Act IVScene II
Another part of the Forest
Enter Jaques and Lords, like foresters.
Jaques
Which is he that killed the deer?
First 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?
Second Lord
Yes, sir.
Jaques
Sing it. ’Tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise enough.
Song.
Second Lord
Sings.
What shall he have that killed the deer?His leather skin and horns to wear.Then sing him home:
The rest shall bear this burden.
Take thou no scorn to wear the horn.It was a crest ere thou wast born.Thy father’s father wore itAnd thy father bore it.The horn, the horn, the lusty hornIs not a thing to laugh to scorn.
Exeunt.