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<h2>TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL</h2> | <h2>TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL</h2> | ||
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<h4> Dramatis Personæ </h4> | <h4> Dramatis Personæ </h4> | ||
<p>ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.<br/> | <p>ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.<br/> | ||
VALENTINE, Gentleman attending on the Duke<br/> | VALENTINE, Gentleman attending on the Duke<br/> | ||
CURIO, Gentleman attending on the Duke<br/> | CURIO, Gentleman attending on the Duke<br/> | ||
VIOLA, in love with the Duke.<br/> | VIOLA, in love with the Duke.<br/> | ||
SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, twin brother to Viola.<br/> | SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, twin brother to Viola.<br/> | ||
A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola<br/> | A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola<br/> | ||
ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian.<br/> | ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian.<br/> | ||
OLIVIA, a rich Countess.<br/> | OLIVIA, a rich Countess.<br/> | ||
MARIA, Olivia's Woman.<br/> | MARIA, Olivia's Woman.<br/> | ||
SIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.<br/> | SIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.<br/> | ||
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK.<br/> | SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK.<br/> | ||
MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.<br/> | MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.<br/> | ||
FABIAN, Servant to Olivia.<br/> | FABIAN, Servant to Olivia.<br/> | ||
CLOWN, Servant to Olivia.<br/> | CLOWN, Servant to Olivia.<br/> | ||
PRIEST<br/> | PRIEST<br/> | ||
Lords, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants. | Lords, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<h4><b>SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.</b></h4> | <h4><b>SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.</b></h4> | ||
<h3 id="sceneI_361"> <b>ACT I.</b></h3> | <h3 id="sceneI_361"> <b>ACT I.</b></h3> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Orsino,</span> Duke of | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Orsino,</span> Duke of | ||
Illyria,<span class="charname"> Curio,</span> and other Lords; Musicians attending.</p> | Illyria,<span class="charname"> Curio,</span> and other Lords; Musicians attending.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
If music be the food of love, play on,<br/> | If music be the food of love, play on,<br/> | ||
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,<br/> | Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,<br/> | ||
The appetite may sicken and so die.<br/> | The appetite may sicken and so die.<br/> | ||
That strain again, it had a dying fall;<br/> | That strain again, it had a dying fall;<br/> | ||
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound<br/> | O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound<br/> | ||
That breathes upon a bank of violets,<br/> | That breathes upon a bank of violets,<br/> | ||
Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more;<br/> | Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more;<br/> | ||
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.<br/> | 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.<br/> | ||
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,<br/> | O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,<br/> | ||
That notwithstanding thy capacity<br/> | That notwithstanding thy capacity<br/> | ||
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,<br/> | Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,<br/> | ||
Of what validity and pitch soever,<br/> | Of what validity and pitch soever,<br/> | ||
But falls into abatement and low price<br/> | But falls into abatement and low price<br/> | ||
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,<br/> | Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,<br/> | ||
That it alone is high fantastical. | That it alone is high fantastical. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CURIO.<br/> | <p>CURIO.<br/> | ||
Will you go hunt, my lord? | Will you go hunt, my lord? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
What, Curio? | What, Curio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CURIO.<br/> | <p>CURIO.<br/> | ||
The hart. | The hart. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Why so I do, the noblest that I have.<br/> | Why so I do, the noblest that I have.<br/> | ||
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,<br/> | O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,<br/> | ||
Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence;<br/> | Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence;<br/> | ||
That instant was I turn'd into a hart,<br/> | That instant was I turn'd into a hart,<br/> | ||
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,<br/> | And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,<br/> | ||
E'er since pursue me. How now? what news from her? | E'er since pursue me. How now? what news from her? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VALENTINE.<br/> | <p>VALENTINE.<br/> | ||
So please my lord, I might not be admitted,<br/> | So please my lord, I might not be admitted,<br/> | ||
But from her handmaid do return this answer:<br/> | But from her handmaid do return this answer:<br/> | ||
The element itself, till seven years' heat,<br/> | The element itself, till seven years' heat,<br/> | ||
Shall not behold her face at ample view;<br/> | Shall not behold her face at ample view;<br/> | ||
But like a cloistress she will veiled walk,<br/> | But like a cloistress she will veiled walk,<br/> | ||
And water once a day her chamber round<br/> | And water once a day her chamber round<br/> | ||
With eye-offending brine: all this to season<br/> | With eye-offending brine: all this to season<br/> | ||
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh<br/> | A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh<br/> | ||
And lasting in her sad remembrance. | And lasting in her sad remembrance. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame<br/> | O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame<br/> | ||
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,<br/> | To pay this debt of love but to a brother,<br/> | ||
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft<br/> | How will she love, when the rich golden shaft<br/> | ||
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else<br/> | Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else<br/> | ||
That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart,<br/> | That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart,<br/> | ||
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill'd<br/> | These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill'd<br/> | ||
Her sweet perfections with one self king!<br/> | Her sweet perfections with one self king!<br/> | ||
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers,<br/> | Away before me to sweet beds of flowers,<br/> | ||
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. | Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola,</span> a | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola,</span> a | ||
<span class="charname">Captain</span> and Sailors.</p> | <span class="charname">Captain</span> and Sailors.</p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
What country, friends, is this? | What country, friends, is this? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
This is Illyria, lady. | This is Illyria, lady. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And what should I do in Illyria?<br/> | And what should I do in Illyria?<br/> | ||
My brother he is in Elysium.<br/> | My brother he is in Elysium.<br/> | ||
Perchance he is not drown'd. What think you, sailors? | Perchance he is not drown'd. What think you, sailors? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd. | It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. | O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
True, madam; and to comfort you with chance,<br/> | True, madam; and to comfort you with chance,<br/> | ||
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,<br/> | Assure yourself, after our ship did split,<br/> | ||
When you, and those poor number sav'd with you,<br/> | When you, and those poor number sav'd with you,<br/> | ||
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,<br/> | Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,<br/> | ||
Most provident in peril, bind himself,<br/> | Most provident in peril, bind himself,<br/> | ||
(Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)<br/> | (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)<br/> | ||
To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea;<br/> | To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea;<br/> | ||
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,<br/> | Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,<br/> | ||
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves<br/> | I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves<br/> | ||
So long as I could see. | So long as I could see. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
For saying so, there's gold!<br/> | For saying so, there's gold!<br/> | ||
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,<br/> | Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,<br/> | ||
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,<br/> | Whereto thy speech serves for authority,<br/> | ||
The like of him. Know'st thou this country? | The like of him. Know'st thou this country? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born<br/> | Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born<br/> | ||
Not three hours' travel from this very place. | Not three hours' travel from this very place. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Who governs here? | Who governs here? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
A noble duke, in nature as in name. | A noble duke, in nature as in name. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
What is his name? | What is his name? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
Orsino. | Orsino. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Orsino! I have heard my father name him.<br/> | Orsino! I have heard my father name him.<br/> | ||
He was a bachelor then. | He was a bachelor then. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
And so is now, or was so very late;<br/> | And so is now, or was so very late;<br/> | ||
For but a month ago I went from hence,<br/> | For but a month ago I went from hence,<br/> | ||
And then 'twas fresh in murmur, (as, you know,<br/> | And then 'twas fresh in murmur, (as, you know,<br/> | ||
What great ones do, the less will prattle of)<br/> | What great ones do, the less will prattle of)<br/> | ||
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia. | That he did seek the love of fair Olivia. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
What's she? | What's she? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count<br/> | A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count<br/> | ||
That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her<br/> | That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her<br/> | ||
In the protection of his son, her brother,<br/> | In the protection of his son, her brother,<br/> | ||
Who shortly also died; for whose dear love<br/> | Who shortly also died; for whose dear love<br/> | ||
They say, she hath abjur'd the company<br/> | They say, she hath abjur'd the company<br/> | ||
And sight of men. | And sight of men. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
O that I served that lady,<br/> | O that I served that lady,<br/> | ||
And might not be delivered to the world,<br/> | And might not be delivered to the world,<br/> | ||
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,<br/> | Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,<br/> | ||
What my estate is. | What my estate is. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
That were hard to compass,<br/> | That were hard to compass,<br/> | ||
Because she will admit no kind of suit,<br/> | Because she will admit no kind of suit,<br/> | ||
No, not the Duke's. | No, not the Duke's. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
There is a fair behaviour in thee, Captain;<br/> | There is a fair behaviour in thee, Captain;<br/> | ||
And though that nature with a beauteous wall<br/> | And though that nature with a beauteous wall<br/> | ||
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee<br/> | Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee<br/> | ||
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits<br/> | I will believe thou hast a mind that suits<br/> | ||
With this thy fair and outward character.<br/> | With this thy fair and outward character.<br/> | ||
I pray thee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,<br/> | I pray thee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,<br/> | ||
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid<br/> | Conceal me what I am, and be my aid<br/> | ||
For such disguise as haply shall become<br/> | For such disguise as haply shall become<br/> | ||
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke;<br/> | The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke;<br/> | ||
Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.<br/> | Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.<br/> | ||
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing,<br/> | It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing,<br/> | ||
And speak to him in many sorts of music,<br/> | And speak to him in many sorts of music,<br/> | ||
That will allow me very worth his service.<br/> | That will allow me very worth his service.<br/> | ||
What else may hap, to time I will commit;<br/> | What else may hap, to time I will commit;<br/> | ||
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. | Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | <p>CAPTAIN.<br/> | ||
Be you his eunuch and your mute I'll be;<br/> | Be you his eunuch and your mute I'll be;<br/> | ||
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. | When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I thank thee. Lead me on. | I thank thee. Lead me on. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure | What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure | ||
care's an enemy to life. | care's an enemy to life. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights; your cousin, | By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights; your cousin, | ||
my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours. | my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, let her except, before excepted. | Why, let her except, before excepted. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. | Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good | Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good | ||
enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; and they be not, let them hang | enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; and they be not, let them hang | ||
themselves in their own straps. | themselves in their own straps. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday; | That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday; | ||
and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer. | and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Who? Sir Andrew Aguecheek? | Who? Sir Andrew Aguecheek? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, he. | Ay, he. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. | He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
What's that to th' purpose? | What's that to th' purpose? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. | Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats. He's a very | Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats. He's a very | ||
fool, and a prodigal. | fool, and a prodigal. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, and | Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, and | ||
speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the | speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the | ||
good gifts of nature. | good gifts of nature. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
He hath indeed, almost natural: for, besides that he's a fool, he's | He hath indeed, almost natural: for, besides that he's a fool, he's | ||
a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the | a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the | ||
gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent he would | gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent he would | ||
quickly have the gift of a grave. | quickly have the gift of a grave. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him. Who are | By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him. Who are | ||
they? | they? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company. | They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
With drinking healths to my niece; I'll drink to her as long as there is | With drinking healths to my niece; I'll drink to her as long as there is | ||
a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria. He's a coward and a coystril | a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria. He's a coward and a coystril | ||
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the toe like a | that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the toe like a | ||
parish top. What, wench! <i>Castiliano vulgo:</i> for here comes Sir Andrew | parish top. What, wench! <i>Castiliano vulgo:</i> for here comes Sir Andrew | ||
Agueface. | Agueface. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>AGUECHEEK.<br/> | <p>AGUECHEEK.<br/> | ||
Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby Belch? | Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby Belch? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Sweet Sir Andrew! | Sweet Sir Andrew! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Bless you, fair shrew. | Bless you, fair shrew. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
And you too, sir. | And you too, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. | Accost, Sir Andrew, accost. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
What's that? | What's that? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
My niece's chamber-maid. | My niece's chamber-maid. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance. | Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
My name is Mary, sir. | My name is Mary, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Good Mistress Mary Accost,— | |||
Good Mistress Mary Accost,&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
You mistake, knight: accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail her. | You mistake, knight: accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail her. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that the meaning of | By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that the meaning of | ||
accost? | accost? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Fare you well, gentlemen. | Fare you well, gentlemen. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword again. | And thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword again. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, | And you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, | ||
do you think you have fools in hand? | do you think you have fools in hand? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Sir, I have not you by the hand. | Sir, I have not you by the hand. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Marry, but you shall have, and here's my hand. | Marry, but you shall have, and here's my hand. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Now, sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your hand to th' buttery bar | Now, sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your hand to th' buttery bar | ||
and let it drink. | and let it drink. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Wherefore, sweetheart? What's your metaphor? | Wherefore, sweetheart? What's your metaphor? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
It's dry, sir. | It's dry, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But | Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But | ||
what's your jest? | what's your jest? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
A dry jest, sir. | A dry jest, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Are you full of them? | Are you full of them? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry, now I let go your hand, | Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry, now I let go your hand, | ||
I am barren. | I am barren. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
O knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary: When did I see thee so put down? | O knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary: When did I see thee so put down? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Never in your life, I think, unless you see canary put me down. Methinks | Never in your life, I think, unless you see canary put me down. Methinks | ||
sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am | sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am | ||
a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. | a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
No question. | No question. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And I thought that, I'd forswear it. I'll ride home tomorrow, Sir | And I thought that, I'd forswear it. I'll ride home tomorrow, Sir | ||
Toby. | Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>Pourquoy</i>, my dear knight? | <i>Pourquoy</i>, my dear knight? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
What is <i>pourquoy?</i> Do, or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the | What is <i>pourquoy?</i> Do, or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the | ||
tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O, had I but | tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O, had I but | ||
followed the arts! | followed the arts! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Why, would that have mended my hair? | Why, would that have mended my hair? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature. | Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
But it becomes me well enough, does't not? | But it becomes me well enough, does't not? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a houswife take | Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a houswife take | ||
thee between her legs, and spin it off. | thee between her legs, and spin it off. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Faith, I'll home tomorrow, Sir Toby; your niece will not be seen, or if | Faith, I'll home tomorrow, Sir Toby; your niece will not be seen, or if | ||
she be, it's four to one she'll none of me; the Count himself here | she be, it's four to one she'll none of me; the Count himself here | ||
hard by woos her. | hard by woos her. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
She'll none o' the Count; she'll not match above her degree, | She'll none o' the Count; she'll not match above her degree, | ||
neither in estate, years, nor wit; I have heard her swear't. Tut, | neither in estate, years, nor wit; I have heard her swear't. Tut, | ||
there's life in't, man. | there's life in't, man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind | I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind | ||
i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether. | i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Art thou good at these kick-shawses, knight? | Art thou good at these kick-shawses, knight? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the degree of my betters; and | As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the degree of my betters; and | ||
yet I will not compare with an old man. | yet I will not compare with an old man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Faith, I can cut a caper. | Faith, I can cut a caper. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And I can cut the mutton to't. | And I can cut the mutton to't. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria. | And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before | Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before | ||
'em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? Why | 'em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? Why | ||
dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very | dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very | ||
walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. | walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. | ||
What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by the | What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by the | ||
excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard. | excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a | Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a | ||
dam'd-colour'd stock. Shall we set about some revels? | dam'd-colour'd stock. Shall we set about some revels? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What shall we do else? Were we not born under Taurus? | What shall we do else? Were we not born under Taurus? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Taurus? That's sides and heart. | Taurus? That's sides and heart. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha, | No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha, | ||
excellent! | excellent! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Valentine</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Valentine</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Viola</span> in man's attire.</p> | <span class="charname">Viola</span> in man's attire.</p> | ||
<p>VALENTINE.<br/> | <p>VALENTINE.<br/> | ||
If the duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like to be | If the duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like to be | ||
much advanced; he hath known you but three days, and already you are no | much advanced; he hath known you but three days, and already you are no | ||
stranger. | stranger. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the | You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the | ||
continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours? | continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VALENTINE.<br/> | <p>VALENTINE.<br/> | ||
No, believe me. | No, believe me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I thank you. Here comes the Count. | I thank you. Here comes the Count. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Who saw Cesario, ho? | Who saw Cesario, ho? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
On your attendance, my lord, here. | On your attendance, my lord, here. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Stand you awhile aloof.—Cesario,<br/> | |||
Stand you awhile aloof.&mdash;Cesario,<br/> | |||
Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd<br/> | Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd<br/> | ||
To thee the book even of my secret soul.<br/> | To thee the book even of my secret soul.<br/> | ||
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her,<br/> | Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her,<br/> | ||
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,<br/> | Be not denied access, stand at her doors,<br/> | ||
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow<br/> | And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow<br/> | ||
Till thou have audience. | Till thou have audience. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Sure, my noble lord,<br/> | Sure, my noble lord,<br/> | ||
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow<br/> | If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow<br/> | ||
As it is spoke, she never will admit me. | As it is spoke, she never will admit me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds,<br/> | Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds,<br/> | ||
Rather than make unprofited return. | Rather than make unprofited return. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then? | Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
O then unfold the passion of my love,<br/> | O then unfold the passion of my love,<br/> | ||
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith;<br/> | Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith;<br/> | ||
It shall become thee well to act my woes;<br/> | It shall become thee well to act my woes;<br/> | ||
She will attend it better in thy youth,<br/> | She will attend it better in thy youth,<br/> | ||
Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect. | Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I think not so, my lord. | I think not so, my lord. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Dear lad, believe it;<br/> | Dear lad, believe it;<br/> | ||
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,<br/> | For they shall yet belie thy happy years,<br/> | ||
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip<br/> | That say thou art a man: Diana's lip<br/> | ||
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe<br/> | Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe<br/> | ||
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,<br/> | Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,<br/> | ||
And all is semblative a woman's part.<br/> | And all is semblative a woman's part.<br/> | ||
I know thy constellation is right apt<br/> | I know thy constellation is right apt<br/> | ||
For this affair. Some four or five attend him:<br/> | For this affair. Some four or five attend him:<br/> | ||
All, if you will; for I myself am best<br/> | All, if you will; for I myself am best<br/> | ||
When least in company. Prosper well in this,<br/> | When least in company. Prosper well in this,<br/> | ||
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,<br/> | And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,<br/> | ||
To call his fortunes thine. | To call his fortunes thine. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I'll do my best<br/> | I'll do my best<br/> | ||
To woo your lady. [<i>Aside.</i>] Yet, a barful strife!<br/> | To woo your lady. [<i>Aside.</i>] Yet, a barful strife!<br/> | ||
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. | Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Maria</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Maria</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Nay; either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide as | Nay; either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide as | ||
a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy | a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy | ||
absence. | absence. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours. | Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Make that good. | Make that good. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
He shall see none to fear. | He shall see none to fear. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
A good lenten answer. I can tell thee where that saying was born, of I fear no | A good lenten answer. I can tell thee where that saying was born, of I fear no | ||
colours. | colours. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Where, good Mistress Mary? | Where, good Mistress Mary? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
In the wars, and that may you be bold to say in your foolery. | In the wars, and that may you be bold to say in your foolery. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use | Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use | ||
their talents. | their talents. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or to be turned away; is not | Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or to be turned away; is not | ||
that as good as a hanging to you? | that as good as a hanging to you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let summer | Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let summer | ||
bear it out. | bear it out. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
You are resolute then? | You are resolute then? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Not so, neither, but I am resolved on two points. | Not so, neither, but I am resolved on two points. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
That if one break, the other will hold; or if both break, your gaskins fall. | That if one break, the other will hold; or if both break, your gaskins fall. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Apt, in good faith, very apt! Well, go thy way; if Sir Toby would leave | Apt, in good faith, very apt! Well, go thy way; if Sir Toby would leave | ||
drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria. | drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my lady: make your excuse | Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my lady: make your excuse | ||
wisely, you were best. | wisely, you were best. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> with | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> with | ||
<span class="charname">Malvolio</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Malvolio</span>.</p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Wit, and't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think | Wit, and't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think | ||
they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I that am sure I lack thee, may | they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I that am sure I lack thee, may | ||
pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a | pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a | ||
foolish wit. God bless thee, lady! | foolish wit. God bless thee, lady! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Take the fool away. | Take the fool away. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady. | Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Go to, y'are a dry fool; I'll no more of you. Besides, you grow | Go to, y'are a dry fool; I'll no more of you. Besides, you grow | ||
dishonest. | dishonest. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry | Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry | ||
fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he | fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he | ||
mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. | mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him. | ||
Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but | Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but | ||
patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this | patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this | ||
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no | simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no | ||
true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away | true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away | ||
the fool, therefore, I say again, take her away. | the fool, therefore, I say again, take her away. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Sir, I bade them take away you. | Sir, I bade them take away you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, <i>cucullus non facit | Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, <i>cucullus non facit | ||
monachum:</i> that's as much to say, I wear not motley in my brain. Good | monachum:</i> that's as much to say, I wear not motley in my brain. Good | ||
madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool. | madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Can you do it? | Can you do it? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Dexteriously, good madonna. | Dexteriously, good madonna. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Make your proof. | Make your proof. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I must catechize you for it, madonna. Good my mouse of virtue, answer me. | I must catechize you for it, madonna. Good my mouse of virtue, answer me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Well sir, for want of other idleness, I'll 'bide your proof. | Well sir, for want of other idleness, I'll 'bide your proof. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Good madonna, why mourn'st thou? | Good madonna, why mourn'st thou? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Good fool, for my brother's death. | Good fool, for my brother's death. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I think his soul is in hell, madonna. | I think his soul is in hell, madonna. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I know his soul is in heaven, fool. | I know his soul is in heaven, fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in | The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in | ||
heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen. | heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend? | What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays | Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays | ||
the wise, doth ever make the better fool. | the wise, doth ever make the better fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better increasing your folly! | God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better increasing your folly! | ||
Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for | Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for | ||
twopence that you are no fool. | twopence that you are no fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
How say you to that, Malvolio? | How say you to that, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal; I saw him put | I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal; I saw him put | ||
down the other day with an ordinary fool, that has no more brain than a stone. | down the other day with an ordinary fool, that has no more brain than a stone. | ||
Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and | Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and | ||
minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that | minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that | ||
crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies. | crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite. | O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite. | ||
To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for | To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for | ||
bird-bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed | bird-bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed | ||
fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, | fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, | ||
though he do nothing but reprove. | though he do nothing but reprove. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou speak'st well of fools! | Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou speak'st well of fools! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak with you. | Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak with you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
From the Count Orsino, is it? | From the Count Orsino, is it? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
I know not, madam; 'tis a fair young man, and well attended. | I know not, madam; 'tis a fair young man, and well attended. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Who of my people hold him in delay? | Who of my people hold him in delay? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman. | Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but madman. Fie on him! | Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but madman. Fie on him! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>Go you, Malvolio. If it be a suit from the Count, I am sick, or not at home. | <p>Go you, Malvolio. If it be a suit from the Count, I am sick, or not at home. | ||
What you will, to dismiss it. | What you will, to dismiss it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it. | <p>Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool: whose | Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool: whose | ||
skull Jove cram with brains, for here he comes, one of thy kin has a most weak | skull Jove cram with brains, for here he comes, one of thy kin has a most weak | ||
<i>pia mater</i>. | <i>pia mater</i>. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin? | By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
A gentleman. | A gentleman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
A gentleman? What gentleman? | A gentleman? What gentleman? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
'Tis a gentleman here. A plague o' these pickle-herrings! How now, | 'Tis a gentleman here. A plague o' these pickle-herrings! How now, | ||
sot? | sot? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Good Sir Toby. | Good Sir Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy? | Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate. | Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, marry, what is he? | Ay, marry, what is he? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Let him be the devil an he will, I care not: give me faith, say I. Well, | Let him be the devil an he will, I care not: give me faith, say I. Well, | ||
it's all one. | it's all one. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What's a drunken man like, fool? | What's a drunken man like, fool? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a | Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a | ||
fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him. | fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sit o' my coz; for he's | Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sit o' my coz; for he's | ||
in the third degree of drink; he's drowned. Go, look after him. | in the third degree of drink; he's drowned. Go, look after him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look to the madman. | He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look to the madman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you. I told him you were | Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you. I told him you were | ||
sick; he takes on him to understand so much, and therefore comes to speak with | sick; he takes on him to understand so much, and therefore comes to speak with | ||
you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too, | you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too, | ||
and therefore comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him, lady? | and therefore comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him, lady? | ||
He's fortified against any denial. | He's fortified against any denial. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Tell him, he shall not speak with me. | Tell him, he shall not speak with me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Has been told so; and he says he'll stand at your door like a | Has been told so; and he says he'll stand at your door like a | ||
sheriff's post, and be the supporter of a bench, but he'll speak | sheriff's post, and be the supporter of a bench, but he'll speak | ||
