Mojo, The Bard, & Me

 

Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;

It was a crest ere thou wast born:

-Forester

As You Like It                Act IV, Scene ii, Line 14

This is a very short scene. Jaques and company have come across a hunter with a fallen deer. They’ve set the deer’s horns upon the hunter’s head, and now one of the foresters is singing a song for him.

 

        What shall he have that kill’d the deer?

        His leather skin and horns to wear.

        Then sing him home;

 

        Take thou no scorn to wear the horn;

        It was a crest ere thou wast born:

        Thy fathers wore it,

        And thy father bore it:

        The horn, the horn, the lusty horn

        Is not a thing to laugh to scorn.

 

And that’s the end of the scene as they all parade off the stage. I told you it was short. There’s only eighteen lines in the scene, and the song is half of them. 

So, what do you think of the song?

Sorry, no pic today.