Act the Fourth
Scene I On the King’s Preserves
After a noise of horns and shoutings, enter certain Huntsmen (if you please, singing) one way; another way Ateukin and Jaques.
Ateu. Say, gentlemen, where may we find the king?
First Hunts. Even here at hand, on hunting;
And at this hour he taken hath a stand,
To kill a deer.
Ateu. A pleasant work in hand.
Follow your sport, and we will seek his grace.
First Hunts. When such him seek, it is a woful case.
[Exeunt Huntsmen one way, Ateukin and Jaques another.