Aud. 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. 005 Here come two of the banished Duke’s pages.

Enter two Pages.

First Page. Well met, honest gentleman.

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

Sec. Page. We are for you: sit i’ the middle.

First Page. Shall we clap into’t roundly, without 010 hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are 011 the only prologues to a bad voice?

Sec. Page. I’faith, i’faith; and both in a tune, like two gipsies on a horse.

Song. It was a lover and his lass, 015 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o’er the green corn-field did pass 017 In the spring time, the only pretty ring time, When birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding: Sweet lovers love the spring. 020 Between the acres of the rye, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, 022 These pretty country folks would lie, 023 In spring time, &c. 024 This carol they began that hour, 025 With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, 026 How that a life was but a flower 027 In spring time, &c. 028 And therefore take the present time, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino; 030 For love is crowned with the prime In spring time, &c.

Touch. Truly, young gentlemen, though there was no 033 great matter in the ditty, yet the note was very untuneable.

034 First Page. You are deceived, sir: we kept time, we 035 lost not our time.

Touch. By my troth, yes; I count it but time lost to 037 hear such a foolish song. God buy you; and God mend your voices! Come, Audrey. [Exeunt.