Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. As You Like It (1623 First Folio Edition)
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Scene v
888: Scena Quinta.
889: [ Enter, Amyens, Iaques, & others.]
890: [ Song.]
891: Vnder the greene wood tree,
892: who loues to lye with mee,
893: And turne his merrie Note,
894: vnto the sweet Birds throte:
895: Come hither, come hither, come hither:
896: Heere shall he see no enemie,
897: But Winter and rough Weather.
898:
Iaq.
More, more, I pre'thee more.
899:
Amy.
It will make you melancholly Monsieur Iaques
900:
Iaq.
I thanke it: More, I prethee more,
901: I can sucke melancholly out of a song,
902: As a Weazel suckes egges: More, I pre'thee more.
903:
Amy.
My voice is ragged, I know I cannot please
904: you.
905:
Iaq.
I do not desire you to please me,
906: I do desire you to sing:
907: Come, more, another stanzo: Cal you 'em stanzo's?
908:
Amy.
What you wil Monsieur Iaques.
909:
Iaq.
Nay, I care not for their names, they owe mee
910: nothing. Wil you sing?
911:
Amy.
More at your request, then to please my selfe.
912:
Iaq.
Well then, if euer I thanke any man, Ile thanke
913: you: but that they cal complement is like th' encounter
914: of two dog-Apes. And when a man thankes me hartily,
915: me thinkes I haue giuen him a penie, and he renders me
916: the beggerly thankes. Come sing; and you that wil not
917: hold your tongues.
918:
Amy.
Wel, Ile end the song. Sirs, couer the while,
919: the Duke wil drinke vnder this tree; he hath bin all this
920: day to looke you.
921:
Iaq.
And I haue bin all this day to auoid him:
922: He is too disputeable for my companie:
923: I thinke of as many matters as he, but I giue
924: Heauen thankes, and make no boast of them.
925: Come, warble, come.
926: [ Song. Altogether heere.]
927: Who doth ambition shunne,
928: and loues to liue i'th Sunne:
929: Seeking the food he eates,
930: and pleas'd with what he gets:
931: Come hither, come hither, come hither,
932: Heere shall he see. &c.
933:
Iaq.
Ile giue you a verse to this note,
934: That I made yesterday in despight of my Inuention.
935:
Amy.
And Ile sing it.
936:
Amy.
Thus it goes.
937: If it do come to passe, that any man turne Asse:
938: Leauing his wealth and ease,
939: A stubborne will to please,
940: Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:
941: Heere shall he see, grosse fooles as he,
942: And if he will come to me.
943:
Amy.
What's that Ducdame?
944:
Iaq.
'Tis a Greeke inuocation, to call fools into a cir-cle.
945: Ile go sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all
946: the first borne of Egypt.
947:
Amy.
And Ile go seeke the Duke,
948: His banket is prepar'd. [ Exeunt]