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Thread #4211 Message #3511952
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-May-13 - 08:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/Tune Add: Helston Hal an Tow
Subject: RE: lyr and tune Helston Hal an Tow
As You Like It, Act 4, Scene 2
The forest.
Enter Jaques, Lords and Foresters.
Jaq. Which is he that kill'd the deer?
Lord. Sir, it was I.
Jaq. 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?
For. Yes, sir.
Jaq. Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it make noise enough.
[Song]
For. What shall he have that kill'd 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 it,
And thy father bore it.
The horn, the horn, the lusty horn,
Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.
[Exeunt.]