My mafter is of churlish difpofition, And little wreaks to find the way to heav'n Befides, his coate, his flocks, and bounds of feed Rof. What is he, that shall buy his flock and pasture ? Cor. That young fwain, that you faw here but ere while, That little cares for buying any thing. Rof. I pray thee, if it ftand with honesty, I like this place, and willingly could wafte Cor. Affuredly the thing is to be fold; And buy it with your gold right fuddenly. [Exeunt. SCENE changes to a defart Part of the Foreft. Enter Amiens, Jaques, and others. SONG.. Under the green-wood tree,, Who loves to lie with me, And tune his merry note, Unto the fweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here fhall he fee No enemy, But winter and rough weather. Jaq. More, more, I pr'ythee, more. N 3 Αντών Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monfieur Jaquet. Jaq. I thank it; more, I pr'ythee, more; I fuck melancholy out of a fong, as a weazle fucks I pr'ythee, more. can eggs: more, Ami. My voice is rugged; I know, I cannot pleafe you. Jaq. I do not defire you to please me, I do defire you to fing; come, come, another ftanzo; call you 'em ftanzo's? Ami. What you will, Monfieur Jaques. Jaq. Nay, I care not for their names, they owe me nothing.Will you fing? Ami. More at your requeft, than to please myself. Faq. Well then, if ever I thank any man, I'll thank you; but that, they call compliments, is like the encounter of two dog-apes. And when a man thanks me heartily, methinks, I have given him a penny, and he renders me. the beggarly thanks. Come, fing; and you that will not, hold your tongues.. Ami. Well, I'll end the fong, Sirs, cover the while; the Duke will dine under this tree; he hath been all this day to look you. Jaq. And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too difputable for my company: I think of as many matters as he, but I give heav'n thanks, and make no boaft of them. Come, warble, come. And loves to lie i'th' fun, Seeking the food he eats, And pleas'd with what he gets;. Come hither, come hither, come hither; Here fhall he fee No enemy, But winter and rough weather. Faq I'll give you a verse to this note, that I made. yesterday in defpight of my invention. Ami. And I'll fing it. Jug. Thus it goes. 2 If If it do come to pass, That any man turn afs; Grofs fools as he, And if he will come to me. Ami What's that ducdame ? Jaq. 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. F'll go fleep if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the firft-born of Egypt. Ami. And I'll go feek the Duke: his banquet is prepar'd. [Exeunt, feverally. Enter Orlando and Adam. Adam. Dear mafter, I can go no further; O, I die for food! here lie I down, and measure out my grave. Farewel, kind mafter. Orla. Why, how now, Adam! no greater heart in thee? Enter Duke Sen. and Lords. [A table fet out. 1. Lord. My Lord, he is but even now gone hence; Here Here was he merry, hearing of a fong. Duke Sen. If he, compact of jars, grow mufical, 1 Lord. He faves my labour by his own approach. Duke Sen. Why, how now, Monfieur, what a life is this, That your poor friends must woo your company? What! you look merrily. faq. A fool, a fool; I met a fool i'th' foreft, A motley fool; a miferable world! As I do live by food, I met, a fool, Who laid him down and bafk'd him in the fun, Good morrow, fool, quoth I: No, Sir, quoth he, Thus may we fee, quoth he, how the world wags: Jaq. O worthy foo!! one that hath been a courtier, Jam ambitious for a motley coat. Duke Sen. Thou fhalt have one. Provided, that you weed your better judgments. To blow on whom I please, for fo fools have; The wife man's folly is anatomiz'd If not, Even by the fquandring glances of a fool. To fpeak my mind, and I will through and through. If they will patiently receive my medicine. Duke Sen. Fy on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do Jaq. What, for a counter, would I do but good? Duke Sen. Moft mifchievous foul fin, in chiding fin: For thou thyself haft been a libertine, As fenfual as the brutish fting itself; And all th' emboffed fores and headed evils, (12) He, whom a fool doth very wifely bit, Doth very forlifbly, although be fmart, Seem fenfelefs of the bob. If not, &c.] Befides that the thi verfe is defective one whole foot in meafore, the tenour of what fiques · continues to fay, and the reafoning of the paffage, fhew it is no leis defective in the fenfe. There is no doubt, but the two little mono. fyllables, which I have fupply'd, were either by accident wanting in the Manufcript copy, or by inadvertence were left out at prefs. NS When |