with you. | with you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What kind o' man is he? | What kind o' man is he? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Why, of mankind. | Why, of mankind. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What manner of man? | What manner of man? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no. | Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Of what personage and years is he? | Of what personage and years is he? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before | Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before | ||
'tis a peascod, or a codling, when 'tis almost an apple. 'Tis | 'tis a peascod, or a codling, when 'tis almost an apple. 'Tis | ||
with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and | with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and | ||
he speaks very shrewishly. One would think his mother's milk were scarce | he speaks very shrewishly. One would think his mother's milk were scarce | ||
out of him. | out of him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Let him approach. Call in my gentlewoman. | Let him approach. Call in my gentlewoman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Gentlewoman, my lady calls. | Gentlewoman, my lady calls. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Give me my veil; come, throw it o'er my face.<br/> | Give me my veil; come, throw it o'er my face.<br/> | ||
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy. | We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
The honourable lady of the house, which is she? | The honourable lady of the house, which is she? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Speak to me; I shall answer for her. Your will? | Speak to me; I shall answer for her. Your will? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty,—I pray you, tell me if | |||
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty,&mdash;I pray you, tell me if | |||
this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would be loath to cast | this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would be loath to cast | ||
away my speech; for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken | away my speech; for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken | ||
great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very | great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very | ||
comptible, even to the least sinister usage. | comptible, even to the least sinister usage. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Whence came you, sir? | Whence came you, sir? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my | I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my | ||
part. Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the | part. Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the | ||
house, that I may proceed in my speech. | house, that I may proceed in my speech. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Are you a comedian? | Are you a comedian? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not | No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not | ||
that I play. Are you the lady of the house? | that I play. Are you the lady of the house? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
If I do not usurp myself, I am. | If I do not usurp myself, I am. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself; for what is yours to | Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself; for what is yours to | ||
bestow is not yours to reserve. But this is from my commission. I will on with | bestow is not yours to reserve. But this is from my commission. I will on with | ||
my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message. | my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise. | Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical. | Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
It is the more like to be feigned; I pray you keep it in. I heard you were | It is the more like to be feigned; I pray you keep it in. I heard you were | ||
saucy at my gates; and allowed your approach, rather to wonder at you than to | saucy at my gates; and allowed your approach, rather to wonder at you than to | ||
hear you. If you be mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief: 'tis not | hear you. If you be mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief: 'tis not | ||
that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue. | that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way. | Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. Some mollification for | No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. Some mollification for | ||
your giant, sweet lady. Tell me your mind. I am a messenger. | your giant, sweet lady. Tell me your mind. I am a messenger. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when the courtesy of it is so | Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when the courtesy of it is so | ||
fearful. Speak your office. | fearful. Speak your office. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage; | It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage; | ||
I hold the olive in my hand: my words are as full of peace as matter. | I hold the olive in my hand: my words are as full of peace as matter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Yet you began rudely. What are you? What would you? | Yet you began rudely. What are you? What would you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my entertainment. | The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my entertainment. | ||
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead: to your ears, divinity; | What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead: to your ears, divinity; | ||
to any other's, profanation. | to any other's, profanation. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity. | Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>Now, sir, what is your text? | <p>Now, sir, what is your text? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Most sweet lady— | |||
Most sweet lady&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it. Where lies your text? | A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it. Where lies your text? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
In Orsino's bosom. | In Orsino's bosom. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom? | In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. | To answer by the method, in the first of his heart. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, I have read it; it is heresy. Have you no more to say? | O, I have read it; it is heresy. Have you no more to say? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Good madam, let me see your face. | Good madam, let me see your face. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You are now | Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You are now | ||
out of your text: but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture. | out of your text: but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture. | ||
[<i>Unveiling.</i>] Look you, sir, such a one I was this present. Is't | [<i>Unveiling.</i>] Look you, sir, such a one I was this present. Is't | ||
not well done? | not well done? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Excellently done, if God did all. | Excellently done, if God did all. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather. | 'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white<br/> | 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white<br/> | ||
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.<br/> | Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.<br/> | ||
Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive<br/> | Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive<br/> | ||
If you will lead these graces to the grave,<br/> | If you will lead these graces to the grave,<br/> | ||
And leave the world no copy. | And leave the world no copy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my | O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my | ||
beauty. It shall be inventoried and every particle and utensil labelled to my | beauty. It shall be inventoried and every particle and utensil labelled to my | ||
will: as, item, two lips indifferent red; item, two grey eyes with lids to | will: as, item, two lips indifferent red; item, two grey eyes with lids to | ||
them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to praise | them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to praise | ||
me? | me? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I see you what you are, you are too proud;<br/> | I see you what you are, you are too proud;<br/> | ||
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.<br/> | But, if you were the devil, you are fair.<br/> | ||
My lord and master loves you. O, such love<br/> | My lord and master loves you. O, such love<br/> | ||
Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd<br/> | Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd<br/> | ||
The nonpareil of beauty! | The nonpareil of beauty! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
How does he love me? | How does he love me? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
With adorations, fertile tears,<br/> | With adorations, fertile tears,<br/> | ||
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. | With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:<br/> | Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:<br/> | ||
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,<br/> | Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,<br/> | ||
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;<br/> | Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;<br/> | ||
In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant,<br/> | In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant,<br/> | ||
And in dimension and the shape of nature,<br/> | And in dimension and the shape of nature,<br/> | ||
A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.<br/> | A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.<br/> | ||
He might have took his answer long ago. | He might have took his answer long ago. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
If I did love you in my master's flame,<br/> | If I did love you in my master's flame,<br/> | ||
With such a suff'ring, such a deadly life,<br/> | With such a suff'ring, such a deadly life,<br/> | ||
In your denial I would find no sense,<br/> | In your denial I would find no sense,<br/> | ||
I would not understand it. | I would not understand it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Why, what would you? | Why, what would you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,<br/> | Make me a willow cabin at your gate,<br/> | ||
And call upon my soul within the house;<br/> | And call upon my soul within the house;<br/> | ||
Write loyal cantons of contemned love,<br/> | Write loyal cantons of contemned love,<br/> | ||
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;<br/> | And sing them loud even in the dead of night;<br/> | ||
Hallow your name to the reverberate hills,<br/> | Hallow your name to the reverberate hills,<br/> | ||
And make the babbling gossip of the air<br/> | And make the babbling gossip of the air<br/> | ||
Cry out Olivia! O, you should not rest<br/> | Cry out Olivia! O, you should not rest<br/> | ||
Between the elements of air and earth,<br/> | Between the elements of air and earth,<br/> | ||
But you should pity me. | But you should pity me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
You might do much.<br/> | You might do much.<br/> | ||
What is your parentage? | What is your parentage? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:<br/> | Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:<br/> | ||
I am a gentleman. | I am a gentleman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Get you to your lord;<br/> | Get you to your lord;<br/> | ||
I cannot love him: let him send no more,<br/> | I cannot love him: let him send no more,<br/> | ||
Unless, perchance, you come to me again,<br/> | Unless, perchance, you come to me again,<br/> | ||
To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:<br/> | To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:<br/> | ||
I thank you for your pains: spend this for me. | I thank you for your pains: spend this for me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse;<br/> | I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse;<br/> | ||
My master, not myself, lacks recompense.<br/> | My master, not myself, lacks recompense.<br/> | ||
Love make his heart of flint that you shall love,<br/> | Love make his heart of flint that you shall love,<br/> | ||
And let your fervour like my master's be<br/> | And let your fervour like my master's be<br/> | ||
Plac'd in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty. | Plac'd in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What is your parentage?<br/> | What is your parentage?<br/> | ||
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:<br/> | 'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:<br/> | ||
I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;<br/> | I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;<br/> | ||
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,<br/> | Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,<br/> | ||
Do give thee five-fold blazon. Not too fast: soft, soft!<br/> | Do give thee five-fold blazon. Not too fast: soft, soft!<br/> | ||
Unless the master were the man. How now?<br/> | Unless the master were the man. How now?<br/> | ||
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?<br/> | Even so quickly may one catch the plague?<br/> | ||
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections<br/> | Methinks I feel this youth's perfections<br/> | ||
With an invisible and subtle stealth<br/> | With an invisible and subtle stealth<br/> | ||
To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.<br/> | To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.<br/> | ||
What ho, Malvolio! | What ho, Malvolio! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Here, madam, at your service. | Here, madam, at your service. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Run after that same peevish messenger<br/> | Run after that same peevish messenger<br/> | ||
The County's man: he left this ring behind him,<br/> | The County's man: he left this ring behind him,<br/> | ||
Would I or not; tell him, I'll none of it.<br/> | Would I or not; tell him, I'll none of it.<br/> | ||
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,<br/> | Desire him not to flatter with his lord,<br/> | ||
Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him.<br/> | Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him.<br/> | ||
If that the youth will come this way tomorrow,<br/> | If that the youth will come this way tomorrow,<br/> | ||
I'll give him reasons for't. Hie thee, Malvolio. | I'll give him reasons for't. Hie thee, Malvolio. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Madam, I will. | Madam, I will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I do I know not what, and fear to find<br/> | I do I know not what, and fear to find<br/> | ||
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.<br/> | Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.<br/> | ||
Fate, show thy force, ourselves we do not owe.<br/> | Fate, show thy force, ourselves we do not owe.<br/> | ||
What is decreed must be; and be this so! | What is decreed must be; and be this so! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | ||
<h3 id="sceneII_361"> <b>ACT II.</b></h3> | <h3 id="sceneII_361"> <b>ACT II.</b></h3> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antonio</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antonio</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Sebastian</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Sebastian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that I go with you? | Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that I go with you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
By your patience, no; my stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate | By your patience, no; my stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate | ||
might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that | might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that | ||
I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any | I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any | ||
of them on you. | of them on you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Let me know of you whither you are bound. | Let me know of you whither you are bound. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I perceive in | No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I perceive in | ||
you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am | you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am | ||
willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express | willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express | ||
myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called | myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called | ||
Roderigo; my father was that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have heard | Roderigo; my father was that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have heard | ||
of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour. If the | of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour. If the | ||
heavens had been pleased, would we had so ended! But you, sir, altered that, | heavens had been pleased, would we had so ended! But you, sir, altered that, | ||
for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister | for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister | ||
drowned. | drowned. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Alas the day! | Alas the day! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many | A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many | ||
accounted beautiful. But though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar | accounted beautiful. But though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar | ||
believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her, she bore a mind that envy | believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her, she bore a mind that envy | ||
could not but call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I | could not but call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I | ||
seem to drown her remembrance again with more. | seem to drown her remembrance again with more. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. | Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble. | O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant. | If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you have | If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you have | ||
recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness, | recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness, | ||
and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon the least occasion | and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon the least occasion | ||
more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's | more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's | ||
court: farewell. | court: farewell. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!<br/> | The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!<br/> | ||
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,<br/> | I have many enemies in Orsino's court,<br/> | ||
Else would I very shortly see thee there:<br/> | Else would I very shortly see thee there:<br/> | ||
But come what may, I do adore thee so,<br/> | But come what may, I do adore thee so,<br/> | ||
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go. | That danger shall seem sport, and I will go. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola; Malvolio</span> at | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola; Malvolio</span> at | ||
several doors.</p> | several doors.</p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Were you not even now with the Countess Olivia? | Were you not even now with the Countess Olivia? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither. | Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
She returns this ring to you, sir; you might have saved me my pains, to have | She returns this ring to you, sir; you might have saved me my pains, to have | ||
taken it away yourself. She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord into a | taken it away yourself. She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord into a | ||
desperate assurance she will none of him. And one thing more, that you be never | desperate assurance she will none of him. And one thing more, that you be never | ||
so hardy to come again in his affairs, unless it be to report your lord's | so hardy to come again in his affairs, unless it be to report your lord's | ||
taking of this. Receive it so. | taking of this. Receive it so. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
She took the ring of me: I'll none of it. | She took the ring of me: I'll none of it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Come sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is it should be so | Come sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is it should be so | ||
returned. If it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be it | returned. If it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be it | ||
his that finds it. | his that finds it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I left no ring with her; what means this lady?<br/> | I left no ring with her; what means this lady?<br/> | ||
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!<br/> | Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!<br/> | ||
She made good view of me, indeed, so much,<br/> | She made good view of me, indeed, so much,<br/> | ||
That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,<br/> | That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,<br/> | ||
For she did speak in starts distractedly.<br/> | For she did speak in starts distractedly.<br/> | ||
She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion<br/> | She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion<br/> | ||
Invites me in this churlish messenger.<br/> | Invites me in this churlish messenger.<br/> | ||
None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none.<br/> | None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none.<br/> | ||
I am the man; if it be so, as 'tis,<br/> | I am the man; if it be so, as 'tis,<br/> | ||
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.<br/> | Poor lady, she were better love a dream.<br/> | ||
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness<br/> | Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness<br/> | ||
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.<br/> | Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.<br/> | ||
How easy is it for the proper false<br/> | How easy is it for the proper false<br/> | ||
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!<br/> | In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!<br/> | ||
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,<br/> | Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,<br/> | ||
For such as we are made of, such we be.<br/> | For such as we are made of, such we be.<br/> | ||
How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,<br/> | How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,<br/> | ||
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,<br/> | And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,<br/> | ||
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.<br/> | And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.<br/> | ||
What will become of this? As I am man,<br/> | What will become of this? As I am man,<br/> | ||
My state is desperate for my master's love;<br/> | My state is desperate for my master's love;<br/> | ||
As I am woman (now alas the day!)<br/> | As I am woman (now alas the day!)<br/> | ||
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!<br/> | What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!<br/> | ||
O time, thou must untangle this, not I,<br/> | O time, thou must untangle this, not I,<br/> | ||
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie! | It is too hard a knot for me t'untie! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Approach, Sir Andrew; not to be abed after midnight, is to be up betimes; and | Approach, Sir Andrew; not to be abed after midnight, is to be up betimes; and | ||
<i>diluculo surgere</i>, thou know'st. | <i>diluculo surgere</i>, thou know'st. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Nay, by my troth, I know not; but I know to be up late is to be up late. | Nay, by my troth, I know not; but I know to be up late is to be up late. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after midnight, and | A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after midnight, and | ||
to go to bed then is early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed | to go to bed then is early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed | ||
betimes. Does not our lives consist of the four elements? | betimes. Does not our lives consist of the four elements? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking. | Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Th'art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.<br/> | Th'art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.<br/> | ||
Marian, I say! a stoup of wine. | Marian, I say! a stoup of wine. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Here comes the fool, i' faith. | Here comes the fool, i' faith. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of “we three”? | |||
How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of &ldquo;we three&rdquo;? | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch. | Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty | By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty | ||
shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In | shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In | ||
sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night when thou spok'st of | sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night when thou spok'st of | ||
Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus; 'twas | Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus; 'twas | ||
very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman. Hadst it? | very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman. Hadst it? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock. My | I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock. My | ||
lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses. | lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, when all is done. Now, a song. | Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, when all is done. Now, a song. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come on, there is sixpence for you. Let's have a song. | Come on, there is sixpence for you. Let's have a song. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a— | |||
There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life? | Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
A love-song, a love-song. | A love-song, a love-song. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Ay, ay. I care not for good life. | Ay, ay. I care not for good life. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN. [<i>sings.</i>]<br/> | <p>CLOWN. [<i>sings.</i>]<br/> | ||
<i>O mistress mine, where are you roaming?<br/> | <i>O mistress mine, where are you roaming?<br/> | ||
O stay and hear, your true love's coming,<br/> | O stay and hear, your true love's coming,<br/> | ||
That can sing both high and low.<br/> | That can sing both high and low.<br/> | ||
Trip no further, pretty sweeting.<br/> | Trip no further, pretty sweeting.<br/> | ||
Journeys end in lovers meeting,<br/> | Journeys end in lovers meeting,<br/> | ||
Every wise man's son doth know.</i> | Every wise man's son doth know.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Excellent good, i' faith. | Excellent good, i' faith. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Good, good. | Good, good. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>What is love? 'Tis not hereafter,<br/> | <i>What is love? 'Tis not hereafter,<br/> | ||
Present mirth hath present laughter.<br/> | Present mirth hath present laughter.<br/> | ||
What's to come is still unsure.<br/> | What's to come is still unsure.<br/> | ||
In delay there lies no plenty,<br/> | In delay there lies no plenty,<br/> | ||
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.<br/> | Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.<br/> | ||
Youth's a stuff will not endure.</i> | Youth's a stuff will not endure.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. | A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
A contagious breath. | A contagious breath. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Very sweet and contagious, i' faith. | Very sweet and contagious, i' faith. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the welkin | To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the welkin | ||
dance indeed? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three | dance indeed? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three | ||
souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that? | souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch. | And you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well. | By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Most certain. Let our catch be, “Thou knave.” | |||
Most certain. Let our catch be, &ldquo;Thou knave.&rdquo; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
“Hold thy peace, thou knave” knight? I shall be constrain'd | |||
&ldquo;Hold thy peace, thou knave&rdquo; knight? I shall be constrain'd | |||
in't to call thee knave, knight. | in't to call thee knave, knight. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave. Begin, | 'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave. Begin, | ||
fool; it begins “Hold thy peace.” | |||
fool; it begins &ldquo;Hold thy peace.&rdquo; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I shall never begin if I hold my peace. | I shall never begin if I hold my peace. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Good, i' faith! Come, begin. | Good, i' faith! Come, begin. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her steward | What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her steward | ||
Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me. | Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey, | My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey, | ||
and [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Three merry men be we.</i> Am not I consanguineous? Am I | and [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Three merry men be we.</i> Am not I consanguineous? Am I | ||
not of her blood? Tilly-vally! “Lady”! <i>There dwelt a man in | |||
not of her blood? Tilly-vally! &ldquo;Lady&rdquo;! <i>There dwelt a man in | |||
Babylon, Lady, Lady.</i> | Babylon, Lady, Lady.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. | Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too; he does it with a | Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too; he does it with a | ||
better grace, but I do it more natural. | better grace, but I do it more natural. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>O' the twelfth day of December—</i> | |||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>O' the twelfth day of December&mdash;</i> | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
For the love o' God, peace! | For the love o' God, peace! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor | My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor | ||
honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an | honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an | ||
ale-house of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your coziers' | ale-house of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your coziers' | ||
catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of | catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of | ||
place, persons, nor time, in you? | place, persons, nor time, in you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up! | We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me tell you that, though she | Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me tell you that, though she | ||
harbours you as her kinsman she's nothing allied to your disorders. If | harbours you as her kinsman she's nothing allied to your disorders. If | ||
you can separate yourself and your misdemeanours, you are welcome to the house; | you can separate yourself and your misdemeanours, you are welcome to the house; | ||
if not, and it would please you to take leave of her, she is very willing to | if not, and it would please you to take leave of her, she is very willing to | ||
bid you farewell. | bid you farewell. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Nay, good Sir Toby. | Nay, good Sir Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>His eyes do show his days are almost done.</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>His eyes do show his days are almost done.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Is't even so? | Is't even so? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>But I will never die.</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>But I will never die.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Sir Toby, there you lie.</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Sir Toby, there you lie.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
This is much credit to you. | This is much credit to you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Shall I bid him go?</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Shall I bid him go?</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>What and if you do?</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>What and if you do?</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Shall I bid him go, and spare not?</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>Shall I bid him go, and spare not?</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Sings.</i>] <i>O, no, no, no, no, you dare not.</i> | [<i>Sings.</i>] <i>O, no, no, no, no, you dare not.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Out o' tune? sir, ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, | Out o' tune? sir, ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, | ||
because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? | because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. | Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Th'art i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs. A stoup | Th'art i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs. A stoup | ||
of wine, Maria! | of wine, Maria! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at anything more than | Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at anything more than | ||
contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule; she shall know of it, | contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule; she shall know of it, | ||
by this hand. | by this hand. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Go shake your ears. | Go shake your ears. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's a-hungry, to | 'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's a-hungry, to | ||
challenge him the field, and then to break promise with him and make a fool of | challenge him the field, and then to break promise with him and make a fool of | ||
him. | him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Do't, knight. I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll deliver | Do't, knight. I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll deliver | ||
thy indignation to him by word of mouth. | thy indignation to him by word of mouth. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight. Since the youth of the Count's | Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight. Since the youth of the Count's | ||
was today with my lady, she is much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let | was today with my lady, she is much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let | ||
me alone with him. If I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common | me alone with him. If I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common | ||
recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. I know I | recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. I know I | ||
can do it. | can do it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him. | Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan. | Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
O, if I thought that, I'd beat him like a dog. | O, if I thought that, I'd beat him like a dog. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What, for being a Puritan? Thy exquisite reason, dear knight? | What, for being a Puritan? Thy exquisite reason, dear knight? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough. | I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser, an | The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser, an | ||
affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; | affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths; | ||
the best persuaded of himself, so crammed (as he thinks) with excellencies, | the best persuaded of himself, so crammed (as he thinks) with excellencies, | ||
that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him. And on that | that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him. And on that | ||
vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work. | vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What wilt thou do? | What wilt thou do? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the colour of | I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the colour of | ||
his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his | his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his | ||
eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. | eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. | ||
I can write very like my lady your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly | I can write very like my lady your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly | ||
make distinction of our hands. | make distinction of our hands. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Excellent! I smell a device. | Excellent! I smell a device. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I have't in my nose too. | I have't in my nose too. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from my | He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from my | ||
niece, and that she is in love with him. | niece, and that she is in love with him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour. | My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And your horse now would make him an ass. | And your horse now would make him an ass. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Ass, I doubt not. | Ass, I doubt not. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
O 'twill be admirable! | O 'twill be admirable! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Sport royal, I warrant you. I know my physic will work with him. I will plant | Sport royal, I warrant you. I know my physic will work with him. I will plant | ||
you two, and let the fool make a third, where he shall find the letter. Observe | you two, and let the fool make a third, where he shall find the letter. Observe | ||
his construction of it. For this night, to bed, and dream on the event. | his construction of it. For this night, to bed, and dream on the event. | ||
Farewell. | Farewell. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Good night, Penthesilea. | Good night, Penthesilea. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Before me, she's a good wench. | Before me, she's a good wench. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
She's a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o' that? | She's a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o' that? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I was adored once too. | I was adored once too. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for more money. | Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for more money. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out. | If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Send for money, knight; if thou hast her not i' th' end, call me | Send for money, knight; if thou hast her not i' th' end, call me | ||
cut. | cut. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will. | If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come, come, I'll go burn some sack, 'tis too late to go to bed now. | Come, come, I'll go burn some sack, 'tis too late to go to bed now. | ||
Come, knight, come, knight. | Come, knight, come, knight. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Duke, Viola, Curio</span> | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Duke, Viola, Curio</span> | ||
and others.</p> | and others.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.<br/> | Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.<br/> | ||
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,<br/> | Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,<br/> | ||
That old and antique song we heard last night;<br/> | That old and antique song we heard last night;<br/> | ||
Methought it did relieve my passion much,<br/> | Methought it did relieve my passion much,<br/> | ||
More than light airs and recollected terms<br/> | More than light airs and recollected terms<br/> | ||
Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.<br/> | Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.<br/> | ||
Come, but one verse. | Come, but one verse. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CURIO.<br/> | <p>CURIO.<br/> | ||
He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it. | He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Who was it? | Who was it? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CURIO.<br/> | <p>CURIO.<br/> | ||
Feste, the jester, my lord, a fool that the Lady Olivia's father took | Feste, the jester, my lord, a fool that the Lady Olivia's father took | ||
much delight in. He is about the house. | much delight in. He is about the house. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Seek him out, and play the tune the while. | Seek him out, and play the tune the while. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love,<br/> | <p>Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love,<br/> | ||
In the sweet pangs of it remember me:<br/> | In the sweet pangs of it remember me:<br/> | ||
For such as I am, all true lovers are,<br/> | For such as I am, all true lovers are,<br/> | ||
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,<br/> | Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,<br/> | ||
Save in the constant image of the creature<br/> | Save in the constant image of the creature<br/> | ||
That is belov'd. How dost thou like this tune? | That is belov'd. How dost thou like this tune? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
