Act 5, Scene 3: The forest.

SCENE III. The forest.

    Enter TOUCHSTONE and AUDREY

TOUCHSTONE

    To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will
    we be married.

AUDREY

    I do desire it with all my heart; and I hope it is
    no dishonest desire to desire to be a woman of the
    world. Here comes two of the banished duke's pages.

    Enter two Pages

First Page

    Well met, honest gentleman.

TOUCHSTONE

    By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.

Second Page

    We are for you: sit i' the middle.

First Page

    Shall we clap into't roundly, without hawking or
    spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only
    prologues to a bad voice?

Second Page

    I'faith, i'faith; and both in a tune, like two
    gipsies on a horse.
    SONG.
    It was a lover and his lass,
    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
    That o'er the green corn-field did pass
    In the spring time, the only pretty ring time,
    When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding:
    Sweet lovers love the spring.
    Between the acres of the rye,
    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino
    These pretty country folks would lie,
    In spring time, & c.
    This carol they began that hour,
    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,
    How that a life was but a flower
    In spring time, & c.
    And therefore take the present time,
    With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino;
    For love is crowned with the prime
    In spring time, & c.

TOUCHSTONE

    Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no great
    matter in the ditty, yet the note was very
    untuneable.

First Page

    You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we lost not our time.

TOUCHSTONE

    By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to hear
    such a foolish song. God be wi' you; and God mend
    your voices! Come, Audrey.

    Exeunt