Page 1337 - Shakespeare - Vol. 4

And Rycas, and three better lads ne’er danced
Under green tree; and ye know what wenches, ha!
But will the dainty dominie, the schoolmaster, [40]
Keep touch, do you think? For he does all, ye know.

THIRD COUNTRYMAN
He’ll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to,

The matter’s too far driven between him
And the tanner’s daughter to let slip now;
And she must see the Duke, and she must dance too. [45]

FOURTH COUNTRYMAN
Shall we be lusty?

SECOND COUNTRYMAN

All the boys in Athens
Blow wind i’th’breech on’s!
[He dances]
And here I’ll be
And there I’ll be, for our town, and here again

And there again! Ha, boys, hey for the weavers!

FIRST COUNTRYMAN
This must be done i’th’woods.

FOURTH COUNTRYMAN
O, pardon me. [50]

SECOND COUNTRYMAN
By any means, our thing of learning says so;
Where he himself will edify the Duke

Most parlously in our behalfs. He’s excellent i’th’woods;
Bring him to th’plains, his learning makes no cry.

THIRD COUNTRYMAN
We’ll see the sports, then every man to’s tackle; [55]
And, sweet companions, let’s rehearse by any means