It gives a very echo to the seat<br/> | It gives a very echo to the seat<br/> | ||
Where love is throned. | Where love is throned. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Thou dost speak masterly.<br/> | Thou dost speak masterly.<br/> | ||
My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye<br/> | My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye<br/> | ||
Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.<br/> | Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.<br/> | ||
Hath it not, boy? | Hath it not, boy? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
A little, by your favour. | A little, by your favour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
What kind of woman is't? | What kind of woman is't? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Of your complexion. | Of your complexion. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith? | She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
About your years, my lord. | About your years, my lord. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Too old, by heaven! Let still the woman take<br/> | Too old, by heaven! Let still the woman take<br/> | ||
An elder than herself; so wears she to him,<br/> | An elder than herself; so wears she to him,<br/> | ||
So sways she level in her husband's heart.<br/> | So sways she level in her husband's heart.<br/> | ||
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,<br/> | For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,<br/> | ||
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,<br/> | Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,<br/> | ||
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,<br/> | More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,<br/> | ||
Than women's are. | Than women's are. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I think it well, my lord. | I think it well, my lord. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Then let thy love be younger than thyself,<br/> | Then let thy love be younger than thyself,<br/> | ||
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent:<br/> | Or thy affection cannot hold the bent:<br/> | ||
For women are as roses, whose fair flower<br/> | For women are as roses, whose fair flower<br/> | ||
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. | Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And so they are: alas, that they are so;<br/> | And so they are: alas, that they are so;<br/> | ||
To die, even when they to perfection grow! | To die, even when they to perfection grow! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Curio</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Curio</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.<br/> | O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.<br/> | ||
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;<br/> | Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;<br/> | ||
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,<br/> | The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,<br/> | ||
And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones<br/> | And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones<br/> | ||
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,<br/> | Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,<br/> | ||
And dallies with the innocence of love<br/> | And dallies with the innocence of love<br/> | ||
Like the old age. | Like the old age. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Are you ready, sir? | Are you ready, sir? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Ay; prithee, sing. | Ay; prithee, sing. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p> | <p> | ||
<i> Come away, come away, death.<br/> | <i> Come away, come away, death.<br/> | ||
And in sad cypress let me be laid.<br/> | And in sad cypress let me be laid.<br/> | ||
Fly away, fly away, breath;<br/> | Fly away, fly away, breath;<br/> | ||
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.<br/> | I am slain by a fair cruel maid.<br/> | ||
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,<br/> | My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,<br/> | ||
O, prepare it!<br/> | O, prepare it!<br/> | ||
My part of death no one so true<br/> | My part of death no one so true<br/> | ||
Did share it.</i> | Did share it.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
<i> Not a flower, not a flower sweet,<br/> | <i> Not a flower, not a flower sweet,<br/> | ||
On my black coffin let there be strown:<br/> | On my black coffin let there be strown:<br/> | ||
Not a friend, not a friend greet<br/> | Not a friend, not a friend greet<br/> | ||
My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown:<br/> | My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown:<br/> | ||
A thousand thousand sighs to save,<br/> | A thousand thousand sighs to save,<br/> | ||
Lay me, O, where<br/> | Lay me, O, where<br/> | ||
Sad true lover never find my grave,<br/> | Sad true lover never find my grave,<br/> | ||
To weep there.</i> | To weep there.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
There's for thy pains. | There's for thy pains. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No pains, sir; I take pleasure in singing, sir. | No pains, sir; I take pleasure in singing, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
I'll pay thy pleasure, then. | I'll pay thy pleasure, then. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Truly sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another. | Truly sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Give me now leave to leave thee. | Give me now leave to leave thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of | Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of | ||
changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such | changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such | ||
constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent | constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent | ||
everywhere, for that's it that always makes a good voyage of | everywhere, for that's it that always makes a good voyage of | ||
nothing. Farewell. | nothing. Farewell. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Let all the rest give place. | Let all the rest give place. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Curio</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Curio</span> and | ||
Attendants.</i>]</p> | Attendants.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>Once more, Cesario,<br/> | <p>Once more, Cesario,<br/> | ||
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty.<br/> | Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty.<br/> | ||
Tell her my love, more noble than the world,<br/> | Tell her my love, more noble than the world,<br/> | ||
Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;<br/> | Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;<br/> | ||
The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,<br/> | The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,<br/> | ||
Tell her I hold as giddily as fortune;<br/> | Tell her I hold as giddily as fortune;<br/> | ||
But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems<br/> | But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems<br/> | ||
That nature pranks her in attracts my soul. | That nature pranks her in attracts my soul. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
But if she cannot love you, sir? | But if she cannot love you, sir? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
I cannot be so answer'd. | I cannot be so answer'd. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Sooth, but you must.<br/> | Sooth, but you must.<br/> | ||
Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,<br/> | Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,<br/> | ||
Hath for your love as great a pang of heart<br/> | Hath for your love as great a pang of heart<br/> | ||
As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;<br/> | As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;<br/> | ||
You tell her so. Must she not then be answer'd? | You tell her so. Must she not then be answer'd? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
There is no woman's sides<br/> | There is no woman's sides<br/> | ||
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion<br/> | Can bide the beating of so strong a passion<br/> | ||
As love doth give my heart: no woman's heart<br/> | As love doth give my heart: no woman's heart<br/> | ||
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.<br/> | So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.<br/> | ||
Alas, their love may be called appetite,<br/> | Alas, their love may be called appetite,<br/> | ||
No motion of the liver, but the palate,<br/> | No motion of the liver, but the palate,<br/> | ||
That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt;<br/> | That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt;<br/> | ||
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,<br/> | But mine is all as hungry as the sea,<br/> | ||
And can digest as much. Make no compare<br/> | And can digest as much. Make no compare<br/> | ||
Between that love a woman can bear me<br/> | Between that love a woman can bear me<br/> | ||
And that I owe Olivia. | And that I owe Olivia. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Ay, but I know— | |||
Ay, but I know&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
What dost thou know? | What dost thou know? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Too well what love women to men may owe.<br/> | Too well what love women to men may owe.<br/> | ||
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.<br/> | In faith, they are as true of heart as we.<br/> | ||
My father had a daughter loved a man,<br/> | My father had a daughter loved a man,<br/> | ||
As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,<br/> | As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,<br/> | ||
I should your lordship. | I should your lordship. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
And what's her history? | And what's her history? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
A blank, my lord. She never told her love,<br/> | A blank, my lord. She never told her love,<br/> | ||
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,<br/> | But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,<br/> | ||
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,<br/> | Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,<br/> | ||
And with a green and yellow melancholy<br/> | And with a green and yellow melancholy<br/> | ||
She sat like patience on a monument,<br/> | She sat like patience on a monument,<br/> | ||
Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed?<br/> | Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed?<br/> | ||
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed,<br/> | We men may say more, swear more, but indeed,<br/> | ||
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove<br/> | Our shows are more than will; for still we prove<br/> | ||
Much in our vows, but little in our love. | Much in our vows, but little in our love. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
But died thy sister of her love, my boy? | But died thy sister of her love, my boy? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I am all the daughters of my father's house,<br/> | I am all the daughters of my father's house,<br/> | ||
And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.<br/> | And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.<br/> | ||
Sir, shall I to this lady? | Sir, shall I to this lady? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Ay, that's the theme.<br/> | Ay, that's the theme.<br/> | ||
To her in haste. Give her this jewel; say<br/> | To her in haste. Give her this jewel; say<br/> | ||
My love can give no place, bide no denay. | My love can give no place, bide no denay. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> | ||
and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come thy ways, Signior Fabian. | Come thy ways, Signior Fabian. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Nay, I'll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to | Nay, I'll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to | ||
death with melancholy. | death with melancholy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter come by | Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter come by | ||
some notable shame? | some notable shame? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
I would exult, man. You know he brought me out o' favour with my lady | I would exult, man. You know he brought me out o' favour with my lady | ||
about a bear-baiting here. | about a bear-baiting here. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
To anger him we'll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and | To anger him we'll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and | ||
blue, shall we not, Sir Andrew? | blue, shall we not, Sir Andrew? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And we do not, it is pity of our lives. | And we do not, it is pity of our lives. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Here comes the little villain. How now, my metal of India? | Here comes the little villain. How now, my metal of India? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Get ye all three into the box-tree. Malvolio's coming down this walk; he | Get ye all three into the box-tree. Malvolio's coming down this walk; he | ||
has been yonder i' the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow this | has been yonder i' the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow this | ||
half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I know this letter will | half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I know this letter will | ||
make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of jesting! [<i>The men | make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of jesting! [<i>The men | ||
hide themselves.</i>] Lie thou there; [<i>Throws down a letter</i>] for here | hide themselves.</i>] Lie thou there; [<i>Throws down a letter</i>] for here | ||
comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. | comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Tis but fortune, all is fortune. Maria once told me she did affect me, | 'Tis but fortune, all is fortune. Maria once told me she did affect me, | ||
and I have heard herself come thus near, that should she fancy, it should be | and I have heard herself come thus near, that should she fancy, it should be | ||
one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than | one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than | ||
anyone else that follows her. What should I think on't? | anyone else that follows her. What should I think on't? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Here's an overweening rogue! | Here's an overweening rogue! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets under his | O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets under his | ||
advanced plumes! | advanced plumes! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Slight, I could so beat the rogue! | 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Peace, I say. | Peace, I say. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
To be Count Malvolio. | To be Count Malvolio. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Ah, rogue! | Ah, rogue! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Pistol him, pistol him. | Pistol him, pistol him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Peace, peace. | Peace, peace. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
There is example for't. The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the | There is example for't. The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the | ||
wardrobe. | wardrobe. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Fie on him, Jezebel! | Fie on him, Jezebel! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
O, peace! now he's deeply in; look how imagination blows him. | O, peace! now he's deeply in; look how imagination blows him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state— | |||
Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye! | O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown; having come from a | Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown; having come from a | ||
day-bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping. | day-bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Fire and brimstone! | Fire and brimstone! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
O, peace, peace. | O, peace, peace. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
And then to have the humour of state; and after a demure travel of regard, | And then to have the humour of state; and after a demure travel of regard, | ||
telling them I know my place as I would they should do theirs, to ask for my | telling them I know my place as I would they should do theirs, to ask for my | ||
kinsman Toby. | kinsman Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Bolts and shackles! | Bolts and shackles! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
O, peace, peace, peace! Now, now. | O, peace, peace, peace! Now, now. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown the | Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown the | ||
while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with some rich jewel. Toby | while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with some rich jewel. Toby | ||
approaches; curtsies there to me— | |||
approaches; curtsies there to me&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Shall this fellow live? | Shall this fellow live? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace! | Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere | I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere | ||
regard of control— | |||
regard of control&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then? | And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Saying 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on your niece, give me | Saying 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on your niece, give me | ||
this prerogative of speech—' | |||
this prerogative of speech&mdash;' | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What, what? | What, what? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'You must amend your drunkenness.' | 'You must amend your drunkenness.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Out, scab! | Out, scab! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. | Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish | 'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish | ||
knight—' | |||
knight&mdash;' | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
That's me, I warrant you. | That's me, I warrant you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'One Sir Andrew.' | 'One Sir Andrew.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool. | I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
[<i>Taking up the letter.</i>] What employment have we here? | [<i>Taking up the letter.</i>] What employment have we here? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Now is the woodcock near the gin. | Now is the woodcock near the gin. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
O, peace! And the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him! | O, peace! And the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
By my life, this is my lady's hand: these be her very C's, her | By my life, this is my lady's hand: these be her very C's, her | ||
U's, and her T's, and thus makes she her great P's. It is in | U's, and her T's, and thus makes she her great P's. It is in | ||
contempt of question, her hand. | contempt of question, her hand. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Her C's, her U's, and her T's. Why that? | Her C's, her U's, and her T's. Why that? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
[<i>Reads.</i>] <i>To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes.</i> Her | [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes.</i> Her | ||
very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with | very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with | ||
which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be? | which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
This wins him, liver and all. | This wins him, liver and all. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
[<i>Reads.</i>]<br/> | [<i>Reads.</i>]<br/> | ||
<i> Jove knows I love,<br/> | <i> Jove knows I love,<br/> | ||
But who?<br/> | But who?<br/> | ||
Lips, do not move,<br/> | Lips, do not move,<br/> | ||
No man must know.</i> | No man must know.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
'No man must know.' What follows? The numbers alter'd! | 'No man must know.' What follows? The numbers alter'd! | ||
'No man must know.'—If this should be thee, Malvolio? | |||
'No man must know.'&mdash;If this should be thee, Malvolio? | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Marry, hang thee, brock! | Marry, hang thee, brock! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
<i> I may command where I adore,<br/> | <i> I may command where I adore,<br/> | ||
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,<br/> | But silence, like a Lucrece knife,<br/> | ||
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore;<br/> | With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore;<br/> | ||
M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.</i> | M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
A fustian riddle! | A fustian riddle! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Excellent wench, say I. | Excellent wench, say I. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.'—Nay, but first let me see, let | |||
'M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.'&mdash;Nay, but first let me see, let | |||
me see, let me see. | me see, let me see. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
What dish o' poison has she dressed him! | What dish o' poison has she dressed him! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And with what wing the staniel checks at it! | And with what wing the staniel checks at it! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command me: I serve | 'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command me: I serve | ||
her, she is my lady. Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. There is no | her, she is my lady. Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. There is no | ||
obstruction in this. And the end—what should that alphabetical position | |||
obstruction in this. And the end&mdash;what should that alphabetical position | |||
portend? If I could make that resemble something in me! Softly! | portend? If I could make that resemble something in me! Softly! | ||
'M.O.A.I.'— | |||
'M.O.A.I.'&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
O, ay, make up that:—he is now at a cold scent. | |||
O, ay, make up that:&mdash;he is now at a cold scent. | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as rank as a fox. | Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as rank as a fox. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'M'—Malvolio; 'M!' Why, that begins my name! | |||
'M'&mdash;Malvolio; 'M!' Why, that begins my name! | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Did not I say he would work it out? The cur is excellent at faults. | Did not I say he would work it out? The cur is excellent at faults. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'M'—But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that | |||
'M'&mdash;But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that | |||
suffers under probation: 'A' should follow, but 'O' | suffers under probation: 'A' should follow, but 'O' | ||
does. | does. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
And 'O' shall end, I hope. | And 'O' shall end, I hope. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry 'O!' | Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry 'O!' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
And then 'I' comes behind. | And then 'I' comes behind. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Ay, and you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels | Ay, and you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels | ||
than fortunes before you. | than fortunes before you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'M.O.A.I.' This simulation is not as the former: and yet, to crush | 'M.O.A.I.' This simulation is not as the former: and yet, to crush | ||
this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my | this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my | ||
name. Soft, here follows prose.<br/> | name. Soft, here follows prose.<br/> | ||
[<i>Reads.</i>] <i>If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above | [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above | ||
thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve | thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve | ||
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy fates open their | greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy fates open their | ||
hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure thyself to what | hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure thyself to what | ||
thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be opposite with | thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be opposite with | ||
a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put | a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put | ||
thyself into the trick of singularity. She thus advises thee that sighs for | thyself into the trick of singularity. She thus advises thee that sighs for | ||
thee. Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever | thee. Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever | ||
cross-gartered. I say, remember. Go to, thou art made, if thou desir'st | cross-gartered. I say, remember. Go to, thou art made, if thou desir'st | ||
to be so. If not, let me see thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and | to be so. If not, let me see thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and | ||
not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell. She that would alter | not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell. She that would alter | ||
services with thee,<br/> | services with thee,<br/> | ||
The Fortunate Unhappy.</i> | The Fortunate Unhappy.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
Daylight and champian discovers not more! This is open. I will be proud, I will | Daylight and champian discovers not more! This is open. I will be proud, I will | ||
read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross | read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross | ||
acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man. I do not now fool myself, | acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man. I do not now fool myself, | ||
to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady | to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady | ||
loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg | loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg | ||
being cross-gartered, and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a | being cross-gartered, and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a | ||
kind of injunction, drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars, | kind of injunction, drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars, | ||
I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, | I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, | ||
even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised!—Here | |||
even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised!&mdash;Here | |||
is yet a postscript. [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>Thou canst not choose but know who I | is yet a postscript. [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>Thou canst not choose but know who I | ||
am. If thou entertain'st my love, let it appear in thy smiling; thy | am. If thou entertain'st my love, let it appear in thy smiling; thy | ||
smiles become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, dear my sweet, I | smiles become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, dear my sweet, I | ||
prithee.</i> Jove, I thank thee. I will smile, I will do everything that thou | prithee.</i> Jove, I thank thee. I will smile, I will do everything that thou | ||
wilt have me. | wilt have me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid | I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid | ||
from the Sophy. | from the Sophy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I could marry this wench for this device. | I could marry this wench for this device. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
So could I too. | So could I too. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest. | And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Nor I neither. | Nor I neither. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Here comes my noble gull-catcher. | Here comes my noble gull-catcher. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck? | Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Or o' mine either? | Or o' mine either? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave? | Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I' faith, or I either? | I' faith, or I either? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him | Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him | ||
he must run mad. | he must run mad. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Nay, but say true, does it work upon him? | Nay, but say true, does it work upon him? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Like aqua-vitae with a midwife. | Like aqua-vitae with a midwife. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my | If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my | ||
lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she | lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she | ||
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, | abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, | ||
which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a | which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a | ||
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If | melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If | ||
you will see it, follow me. | you will see it, follow me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit! | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I'll make one too. | I'll make one too. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | ||
<h3 id="sceneIII_361"> <b>ACT III.</b></h3> | <h3 id="sceneIII_361"> <b>ACT III.</b></h3> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Viola</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Clown</span> with a tabor.</p> | <span class="charname">Clown</span> with a tabor.</p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by thy tabor? | Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by thy tabor? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No, sir, I live by the church. | No, sir, I live by the church. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Art thou a churchman? | Art thou a churchman? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No such matter, sir. I do live by the church, for I do live at my house, and my | No such matter, sir. I do live by the church, for I do live at my house, and my | ||
house doth stand by the church. | house doth stand by the church. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near him; or the | So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near him; or the | ||
church stands by thy tabor, if thy tabor stand by the church. | church stands by thy tabor, if thy tabor stand by the church. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chev'ril glove | You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chev'ril glove | ||
to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! | to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with words may quickly make | Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with words may quickly make | ||
them wanton. | them wanton. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir. | I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Why, man? | Why, man? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that word might make my | Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that word might make my | ||
sister wanton. But indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds disgraced them. | sister wanton. But indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds disgraced them. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Thy reason, man? | Thy reason, man? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I | Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I | ||
am loath to prove reason with them. | am loath to prove reason with them. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and car'st for nothing. | I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and car'st for nothing. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Not so, sir, I do care for something. But in my conscience, sir, I do not care | Not so, sir, I do care for something. But in my conscience, sir, I do not care | ||
for you. If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you | for you. If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you | ||
invisible. | invisible. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool? | Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly. She will keep no fool, sir, till | No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly. She will keep no fool, sir, till | ||
she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, | she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, | ||
the husband's the bigger. I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter | the husband's the bigger. I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter | ||
of words. | of words. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's. | I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. I | Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. I | ||
would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my | would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my | ||
mistress. I think I saw your wisdom there. | mistress. I think I saw your wisdom there. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Nay, and thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee. Hold, there's | Nay, and thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee. Hold, there's | ||
expenses for thee. | expenses for thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard! | Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for one, though I would not | By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for one, though I would not | ||
have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within? | have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Would not a pair of these have bred, sir? | Would not a pair of these have bred, sir? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Yes, being kept together, and put to use. | Yes, being kept together, and put to use. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this | I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this | ||
Troilus. | Troilus. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged. | I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida was a | The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida was a | ||
beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will conster to them whence you come; who | beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will conster to them whence you come; who | ||
you are and what you would are out of my welkin. I might say | you are and what you would are out of my welkin. I might say | ||
“element”, but the word is overworn. | |||
</p> | &ldquo;element&rdquo;, but the word is overworn. | ||
</p> | |||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,<br/> | This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,<br/> | ||
And to do that well, craves a kind of wit:<br/> | And to do that well, craves a kind of wit:<br/> | ||
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,<br/> | He must observe their mood on whom he jests,<br/> | ||
The quality of persons, and the time,<br/> | The quality of persons, and the time,<br/> | ||
And like the haggard, check at every feather<br/> | And like the haggard, check at every feather<br/> | ||
That comes before his eye. This is a practice<br/> | That comes before his eye. This is a practice<br/> | ||
As full of labour as a wise man's art:<br/> | As full of labour as a wise man's art:<br/> | ||
For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit;<br/> | For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit;<br/> | ||
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. | But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Save you, gentleman. | Save you, gentleman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And you, sir. | And you, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
<i>Dieu vous garde, monsieur.</i> | <i>Dieu vous garde, monsieur.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
<i>Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.</i> | <i>Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours. | I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Will you encounter the house? My niece is desirous you should enter, if your | Will you encounter the house? My niece is desirous you should enter, if your | ||
trade be to her. | trade be to her. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I am bound to your niece, sir, I mean, she is the list of my voyage. | I am bound to your niece, sir, I mean, she is the list of my voyage. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion. | Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean by | My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean by | ||
bidding me taste my legs. | bidding me taste my legs. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I mean, to go, sir, to enter. | I mean, to go, sir, to enter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I will answer you with gait and entrance: but we are prevented. | I will answer you with gait and entrance: but we are prevented. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | ||
<p>Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you! | <p>Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
That youth's a rare courtier. 'Rain odours,' well. | That youth's a rare courtier. 'Rain odours,' well. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed | My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed | ||
car. | car. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Odours,' 'pregnant,' and | 'Odours,' 'pregnant,' and | ||
'vouchsafed.'—I'll get 'em all three ready. | |||
'vouchsafed.'&mdash;I'll get 'em all three ready. | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing. | Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>Give me your hand, sir. | <p>Give me your hand, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My duty, madam, and most humble service. | My duty, madam, and most humble service. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What is your name? | What is your name? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess. | Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world,<br/> | My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world,<br/> | ||
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:<br/> | Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:<br/> | ||
Y'are servant to the Count Orsino, youth. | Y'are servant to the Count Orsino, youth. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.<br/> | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.<br/> | ||
Your servant's servant is your servant, madam. | Your servant's servant is your servant, madam. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,<br/> | For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,<br/> | ||
Would they were blanks rather than fill'd with me! | Would they were blanks rather than fill'd with me! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts<br/> | Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts<br/> | ||
On his behalf. | On his behalf. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, by your leave, I pray you.<br/> | O, by your leave, I pray you.<br/> | ||
I bade you never speak again of him.<br/> | I bade you never speak again of him.<br/> | ||
But would you undertake another suit,<br/> | But would you undertake another suit,<br/> | ||
I had rather hear you to solicit that<br/> | I had rather hear you to solicit that<br/> | ||
Than music from the spheres. | Than music from the spheres. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Dear lady— | |||
Dear lady&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,<br/> | Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,<br/> | ||
After the last enchantment you did here,<br/> | After the last enchantment you did here,<br/> | ||
A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse<br/> | A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse<br/> | ||
Myself, my servant, and, I fear me, you.<br/> | Myself, my servant, and, I fear me, you.<br/> | ||
Under your hard construction must I sit;<br/> | Under your hard construction must I sit;<br/> | ||
To force that on you in a shameful cunning,<br/> | To force that on you in a shameful cunning,<br/> | ||
Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?<br/> | Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?<br/> | ||
Have you not set mine honour at the stake,<br/> | Have you not set mine honour at the stake,<br/> | ||
And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts<br/> | And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts<br/> | ||
That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving<br/> | That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving<br/> | ||
Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,<br/> | Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,<br/> | ||
Hides my heart: so let me hear you speak. | Hides my heart: so let me hear you speak. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I pity you. | I pity you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
That's a degree to love. | That's a degree to love. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof<br/> | No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof<br/> | ||
That very oft we pity enemies. | That very oft we pity enemies. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Why then methinks 'tis time to smile again.<br/> | Why then methinks 'tis time to smile again.<br/> | ||
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!<br/> | O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!<br/> | ||
If one should be a prey, how much the better<br/> | If one should be a prey, how much the better<br/> | ||
To fall before the lion than the wolf! [<i>Clock strikes.</i>]<br/> | To fall before the lion than the wolf! [<i>Clock strikes.</i>]<br/> | ||
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.<br/> | The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.<br/> | ||
Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you.<br/> | Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you.<br/> | ||
And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,<br/> | And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,<br/> | ||
Your wife is like to reap a proper man.<br/> | Your wife is like to reap a proper man.<br/> | ||
There lies your way, due west. | There lies your way, due west. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Then westward ho!<br/> | Then westward ho!<br/> | ||
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship!<br/> | Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship!<br/> | ||
You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me? | You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Stay:<br/> | Stay:<br/> | ||
I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me. | I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
That you do think you are not what you are. | That you do think you are not what you are. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
If I think so, I think the same of you. | If I think so, I think the same of you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Then think you right; I am not what I am. | Then think you right; I am not what I am. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I would you were as I would have you be. | I would you were as I would have you be. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Would it be better, madam, than I am?<br/> | Would it be better, madam, than I am?<br/> | ||
I wish it might, for now I am your fool. | I wish it might, for now I am your fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful<br/> | O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful<br/> | ||
In the contempt and anger of his lip!<br/> | In the contempt and anger of his lip!<br/> | ||
A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon<br/> | A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon<br/> | ||
Than love that would seem hid. Love's night is noon.<br/> | Than love that would seem hid. Love's night is noon.<br/> | ||
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,<br/> | Cesario, by the roses of the spring,<br/> | ||
By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,<br/> | By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,<br/> | ||
I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride,<br/> | I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride,<br/> | ||
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.<br/> | Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.<br/> | ||
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,<br/> | Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,<br/> | ||
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause;<br/> | For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause;<br/> | ||
But rather reason thus with reason fetter:<br/> | But rather reason thus with reason fetter:<br/> | ||
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. | Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
By innocence I swear, and by my youth,<br/> | By innocence I swear, and by my youth,<br/> | ||
I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,<br/> | I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,<br/> | ||
And that no woman has; nor never none<br/> | And that no woman has; nor never none<br/> | ||
Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.<br/> | Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.<br/> | ||
And so adieu, good madam; never more<br/> | And so adieu, good madam; never more<br/> | ||
Will I my master's tears to you deplore. | Will I my master's tears to you deplore. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Yet come again: for thou perhaps mayst move<br/> | Yet come again: for thou perhaps mayst move<br/> | ||
That heart, which now abhors, to like his love. | That heart, which now abhors, to like his love. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> | ||
and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer. | No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason. | Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the Count's servingman than | Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the Count's servingman than | ||
ever she bestowed upon me; I saw't i' th' orchard. | ever she bestowed upon me; I saw't i' th' orchard. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Did she see thee the while, old boy? Tell me that. | Did she see thee the while, old boy? Tell me that. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
As plain as I see you now. | As plain as I see you now. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
This was a great argument of love in her toward you. | This was a great argument of love in her toward you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Slight! will you make an ass o' me? | 'Slight! will you make an ass o' me? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of judgment and reason. | I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of judgment and reason. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor. | And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you, to awake | She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you, to awake | ||
your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver. | your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver. | ||
You should then have accosted her, and with some excellent jests, fire-new from | You should then have accosted her, and with some excellent jests, fire-new from | ||
the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. This was looked for | the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. This was looked for | ||
at your hand, and this was balked: the double gilt of this opportunity you let | at your hand, and this was balked: the double gilt of this opportunity you let | ||
time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's | time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's | ||
opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on Dutchman's beard, unless | opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on Dutchman's beard, unless | ||
you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour or policy. | you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour or policy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And't be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I hate; I had as | And't be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I hate; I had as | ||
lief be a Brownist as a politician. | lief be a Brownist as a politician. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. Challenge me the | Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. Challenge me the | ||
Count's youth to fight with him. Hurt him in eleven places; my niece | Count's youth to fight with him. Hurt him in eleven places; my niece | ||
shall take note of it, and assure thyself there is no love-broker in the world | shall take note of it, and assure thyself there is no love-broker in the world | ||
can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour. | can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
There is no way but this, Sir Andrew. | There is no way but this, Sir Andrew. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Will either of you bear me a challenge to him? | Will either of you bear me a challenge to him? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, | Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, | ||
so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If | so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If | ||
thou 'thou'st' him some thrice, it shall not be amiss, and as | thou 'thou'st' him some thrice, it shall not be amiss, and as | ||
many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough | many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough | ||
for the bed of Ware in England, set 'em down. Go about it. Let there be | for the bed of Ware in England, set 'em down. Go about it. Let there be | ||
gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. About | gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. About | ||
it. | it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Where shall I find you? | Where shall I find you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
We'll call thee at the cubiculo. Go. | We'll call thee at the cubiculo. Go. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby. | This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand strong, or so. | I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand strong, or so. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
We shall have a rare letter from him; but you'll not deliver it. | We shall have a rare letter from him; but you'll not deliver it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Never trust me then. And by all means stir on the youth to an answer. I think | Never trust me then. And by all means stir on the youth to an answer. I think | ||
oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were opened and | oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were opened and | ||
you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll | you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll | ||
eat the rest of th' anatomy. | eat the rest of th' anatomy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty. | And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Look where the youngest wren of nine comes. | Look where the youngest wren of nine comes. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me. | If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me. | ||
Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no | Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no | ||
Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly can ever believe such | Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly can ever believe such | ||
impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow stockings. | impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow stockings. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
And cross-gartered? | And cross-gartered? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' th' church. | Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' th' church. | ||
I have dogged him like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter | I have dogged him like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter | ||
that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more lines than is in | that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more lines than is in | ||
the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. You have not seen such a | the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. You have not seen such a | ||
thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. I know my | thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. I know my | ||
lady will strike him. If she do, he'll smile and take't for a great | lady will strike him. If she do, he'll smile and take't for a great | ||
favour. | favour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come, bring us, bring us where he is. | Come, bring us, bring us where he is. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sebastian</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sebastian</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Antonio</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Antonio</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I would not by my will have troubled you,<br/> | I would not by my will have troubled you,<br/> | ||
But since you make your pleasure of your pains,<br/> | But since you make your pleasure of your pains,<br/> | ||
I will no further chide you. | I will no further chide you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
I could not stay behind you: my desire,<br/> | I could not stay behind you: my desire,<br/> | ||
More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;<br/> | More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;<br/> | ||
And not all love to see you, though so much,<br/> | And not all love to see you, though so much,<br/> | ||
As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,<br/> | As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,<br/> | ||
But jealousy what might befall your travel,<br/> | But jealousy what might befall your travel,<br/> | ||
Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,<br/> | Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,<br/> | ||
Unguided and unfriended, often prove<br/> | Unguided and unfriended, often prove<br/> | ||
Rough and unhospitable. My willing love,<br/> | Rough and unhospitable. My willing love,<br/> | ||
The rather by these arguments of fear,<br/> | The rather by these arguments of fear,<br/> | ||
Set forth in your pursuit. | Set forth in your pursuit. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
My kind Antonio,<br/> | My kind Antonio,<br/> | ||
I can no other answer make but thanks,<br/> | I can no other answer make but thanks,<br/> | ||
And thanks, and ever thanks; and oft good turns<br/> | And thanks, and ever thanks; and oft good turns<br/> | ||
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.<br/> | Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.<br/> | ||
But were my worth, as is my conscience, firm,<br/> | But were my worth, as is my conscience, firm,<br/> | ||
You should find better dealing. What's to do?<br/> | You should find better dealing. What's to do?<br/> | ||
Shall we go see the relics of this town? | Shall we go see the relics of this town? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Tomorrow, sir; best first go see your lodging. | Tomorrow, sir; best first go see your lodging. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I am not weary, and 'tis long to night;<br/> | I am not weary, and 'tis long to night;<br/> | ||
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes<br/> | I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes<br/> | ||
With the memorials and the things of fame<br/> | With the memorials and the things of fame<br/> | ||
That do renown this city. | That do renown this city. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Would you'd pardon me.<br/> | Would you'd pardon me.<br/> | ||
I do not without danger walk these streets.<br/> | I do not without danger walk these streets.<br/> | ||
Once in a sea-fight, 'gainst the Count his galleys,<br/> | Once in a sea-fight, 'gainst the Count his galleys,<br/> | ||
I did some service, of such note indeed,<br/> | I did some service, of such note indeed,<br/> | ||
That were I ta'en here, it would scarce be answer'd. | That were I ta'en here, it would scarce be answer'd. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Belike you slew great number of his people. | Belike you slew great number of his people. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Th' offence is not of such a bloody nature,<br/> | Th' offence is not of such a bloody nature,<br/> | ||
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel<br/> | Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel<br/> | ||
Might well have given us bloody argument.<br/> | Might well have given us bloody argument.<br/> | ||
It might have since been answered in repaying<br/> | It might have since been answered in repaying<br/> | ||
What we took from them, which for traffic's sake,<br/> | What we took from them, which for traffic's sake,<br/> | ||
Most of our city did. Only myself stood out,<br/> | Most of our city did. Only myself stood out,<br/> | ||
For which, if I be lapsed in this place,<br/> | For which, if I be lapsed in this place,<br/> | ||
I shall pay dear. | I shall pay dear. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Do not then walk too open. | Do not then walk too open. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.<br/> | It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.<br/> | ||
In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,<br/> | In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,<br/> | ||
Is best to lodge. I will bespeak our diet<br/> | Is best to lodge. I will bespeak our diet<br/> | ||
Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge<br/> | Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge<br/> | ||
With viewing of the town. There shall you have me. | With viewing of the town. There shall you have me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Why I your purse? | Why I your purse? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Haply your eye shall light upon some toy<br/> | Haply your eye shall light upon some toy<br/> | ||
You have desire to purchase; and your store,<br/> | You have desire to purchase; and your store,<br/> | ||
I think, is not for idle markets, sir. | I think, is not for idle markets, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I'll be your purse-bearer, and leave you for an hour. | I'll be your purse-bearer, and leave you for an hour. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
To th' Elephant. | To th' Elephant. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I do remember. | I do remember. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I have sent after him. He says he'll come;<br/> | I have sent after him. He says he'll come;<br/> | ||
How shall I feast him? What bestow of him?<br/> | How shall I feast him? What bestow of him?<br/> | ||
For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.<br/> | For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.<br/> | ||
I speak too loud.—<br/> | |||
Where's Malvolio?—He is sad and civil,<br/> | I speak too loud.&mdash;<br/> | ||
Where's Malvolio?&mdash;He is sad and civil,<br/> | |||
And suits well for a servant with my fortunes;<br/> | And suits well for a servant with my fortunes;<br/> | ||
Where is Malvolio? | Where is Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
He's coming, madam:<br/> | He's coming, madam:<br/> | ||
But in very strange manner. He is sure possessed, madam. | But in very strange manner. He is sure possessed, madam. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Why, what's the matter? Does he rave? | Why, what's the matter? Does he rave? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
No, madam, he does nothing but smile: your ladyship were best to have some | No, madam, he does nothing but smile: your ladyship were best to have some | ||
guard about you if he come, for sure the man is tainted in 's wits. | guard about you if he come, for sure the man is tainted in 's wits. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Go call him hither. I'm as mad as he,<br/> | Go call him hither. I'm as mad as he,<br/> | ||
If sad and merry madness equal be. | If sad and merry madness equal be. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>How now, Malvolio? | <p>How now, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sweet lady, ho, ho! | Sweet lady, ho, ho! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Smil'st thou? I sent for thee upon a sad occasion. | Smil'st thou? I sent for thee upon a sad occasion. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sad, lady? I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this | Sad, lady? I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this | ||
cross-gartering. But what of that? If it please the eye of one, it is with me | cross-gartering. But what of that? If it please the eye of one, it is with me | ||
as the very true sonnet is: 'Please one and please all.' | as the very true sonnet is: 'Please one and please all.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee? | Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands, and | Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands, and | ||
commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. | commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio? | Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
To bed? Ay, sweetheart, and I'll come to thee. | To bed? Ay, sweetheart, and I'll come to thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand so oft? | God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand so oft? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
How do you, Malvolio? | How do you, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
At your request? Yes, nightingales answer daws! | At your request? Yes, nightingales answer daws! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady? | Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Be not afraid of greatness.' 'Twas well writ. | 'Be not afraid of greatness.' 'Twas well writ. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What mean'st thou by that, Malvolio? | What mean'st thou by that, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Some are born great'— | |||
'Some are born great'&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Ha? | Ha? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Some achieve greatness'— | |||
'Some achieve greatness'&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What say'st thou? | What say'st thou? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'And some have greatness thrust upon them.' | 'And some have greatness thrust upon them.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Heaven restore thee! | Heaven restore thee! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings'— | |||
'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings'&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Thy yellow stockings? | Thy yellow stockings? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.' | 'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Cross-gartered? | Cross-gartered? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'Go to: thou art made, if thou desir'st to be so:'— | |||
'Go to: thou art made, if thou desir'st to be so:'&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Am I made? | Am I made? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
'If not, let me see thee a servant still.' | 'If not, let me see thee a servant still.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Why, this is very midsummer madness. | Why, this is very midsummer madness. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SERVANT.<br/> | <p>SERVANT.<br/> | ||
Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is returned; I could | Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is returned; I could | ||
hardly entreat him back. He attends your ladyship's pleasure. | hardly entreat him back. He attends your ladyship's pleasure. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I'll come to him. | I'll come to him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's my cousin Toby? Let | <p>Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's my cousin Toby? Let | ||
some of my people have a special care of him; I would not have him miscarry for | some of my people have a special care of him; I would not have him miscarry for | ||
the half of my dowry. | the half of my dowry. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
O ho, do you come near me now? No worse man than Sir Toby to look to me. This | O ho, do you come near me now? No worse man than Sir Toby to look to me. This | ||
concurs directly with the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may appear | concurs directly with the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may appear | ||
stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the letter. 'Cast thy | stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the letter. 'Cast thy | ||
humble slough,' says she; 'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with | humble slough,' says she; 'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with | ||
servants, let thy tongue tang with arguments of state, put thyself into the | servants, let thy tongue tang with arguments of state, put thyself into the | ||
trick of singularity,' and consequently, sets down the manner how: as, a | trick of singularity,' and consequently, sets down the manner how: as, a | ||
sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of some sir of note, | sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of some sir of note, | ||
and so forth. I have limed her, but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me | and so forth. I have limed her, but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me | ||
thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this fellow be looked | thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this fellow be looked | ||
to;' 'Fellow!' not 'Malvolio', nor after my | to;' 'Fellow!' not 'Malvolio', nor after my | ||
degree, but 'fellow'. Why, everything adheres together, that no | degree, but 'fellow'. Why, everything adheres together, that no | ||
dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or | dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or | ||
unsafe circumstance. What can be said? Nothing that can be can come between me | unsafe circumstance. What can be said? Nothing that can be can come between me | ||
and the full prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the doer of this, and | and the full prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the doer of this, and | ||
he is to be thanked. | he is to be thanked. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Fabian</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Fabian</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the devils of hell be drawn in | Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the devils of hell be drawn in | ||
little, and Legion himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him. | little, and Legion himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir? How is't with you, | Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir? How is't with you, | ||
man? | man? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Go off, I discard you. Let me enjoy my private. Go off. | Go off, I discard you. Let me enjoy my private. Go off. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! Did not I tell you? Sir Toby, my | Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! Did not I tell you? Sir Toby, my | ||
lady prays you to have a care of him. | lady prays you to have a care of him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Ah, ha! does she so? | Ah, ha! does she so? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him. Let me alone. How do | Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him. Let me alone. How do | ||
you, Malvolio? How is't with you? What, man! defy the devil! Consider, | you, Malvolio? How is't with you? What, man! defy the devil! Consider, | ||
he's an enemy to mankind. | he's an enemy to mankind. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Do you know what you say? | Do you know what you say? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart! Pray God he be | La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart! Pray God he be | ||
not bewitched. | not bewitched. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Carry his water to th' wise woman. | Carry his water to th' wise woman. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Marry, and it shall be done tomorrow morning, if I live. My lady would not | Marry, and it shall be done tomorrow morning, if I live. My lady would not | ||
lose him for more than I'll say. | lose him for more than I'll say. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
How now, mistress! | How now, mistress! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
O Lord! | O Lord! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Prithee hold thy peace, this is not the way. Do you not see you move him? Let | Prithee hold thy peace, this is not the way. Do you not see you move him? Let | ||
me alone with him. | me alone with him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
No way but gentleness, gently, gently. The fiend is rough, and will not be | No way but gentleness, gently, gently. The fiend is rough, and will not be | ||
roughly used. | roughly used. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, how now, my bawcock? How dost thou, chuck? | Why, how now, my bawcock? How dost thou, chuck? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir! | Sir! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Ay, biddy, come with me. What, man, 'tis not for gravity to play at | Ay, biddy, come with me. What, man, 'tis not for gravity to play at | ||
cherry-pit with Satan. Hang him, foul collier! | cherry-pit with Satan. Hang him, foul collier! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray. | Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
My prayers, minx? | My prayers, minx? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness. | No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Go, hang yourselves all! You are idle, shallow things. I am not of your element. | Go, hang yourselves all! You are idle, shallow things. I am not of your element. | ||
You shall know more hereafter. | You shall know more hereafter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Is't possible? | Is't possible? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable | If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable | ||
fiction. | fiction. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man. | His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint. | Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Why, we shall make him mad indeed. | Why, we shall make him mad indeed. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
The house will be the quieter. | The house will be the quieter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in the | Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in the | ||
belief that he's mad. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his | belief that he's mad. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his | ||
penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on | penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on | ||
him, at which time we will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for a | him, at which time we will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for a | ||
finder of madmen. But see, but see! | finder of madmen. But see, but see! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
More matter for a May morning. | More matter for a May morning. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Here's the challenge, read it. I warrant there's vinegar and pepper | Here's the challenge, read it. I warrant there's vinegar and pepper | ||
in't. | in't. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Is't so saucy? | Is't so saucy? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Ay, is't, I warrant him. Do but read. | Ay, is't, I warrant him. Do but read. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Give me. [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy | Give me. [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy | ||
fellow.</i> | fellow.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Good, and valiant. | Good, and valiant. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call thee so, for I will | <i>Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call thee so, for I will | ||
show thee no reason for't.</i> | show thee no reason for't.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
A good note, that keeps you from the blow of the law. | A good note, that keeps you from the blow of the law. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>Thou comest to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses thee kindly: but | <i>Thou comest to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses thee kindly: but | ||
thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.</i> | thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Very brief, and to exceeding good sense—less. | |||
Very brief, and to exceeding good sense&mdash;less. | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill | <i>I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill | ||
me—</i> | |||
me&mdash;</i> | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Good. | Good. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>Thou kill'st me like a rogue and a villain.</i> | <i>Thou kill'st me like a rogue and a villain.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law. Good. | Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law. Good. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
<i>Fare thee well, and God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy | <i>Fare thee well, and God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy | ||
upon mine, but my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy friend, as thou | upon mine, but my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy friend, as thou | ||
usest him, and thy sworn enemy,<br/> | usest him, and thy sworn enemy,<br/> | ||
Andrew Aguecheek.</i><br/> | Andrew Aguecheek.</i><br/> | ||
If this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I'll give't him. | If this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I'll give't him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
You may have very fit occasion for't. He is now in some commerce with my | You may have very fit occasion for't. He is now in some commerce with my | ||
lady, and will by and by depart. | lady, and will by and by depart. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Go, Sir Andrew. Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a | Go, Sir Andrew. Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a | ||
bum-baily. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw, and as thou draw'st, | bum-baily. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw, and as thou draw'st, | ||
swear horrible, for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a | swear horrible, for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a | ||
swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever | swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever | ||
proof itself would have earned him. Away. | proof itself would have earned him. Away. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Nay, let me alone for swearing. | Nay, let me alone for swearing. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Now will not I deliver his letter, for the behaviour of the young gentleman | Now will not I deliver his letter, for the behaviour of the young gentleman | ||
gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his | gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his | ||
lord and my niece confirms no less. Therefore this letter, being so excellently | lord and my niece confirms no less. Therefore this letter, being so excellently | ||
ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth. He will find it comes from a | ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth. He will find it comes from a | ||
clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth, set upon | clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth, set upon | ||
Aguecheek notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman (as I know his | Aguecheek notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman (as I know his | ||
youth will aptly receive it) into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, | youth will aptly receive it) into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, | ||
fury, and impetuosity. This will so fright them both that they will kill one | fury, and impetuosity. This will so fright them both that they will kill one | ||
another by the look, like cockatrices. | another by the look, like cockatrices. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Viola</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Viola</span>.</p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Here he comes with your niece; give them way till he take leave, and presently | Here he comes with your niece; give them way till he take leave, and presently | ||
after him. | after him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge. | I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Fabian</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Fabian</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,<br/> | I have said too much unto a heart of stone,<br/> | ||
And laid mine honour too unchary on't:<br/> | And laid mine honour too unchary on't:<br/> | ||
There's something in me that reproves my fault:<br/> | There's something in me that reproves my fault:<br/> | ||
But such a headstrong potent fault it is,<br/> | But such a headstrong potent fault it is,<br/> | ||
That it but mocks reproof. | That it but mocks reproof. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
With the same 'haviour that your passion bears<br/> | With the same 'haviour that your passion bears<br/> | ||
Goes on my master's griefs. | Goes on my master's griefs. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture.<br/> | Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture.<br/> | ||
Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you.<br/> | Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you.<br/> | ||
And I beseech you come again tomorrow.<br/> | And I beseech you come again tomorrow.<br/> | ||
What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,<br/> | What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,<br/> | ||
That honour sav'd, may upon asking give? | That honour sav'd, may upon asking give? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Nothing but this, your true love for my master. | Nothing but this, your true love for my master. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
How with mine honour may I give him that<br/> | How with mine honour may I give him that<br/> | ||
Which I have given to you? | Which I have given to you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I will acquit you. | I will acquit you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Well, come again tomorrow. Fare thee well;<br/> | Well, come again tomorrow. Fare thee well;<br/> | ||
A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell. | A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Gentleman, God save thee. | Gentleman, God save thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And you, sir. | And you, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
That defence thou hast, betake thee to't. Of what nature the wrongs are | That defence thou hast, betake thee to't. Of what nature the wrongs are | ||
thou hast done him, I know not, but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as | thou hast done him, I know not, but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as | ||
the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end. Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy | the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end. Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy | ||
preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. | preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. My remembrance is | You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. My remembrance is | ||
very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man. | very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
You'll find it otherwise, I assure you. Therefore, if you hold your life | You'll find it otherwise, I assure you. Therefore, if you hold your life | ||
at any price, betake you to your guard, for your opposite hath in him what | at any price, betake you to your guard, for your opposite hath in him what | ||
youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withal. | youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withal. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I pray you, sir, what is he? | I pray you, sir, what is he? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and on carpet consideration, but he | He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and on carpet consideration, but he | ||
is a devil in private brawl. Souls and bodies hath he divorced three, and his | is a devil in private brawl. Souls and bodies hath he divorced three, and his | ||
incensement at this moment is so implacable that satisfaction can be none but | incensement at this moment is so implacable that satisfaction can be none but | ||
by pangs of death and sepulchre. Hob, nob is his word; give't or | by pangs of death and sepulchre. Hob, nob is his word; give't or | ||
take't. | take't. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady. I am no | I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady. I am no | ||
fighter. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others | fighter. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others | ||
to taste their valour: belike this is a man of that quirk. | to taste their valour: belike this is a man of that quirk. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Sir, no. His indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury; | Sir, no. His indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury; | ||
therefore, get you on and give him his desire. Back you shall not to the house, | therefore, get you on and give him his desire. Back you shall not to the house, | ||
unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety you might answer | unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety you might answer | ||
him. Therefore on, or strip your sword stark naked, for meddle you must, | him. Therefore on, or strip your sword stark naked, for meddle you must, | ||
that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you. | that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me this courteous office, as | This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me this courteous office, as | ||
to know of the knight what my offence to him is. It is something of my | to know of the knight what my offence to him is. It is something of my | ||
negligence, nothing of my purpose. | negligence, nothing of my purpose. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this gentleman till my return. | I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this gentleman till my return. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter? | Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal arbitrement, but | I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal arbitrement, but | ||
nothing of the circumstance more. | nothing of the circumstance more. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I beseech you, what manner of man is he? | I beseech you, what manner of man is he? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are like to | Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are like to | ||
find him in the proof of his valour. He is indeed, sir, the most skilful, | find him in the proof of his valour. He is indeed, sir, the most skilful, | ||
bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of | bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of | ||
Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make your peace with him if I can. | Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make your peace with him if I can. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I shall be much bound to you for't. I am one that had rather go with sir | I shall be much bound to you for't. I am one that had rather go with sir | ||
priest than sir knight: I care not who knows so much of my mettle. | priest than sir knight: I care not who knows so much of my mettle. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Why, man, he's a very devil. I have not seen such a firago. I had a pass | Why, man, he's a very devil. I have not seen such a firago. I had a pass | ||
with him, rapier, scabbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck-in with such a | with him, rapier, scabbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck-in with such a | ||
mortal motion that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he pays you as surely | mortal motion that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he pays you as surely | ||
as your feet hits the ground they step on. They say he has been fencer to the | as your feet hits the ground they step on. They say he has been fencer to the | ||
Sophy. | Sophy. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him. | Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can scarce hold him yonder. | Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can scarce hold him yonder. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, | Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence, | ||
I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. Let him let | I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. Let him let | ||
the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet. | the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I'll make the motion. Stand here, make a good show on't. This shall | I'll make the motion. Stand here, make a good show on't. This shall | ||
end without the perdition of souls. [<i>Aside.</i>] Marry, I'll ride your | end without the perdition of souls. [<i>Aside.</i>] Marry, I'll ride your | ||
horse as well as I ride you. | horse as well as I ride you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Fabian</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Fabian</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Viola</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Viola</span>.</p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
[<i>To Fabian.</i>] I have his horse to take up the quarrel. I have persuaded | [<i>To Fabian.</i>] I have his horse to take up the quarrel. I have persuaded | ||
him the youth's a devil. | him the youth's a devil. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
He is as horribly conceited of him, and pants and looks pale, as if a bear were | He is as horribly conceited of him, and pants and looks pale, as if a bear were | ||
at his heels. | at his heels. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
There's no remedy, sir, he will fight with you for's oath sake. | There's no remedy, sir, he will fight with you for's oath sake. | ||
Marry, he hath better bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now | Marry, he hath better bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now | ||
scarce to be worth talking of. Therefore, draw for the supportance of his vow; | scarce to be worth talking of. Therefore, draw for the supportance of his vow; | ||
he protests he will not hurt you. | he protests he will not hurt you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
[<i>Aside.</i>] Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how | [<i>Aside.</i>] Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how | ||
much I lack of a man. | much I lack of a man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Give ground if you see him furious. | Give ground if you see him furious. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy, the gentleman will for his | Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy, the gentleman will for his | ||
honour's sake have one bout with you. He cannot by the duello avoid it; | honour's sake have one bout with you. He cannot by the duello avoid it; | ||
but he has promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he will not hurt | but he has promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he will not hurt | ||
you. Come on: to't. | you. Come on: to't. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
[<i>Draws.</i>] Pray God he keep his oath! | [<i>Draws.</i>] Pray God he keep his oath! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
[<i>Draws.</i>] I do assure you 'tis against my will. | [<i>Draws.</i>] I do assure you 'tis against my will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Put up your sword. If this young gentleman<br/> | Put up your sword. If this young gentleman<br/> | ||
Have done offence, I take the fault on me.<br/> | Have done offence, I take the fault on me.<br/> | ||
If you offend him, I for him defy you. | If you offend him, I for him defy you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
You, sir? Why, what are you? | You, sir? Why, what are you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
[<i>Draws.</i>] One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more<br/> | [<i>Draws.</i>] One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more<br/> | ||
Than you have heard him brag to you he will. | Than you have heard him brag to you he will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>Draws.</i>] Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you. | [<i>Draws.</i>] Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
O good Sir Toby, hold! Here come the officers. | O good Sir Toby, hold! Here come the officers. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Antonio.</i>] I'll be with you anon. | [<i>To Antonio.</i>] I'll be with you anon. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Sir Andrew.</i>] Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please. | [<i>To Sir Andrew.</i>] Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Marry, will I, sir; and for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my | Marry, will I, sir; and for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my | ||
word. He will bear you easily, and reins well. | word. He will bear you easily, and reins well. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | <p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | ||
This is the man; do thy office. | This is the man; do thy office. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | <p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | ||
Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit<br/> | Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit<br/> | ||
Of Count Orsino. | Of Count Orsino. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
You do mistake me, sir. | You do mistake me, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | <p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | ||
No, sir, no jot. I know your favour well,<br/> | No, sir, no jot. I know your favour well,<br/> | ||
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.—<br/> | |||
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.&mdash;<br/> | |||
Take him away, he knows I know him well. | Take him away, he knows I know him well. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
I must obey. This comes with seeking you;<br/> | I must obey. This comes with seeking you;<br/> | ||
But there's no remedy, I shall answer it.<br/> | But there's no remedy, I shall answer it.<br/> | ||
What will you do? Now my necessity<br/> | What will you do? Now my necessity<br/> | ||
Makes me to ask you for my purse. It grieves me<br/> | Makes me to ask you for my purse. It grieves me<br/> | ||
Much more for what I cannot do for you,<br/> | Much more for what I cannot do for you,<br/> | ||
Than what befalls myself. You stand amaz'd,<br/> | Than what befalls myself. You stand amaz'd,<br/> | ||
But be of comfort. | But be of comfort. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | <p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | ||
Come, sir, away. | Come, sir, away. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
I must entreat of you some of that money. | I must entreat of you some of that money. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
What money, sir?<br/> | What money, sir?<br/> | ||
For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,<br/> | For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,<br/> | ||
And part being prompted by your present trouble,<br/> | And part being prompted by your present trouble,<br/> | ||
Out of my lean and low ability<br/> | Out of my lean and low ability<br/> | ||
I'll lend you something. My having is not much;<br/> | I'll lend you something. My having is not much;<br/> | ||
I'll make division of my present with you.<br/> | I'll make division of my present with you.<br/> | ||
Hold, there's half my coffer. | Hold, there's half my coffer. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Will you deny me now?<br/> | Will you deny me now?<br/> | ||
Is't possible that my deserts to you<br/> | Is't possible that my deserts to you<br/> | ||
Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,<br/> | Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,<br/> | ||
Lest that it make me so unsound a man<br/> | Lest that it make me so unsound a man<br/> | ||
As to upbraid you with those kindnesses<br/> | As to upbraid you with those kindnesses<br/> | ||
That I have done for you. | That I have done for you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
I know of none,<br/> | I know of none,<br/> | ||
Nor know I you by voice or any feature.<br/> | Nor know I you by voice or any feature.<br/> | ||
I hate ingratitude more in a man<br/> | I hate ingratitude more in a man<br/> | ||
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,<br/> | Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,<br/> | ||
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption<br/> | Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption<br/> | ||
Inhabits our frail blood. | Inhabits our frail blood. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
O heavens themselves! | O heavens themselves! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | <p>SECOND OFFICER.<br/> | ||
Come, sir, I pray you go. | Come, sir, I pray you go. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here<br/> | Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here<br/> | ||
I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,<br/> | I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,<br/> | ||
Reliev'd him with such sanctity of love;<br/> | Reliev'd him with such sanctity of love;<br/> | ||
And to his image, which methought did promise<br/> | And to his image, which methought did promise<br/> | ||
Most venerable worth, did I devotion. | Most venerable worth, did I devotion. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | <p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | ||
What's that to us? The time goes by. Away! | What's that to us? The time goes by. Away! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
But O how vile an idol proves this god!<br/> | But O how vile an idol proves this god!<br/> | ||
Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.<br/> | Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.<br/> | ||
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;<br/> | In nature there's no blemish but the mind;<br/> | ||
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.<br/> | None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.<br/> | ||
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil<br/> | Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil<br/> | ||
Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. | Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | <p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | ||
The man grows mad, away with him. Come, come, sir. | The man grows mad, away with him. Come, come, sir. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Lead me on. | Lead me on. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Methinks his words do from such passion fly<br/> | Methinks his words do from such passion fly<br/> | ||
That he believes himself; so do not I.<br/> | That he believes himself; so do not I.<br/> | ||
Prove true, imagination, O prove true,<br/> | Prove true, imagination, O prove true,<br/> | ||
That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you! | That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian. We'll whisper o'er a | Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian. We'll whisper o'er a | ||
couplet or two of most sage saws. | couplet or two of most sage saws. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
He nam'd Sebastian. I my brother know<br/> | He nam'd Sebastian. I my brother know<br/> | ||
Yet living in my glass; even such and so<br/> | Yet living in my glass; even such and so<br/> | ||
In favour was my brother, and he went<br/> | In favour was my brother, and he went<br/> | ||
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,<br/> | Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,<br/> | ||
For him I imitate. O if it prove,<br/> | For him I imitate. O if it prove,<br/> | ||
Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love! | Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare. His dishonesty | A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare. His dishonesty | ||
appears in leaving his friend here in necessity, and denying him; and for his | appears in leaving his friend here in necessity, and denying him; and for his | ||
cowardship, ask Fabian. | cowardship, ask Fabian. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it. | A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him. | 'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword. | Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
And I do not— | |||
And I do not&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Come, let's see the event. | Come, let's see the event. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet. | I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | ||
<h3 id="sceneIV_361"> <b>ACT IV.</b></h3> | |||
<h4><b>SCENE I. The Street before Olivia's House.</b></h4> | |||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sebastian</span> and | |||
<span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you? | Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow.<br/> | Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow.<br/> | ||
Let me be clear of thee. | Let me be clear of thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you | Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you | ||
by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not Master | by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not Master | ||
Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so, is so. | Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so, is so. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I prithee vent thy folly somewhere else,<br/> | I prithee vent thy folly somewhere else,<br/> | ||
Thou know'st not me. | Thou know'st not me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now applies it to | Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now applies it to | ||
a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a | a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a | ||
cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent | cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent | ||
to my lady. Shall I vent to her that thou art coming? | to my lady. Shall I vent to her that thou art coming? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me.<br/> | I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me.<br/> | ||
There's money for thee; if you tarry longer<br/> | There's money for thee; if you tarry longer<br/> | ||
I shall give worse payment. | I shall give worse payment. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men that give fools money get | By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men that give fools money get | ||
themselves a good report—after fourteen years' purchase. | |||
themselves a good report&mdash;after fourteen years' purchase. | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Andrew, Sir Toby</span> | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Andrew, Sir Toby</span> | ||
and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Now sir, have I met you again? There's for you. | Now sir, have I met you again? There's for you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Why, there's for thee, and there, and there.<br/> | Why, there's for thee, and there, and there.<br/> | ||
Are all the people mad? | Are all the people mad? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house. | Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of your coats for | This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of your coats for | ||
twopence. | twopence. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come on, sir, hold! | Come on, sir, hold! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him. I'll have | Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him. I'll have | ||
an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. Though I | an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. Though I | ||
struck him first, yet it's no matter for that. | struck him first, yet it's no matter for that. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Let go thy hand! | Let go thy hand! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier, put up your iron: you | Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier, put up your iron: you | ||
are well fleshed. Come on. | are well fleshed. Come on. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now?<br/> | I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now?<br/> | ||
If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword. | If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
What, what? Nay, then, I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from | What, what? Nay, then, I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from | ||
you. | you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Hold, Toby! On thy life I charge thee hold! | Hold, Toby! On thy life I charge thee hold! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Madam. | Madam. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,<br/> | Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,<br/> | ||
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,<br/> | Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,<br/> | ||
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! Out of my sight!<br/> | Where manners ne'er were preach'd! Out of my sight!<br/> | ||
Be not offended, dear Cesario.<br/> | Be not offended, dear Cesario.<br/> | ||
Rudesby, be gone! | Rudesby, be gone! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby, Sir Andrew</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</i>]</p> | <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
I prithee, gentle friend,<br/> | I prithee, gentle friend,<br/> | ||
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway<br/> | Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway<br/> | ||
In this uncivil and unjust extent<br/> | In this uncivil and unjust extent<br/> | ||
Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,<br/> | Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,<br/> | ||
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks<br/> | And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks<br/> | ||
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby<br/> | This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby<br/> | ||
Mayst smile at this. Thou shalt not choose but go.<br/> | Mayst smile at this. Thou shalt not choose but go.<br/> | ||
Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,<br/> | Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,<br/> | ||
He started one poor heart of mine, in thee. | He started one poor heart of mine, in thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
What relish is in this? How runs the stream?<br/> | What relish is in this? How runs the stream?<br/> | ||
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.<br/> | Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.<br/> | ||
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;<br/> | Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;<br/> | ||
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! | If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Nay, come, I prithee. Would thou'dst be ruled by me! | Nay, come, I prithee. Would thou'dst be ruled by me! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Madam, I will. | Madam, I will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, say so, and so be! | O, say so, and so be! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Maria</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Maria</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir | Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir | ||
Topas the curate. Do it quickly. I'll call Sir Toby the whilst. | Topas the curate. Do it quickly. I'll call Sir Toby the whilst. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in't, and I would | Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in't, and I would | ||
I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to | I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to | ||
become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student, but to | become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student, but to | ||
be said, an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say, a | be said, an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say, a | ||
careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter. | careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Jove bless thee, Master Parson. | Jove bless thee, Master Parson. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>Bonos dies</i>, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw | <i>Bonos dies</i>, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw | ||
pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that | pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that | ||
is, is': so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for what is | is, is': so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for what is | ||
'that' but 'that'? and 'is' but | 'that' but 'that'? and 'is' but | ||
'is'? | 'is'? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
To him, Sir Topas. | To him, Sir Topas. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
What ho, I say! Peace in this prison! | What ho, I say! Peace in this prison! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
The knave counterfeits well. A good knave. | The knave counterfeits well. A good knave. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Who calls there? | Who calls there? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic. | Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady. | Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man? Talkest thou nothing but of | Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man? Talkest thou nothing but of | ||
ladies? | ladies? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Well said, Master Parson. | Well said, Master Parson. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad. | Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad. | ||
They have laid me here in hideous darkness. | They have laid me here in hideous darkness. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms, for I am one | Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms, for I am one | ||
of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy. | of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy. | ||
Say'st thou that house is dark? | Say'st thou that house is dark? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
As hell, Sir Topas. | As hell, Sir Topas. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories | Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories | ||
toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of | toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of | ||
obstruction? | obstruction? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I am not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark. | I am not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou | Madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou | ||
art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. | art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as | I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as | ||
hell; and I say there was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you are. | hell; and I say there was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you are. | ||
Make the trial of it in any constant question. | Make the trial of it in any constant question. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl? | What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird. | That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
What think'st thou of his opinion? | What think'st thou of his opinion? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion. | I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness. Thou shalt hold the opinion of | Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness. Thou shalt hold the opinion of | ||
Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou | Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou | ||
dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well. | dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir Topas, Sir Topas! | Sir Topas, Sir Topas! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
My most exquisite Sir Topas! | My most exquisite Sir Topas! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Nay, I am for all waters. | Nay, I am for all waters. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MARIA.<br/> | <p>MARIA.<br/> | ||
Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee not. | Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee not. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how thou find'st him. I | To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how thou find'st him. I | ||
would we were well rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I | would we were well rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I | ||
would he were, for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot | would he were, for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot | ||
pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber. | pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | <span class="charname">Maria</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Singing.</i>]<br/> | [<i>Singing.</i>]<br/> | ||
<i>Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,<br/> | <i>Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,<br/> | ||
Tell me how thy lady does.</i> | Tell me how thy lady does.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool! | Fool! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>My lady is unkind, perdy.</i> | <i>My lady is unkind, perdy.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool! | Fool! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>Alas, why is she so?</i> | <i>Alas, why is she so?</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool, I say! | Fool, I say! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>She loves another</i>—<br/> | |||
<i>She loves another</i>&mdash;<br/> | |||
Who calls, ha? | Who calls, ha? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and | Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and | ||
pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee | pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee | ||
for't. | for't. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Master Malvolio? | Master Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Ay, good fool. | Ay, good fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? | Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, | Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, | ||
as thou art. | as thou art. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a | But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a | ||
fool. | fool. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, send ministers to me, asses, | They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, send ministers to me, asses, | ||
and do all they can to face me out of my wits. | and do all they can to face me out of my wits. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Advise you what you say: the minister is here. [<i>As Sir Topas</i>] Malvolio, | Advise you what you say: the minister is here. [<i>As Sir Topas</i>] Malvolio, | ||
Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore. Endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave | Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore. Endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave | ||
thy vain bibble-babble. | thy vain bibble-babble. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Sir Topas! | Sir Topas! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>As Sir Topas</i>] Maintain no words with him, good fellow. [<i>As | [<i>As Sir Topas</i>] Maintain no words with him, good fellow. [<i>As | ||
himself</i>] Who, I, sir? not I, sir. God buy you, good Sir Topas. [<i>As Sir | himself</i>] Who, I, sir? not I, sir. God buy you, good Sir Topas. [<i>As Sir | ||
Topas</i>] Marry, amen. [<i>As himself</i>] I will sir, I will. | Topas</i>] Marry, amen. [<i>As himself</i>] I will sir, I will. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool, fool, fool, I say! | Fool, fool, fool, I say! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? I am shent for speaking to you. | Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? I am shent for speaking to you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee I am as well in my | Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee I am as well in my | ||
wits as any man in Illyria. | wits as any man in Illyria. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Well-a-day that you were, sir! | Well-a-day that you were, sir! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey what I | By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey what I | ||
will set down to my lady. It shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of | will set down to my lady. It shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of | ||
letter did. | letter did. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do you | I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do you | ||
but counterfeit? | but counterfeit? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Believe me, I am not. I tell thee true. | Believe me, I am not. I tell thee true. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his brains. I will | Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his brains. I will | ||
fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I prithee be gone. | Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I prithee be gone. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Singing.</i>]<br/> | [<i>Singing.</i>]<br/> | ||
<i>I am gone, sir, and anon, sir,<br/> | <i>I am gone, sir, and anon, sir,<br/> | ||
I'll be with you again,<br/> | I'll be with you again,<br/> | ||
In a trice, like to the old Vice,<br/> | In a trice, like to the old Vice,<br/> | ||
Your need to sustain;<br/> | Your need to sustain;<br/> | ||
Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath,<br/> | Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath,<br/> | ||
Cries 'ah, ha!' to the devil:<br/> | Cries 'ah, ha!' to the devil:<br/> | ||
Like a mad lad, 'Pare thy nails, dad.<br/> | Like a mad lad, 'Pare thy nails, dad.<br/> | ||
Adieu, goodman devil.'</i> | Adieu, goodman devil.'</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
This is the air; that is the glorious sun,<br/> | This is the air; that is the glorious sun,<br/> | ||
This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't,<br/> | This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't,<br/> | ||
And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,<br/> | And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,<br/> | ||
Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?<br/> | Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?<br/> | ||
I could not find him at the Elephant,<br/> | I could not find him at the Elephant,<br/> | ||
Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,<br/> | Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,<br/> | ||
That he did range the town to seek me out.<br/> | That he did range the town to seek me out.<br/> | ||
His counsel now might do me golden service.<br/> | His counsel now might do me golden service.<br/> | ||
For though my soul disputes well with my sense<br/> | For though my soul disputes well with my sense<br/> | ||
That this may be some error, but no madness,<br/> | That this may be some error, but no madness,<br/> | ||
Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune<br/> | Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune<br/> | ||
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,<br/> | So far exceed all instance, all discourse,<br/> | ||
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes<br/> | That I am ready to distrust mine eyes<br/> | ||
And wrangle with my reason that persuades me<br/> | And wrangle with my reason that persuades me<br/> | ||
To any other trust but that I am mad,<br/> | To any other trust but that I am mad,<br/> | ||
Or else the lady's mad; yet if 'twere so,<br/> | Or else the lady's mad; yet if 'twere so,<br/> | ||
She could not sway her house, command her followers,<br/> | She could not sway her house, command her followers,<br/> | ||
Take and give back affairs and their dispatch,<br/> | Take and give back affairs and their dispatch,<br/> | ||
With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing<br/> | With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing<br/> | ||
As I perceive she does. There's something in't<br/> | As I perceive she does. There's something in't<br/> | ||
That is deceivable. But here the lady comes. | That is deceivable. But here the lady comes. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and a | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and a | ||
<span class="charname">Priest</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Priest</span>.</p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,<br/> | Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,<br/> | ||
Now go with me and with this holy man<br/> | Now go with me and with this holy man<br/> | ||
Into the chantry by: there, before him<br/> | Into the chantry by: there, before him<br/> | ||
And underneath that consecrated roof,<br/> | And underneath that consecrated roof,<br/> | ||
Plight me the full assurance of your faith,<br/> | Plight me the full assurance of your faith,<br/> | ||
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul<br/> | That my most jealous and too doubtful soul<br/> | ||
May live at peace. He shall conceal it<br/> | May live at peace. He shall conceal it<br/> | ||
Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,<br/> | Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,<br/> | ||
What time we will our celebration keep<br/> | What time we will our celebration keep<br/> | ||
According to my birth. What do you say? | According to my birth. What do you say? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I'll follow this good man, and go with you,<br/> | I'll follow this good man, and go with you,<br/> | ||
And having sworn truth, ever will be true. | And having sworn truth, ever will be true. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Then lead the way, good father, and heavens so shine,<br/> | Then lead the way, good father, and heavens so shine,<br/> | ||
That they may fairly note this act of mine! | That they may fairly note this act of mine! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> | ||
<h3 id="sceneV_361"> <b>ACT V.</b></h3> | <h3 id="sceneV_361"> <b>ACT V.</b></h3> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Clown</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Clown</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Now, as thou lov'st me, let me see his letter. | Now, as thou lov'st me, let me see his letter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Good Master Fabian, grant me another request. | Good Master Fabian, grant me another request. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Anything. | Anything. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Do not desire to see this letter. | Do not desire to see this letter. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire my dog again. | This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire my dog again. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Duke, Viola, Curio</span> | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Duke, Viola, Curio</span> | ||
and Lords.</p> | and Lords.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends? | Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Ay, sir, we are some of her trappings. | Ay, sir, we are some of her trappings. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow? | I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for my friends. | Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for my friends. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Just the contrary; the better for thy friends. | Just the contrary; the better for thy friends. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No, sir, the worse. | No, sir, the worse. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
How can that be? | How can that be? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly | Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly | ||
I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and | I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and | ||
by my friends I am abused. So that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four | by my friends I am abused. So that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four | ||
negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and | negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and | ||
the better for my foes. | the better for my foes. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Why, this is excellent. | Why, this is excellent. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends. | By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold. | Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another. | But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
O, you give me ill counsel. | O, you give me ill counsel. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood | Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood | ||
obey it. | obey it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer: there's another. | Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer: there's another. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
<i>Primo, secundo, tertio</i>, is a good play, and the old saying is, the third | <i>Primo, secundo, tertio</i>, is a good play, and the old saying is, the third | ||
pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of | pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of | ||
Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind—one, two, three. | |||
Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind&mdash;one, two, three. | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
You can fool no more money out of me at this throw. If you will let your lady | You can fool no more money out of me at this throw. If you will let your lady | ||
know I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my | know I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my | ||
bounty further. | bounty further. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come again. I go, sir, but I would | Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come again. I go, sir, but I would | ||
not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: but | not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: but | ||
as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon. | as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antonio</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Antonio</span> and | ||
Officers.</p> | Officers.</p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me. | Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
That face of his I do remember well.<br/> | That face of his I do remember well.<br/> | ||
Yet when I saw it last it was besmear'd<br/> | Yet when I saw it last it was besmear'd<br/> | ||
As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war.<br/> | As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war.<br/> | ||
A baubling vessel was he captain of,<br/> | A baubling vessel was he captain of,<br/> | ||
For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,<br/> | For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,<br/> | ||
With which such scathful grapple did he make<br/> | With which such scathful grapple did he make<br/> | ||
With the most noble bottom of our fleet,<br/> | With the most noble bottom of our fleet,<br/> | ||
That very envy and the tongue of loss<br/> | That very envy and the tongue of loss<br/> | ||
Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter? | Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | <p>FIRST OFFICER.<br/> | ||
Orsino, this is that Antonio<br/> | Orsino, this is that Antonio<br/> | ||
That took the <i>Phoenix</i> and her fraught from Candy,<br/> | That took the <i>Phoenix</i> and her fraught from Candy,<br/> | ||
And this is he that did the <i>Tiger</i> board<br/> | And this is he that did the <i>Tiger</i> board<br/> | ||
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg.<br/> | When your young nephew Titus lost his leg.<br/> | ||
Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,<br/> | Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,<br/> | ||
In private brabble did we apprehend him. | In private brabble did we apprehend him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side,<br/> | He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side,<br/> | ||
But in conclusion, put strange speech upon me.<br/> | But in conclusion, put strange speech upon me.<br/> | ||
I know not what 'twas, but distraction. | I know not what 'twas, but distraction. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief,<br/> | Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief,<br/> | ||
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,<br/> | What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,<br/> | ||
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,<br/> | Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,<br/> | ||
Hast made thine enemies? | Hast made thine enemies? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Orsino, noble sir,<br/> | Orsino, noble sir,<br/> | ||
Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:<br/> | Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:<br/> | ||
Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,<br/> | Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,<br/> | ||
Though, I confess, on base and ground enough,<br/> | Though, I confess, on base and ground enough,<br/> | ||
Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:<br/> | Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:<br/> | ||
That most ingrateful boy there by your side<br/> | That most ingrateful boy there by your side<br/> | ||
From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth<br/> | From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth<br/> | ||
Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was.<br/> | Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was.<br/> | ||
His life I gave him, and did thereto add<br/> | His life I gave him, and did thereto add<br/> | ||
My love, without retention or restraint,<br/> | My love, without retention or restraint,<br/> | ||
All his in dedication. For his sake<br/> | All his in dedication. For his sake<br/> | ||
Did I expose myself, pure for his love,<br/> | Did I expose myself, pure for his love,<br/> | ||
Into the danger of this adverse town;<br/> | Into the danger of this adverse town;<br/> | ||
