ACT III.

cca SCENE I. A forest in the north of England.

Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands.

[♦] First Keep. Under this thick-grown brake we’ll shroud ourselves;

[♦] For through this laund anon the deer will come;

[♦] And in this covert will we make our stand,

Culling the principal of all the deer.

[5] Sec. Keep. I’ll stay above the hill, so both may shoot.

First Keep. That cannot be; the noise of thy cross-bow

[♦] Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost.