Love's Labour's Lost (version 2) - Audiolibro Gratis

Scene V. The forest.

AYLI II. 5 Enter Amiens, Jaques, and others.

Song.

001 Ami.

Under the greenwood tree

Who loves to lie with me,

003 And turn his merry note

Unto the sweet bird’s throat,

005 Come hither, come hither, come hither:

006 Here shall he see

No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

Jaq. More, more, I prithee, more.

010 Ami. It will make you melancholy, Monsieur Jaques.

011 Jaq. I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, I prithee, more.

014 Ami. My voice is ragged: I know I cannot please you.

015 Jaq. I do not desire you to please me; I do desire you to 016 sing. Come, more; another stanzo: call you ’em stanzos?

Ami. What you will, Monsieur Jaques.

018 Jaq. Nay, I care not for their names; they owe me nothing. Will you sing?

020 Ami. More at your request than to please myself.

Jaq. Well then, if ever I thank any man, I’ll thank 022 you; but that they call compliment 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 025 beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, hold your tongues.

Ami. Well, I’ll end the song. Sirs, cover the while; 028 the Duke will drink under this tree. He hath been all this day to look you.

030 Jaq. And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too disputable for my company: I think of as many matters as he; but I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.

Song.

034 Who doth ambition shun, [All together here.

035 And loves to live i’ the sun,

Seeking the food he eats,

And pleased with what he gets,

Come hither, come hither, come hither:

039 Here shall he see

040 No enemy

But winter and rough weather.

Jaq. I’ll give you a verse to this note, that I made yesterday in despite of my invention.

044 Ami. And I’ll sing it.

045 Jaq. Thus it goes:—

If it do come to pass

That any man turn ass,

Leaving his wealth and ease

A stubborn will to please,

050 Ducdame, ducdame, ducdame:

Here shall he see

Gross fools as he,

053 An if he will come to me.

Ami. What’s that ‘ducdame’?

055 Jaq. ’Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. I’ll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I’ll rail against all the first-born of Egypt.

Ami. And I’ll go seek the Duke: his banquet is prepared. [Exeunt severally.