"AS _HE_'D LIKE IT."

(_Shakspeare once more freely adapted to the situation._)

["We wanted, and we want, to do for the villages,
what the first reformed Parliament did in conferring
municipal government upon the towns. We knew
that the Tory Party did not really mean to give
us village or parish Councils.... 'The Radical
agitators,' says Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, 'want
to see a complete change in the social condition of
rural society.' What if we do?... Why, it was
for this that many of us, seven or eight years ago,
and many more years ago, fought for getting the
labourer a vote."--_Mr. John Morley at Cambridge._]

SCENE--_The Forest of Ha_(_w_)_arden._

_Touchstone_ (Mr. J-HN M-RL-Y); _Audrey_, (The Agricultural Vote); _Jaques_
(Mr. P-NCH), behind. Afterwards _William_ (Sir M-CH-L H-CKS-B-CH.)

_Touch._ Come apace, good AUDREY: I will fetch up your votes, AUDREY. And
how, AUDREY?--am I the man yet? Doth my simple programme content you?

_Audrey._ Your programme! Lord warrant us, what programme?

_Touch._ I am here with thee and thy Votes as the glittering poet-god
Apollo was among the herds of Admetus.