Drew to defend him when he was beset;<br/> | Drew to defend him when he was beset;<br/> | ||
Where being apprehended, his false cunning<br/> | Where being apprehended, his false cunning<br/> | ||
(Not meaning to partake with me in danger)<br/> | (Not meaning to partake with me in danger)<br/> | ||
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,<br/> | Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,<br/> | ||
And grew a twenty years' removed thing<br/> | And grew a twenty years' removed thing<br/> | ||
While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,<br/> | While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,<br/> | ||
Which I had recommended to his use<br/> | Which I had recommended to his use<br/> | ||
Not half an hour before. | Not half an hour before. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
How can this be? | How can this be? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
When came he to this town? | When came he to this town? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Today, my lord; and for three months before,<br/> | Today, my lord; and for three months before,<br/> | ||
No int'rim, not a minute's vacancy,<br/> | No int'rim, not a minute's vacancy,<br/> | ||
Both day and night did we keep company. | Both day and night did we keep company. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Olivia</span> and | ||
Attendants.</p> | Attendants.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Here comes the Countess, now heaven walks on earth.<br/> | Here comes the Countess, now heaven walks on earth.<br/> | ||
But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness.<br/> | But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness.<br/> | ||
Three months this youth hath tended upon me;<br/> | Three months this youth hath tended upon me;<br/> | ||
But more of that anon. Take him aside. | But more of that anon. Take him aside. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What would my lord, but that he may not have,<br/> | What would my lord, but that he may not have,<br/> | ||
Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?<br/> | Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?<br/> | ||
Cesario, you do not keep promise with me. | Cesario, you do not keep promise with me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Madam? | Madam? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Gracious Olivia— | |||
Gracious Olivia&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord— | |||
What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My lord would speak, my duty hushes me. | My lord would speak, my duty hushes me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,<br/> | If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,<br/> | ||
It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear<br/> | It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear<br/> | ||
As howling after music. | As howling after music. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Still so cruel? | Still so cruel? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Still so constant, lord. | Still so constant, lord. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,<br/> | What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,<br/> | ||
To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars<br/> | To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars<br/> | ||
My soul the faithfull'st off'rings hath breathed out<br/> | My soul the faithfull'st off'rings hath breathed out<br/> | ||
That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do? | That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Even what it please my lord that shall become him. | Even what it please my lord that shall become him. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,<br/> | Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,<br/> | ||
Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,<br/> | Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,<br/> | ||
Kill what I love?—a savage jealousy<br/> | |||
Kill what I love?&mdash;a savage jealousy<br/> | |||
That sometime savours nobly. But hear me this:<br/> | That sometime savours nobly. But hear me this:<br/> | ||
Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,<br/> | Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,<br/> | ||
And that I partly know the instrument<br/> | And that I partly know the instrument<br/> | ||
That screws me from my true place in your favour,<br/> | That screws me from my true place in your favour,<br/> | ||
Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.<br/> | Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.<br/> | ||
But this your minion, whom I know you love,<br/> | But this your minion, whom I know you love,<br/> | ||
And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,<br/> | And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,<br/> | ||
Him will I tear out of that cruel eye<br/> | Him will I tear out of that cruel eye<br/> | ||
Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.—<br/> | |||
Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.&mdash;<br/> | |||
Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:<br/> | Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:<br/> | ||
I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,<br/> | I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,<br/> | ||
To spite a raven's heart within a dove. | To spite a raven's heart within a dove. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,<br/> | And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,<br/> | ||
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die. | To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Where goes Cesario? | Where goes Cesario? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
After him I love<br/> | After him I love<br/> | ||
More than I love these eyes, more than my life,<br/> | More than I love these eyes, more than my life,<br/> | ||
More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.<br/> | More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.<br/> | ||
If I do feign, you witnesses above<br/> | If I do feign, you witnesses above<br/> | ||
Punish my life for tainting of my love. | Punish my life for tainting of my love. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd! | Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Who does beguile you? Who does do you wrong? | Who does beguile you? Who does do you wrong? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?<br/> | Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?<br/> | ||
Call forth the holy father. | Call forth the holy father. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Viola.</i>] Come, away! | [<i>To Viola.</i>] Come, away! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay. | Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Husband? | Husband? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, husband. Can he that deny? | Ay, husband. Can he that deny? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Her husband, sirrah? | Her husband, sirrah? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
No, my lord, not I. | No, my lord, not I. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear<br/> | Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear<br/> | ||
That makes thee strangle thy propriety.<br/> | That makes thee strangle thy propriety.<br/> | ||
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up.<br/> | Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up.<br/> | ||
Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art<br/> | Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art<br/> | ||
As great as that thou fear'st. | As great as that thou fear'st. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p> | <p> | ||
O, welcome, father!<br/> | O, welcome, father!<br/> | ||
Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence<br/> | Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence<br/> | ||
Here to unfold—though lately we intended<br/> | |||
Here to unfold&mdash;though lately we intended<br/> | |||
To keep in darkness what occasion now<br/> | To keep in darkness what occasion now<br/> | ||
Reveals before 'tis ripe—what thou dost know<br/> | |||
Reveals before 'tis ripe&mdash;what thou dost know<br/> | |||
Hath newly passed between this youth and me. | Hath newly passed between this youth and me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>PRIEST.<br/> | <p>PRIEST.<br/> | ||
A contract of eternal bond of love,<br/> | A contract of eternal bond of love,<br/> | ||
Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,<br/> | Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,<br/> | ||
Attested by the holy close of lips,<br/> | Attested by the holy close of lips,<br/> | ||
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings,<br/> | Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings,<br/> | ||
And all the ceremony of this compact<br/> | And all the ceremony of this compact<br/> | ||
Sealed in my function, by my testimony;<br/> | Sealed in my function, by my testimony;<br/> | ||
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave,<br/> | Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave,<br/> | ||
I have travelled but two hours. | I have travelled but two hours. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be<br/> | O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be<br/> | ||
When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?<br/> | When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?<br/> | ||
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow<br/> | Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow<br/> | ||
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?<br/> | That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?<br/> | ||
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet<br/> | Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet<br/> | ||
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet. | Where thou and I henceforth may never meet. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My lord, I do protest— | |||
My lord, I do protest&mdash; | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
O, do not swear.<br/> | O, do not swear.<br/> | ||
Hold little faith, though thou has too much fear. | Hold little faith, though thou has too much fear. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently to Sir Toby. | For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently to Sir Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
What's the matter? | What's the matter? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Has broke my head across, and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too. | 'Has broke my head across, and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too. | ||
For the love of God, your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home. | For the love of God, your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Who has done this, Sir Andrew? | Who has done this, Sir Andrew? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
The Count's gentleman, one Cesario. We took him for a coward, but | The Count's gentleman, one Cesario. We took him for a coward, but | ||
he's the very devil incardinate. | he's the very devil incardinate. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
My gentleman, Cesario? | My gentleman, Cesario? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
'Od's lifelings, here he is!—You broke my head for nothing; | |||
'Od's lifelings, here he is!&mdash;You broke my head for nothing; | |||
and that that I did, I was set on to do't by Sir Toby. | and that that I did, I was set on to do't by Sir Toby. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:<br/> | Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:<br/> | ||
You drew your sword upon me without cause,<br/> | You drew your sword upon me without cause,<br/> | ||
But I bespake you fair and hurt you not. | But I bespake you fair and hurt you not. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span>, | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Sir Toby</span>, | ||
drunk, led by the <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | drunk, led by the <span class="charname">Clown</span>.</p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me. I think you set nothing by a | If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me. I think you set nothing by a | ||
bloody coxcomb. Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall hear more: but if he had | bloody coxcomb. Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall hear more: but if he had | ||
not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did. | not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
How now, gentleman? How is't with you? | How now, gentleman? How is't with you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
That's all one; 'has hurt me, and there's th' end | That's all one; 'has hurt me, and there's th' end | ||
on't. Sot, didst see Dick Surgeon, sot? | on't. Sot, didst see Dick Surgeon, sot? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight | O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight | ||
i' th' morning. | i' th' morning. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures pavin. I hate a drunken | Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures pavin. I hate a drunken | ||
rogue. | rogue. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Away with him. Who hath made this havoc with them? | Away with him. Who hath made this havoc with them? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | <p>SIR ANDREW.<br/> | ||
I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dressed together. | I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dressed together. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | <p>SIR TOBY.<br/> | ||
Will you help? An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a | Will you help? An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a | ||
gull? | gull? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Get him to bed, and let his hurt be looked to. | Get him to bed, and let his hurt be looked to. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Clown, Fabian, Sir | <p class="right"> [<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Clown, Fabian, Sir | ||
Toby</span> and <span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</i>]</p> | Toby</span> and <span class="charname">Sir Andrew</span>.</i>]</p> | ||
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<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman;<br/> | I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman;<br/> | ||
But had it been the brother of my blood,<br/> | But had it been the brother of my blood,<br/> | ||
I must have done no less with wit and safety.<br/> | I must have done no less with wit and safety.<br/> | ||
You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that<br/> | You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that<br/> | ||
I do perceive it hath offended you.<br/> | I do perceive it hath offended you.<br/> | ||
Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows<br/> | Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows<br/> | ||
We made each other but so late ago. | We made each other but so late ago. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!<br/> | One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!<br/> | ||
A natural perspective, that is, and is not! | A natural perspective, that is, and is not! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Antonio, O my dear Antonio!<br/> | Antonio, O my dear Antonio!<br/> | ||
How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me<br/> | How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me<br/> | ||
Since I have lost thee. | Since I have lost thee. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
Sebastian are you? | Sebastian are you? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Fear'st thou that, Antonio? | Fear'st thou that, Antonio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>ANTONIO.<br/> | <p>ANTONIO.<br/> | ||
How have you made division of yourself?<br/> | How have you made division of yourself?<br/> | ||
An apple cleft in two is not more twin<br/> | An apple cleft in two is not more twin<br/> | ||
Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian? | Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Most wonderful! | Most wonderful! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
Do I stand there? I never had a brother:<br/> | Do I stand there? I never had a brother:<br/> | ||
Nor can there be that deity in my nature<br/> | Nor can there be that deity in my nature<br/> | ||
Of here and everywhere. I had a sister,<br/> | Of here and everywhere. I had a sister,<br/> | ||
Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured.<br/> | Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured.<br/> | ||
Of charity, what kin are you to me?<br/> | Of charity, what kin are you to me?<br/> | ||
What countryman? What name? What parentage? | What countryman? What name? What parentage? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;<br/> | Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;<br/> | ||
Such a Sebastian was my brother too:<br/> | Such a Sebastian was my brother too:<br/> | ||
So went he suited to his watery tomb.<br/> | So went he suited to his watery tomb.<br/> | ||
If spirits can assume both form and suit,<br/> | If spirits can assume both form and suit,<br/> | ||
You come to fright us. | You come to fright us. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
A spirit I am indeed,<br/> | A spirit I am indeed,<br/> | ||
But am in that dimension grossly clad,<br/> | But am in that dimension grossly clad,<br/> | ||
Which from the womb I did participate.<br/> | Which from the womb I did participate.<br/> | ||
Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,<br/> | Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,<br/> | ||
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,<br/> | I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,<br/> | ||
And say, 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.' | And say, 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.' | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
My father had a mole upon his brow. | My father had a mole upon his brow. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
And so had mine. | And so had mine. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And died that day when Viola from her birth<br/> | And died that day when Viola from her birth<br/> | ||
Had numbered thirteen years. | Had numbered thirteen years. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
O, that record is lively in my soul!<br/> | O, that record is lively in my soul!<br/> | ||
He finished indeed his mortal act<br/> | He finished indeed his mortal act<br/> | ||
That day that made my sister thirteen years. | That day that made my sister thirteen years. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
If nothing lets to make us happy both<br/> | If nothing lets to make us happy both<br/> | ||
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,<br/> | But this my masculine usurp'd attire,<br/> | ||
Do not embrace me till each circumstance<br/> | Do not embrace me till each circumstance<br/> | ||
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump<br/> | Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump<br/> | ||
That I am Viola; which to confirm,<br/> | That I am Viola; which to confirm,<br/> | ||
I'll bring you to a captain in this town,<br/> | I'll bring you to a captain in this town,<br/> | ||
Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help<br/> | Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help<br/> | ||
I was preserv'd to serve this noble count.<br/> | I was preserv'd to serve this noble count.<br/> | ||
All the occurrence of my fortune since<br/> | All the occurrence of my fortune since<br/> | ||
Hath been between this lady and this lord. | Hath been between this lady and this lord. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | <p>SEBASTIAN.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Olivia.</i>] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.<br/> | [<i>To Olivia.</i>] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.<br/> | ||
But nature to her bias drew in that.<br/> | But nature to her bias drew in that.<br/> | ||
You would have been contracted to a maid;<br/> | You would have been contracted to a maid;<br/> | ||
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived:<br/> | Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived:<br/> | ||
You are betroth'd both to a maid and man. | You are betroth'd both to a maid and man. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.<br/> | Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.<br/> | ||
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,<br/> | If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,<br/> | ||
I shall have share in this most happy wreck.<br/> | I shall have share in this most happy wreck.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Viola.</i>] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times<br/> | [<i>To Viola.</i>] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times<br/> | ||
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. | Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
And all those sayings will I over-swear,<br/> | And all those sayings will I over-swear,<br/> | ||
And all those swearings keep as true in soul<br/> | And all those swearings keep as true in soul<br/> | ||
As doth that orbed continent the fire<br/> | As doth that orbed continent the fire<br/> | ||
That severs day from night. | That severs day from night. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Give me thy hand,<br/> | Give me thy hand,<br/> | ||
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds. | And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>VIOLA.<br/> | <p>VIOLA.<br/> | ||
The captain that did bring me first on shore<br/> | The captain that did bring me first on shore<br/> | ||
Hath my maid's garments. He, upon some action,<br/> | Hath my maid's garments. He, upon some action,<br/> | ||
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,<br/> | Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,<br/> | ||
A gentleman and follower of my lady's. | A gentleman and follower of my lady's. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
He shall enlarge him. Fetch Malvolio hither.<br/> | He shall enlarge him. Fetch Malvolio hither.<br/> | ||
And yet, alas, now I remember me,<br/> | And yet, alas, now I remember me,<br/> | ||
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. | They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Clown</span>, with a | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Clown</span>, with a | ||
letter and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | letter and <span class="charname">Fabian</span>.</p> | ||
<p>A most extracting frenzy of mine own<br/> | <p>A most extracting frenzy of mine own<br/> | ||
From my remembrance clearly banished his.<br/> | From my remembrance clearly banished his.<br/> | ||
How does he, sirrah? | How does he, sirrah? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end as well as a man in | Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end as well as a man in | ||
his case may do. Has here writ a letter to you. I should have given it you | his case may do. Has here writ a letter to you. I should have given it you | ||
today morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills | today morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills | ||
not much when they are delivered. | not much when they are delivered. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Open 't, and read it. | Open 't, and read it. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman. <i>By | Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman. <i>By | ||
the Lord, madam,—</i> | |||
the Lord, madam,&mdash;</i> | |||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
How now, art thou mad? | How now, art thou mad? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to | No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to | ||
be, you must allow <i>vox</i>. | be, you must allow <i>vox</i>. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Prithee, read i' thy right wits. | Prithee, read i' thy right wits. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
So I do, madonna. But to read his right wits is to read thus; therefore | So I do, madonna. But to read his right wits is to read thus; therefore | ||
perpend, my princess, and give ear. | perpend, my princess, and give ear. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Fabian.</i>] Read it you, sirrah. | [<i>To Fabian.</i>] Read it you, sirrah. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
[<i>Reads.</i>] <i>By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it. | [<i>Reads.</i>] <i>By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it. | ||
Though you have put me into darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over | Though you have put me into darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over | ||
me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your | me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your | ||
own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt | own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt | ||
not but to do myself much right or you much shame. Think of me as you please. I | not but to do myself much right or you much shame. Think of me as you please. I | ||
leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury.<br/> | leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury.<br/> | ||
The madly-used Malvolio.</i> | The madly-used Malvolio.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Did he write this? | Did he write this? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Ay, madam. | Ay, madam. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
This savours not much of distraction. | This savours not much of distraction. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
See him delivered, Fabian, bring him hither. | See him delivered, Fabian, bring him hither. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>My lord, so please you, these things further thought on,<br/> | <p>My lord, so please you, these things further thought on,<br/> | ||
To think me as well a sister, as a wife,<br/> | To think me as well a sister, as a wife,<br/> | ||
One day shall crown th' alliance on't, so please you,<br/> | One day shall crown th' alliance on't, so please you,<br/> | ||
Here at my house, and at my proper cost. | Here at my house, and at my proper cost. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Madam, I am most apt t' embrace your offer.<br/> | Madam, I am most apt t' embrace your offer.<br/> | ||
[<i>To Viola.</i>] Your master quits you; and for your service done him,<br/> | [<i>To Viola.</i>] Your master quits you; and for your service done him,<br/> | ||
So much against the mettle of your sex,<br/> | So much against the mettle of your sex,<br/> | ||
So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,<br/> | So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,<br/> | ||
And since you call'd me master for so long,<br/> | And since you call'd me master for so long,<br/> | ||
Here is my hand; you shall from this time be<br/> | Here is my hand; you shall from this time be<br/> | ||
You master's mistress. | You master's mistress. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
A sister? You are she. | A sister? You are she. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Fabian</span> and | <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Fabian</span> and | ||
<span class="charname">Malvolio</span>.</p> | <span class="charname">Malvolio</span>.</p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Is this the madman? | Is this the madman? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Ay, my lord, this same.<br/> | Ay, my lord, this same.<br/> | ||
How now, Malvolio? | How now, Malvolio? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Madam, you have done me wrong,<br/> | Madam, you have done me wrong,<br/> | ||
Notorious wrong. | Notorious wrong. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Have I, Malvolio? No. | Have I, Malvolio? No. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
Lady, you have. Pray you peruse that letter.<br/> | Lady, you have. Pray you peruse that letter.<br/> | ||
You must not now deny it is your hand,<br/> | You must not now deny it is your hand,<br/> | ||
Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase,<br/> | Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase,<br/> | ||
Or say 'tis not your seal, not your invention:<br/> | Or say 'tis not your seal, not your invention:<br/> | ||
You can say none of this. Well, grant it then,<br/> | You can say none of this. Well, grant it then,<br/> | ||
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,<br/> | And tell me, in the modesty of honour,<br/> | ||
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,<br/> | Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,<br/> | ||
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,<br/> | Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,<br/> | ||
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown<br/> | To put on yellow stockings, and to frown<br/> | ||
Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people;<br/> | Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people;<br/> | ||
And acting this in an obedient hope,<br/> | And acting this in an obedient hope,<br/> | ||
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,<br/> | Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,<br/> | ||
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,<br/> | Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,<br/> | ||
And made the most notorious geck and gull<br/> | And made the most notorious geck and gull<br/> | ||
That e'er invention played on? Tell me why? | That e'er invention played on? Tell me why? | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,<br/> | Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,<br/> | ||
Though I confess, much like the character:<br/> | Though I confess, much like the character:<br/> | ||
But out of question, 'tis Maria's hand.<br/> | But out of question, 'tis Maria's hand.<br/> | ||
And now I do bethink me, it was she<br/> | And now I do bethink me, it was she<br/> | ||
First told me thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling,<br/> | First told me thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling,<br/> | ||
And in such forms which here were presuppos'd<br/> | And in such forms which here were presuppos'd<br/> | ||
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content.<br/> | Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content.<br/> | ||
This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee.<br/> | This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee.<br/> | ||
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,<br/> | But when we know the grounds and authors of it,<br/> | ||
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge<br/> | Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge<br/> | ||
Of thine own cause. | Of thine own cause. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>FABIAN.<br/> | <p>FABIAN.<br/> | ||
Good madam, hear me speak,<br/> | Good madam, hear me speak,<br/> | ||
And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,<br/> | And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,<br/> | ||
Taint the condition of this present hour,<br/> | Taint the condition of this present hour,<br/> | ||
Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,<br/> | Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,<br/> | ||
Most freely I confess, myself and Toby<br/> | Most freely I confess, myself and Toby<br/> | ||
Set this device against Malvolio here,<br/> | Set this device against Malvolio here,<br/> | ||
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts<br/> | Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts<br/> | ||
We had conceiv'd against him. Maria writ<br/> | We had conceiv'd against him. Maria writ<br/> | ||
The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance,<br/> | The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance,<br/> | ||
In recompense whereof he hath married her.<br/> | In recompense whereof he hath married her.<br/> | ||
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd<br/> | How with a sportful malice it was follow'd<br/> | ||
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,<br/> | May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,<br/> | ||
If that the injuries be justly weigh'd<br/> | If that the injuries be justly weigh'd<br/> | ||
That have on both sides passed. | That have on both sides passed. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee! | Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee! | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>CLOWN.<br/> | <p>CLOWN.<br/> | ||
Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have | Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have | ||
greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude, one Sir | greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude, one Sir | ||
Topas, sir, but that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not | Topas, sir, but that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not | ||
mad.' But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such a barren | mad.' But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such a barren | ||
rascal? And you smile not, he's gagged'? And thus the whirligig of | rascal? And you smile not, he's gagged'? And thus the whirligig of | ||
time brings in his revenges. | time brings in his revenges. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | <p>MALVOLIO.<br/> | ||
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. | I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p>OLIVIA.<br/> | <p>OLIVIA.<br/> | ||
He hath been most notoriously abus'd. | He hath been most notoriously abus'd. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p>DUKE.<br/> | <p>DUKE.<br/> | ||
Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace:<br/> | Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace:<br/> | ||
He hath not told us of the captain yet.<br/> | He hath not told us of the captain yet.<br/> | ||
When that is known, and golden time convents,<br/> | When that is known, and golden time convents,<br/> | ||
A solemn combination shall be made<br/> | A solemn combination shall be made<br/> | ||
Of our dear souls.—Meantime, sweet sister,<br/> | |||
We will not part from hence.—Cesario, come:<br/> | Of our dear souls.&mdash;Meantime, sweet sister,<br/> | ||
We will not part from hence.&mdash;Cesario, come:<br/> | |||
For so you shall be while you are a man;<br/> | For so you shall be while you are a man;<br/> | ||
But when in other habits you are seen,<br/> | But when in other habits you are seen,<br/> | ||
Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen. | Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen. | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
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<p> | <p> | ||
<i> When that I was and a little tiny boy,<br/> | <i> When that I was and a little tiny boy,<br/> | ||
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | ||
A foolish thing was but a toy,<br/> | A foolish thing was but a toy,<br/> | ||
For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
<i> But when I came to man's estate,<br/> | <i> But when I came to man's estate,<br/> | ||
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | ||
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,<br/> | 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,<br/> | ||
For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
<i> But when I came, alas, to wive,<br/> | <i> But when I came, alas, to wive,<br/> | ||
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | ||
By swaggering could I never thrive,<br/> | By swaggering could I never thrive,<br/> | ||
For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
<i> But when I came unto my beds,<br/> | <i> But when I came unto my beds,<br/> | ||
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | ||
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,<br/> | With toss-pots still had drunken heads,<br/> | ||
For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | For the rain it raineth every day.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p> | <p> | ||
<i> A great while ago the world begun,<br/> | <i> A great while ago the world begun,<br/> | ||
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,<br/> | ||
But that's all one, our play is done,<br/> | But that's all one, our play is done,<br/> | ||
And we'll strive to please you every day.</i> | And we'll strive to please you every day.</i> | ||
</p> | </p> | ||
<p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | <p class="right"> [<i>Exit.</i>]</p> | ||
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TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL
Dramatis Personæ
ORSINO, Duke of Illyria.
VALENTINE, Gentleman attending on the Duke
CURIO, Gentleman attending on the Duke
VIOLA, in love with the Duke.
SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, twin brother to Viola.
A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola
ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, friend to Sebastian.
OLIVIA, a rich Countess.
MARIA, Olivia's Woman.
SIR TOBY BELCH, Uncle of Olivia.
SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK.
MALVOLIO, Steward to Olivia.
FABIAN, Servant to Olivia.
CLOWN, Servant to Olivia.
PRIEST
Lords, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants.
SCENE: A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it.
ACT I.
SCENE I. An Apartment in the Duke's Palace.
Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords; Musicians attending.
DUKE.
If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.
That strain again, it had a dying fall;
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. Enough; no more;
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou,
That notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soever,
But falls into abatement and low price
Even in a minute! So full of shapes is fancy,
That it alone is high fantastical.
CURIO.
Will you go hunt, my lord?
DUKE.
What, Curio?
CURIO.
The hart.
DUKE.
Why so I do, the noblest that I have.
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence;
That instant was I turn'd into a hart,
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me. How now? what news from her?
Enter Valentine.
VALENTINE.
So please my lord, I might not be admitted,
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But like a cloistress she will veiled walk,
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.
DUKE.
O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill'd
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers,
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II. The sea-coast.
Enter Viola, a Captain and Sailors.
VIOLA.
What country, friends, is this?
CAPTAIN.
This is Illyria, lady.
VIOLA.
And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd. What think you, sailors?
CAPTAIN.
It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd.
VIOLA.
O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
CAPTAIN.
True, madam; and to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you, and those poor number sav'd with you,
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
(Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)
To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see.
VIOLA.
For saying so, there's gold!
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
CAPTAIN.
Ay, madam, well, for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.
VIOLA.
Who governs here?
CAPTAIN.
A noble duke, in nature as in name.
VIOLA.
What is his name?
CAPTAIN.
Orsino.
VIOLA.
Orsino! I have heard my father name him.
He was a bachelor then.
CAPTAIN.
And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur, (as, you know,
What great ones do, the less will prattle of)
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
VIOLA.
What's she?
CAPTAIN.
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died; for whose dear love
They say, she hath abjur'd the company
And sight of men.
VIOLA.
O that I served that lady,
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is.
CAPTAIN.
That were hard to compass,
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
No, not the Duke's.
VIOLA.
There is a fair behaviour in thee, Captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
I pray thee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke;
Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him.
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing,
And speak to him in many sorts of music,
That will allow me very worth his service.
What else may hap, to time I will commit;
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.
CAPTAIN.
Be you his eunuch and your mute I'll be;
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.
VIOLA.
I thank thee. Lead me on.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. A Room in Olivia's House.
Enter Sir Toby and Maria.
SIR TOBY.
What a plague means my niece to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure
care's an enemy to life.
MARIA.
By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o' nights; your cousin,
my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours.
SIR TOBY.
Why, let her except, before excepted.
MARIA.
Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order.
SIR TOBY.
Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am. These clothes are good
enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; and they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps.
MARIA.
That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday;
and of a foolish knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.
SIR TOBY.
Who? Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
MARIA.
Ay, he.
SIR TOBY.
He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.
MARIA.
What's that to th' purpose?
SIR TOBY.
Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.
MARIA.
Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats. He's a very
fool, and a prodigal.
SIR TOBY.
Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the viol-de-gamboys, and
speaks three or four languages word for word without book, and hath all the
good gifts of nature.
MARIA.
He hath indeed, almost natural: for, besides that he's a fool, he's
a great quarreller; and, but that he hath the gift of a coward to allay the
gust he hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent he would
quickly have the gift of a grave.
SIR TOBY.
By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors that say so of him. Who are
they?
MARIA.
They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.
SIR TOBY.
With drinking healths to my niece; I'll drink to her as long as there is
a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria. He's a coward and a coystril
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o' the toe like a
parish top. What, wench! Castiliano vulgo: for here comes Sir Andrew
Agueface.
Enter Sir Andrew.
AGUECHEEK.
Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby Belch?
SIR TOBY.
Sweet Sir Andrew!
SIR ANDREW.
Bless you, fair shrew.
MARIA.
And you too, sir.
SIR TOBY.
Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.
SIR ANDREW.
What's that?
SIR TOBY.
My niece's chamber-maid.
SIR ANDREW.
Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.
MARIA.
My name is Mary, sir.
SIR ANDREW.
Good Mistress Mary Accost,—
SIR TOBY.
You mistake, knight: accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.
SIR ANDREW.
By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that the meaning of
accost?
MARIA.
Fare you well, gentlemen.
SIR TOBY.
And thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword again.
SIR ANDREW.
And you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady,
do you think you have fools in hand?
MARIA.
Sir, I have not you by the hand.
SIR ANDREW.
Marry, but you shall have, and here's my hand.
MARIA.
Now, sir, thought is free. I pray you, bring your hand to th' buttery bar
and let it drink.
SIR ANDREW.
Wherefore, sweetheart? What's your metaphor?
MARIA.
It's dry, sir.
SIR ANDREW.
Why, I think so; I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But
what's your jest?
MARIA.
A dry jest, sir.
SIR ANDREW.
Are you full of them?
MARIA.
Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry, now I let go your hand,
I am barren.
[Exit Maria.]
SIR TOBY.
O knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary: When did I see thee so put down?
SIR ANDREW.
Never in your life, I think, unless you see canary put me down. Methinks
sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am
a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.
SIR TOBY.
No question.
SIR ANDREW.
And I thought that, I'd forswear it. I'll ride home tomorrow, Sir
Toby.
SIR TOBY.
Pourquoy, my dear knight?
SIR ANDREW.
What is pourquoy? Do, or not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the
tongues that I have in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. O, had I but
followed the arts!
SIR TOBY.
Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.
SIR ANDREW.
Why, would that have mended my hair?
SIR TOBY.
Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.
SIR ANDREW.
But it becomes me well enough, does't not?
SIR TOBY.
Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I hope to see a houswife take
thee between her legs, and spin it off.
SIR ANDREW.
Faith, I'll home tomorrow, Sir Toby; your niece will not be seen, or if
she be, it's four to one she'll none of me; the Count himself here
hard by woos her.
SIR TOBY.
She'll none o' the Count; she'll not match above her degree,
neither in estate, years, nor wit; I have heard her swear't. Tut,
there's life in't, man.
SIR ANDREW.
I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind
i' the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.
SIR TOBY.
Art thou good at these kick-shawses, knight?
SIR ANDREW.
As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the degree of my betters; and
yet I will not compare with an old man.
SIR TOBY.
What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
SIR ANDREW.
Faith, I can cut a caper.
SIR TOBY.
And I can cut the mutton to't.
SIR ANDREW.
And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria.
SIR TOBY.
Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before
'em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? Why
dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very
walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace.
What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by the
excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.
SIR ANDREW.
Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a
dam'd-colour'd stock. Shall we set about some revels?
SIR TOBY.
What shall we do else? Were we not born under Taurus?
SIR ANDREW.
Taurus? That's sides and heart.
SIR TOBY.
No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha,
excellent!
[Exeunt.]
SCENE IV. A Room in the Duke's Palace.
Enter Valentine and Viola in man's attire.
VALENTINE.
If the duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like to be
much advanced; he hath known you but three days, and already you are no
stranger.
VIOLA.
You either fear his humour or my negligence, that you call in question the
continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
VALENTINE.
No, believe me.
Enter Duke, Curio and Attendants.
VIOLA.
I thank you. Here comes the Count.
DUKE.
Who saw Cesario, ho?
VIOLA.
On your attendance, my lord, here.
DUKE.
Stand you awhile aloof.—Cesario,
Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her,
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
VIOLA.
Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
DUKE.
Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
VIOLA.
Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
DUKE.
O then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith;
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth,
Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.
VIOLA.
I think not so, my lord.
DUKE.
Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman's part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. Some four or five attend him:
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
VIOLA.
I'll do my best
To woo your lady. [Aside.] Yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE V. A Room in Olivia's House.
Enter Maria and Clown.
MARIA.
Nay; either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide as
a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy
absence.
CLOWN.
Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colours.
MARIA.
Make that good.
CLOWN.
He shall see none to fear.
MARIA.
A good lenten answer. I can tell thee where that saying was born, of I fear no
colours.
CLOWN.
Where, good Mistress Mary?
MARIA.
In the wars, and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.
CLOWN.
Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use
their talents.
MARIA.
Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or to be turned away; is not
that as good as a hanging to you?
CLOWN.
Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and for turning away, let summer
bear it out.
MARIA.
You are resolute then?
CLOWN.
Not so, neither, but I am resolved on two points.
MARIA.
That if one break, the other will hold; or if both break, your gaskins fall.
CLOWN.
Apt, in good faith, very apt! Well, go thy way; if Sir Toby would leave
drinking, thou wert as witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.
MARIA.
Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my lady: make your excuse
wisely, you were best.
[Exit.]
Enter Olivia with Malvolio.
CLOWN.
Wit, and't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Those wits that think
they have thee, do very oft prove fools; and I that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man. For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a
foolish wit. God bless thee, lady!
OLIVIA.
Take the fool away.
CLOWN.
Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.
OLIVIA.
Go to, y'are a dry fool; I'll no more of you. Besides, you grow
dishonest.
CLOWN.
Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel will amend: for give the dry
fool drink, then is the fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he
mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the botcher mend him.
Anything that's mended is but patched; virtue that transgresses is but
patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not, what remedy? As there is no
true cuckold but calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away
the fool, therefore, I say again, take her away.
OLIVIA.
Sir, I bade them take away you.
CLOWN.
Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non facit
monachum: that's as much to say, I wear not motley in my brain. Good
madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
OLIVIA.
Can you do it?
CLOWN.
Dexteriously, good madonna.
OLIVIA.
Make your proof.
CLOWN.
I must catechize you for it, madonna. Good my mouse of virtue, answer me.
OLIVIA.
Well sir, for want of other idleness, I'll 'bide your proof.
CLOWN.
Good madonna, why mourn'st thou?
OLIVIA.
Good fool, for my brother's death.
CLOWN.
I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
OLIVIA.
I know his soul is in heaven, fool.
CLOWN.
The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for your brother's soul being in
heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.
OLIVIA.
What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?
MALVOLIO.
Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake him. Infirmity, that decays
the wise, doth ever make the better fool.
CLOWN.
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the better increasing your folly!
Sir Toby will be sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for
twopence that you are no fool.
OLIVIA.
How say you to that, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal; I saw him put
down the other day with an ordinary fool, that has no more brain than a stone.
Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and
minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that
crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.
OLIVIA.
O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste with a distempered appetite.
To be generous, guiltless, and of free disposition, is to take those things for
bird-bolts that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander in an allowed
fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man,
though he do nothing but reprove.
CLOWN.
Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou speak'st well of fools!
Enter Maria.
MARIA.
Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much desires to speak with you.
OLIVIA.
From the Count Orsino, is it?
MARIA.
I know not, madam; 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.
OLIVIA.
Who of my people hold him in delay?
MARIA.
Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.
OLIVIA.
Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but madman. Fie on him!
[Exit Maria.]
Go you, Malvolio. If it be a suit from the Count, I am sick, or not at home. What you will, to dismiss it.
[Exit Malvolio.]
Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and people dislike it.
CLOWN.
Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest son should be a fool: whose
skull Jove cram with brains, for here he comes, one of thy kin has a most weak
pia mater.
Enter Sir Toby.
OLIVIA.
By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?
SIR TOBY.
A gentleman.
OLIVIA.
A gentleman? What gentleman?
SIR TOBY.
'Tis a gentleman here. A plague o' these pickle-herrings! How now,
sot?
CLOWN.
Good Sir Toby.
OLIVIA.
Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?
SIR TOBY.
Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.
OLIVIA.
Ay, marry, what is he?
SIR TOBY.
Let him be the devil an he will, I care not: give me faith, say I. Well,
it's all one.
[Exit.]
OLIVIA.
What's a drunken man like, fool?
CLOWN.
Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a
fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.
OLIVIA.
Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sit o' my coz; for he's
in the third degree of drink; he's drowned. Go, look after him.
CLOWN.
He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look to the madman.
[Exit Clown.]
Enter Malvolio.
MALVOLIO.
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you. I told him you were
sick; he takes on him to understand so much, and therefore comes to speak with
you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a foreknowledge of that too,
and therefore comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him, lady?
He's fortified against any denial.
OLIVIA.
Tell him, he shall not speak with me.
MALVOLIO.
Has been told so; and he says he'll stand at your door like a
sheriff's post, and be the supporter of a bench, but he'll speak
with you.
OLIVIA.
What kind o' man is he?
MALVOLIO.
Why, of mankind.
OLIVIA.
What manner of man?
MALVOLIO.
Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no.
OLIVIA.
Of what personage and years is he?
MALVOLIO.
Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before
'tis a peascod, or a codling, when 'tis almost an apple. 'Tis
with him in standing water, between boy and man. He is very well-favoured, and
he speaks very shrewishly. One would think his mother's milk were scarce
out of him.
OLIVIA.
Let him approach. Call in my gentlewoman.
MALVOLIO.
Gentlewoman, my lady calls.
[Exit.]
Enter Maria.
OLIVIA.
Give me my veil; come, throw it o'er my face.
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.
Enter Viola.
VIOLA.
The honourable lady of the house, which is she?
OLIVIA.
Speak to me; I shall answer for her. Your will?
VIOLA.
Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty,—I pray you, tell me if
this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would be loath to cast
away my speech; for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have taken
great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very
comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
OLIVIA.
Whence came you, sir?
VIOLA.
I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my
part. Good gentle one, give me modest assurance, if you be the lady of the
house, that I may proceed in my speech.
OLIVIA.
Are you a comedian?
VIOLA.
No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs of malice I swear, I am not
that I play. Are you the lady of the house?
OLIVIA.
If I do not usurp myself, I am.
VIOLA.
Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself; for what is yours to
bestow is not yours to reserve. But this is from my commission. I will on with
my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message.
OLIVIA.
Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.
VIOLA.
Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.
OLIVIA.
It is the more like to be feigned; I pray you keep it in. I heard you were
saucy at my gates; and allowed your approach, rather to wonder at you than to
hear you. If you be mad, be gone; if you have reason, be brief: 'tis not
that time of moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.
MARIA.
Will you hoist sail, sir? Here lies your way.
VIOLA.
No, good swabber, I am to hull here a little longer. Some mollification for
your giant, sweet lady. Tell me your mind. I am a messenger.
OLIVIA.
Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when the courtesy of it is so
fearful. Speak your office.
VIOLA.
It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of war, no taxation of homage;
I hold the olive in my hand: my words are as full of peace as matter.
OLIVIA.
Yet you began rudely. What are you? What would you?
VIOLA.
The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I learned from my entertainment.
What I am and what I would are as secret as maidenhead: to your ears, divinity;
to any other's, profanation.
OLIVIA.
Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.
[Exit Maria.]
Now, sir, what is your text?
VIOLA.
Most sweet lady—
OLIVIA.
A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it. Where lies your text?
VIOLA.
In Orsino's bosom.
OLIVIA.
In his bosom? In what chapter of his bosom?
VIOLA.
To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.
OLIVIA.
O, I have read it; it is heresy. Have you no more to say?
VIOLA.
Good madam, let me see your face.
OLIVIA.
Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate with my face? You are now
out of your text: but we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
[Unveiling.] Look you, sir, such a one I was this present. Is't
not well done?
VIOLA.
Excellently done, if God did all.
OLIVIA.
'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.
VIOLA.
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive
If you will lead these graces to the grave,
And leave the world no copy.
OLIVIA.
O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my
beauty. It shall be inventoried and every particle and utensil labelled to my
will: as, item, two lips indifferent red; item, two grey eyes with lids to
them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were you sent hither to praise
me?
VIOLA.
I see you what you are, you are too proud;
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
My lord and master loves you. O, such love
Could be but recompens'd though you were crown'd
The nonpareil of beauty!
OLIVIA.
How does he love me?
VIOLA.
With adorations, fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
OLIVIA.
Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant,
And in dimension and the shape of nature,
A gracious person. But yet I cannot love him.
He might have took his answer long ago.
VIOLA.
If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suff'ring, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense,
I would not understand it.
OLIVIA.
Why, what would you?
VIOLA.
Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love,
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Hallow your name to the reverberate hills,
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out Olivia! O, you should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me.
OLIVIA.
You might do much.
What is your parentage?
VIOLA.
Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.
OLIVIA.
Get you to your lord;
I cannot love him: let him send no more,
Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:
I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.
VIOLA.
I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse;
My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
Love make his heart of flint that you shall love,
And let your fervour like my master's be
Plac'd in contempt. Farewell, fair cruelty.
[Exit.]
OLIVIA.
What is your parentage?
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,
Do give thee five-fold blazon. Not too fast: soft, soft!
Unless the master were the man. How now?
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an invisible and subtle stealth
To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
What ho, Malvolio!
Enter Malvolio.
MALVOLIO.
Here, madam, at your service.
OLIVIA.
Run after that same peevish messenger
The County's man: he left this ring behind him,
Would I or not; tell him, I'll none of it.
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him.
If that the youth will come this way tomorrow,
I'll give him reasons for't. Hie thee, Malvolio.
MALVOLIO.
Madam, I will.
[Exit.]
OLIVIA.
I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force, ourselves we do not owe.
What is decreed must be; and be this so!
[Exit.]
ACT II.
SCENE I. The sea-coast.
Enter Antonio and Sebastian.
ANTONIO.
Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that I go with you?
SEBASTIAN.
By your patience, no; my stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate
might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that
I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any
of them on you.
ANTONIO.
Let me know of you whither you are bound.
SEBASTIAN.
No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I perceive in
you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me what I am
willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners the rather to express
myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called
Roderigo; my father was that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have heard
of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour. If the
heavens had been pleased, would we had so ended! But you, sir, altered that,
for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister
drowned.
ANTONIO.
Alas the day!
SEBASTIAN.
A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many
accounted beautiful. But though I could not with such estimable wonder overfar
believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her, she bore a mind that envy
could not but call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I
seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
ANTONIO.
Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
SEBASTIAN.
O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
ANTONIO.
If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.
SEBASTIAN.
If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you have
recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness,
and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon the least occasion
more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's
court: farewell.
[Exit.]
ANTONIO.
The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there:
But come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
[Exit.]
SCENE II. A street.
Enter Viola; Malvolio at several doors.
MALVOLIO.
Were you not even now with the Countess Olivia?
VIOLA.
Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither.
MALVOLIO.
She returns this ring to you, sir; you might have saved me my pains, to have
taken it away yourself. She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord into a
desperate assurance she will none of him. And one thing more, that you be never
so hardy to come again in his affairs, unless it be to report your lord's
taking of this. Receive it so.
VIOLA.
She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.
MALVOLIO.
Come sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is it should be so
returned. If it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be it
his that finds it.
[Exit.]
VIOLA.
I left no ring with her; what means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me, indeed, so much,
That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure, the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.
None of my lord's ring? Why, he sent her none.
I am the man; if it be so, as 'tis,
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see thou art a wickedness
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,
For such as we are made of, such we be.
How will this fadge? My master loves her dearly,
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him,
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman (now alas the day!)
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time, thou must untangle this, not I,
It is too hard a knot for me t'untie!
[Exit.]
SCENE III. A Room in Olivia's House.
Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
SIR TOBY.
Approach, Sir Andrew; not to be abed after midnight, is to be up betimes; and
diluculo surgere, thou know'st.
SIR ANDREW.
Nay, by my troth, I know not; but I know to be up late is to be up late.
SIR TOBY.
A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after midnight, and
to go to bed then is early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed
betimes. Does not our lives consist of the four elements?
SIR ANDREW.
Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.
SIR TOBY.
Th'art a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.
Marian, I say! a stoup of wine.
Enter Clown.
SIR ANDREW.
Here comes the fool, i' faith.
CLOWN.
How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of “we three”?
SIR TOBY.
Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.
SIR ANDREW.
By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty
shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In
sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night when thou spok'st of
Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus; 'twas
very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman. Hadst it?
CLOWN.
I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock. My
lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.
SIR ANDREW.
Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, when all is done. Now, a song.
SIR TOBY.
Come on, there is sixpence for you. Let's have a song.
SIR ANDREW.
There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a—
CLOWN.
Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?
SIR TOBY.
A love-song, a love-song.
SIR ANDREW.
Ay, ay. I care not for good life.
CLOWN. [sings.]
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further, pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
SIR ANDREW.
Excellent good, i' faith.
SIR TOBY.
Good, good.
CLOWN.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter,
Present mirth hath present laughter.
What's to come is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
SIR ANDREW.
A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.
SIR TOBY.
A contagious breath.
SIR ANDREW.
Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.
SIR TOBY.
To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the welkin
dance indeed? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three
souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that?
SIR ANDREW.
And you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.
CLOWN.
By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.
SIR ANDREW.
Most certain. Let our catch be, “Thou knave.”
CLOWN.
“Hold thy peace, thou knave” knight? I shall be constrain'd
in't to call thee knave, knight.
SIR ANDREW.
'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave. Begin,
fool; it begins “Hold thy peace.”
CLOWN.
I shall never begin if I hold my peace.
SIR ANDREW.
Good, i' faith! Come, begin.
[Catch sung.]
Enter Maria.
MARIA.
What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her steward
Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me.
SIR TOBY.
My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey,
and [Sings.] Three merry men be we. Am not I consanguineous? Am I
not of her blood? Tilly-vally! “Lady”! There dwelt a man in
Babylon, Lady, Lady.
CLOWN.
Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.
SIR ANDREW.
Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too; he does it with a
better grace, but I do it more natural.
SIR TOBY.
[Sings.] O' the twelfth day of December—
MARIA.
For the love o' God, peace!
Enter Malvolio.
MALVOLIO.
My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? Have you no wit, manners, nor
honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an
ale-house of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your coziers'
catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of
place, persons, nor time, in you?
SIR TOBY.
We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!
MALVOLIO.
Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me tell you that, though she
harbours you as her kinsman she's nothing allied to your disorders. If
you can separate yourself and your misdemeanours, you are welcome to the house;
if not, and it would please you to take leave of her, she is very willing to
bid you farewell.
SIR TOBY.
[Sings.] Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.
MARIA.
Nay, good Sir Toby.
CLOWN.
[Sings.] His eyes do show his days are almost done.
MALVOLIO.
Is't even so?
SIR TOBY.
[Sings.] But I will never die.
CLOWN.
[Sings.] Sir Toby, there you lie.
MALVOLIO.
This is much credit to you.
SIR TOBY.
[Sings.] Shall I bid him go?
CLOWN.
[Sings.] What and if you do?
SIR TOBY.
[Sings.] Shall I bid him go, and spare not?
CLOWN.
[Sings.] O, no, no, no, no, you dare not.
SIR TOBY.
Out o' tune? sir, ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think,
because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?
CLOWN.
Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.
SIR TOBY.
Th'art i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs. A stoup
of wine, Maria!
MALVOLIO.
Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at anything more than
contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule; she shall know of it,
by this hand.
[Exit.]
MARIA.
Go shake your ears.
SIR ANDREW.
'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's a-hungry, to
challenge him the field, and then to break promise with him and make a fool of
him.
SIR TOBY.
Do't, knight. I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll deliver
thy indignation to him by word of mouth.
MARIA.
Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight. Since the youth of the Count's
was today with my lady, she is much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let
me alone with him. If I do not gull him into a nayword, and make him a common
recreation, do not think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. I know I
can do it.
SIR TOBY.
Possess us, possess us, tell us something of him.
MARIA.
Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan.
SIR ANDREW.
O, if I thought that, I'd beat him like a dog.
SIR TOBY.
What, for being a Puritan? Thy exquisite reason, dear knight?
SIR ANDREW.
I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason good enough.
MARIA.
The devil a Puritan that he is, or anything constantly but a time-pleaser, an
affectioned ass that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths;
the best persuaded of himself, so crammed (as he thinks) with excellencies,
that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him. And on that
vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.
SIR TOBY.
What wilt thou do?
MARIA.
I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the colour of
his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his
eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated.
I can write very like my lady your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly
make distinction of our hands.
SIR TOBY.
Excellent! I smell a device.
SIR ANDREW.
I have't in my nose too.
SIR TOBY.
He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop, that they come from my
niece, and that she is in love with him.
MARIA.
My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour.
SIR ANDREW.
And your horse now would make him an ass.
MARIA.
Ass, I doubt not.
SIR ANDREW.
O 'twill be admirable!
MARIA.
Sport royal, I warrant you. I know my physic will work with him. I will plant
you two, and let the fool make a third, where he shall find the letter. Observe
his construction of it. For this night, to bed, and dream on the event.
Farewell.
[Exit.]
SIR TOBY.
Good night, Penthesilea.
SIR ANDREW.
Before me, she's a good wench.
SIR TOBY.
She's a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o' that?
SIR ANDREW.
I was adored once too.
SIR TOBY.
Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for more money.
SIR ANDREW.
If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.
SIR TOBY.
Send for money, knight; if thou hast her not i' th' end, call me
cut.
SIR ANDREW.
If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.
SIR TOBY.
Come, come, I'll go burn some sack, 'tis too late to go to bed now.
Come, knight, come, knight.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE IV. A Room in the Duke's Palace.
Enter Duke, Viola, Curio and others.
DUKE.
Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
That old and antique song we heard last night;
Methought it did relieve my passion much,
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times.
Come, but one verse.
CURIO.
He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
DUKE.
Who was it?
CURIO.
Feste, the jester, my lord, a fool that the Lady Olivia's father took
much delight in. He is about the house.
DUKE.
Seek him out, and play the tune the while.
[Exit Curio. Music plays.]
Come hither, boy. If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me:
For such as I am, all true lovers are,
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd. How dost thou like this tune?
VIOLA.
It gives a very echo to the seat
Where love is throned.
DUKE.
Thou dost speak masterly.
My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye
Hath stayed upon some favour that it loves.
Hath it not, boy?
VIOLA.
A little, by your favour.
DUKE.
What kind of woman is't?
VIOLA.
Of your complexion.
DUKE.
She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?
VIOLA.
About your years, my lord.
DUKE.
Too old, by heaven! Let still the woman take
An elder than herself; so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart.
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.
VIOLA.
I think it well, my lord.
DUKE.
Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent:
For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
VIOLA.
And so they are: alas, that they are so;
To die, even when they to perfection grow!
Enter Curio and Clown.
DUKE.
O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun,
And the free maids, that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love
Like the old age.
CLOWN.
Are you ready, sir?
DUKE.
Ay; prithee, sing.
[Music.]
The Clown's song.
Come away, come away, death.
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown:
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there.
DUKE.
There's for thy pains.
CLOWN.
No pains, sir; I take pleasure in singing, sir.
DUKE.
I'll pay thy pleasure, then.
CLOWN.
Truly sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.
DUKE.
Give me now leave to leave thee.
CLOWN.
Now the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of
changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such
constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent
everywhere, for that's it that always makes a good voyage of
nothing. Farewell.
[Exit Clown.]
DUKE.
Let all the rest give place.
[Exeunt Curio and Attendants.]
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty.
Tell her my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;
The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,
Tell her I hold as giddily as fortune;
But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems
That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
VIOLA.
But if she cannot love you, sir?
DUKE.
I cannot be so answer'd.
VIOLA.
Sooth, but you must.
Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Hath for your love as great a pang of heart
As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;
You tell her so. Must she not then be answer'd?
DUKE.
There is no woman's sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart: no woman's heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention.
Alas, their love may be called appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment, and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much. Make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.
VIOLA.
Ay, but I know—
DUKE.
What dost thou know?
VIOLA.
Too well what love women to men may owe.
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
DUKE.
And what's her history?
VIOLA.
A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' th' bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed?
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed,
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.
DUKE.
But died thy sister of her love, my boy?
VIOLA.
I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
Sir, shall I to this lady?
DUKE.
Ay, that's the theme.
To her in haste. Give her this jewel; say
My love can give no place, bide no denay.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE V. Olivia's garden.
Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian.
SIR TOBY.
Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.
FABIAN.
Nay, I'll come. If I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to
death with melancholy.
SIR TOBY.
Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter come by
some notable shame?
FABIAN.
I would exult, man. You know he brought me out o' favour with my lady
about a bear-baiting here.
SIR TOBY.
To anger him we'll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and
blue, shall we not, Sir Andrew?
SIR ANDREW.
And we do not, it is pity of our lives.
Enter Maria.
SIR TOBY.
Here comes the little villain. How now, my metal of India?
MARIA.
Get ye all three into the box-tree. Malvolio's coming down this walk; he
has been yonder i' the sun practising behaviour to his own shadow this
half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I know this letter will
make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of jesting! [The men
hide themselves.] Lie thou there; [Throws down a letter] for here
comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.
[Exit Maria.]
Enter Malvolio.
MALVOLIO.
'Tis but fortune, all is fortune. Maria once told me she did affect me,
and I have heard herself come thus near, that should she fancy, it should be
one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than
anyone else that follows her. What should I think on't?
SIR TOBY.
Here's an overweening rogue!
FABIAN.
O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets under his
advanced plumes!
SIR ANDREW.
'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!
SIR TOBY.
Peace, I say.
MALVOLIO.
To be Count Malvolio.
SIR TOBY.
Ah, rogue!
SIR ANDREW.
Pistol him, pistol him.
SIR TOBY.
Peace, peace.
MALVOLIO.
