# Scene III explained — As You Like It

> Chapter companion for As You Like It by William Shakespeare.

## 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.

## Character check-ins

### Touchstone

Anticipates his marriage to Audrey and criticizes the pages' song.

### Audrey

Expresses her desire to marry Touchstone.

## Key lines

> 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._

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