As You Like It: Act 2, Scene 5
Enter AMIENS, JAQUES, and others.
Song.
[AMIENS]
1 Under the greenwood tree 2 Who loves to lie with me, 3 And turn his merry note 4 Unto the sweet bird's throat, 5 Come hither, come hither, come hither: 6 Here shall he see 7 No enemy 8 But winter and rough weather. JAQUES
9 More, more, I prithee, more. AMIENS
10 It will make you melancholy, Monsieur 11 Jaques. JAQUES
12 I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck 13 melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks 14 eggs. More, I prithee, more. AMIENS
15 My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please 16 you. JAQUES
17 I do not desire you to please me; I do desire 18 you to sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call 19 you 'em stanzos? AMIENS
20 What you will, Monsieur Jaques. JAQUES
21 Nay, I care not for their names; they 22 owe me nothing. Will you sing? AMIENS
23 More at your request than to please 24 myself. JAQUES
25 Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank 26 you; but that they call compliment is like the 27 encounter of two dog-apes, and when a man 28 thanks me heartily, methinks I have given him 29 a penny and he renders me the beggarly thanks. 30 Come, sing; and you that will not, hold your tongues. AMIENS
31 Well, I'll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; the 32 duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all 33 this day to look you. JAQUES
34 And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is 35 too disputable for my company: I think of as many 36 matters as he, but I give heaven thanks and make 37 no boast of them. Come, warble, come.Song. [All together here.]
38 Who doth ambition shun 39 And loves to live i' the sun, 40 Seeking the food he eats 41 And pleased with what he gets, 42 Come hither, come hither, come hither: 43 Here shall he see 44 No enemy 45 But winter and rough weather. JAQUES
46 I'll give you a verse to this note that I made 47 yesterday in despite of my invention. AMIENS
48 And I'll sing it. JAQUES
49 Thus it goes: 50 If it do come to pass 51 That any man turn ass, 52 Leaving his wealth and ease, 53 A stubborn will to please, 54 Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame! 55 Here shall he see 56 Gross fools as he, 57 An if he will come to me. AMIENS
58 What's that 'ducdame'? JAQUES
59 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a 60 circle. I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll 61 rail against all the first-born of Egypt. AMIENS
62 And I'll go seek the duke: his banquet is 63 prepared. Exeunt.