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As You Like It · Chapter
Scene III explained
Touchstone and Audrey prepare for their wedding the next day.
What happens
Touchstone and Audrey prepare for their wedding the next day. Two pages sing a springtime love song, but Touchstone dismisses it as foolish.
Themes in this chapter
Love and Marriage
Touchstone and Audrey's impending wedding and the pages' song celebrate love and marriage in the springtime.
Characters to notice
- Touchstone
Anticipates his marriage to Audrey and criticizes the pages' song.
- Audrey
Expresses her desire to marry Touchstone.
Key passages
“To-morrow is the joyful day, Audrey; to-morrow will we be married.”
Tomorrow is our wedding day, Audrey.
Touchstone announces the upcoming marriage.
“It was a lover and his lass, With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino, That o'er the green corn-field did pass In the spring time, the only pretty ring time”
A lover and his girl walked through the green cornfield in spring, the best time for weddings.
The pages sing a song about lovers in spring.