...tooth is not so keen Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho ! sing heigh ho ! unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then, heigh ho ! the holly ! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, Thou dost not bite...

...apparently feels that he has to relieve by a sudden transition to ironical mirth : Heigho I sing heigho 1 unto the green holly : Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly : Then, heigho the holly ! This life is most jolly ! It is significant that, after all, the most beautiful...

...Thou an not so unkind As man's ingratitude and partly echoes the 'merry' misanthropy of Jaques Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly the Duke belies the song's statements (but chimes with its feeling) by asking Orlando sympathetically about...

...tooth is not so keen because thou art not seen, although thy breath be rude. Heigh ho, sing, heigh ho, unto the green holly! Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly, then heigh ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. ( They hum, clap and play a little melodic bridge between...

...Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend remembered not. Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly, Most friendship is feigning; most loving mere folly: Then hey-ho, the holly, iyo This life is most jolly. Most truly limned and living in your face, Be truly...

...true companionship found in the greenwood and the hypocrisy that prevails at court and elsewhere: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly Then heigh-ho, the holly, This life is most jolly. (2.7.181-183) Similarly, "It was a lover and his lass, / With a hey and a ho and a hey nonino" —...

...thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp 190 As friend remembered not. Hey-ho, sing hey-ho, unto the green holly, Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly; Then hey-ho, the holly, This life is most jolly. DUKE If that you were the good Sir Rowland's son, As you...

...all too often merely that homage which vice pays to virtue in hypocrisy: Most friendship is Ieigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly, (n. vii. 181-3) Thus, the portrait of Adam, the invocation of ideals of gentility, and the idealization...

...bite so nigh As benefits forgot. Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp, As friend remembered not. Heigh-ho, sing heigh-ho, unto the...Then heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. tooth — bite rude — rough feigning — pretending nigh — closely benefits forgot — -your generosity...

...man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly: Most...Then, heigh-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters...