and shakespeare having put in a song in the very pastoral comedy as you like it using earlier words from the great ballad of robin hood in sherwood forest who had gone under the greenwood tree meaning leaving the sophistications of society and going outside to learn new lessons under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me and tune his merry note unto the sweet bird's throat come hither come hither come hither here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather who does ambition shun and loves to lie in the sun seeking the food he eats and please with what he gets come hither come hither come hither here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather