it make noise enough.

SONG.

What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.

[The rest shall hear this burden:]

Then sing him home.

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.] _

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