by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
Language: English
What shall he have that kill'd the deer?
His leather skin and horns to wear.
Then sing him home; the rest shall bear this burden.
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.
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- by William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), no title, appears in As You Like It, Act IV, scene 2 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968), "The horn" [ voice and piano ], from Shakespeare Songs, Book IX, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
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- Also set in French (Français), a translation by Camille de Sainte-Croix (1859 - 1915) ; composed by Paul Vidal.
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- Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by August Wilhelm Schlegel (1767 - 1845) , from Wie es euch gefällt and by Johann Ludwig Tieck (1773 - 1853) , from Wie es euch gefällt ; composed by Adolph Martin Foerster.
Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- FRE French (Français) (François Pierre Guillaume Guizot)
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This text was added to the website: 2007-11-22
Line count: 9
Word count: 67