As You Like It — Act 4, Scene 2: The forest.

Jaques enters with some lords and foresters after a deer has been killed, and he asks which man did it. A lord admits that he did. Jaques reacts with mocking ceremony, saying the killer should be brought before Duke Senior like a victorious Roman and joking that the dead deer’s horns should be placed on his head as a sign of triumph. He then demands a song from one of the foresters. The forester sings a comic, teasing song that tells the deer killer to wear the horns without shame, saying the horn has long been a symbol passed down from father to father. After the song, they all leave.

Which is he that killed the deer?

Sir, it was I.

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?

Yes, sir.

Sing it: 'tis no matter how it be in tune, so it

make noise enough.

SONG.

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 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.