There is example for't. The lady of the Strachy married the yeoman of the
wardrobe.
SIR ANDREW.
Fie on him, Jezebel!
FABIAN.
O, peace! now he's deeply in; look how imagination blows him.
MALVOLIO.
Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state—
SIR TOBY.
O for a stone-bow to hit him in the eye!
MALVOLIO.
Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown; having come from a
day-bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping.
SIR TOBY.
Fire and brimstone!
FABIAN.
O, peace, peace.
MALVOLIO.
And then to have the humour of state; and after a demure travel of regard,
telling them I know my place as I would they should do theirs, to ask for my
kinsman Toby.
SIR TOBY.
Bolts and shackles!
FABIAN.
O, peace, peace, peace! Now, now.
MALVOLIO.
Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown the
while, and perchance wind up my watch, or play with some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; curtsies there to me—
SIR TOBY.
Shall this fellow live?
FABIAN.
Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace!
MALVOLIO.
I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere
regard of control—
SIR TOBY.
And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?
MALVOLIO.
Saying 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on your niece, give me
this prerogative of speech—'
SIR TOBY.
What, what?
MALVOLIO.
'You must amend your drunkenness.'
SIR TOBY.
Out, scab!
FABIAN.
Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.
MALVOLIO.
'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish
knight—'
SIR ANDREW.
That's me, I warrant you.
MALVOLIO.
'One Sir Andrew.'
SIR ANDREW.
I knew 'twas I, for many do call me fool.
MALVOLIO.
[Taking up the letter.] What employment have we here?
FABIAN.
Now is the woodcock near the gin.
SIR TOBY.
O, peace! And the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him!
MALVOLIO.
By my life, this is my lady's hand: these be her very C's, her
U's, and her T's, and thus makes she her great P's. It is in
contempt of question, her hand.
SIR ANDREW.
Her C's, her U's, and her T's. Why that?
MALVOLIO.
[Reads.] To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes. Her
very phrases! By your leave, wax. Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with
which she uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?
FABIAN.
This wins him, liver and all.
MALVOLIO.
[Reads.]
Jove knows I love,
But who?
Lips, do not move,
No man must know.
'No man must know.' What follows? The numbers alter'd! 'No man must know.'—If this should be thee, Malvolio?
SIR TOBY.
Marry, hang thee, brock!
MALVOLIO.
I may command where I adore,
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore;
M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.
FABIAN.
A fustian riddle!
SIR TOBY.
Excellent wench, say I.
MALVOLIO.
'M.O.A.I. doth sway my life.'—Nay, but first let me see, let
me see, let me see.
FABIAN.
What dish o' poison has she dressed him!
SIR TOBY.
And with what wing the staniel checks at it!
MALVOLIO.
'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command me: I serve
her, she is my lady. Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. There is no
obstruction in this. And the end—what should that alphabetical position
portend? If I could make that resemble something in me! Softly!
'M.O.A.I.'—
SIR TOBY.
O, ay, make up that:—he is now at a cold scent.
FABIAN.
Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as rank as a fox.
MALVOLIO.
'M'—Malvolio; 'M!' Why, that begins my name!
FABIAN.
Did not I say he would work it out? The cur is excellent at faults.
MALVOLIO.
'M'—But then there is no consonancy in the sequel; that
suffers under probation: 'A' should follow, but 'O'
does.
FABIAN.
And 'O' shall end, I hope.
SIR TOBY.
Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry 'O!'
MALVOLIO.
And then 'I' comes behind.
FABIAN.
Ay, and you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels
than fortunes before you.
MALVOLIO.
'M.O.A.I.' This simulation is not as the former: and yet, to crush
this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my
name. Soft, here follows prose.
[Reads.] If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above
thee, but be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy fates open their
hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure thyself to what
thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be opposite with
a kinsman, surly with servants. Let thy tongue tang arguments of state; put
thyself into the trick of singularity. She thus advises thee that sighs for
thee. Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
cross-gartered. I say, remember. Go to, thou art made, if thou desir'st
to be so. If not, let me see thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and
not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell. She that would alter
services with thee,
The Fortunate Unhappy.
Daylight and champian discovers not more! This is open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device, the very man. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered, and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction, drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars, I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove and my stars be praised!—Here is yet a postscript. [Reads.] Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou entertain'st my love, let it appear in thy smiling; thy smiles become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee. Jove, I thank thee. I will smile, I will do everything that thou wilt have me.
[Exit.]
FABIAN.
I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid
from the Sophy.
SIR TOBY.
I could marry this wench for this device.
SIR ANDREW.
So could I too.
SIR TOBY.
And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.
Enter Maria.
SIR ANDREW.
Nor I neither.
FABIAN.
Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
SIR TOBY.
Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?
SIR ANDREW.
Or o' mine either?
SIR TOBY.
Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave?
SIR ANDREW.
I' faith, or I either?
SIR TOBY.
Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him
he must run mad.
MARIA.
Nay, but say true, does it work upon him?
SIR TOBY.
Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.
MARIA.
If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my
lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her,
which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If
you will see it, follow me.
SIR TOBY.
To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!
SIR ANDREW.
I'll make one too.
[Exeunt.]
ACT III.
SCENE I. Olivia's garden.
Enter Viola and Clown with a tabor.
VIOLA.
Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by thy tabor?
CLOWN.
No, sir, I live by the church.
VIOLA.
Art thou a churchman?
CLOWN.
No such matter, sir. I do live by the church, for I do live at my house, and my
house doth stand by the church.
VIOLA.
So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near him; or the
church stands by thy tabor, if thy tabor stand by the church.
CLOWN.
You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is but a chev'ril glove
to a good wit. How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
VIOLA.
Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with words may quickly make
them wanton.
CLOWN.
I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.
VIOLA.
Why, man?
CLOWN.
Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that word might make my
sister wanton. But indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds disgraced them.
VIOLA.
Thy reason, man?
CLOWN.
Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I
am loath to prove reason with them.
VIOLA.
I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and car'st for nothing.
CLOWN.
Not so, sir, I do care for something. But in my conscience, sir, I do not care
for you. If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you
invisible.
VIOLA.
Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?
CLOWN.
No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly. She will keep no fool, sir, till
she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings,
the husband's the bigger. I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter
of words.
VIOLA.
I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's.
CLOWN.
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere. I
would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my
mistress. I think I saw your wisdom there.
VIOLA.
Nay, and thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee. Hold, there's
expenses for thee.
CLOWN.
Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!
VIOLA.
By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for one, though I would not
have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within?
CLOWN.
Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?
VIOLA.
Yes, being kept together, and put to use.
CLOWN.
I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this
Troilus.
VIOLA.
I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged.
CLOWN.
The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida was a
beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will conster to them whence you come; who
you are and what you would are out of my welkin. I might say
“element”, but the word is overworn.
[Exit.]
VIOLA.
This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well, craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
And like the haggard, check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice
As full of labour as a wise man's art:
For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit;
But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.
Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
SIR TOBY.
Save you, gentleman.
VIOLA.
And you, sir.
SIR ANDREW.
Dieu vous garde, monsieur.
VIOLA.
Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.
SIR ANDREW.
I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours.
SIR TOBY.
Will you encounter the house? My niece is desirous you should enter, if your
trade be to her.
VIOLA.
I am bound to your niece, sir, I mean, she is the list of my voyage.
SIR TOBY.
Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion.
VIOLA.
My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean by
bidding me taste my legs.
SIR TOBY.
I mean, to go, sir, to enter.
VIOLA.
I will answer you with gait and entrance: but we are prevented.
Enter Olivia and Maria.
Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you!
SIR ANDREW.
That youth's a rare courtier. 'Rain odours,' well.
VIOLA.
My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed
car.
SIR ANDREW.
'Odours,' 'pregnant,' and
'vouchsafed.'—I'll get 'em all three ready.
OLIVIA.
Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.
[Exeunt Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Maria.]
Give me your hand, sir.
VIOLA.
My duty, madam, and most humble service.
OLIVIA.
What is your name?
VIOLA.
Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.
OLIVIA.
My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world,
Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:
Y'are servant to the Count Orsino, youth.
VIOLA.
And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.
Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.
OLIVIA.
For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,
Would they were blanks rather than fill'd with me!
VIOLA.
Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
On his behalf.
OLIVIA.
O, by your leave, I pray you.
I bade you never speak again of him.
But would you undertake another suit,
I had rather hear you to solicit that
Than music from the spheres.
VIOLA.
Dear lady—
OLIVIA.
Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
After the last enchantment you did here,
A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse
Myself, my servant, and, I fear me, you.
Under your hard construction must I sit;
To force that on you in a shameful cunning,
Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
Have you not set mine honour at the stake,
And baited it with all th' unmuzzled thoughts
That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,
Hides my heart: so let me hear you speak.
VIOLA.
I pity you.
OLIVIA.
That's a degree to love.
VIOLA.
No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof
That very oft we pity enemies.
OLIVIA.
Why then methinks 'tis time to smile again.
O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
If one should be a prey, how much the better
To fall before the lion than the wolf! [Clock strikes.]
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you.
And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,
Your wife is like to reap a proper man.
There lies your way, due west.
VIOLA.
Then westward ho!
Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship!
You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?
OLIVIA.
Stay:
I prithee tell me what thou think'st of me.
VIOLA.
That you do think you are not what you are.
OLIVIA.
If I think so, I think the same of you.
VIOLA.
Then think you right; I am not what I am.
OLIVIA.
I would you were as I would have you be.
VIOLA.
Would it be better, madam, than I am?
I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
OLIVIA.
O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
A murd'rous guilt shows not itself more soon
Than love that would seem hid. Love's night is noon.
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride,
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause;
But rather reason thus with reason fetter:
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
VIOLA.
By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
And that no woman has; nor never none
Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.
And so adieu, good madam; never more
Will I my master's tears to you deplore.
OLIVIA.
Yet come again: for thou perhaps mayst move
That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II. A Room in Olivia's House.
Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian.
SIR ANDREW.
No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.
SIR TOBY.
Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.
FABIAN.
You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.
SIR ANDREW.
Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the Count's servingman than
ever she bestowed upon me; I saw't i' th' orchard.
SIR TOBY.
Did she see thee the while, old boy? Tell me that.
SIR ANDREW.
As plain as I see you now.
FABIAN.
This was a great argument of love in her toward you.
SIR ANDREW.
'Slight! will you make an ass o' me?
FABIAN.
I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of judgment and reason.
SIR TOBY.
And they have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor.
FABIAN.
She did show favour to the youth in your sight only to exasperate you, to awake
your dormouse valour, to put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.
You should then have accosted her, and with some excellent jests, fire-new from
the mint, you should have banged the youth into dumbness. This was looked for
at your hand, and this was balked: the double gilt of this opportunity you let
time wash off, and you are now sailed into the north of my lady's
opinion; where you will hang like an icicle on Dutchman's beard, unless
you do redeem it by some laudable attempt, either of valour or policy.
SIR ANDREW.
And't be any way, it must be with valour, for policy I hate; I had as
lief be a Brownist as a politician.
SIR TOBY.
Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valour. Challenge me the
Count's youth to fight with him. Hurt him in eleven places; my niece
shall take note of it, and assure thyself there is no love-broker in the world
can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valour.
FABIAN.
There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.
SIR ANDREW.
Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?
SIR TOBY.
Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty,
so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the licence of ink. If
thou 'thou'st' him some thrice, it shall not be amiss, and as
many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough
for the bed of Ware in England, set 'em down. Go about it. Let there be
gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. About
it.
SIR ANDREW.
Where shall I find you?
SIR TOBY.
We'll call thee at the cubiculo. Go.
[Exit Sir Andrew.]
FABIAN.
This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.
SIR TOBY.
I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand strong, or so.
FABIAN.
We shall have a rare letter from him; but you'll not deliver it.
SIR TOBY.
Never trust me then. And by all means stir on the youth to an answer. I think
oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were opened and
you find so much blood in his liver as will clog the foot of a flea, I'll
eat the rest of th' anatomy.
FABIAN.
And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great presage of cruelty.
Enter Maria.
SIR TOBY.
Look where the youngest wren of nine comes.
MARIA.
If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into stitches, follow me.
Yond gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no
Christian that means to be saved by believing rightly can ever believe such
impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow stockings.
SIR TOBY.
And cross-gartered?
MARIA.
Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' th' church.
I have dogged him like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter
that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more lines than is in
the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. You have not seen such a
thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things at him. I know my
lady will strike him. If she do, he'll smile and take't for a great
favour.
SIR TOBY.
Come, bring us, bring us where he is.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. A street.
Enter Sebastian and Antonio.
SEBASTIAN.
I would not by my will have troubled you,
But since you make your pleasure of your pains,
I will no further chide you.
ANTONIO.
I could not stay behind you: my desire,
More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;
And not all love to see you, though so much,
As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,
But jealousy what might befall your travel,
Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,
Unguided and unfriended, often prove
Rough and unhospitable. My willing love,
The rather by these arguments of fear,
Set forth in your pursuit.
SEBASTIAN.
My kind Antonio,
I can no other answer make but thanks,
And thanks, and ever thanks; and oft good turns
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.
But were my worth, as is my conscience, firm,
You should find better dealing. What's to do?
Shall we go see the relics of this town?
ANTONIO.
Tomorrow, sir; best first go see your lodging.
SEBASTIAN.
I am not weary, and 'tis long to night;
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials and the things of fame
That do renown this city.
ANTONIO.
Would you'd pardon me.
I do not without danger walk these streets.
Once in a sea-fight, 'gainst the Count his galleys,
I did some service, of such note indeed,
That were I ta'en here, it would scarce be answer'd.
SEBASTIAN.
Belike you slew great number of his people.
ANTONIO.
Th' offence is not of such a bloody nature,
Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel
Might well have given us bloody argument.
It might have since been answered in repaying
What we took from them, which for traffic's sake,
Most of our city did. Only myself stood out,
For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear.
SEBASTIAN.
Do not then walk too open.
ANTONIO.
It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.
In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,
Is best to lodge. I will bespeak our diet
Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
With viewing of the town. There shall you have me.
SEBASTIAN.
Why I your purse?
ANTONIO.
Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
You have desire to purchase; and your store,
I think, is not for idle markets, sir.
SEBASTIAN.
I'll be your purse-bearer, and leave you for an hour.
ANTONIO.
To th' Elephant.
SEBASTIAN.
I do remember.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE IV. Olivia's garden.
Enter Olivia and Maria.
OLIVIA.
I have sent after him. He says he'll come;
How shall I feast him? What bestow of him?
For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.
I speak too loud.—
Where's Malvolio?—He is sad and civil,
And suits well for a servant with my fortunes;
Where is Malvolio?
MARIA.
He's coming, madam:
But in very strange manner. He is sure possessed, madam.
OLIVIA.
Why, what's the matter? Does he rave?
MARIA.
No, madam, he does nothing but smile: your ladyship were best to have some
guard about you if he come, for sure the man is tainted in 's wits.
OLIVIA.
Go call him hither. I'm as mad as he,
If sad and merry madness equal be.
Enter Malvolio.
How now, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
Sweet lady, ho, ho!
OLIVIA.
Smil'st thou? I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
MALVOLIO.
Sad, lady? I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this
cross-gartering. But what of that? If it please the eye of one, it is with me
as the very true sonnet is: 'Please one and please all.'
OLIVIA.
Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee?
MALVOLIO.
Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It did come to his hands, and
commands shall be executed. I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.
OLIVIA.
Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
To bed? Ay, sweetheart, and I'll come to thee.
OLIVIA.
God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy hand so oft?
MARIA.
How do you, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
At your request? Yes, nightingales answer daws!
MARIA.
Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?
MALVOLIO.
'Be not afraid of greatness.' 'Twas well writ.
OLIVIA.
What mean'st thou by that, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
'Some are born great'—
OLIVIA.
Ha?
MALVOLIO.
'Some achieve greatness'—
OLIVIA.
What say'st thou?
MALVOLIO.
'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'
OLIVIA.
Heaven restore thee!
MALVOLIO.
'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings'—
OLIVIA.
Thy yellow stockings?
MALVOLIO.
'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'
OLIVIA.
Cross-gartered?
MALVOLIO.
'Go to: thou art made, if thou desir'st to be so:'—
OLIVIA.
Am I made?
MALVOLIO.
'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'
OLIVIA.
Why, this is very midsummer madness.
Enter Servant.
SERVANT.
Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is returned; I could
hardly entreat him back. He attends your ladyship's pleasure.
OLIVIA.
I'll come to him.
[Exit Servant.]
Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special care of him; I would not have him miscarry for the half of my dowry.
[Exeunt Olivia and Maria.]
MALVOLIO.
O ho, do you come near me now? No worse man than Sir Toby to look to me. This
concurs directly with the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may appear
stubborn to him; for she incites me to that in the letter. 'Cast thy
humble slough,' says she; 'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with
servants, let thy tongue tang with arguments of state, put thyself into the
trick of singularity,' and consequently, sets down the manner how: as, a
sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of some sir of note,
and so forth. I have limed her, but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me
thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this fellow be looked
to;' 'Fellow!' not 'Malvolio', nor after my
degree, but 'fellow'. Why, everything adheres together, that no
dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous or
unsafe circumstance. What can be said? Nothing that can be can come between me
and the full prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the doer of this, and
he is to be thanked.
Enter Sir Toby, Fabian and Maria.
SIR TOBY.
Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the devils of hell be drawn in
little, and Legion himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him.
FABIAN.
Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir? How is't with you,
man?
MALVOLIO.
Go off, I discard you. Let me enjoy my private. Go off.
MARIA.
Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! Did not I tell you? Sir Toby, my
lady prays you to have a care of him.
MALVOLIO.
Ah, ha! does she so?
SIR TOBY.
Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him. Let me alone. How do
you, Malvolio? How is't with you? What, man! defy the devil! Consider,
he's an enemy to mankind.
MALVOLIO.
Do you know what you say?
MARIA.
La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes it at heart! Pray God he be
not bewitched.
FABIAN.
Carry his water to th' wise woman.
MARIA.
Marry, and it shall be done tomorrow morning, if I live. My lady would not
lose him for more than I'll say.
MALVOLIO.
How now, mistress!
MARIA.
O Lord!
SIR TOBY.
Prithee hold thy peace, this is not the way. Do you not see you move him? Let
me alone with him.
FABIAN.
No way but gentleness, gently, gently. The fiend is rough, and will not be
roughly used.
SIR TOBY.
Why, how now, my bawcock? How dost thou, chuck?
MALVOLIO.
Sir!
SIR TOBY.
Ay, biddy, come with me. What, man, 'tis not for gravity to play at
cherry-pit with Satan. Hang him, foul collier!
MARIA.
Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.
MALVOLIO.
My prayers, minx?
MARIA.
No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.
MALVOLIO.
Go, hang yourselves all! You are idle, shallow things. I am not of your element.
You shall know more hereafter.
[Exit.]
SIR TOBY.
Is't possible?
FABIAN.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable
fiction.
SIR TOBY.
His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.
MARIA.
Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.
FABIAN.
Why, we shall make him mad indeed.
MARIA.
The house will be the quieter.
SIR TOBY.
Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My niece is already in the
belief that he's mad. We may carry it thus for our pleasure, and his
penance, till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt us to have mercy on
him, at which time we will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for a
finder of madmen. But see, but see!
Enter Sir Andrew.
FABIAN.
More matter for a May morning.
SIR ANDREW.
Here's the challenge, read it. I warrant there's vinegar and pepper
in't.
FABIAN.
Is't so saucy?
SIR ANDREW.
Ay, is't, I warrant him. Do but read.
SIR TOBY.
Give me. [Reads.] Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy
fellow.
FABIAN.
Good, and valiant.
SIR TOBY.
Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call thee so, for I will
show thee no reason for't.
FABIAN.
A good note, that keeps you from the blow of the law.
SIR TOBY.
Thou comest to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses thee kindly: but
thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.
FABIAN.
Very brief, and to exceeding good sense—less.
SIR TOBY.
I will waylay thee going home; where if it be thy chance to kill
me—
FABIAN.
Good.
SIR TOBY.
Thou kill'st me like a rogue and a villain.
FABIAN.
Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law. Good.
SIR TOBY.
Fare thee well, and God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy
upon mine, but my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy friend, as thou
usest him, and thy sworn enemy,
Andrew Aguecheek.
If this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I'll give't him.
MARIA.
You may have very fit occasion for't. He is now in some commerce with my
lady, and will by and by depart.
SIR TOBY.
Go, Sir Andrew. Scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a
bum-baily. So soon as ever thou seest him, draw, and as thou draw'st,
swear horrible, for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a
swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever
proof itself would have earned him. Away.
SIR ANDREW.
Nay, let me alone for swearing.
[Exit.]
SIR TOBY.
Now will not I deliver his letter, for the behaviour of the young gentleman
gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his
lord and my niece confirms no less. Therefore this letter, being so excellently
ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth. He will find it comes from a
clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth, set upon
Aguecheek notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman (as I know his
youth will aptly receive it) into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill,
fury, and impetuosity. This will so fright them both that they will kill one
another by the look, like cockatrices.
Enter Olivia and Viola.
FABIAN.
Here he comes with your niece; give them way till he take leave, and presently
after him.
SIR TOBY.
I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge.
[Exeunt Sir Toby, Fabian and Maria.]
OLIVIA.
I have said too much unto a heart of stone,
And laid mine honour too unchary on't:
There's something in me that reproves my fault:
But such a headstrong potent fault it is,
That it but mocks reproof.
VIOLA.
With the same 'haviour that your passion bears
Goes on my master's griefs.
OLIVIA.
Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture.
Refuse it not, it hath no tongue to vex you.
And I beseech you come again tomorrow.
What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,
That honour sav'd, may upon asking give?
VIOLA.
Nothing but this, your true love for my master.
OLIVIA.
How with mine honour may I give him that
Which I have given to you?
VIOLA.
I will acquit you.
OLIVIA.
Well, come again tomorrow. Fare thee well;
A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.
[Exit.]
Enter Sir Toby and Fabian.
SIR TOBY.
Gentleman, God save thee.
VIOLA.
And you, sir.
SIR TOBY.
That defence thou hast, betake thee to't. Of what nature the wrongs are
thou hast done him, I know not, but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as
the hunter, attends thee at the orchard end. Dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy
preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly.
VIOLA.
You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel to me. My remembrance is
very free and clear from any image of offence done to any man.
SIR TOBY.
You'll find it otherwise, I assure you. Therefore, if you hold your life
at any price, betake you to your guard, for your opposite hath in him what
youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withal.
VIOLA.
I pray you, sir, what is he?
SIR TOBY.
He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier, and on carpet consideration, but he
is a devil in private brawl. Souls and bodies hath he divorced three, and his
incensement at this moment is so implacable that satisfaction can be none but
by pangs of death and sepulchre. Hob, nob is his word; give't or
take't.
VIOLA.
I will return again into the house and desire some conduct of the lady. I am no
fighter. I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others
to taste their valour: belike this is a man of that quirk.
SIR TOBY.
Sir, no. His indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury;
therefore, get you on and give him his desire. Back you shall not to the house,
unless you undertake that with me which with as much safety you might answer
him. Therefore on, or strip your sword stark naked, for meddle you must,
that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.
VIOLA.
This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me this courteous office, as
to know of the knight what my offence to him is. It is something of my
negligence, nothing of my purpose.
SIR TOBY.
I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this gentleman till my return.
[Exit Sir Toby.]
VIOLA.
Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?
FABIAN.
I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal arbitrement, but
nothing of the circumstance more.
VIOLA.
I beseech you, what manner of man is he?
FABIAN.
Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are like to
find him in the proof of his valour. He is indeed, sir, the most skilful,
bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of
Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make your peace with him if I can.
VIOLA.
I shall be much bound to you for't. I am one that had rather go with sir
priest than sir knight: I care not who knows so much of my mettle.
[Exeunt.]
Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.
SIR TOBY.
Why, man, he's a very devil. I have not seen such a firago. I had a pass
with him, rapier, scabbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck-in with such a
mortal motion that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he pays you as surely
as your feet hits the ground they step on. They say he has been fencer to the
Sophy.
SIR ANDREW.
Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.
SIR TOBY.
Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can scarce hold him yonder.
SIR ANDREW.
Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant, and so cunning in fence,
I'd have seen him damned ere I'd have challenged him. Let him let
the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.
SIR TOBY.
I'll make the motion. Stand here, make a good show on't. This shall
end without the perdition of souls. [Aside.] Marry, I'll ride your
horse as well as I ride you.
Enter Fabian and Viola.
[To Fabian.] I have his horse to take up the quarrel. I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.
FABIAN.
He is as horribly conceited of him, and pants and looks pale, as if a bear were
at his heels.
SIR TOBY.
There's no remedy, sir, he will fight with you for's oath sake.
Marry, he hath better bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now
scarce to be worth talking of. Therefore, draw for the supportance of his vow;
he protests he will not hurt you.
VIOLA.
[Aside.] Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how
much I lack of a man.
FABIAN.
Give ground if you see him furious.
SIR TOBY.
Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy, the gentleman will for his
honour's sake have one bout with you. He cannot by the duello avoid it;
but he has promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he will not hurt
you. Come on: to't.
SIR ANDREW.
[Draws.] Pray God he keep his oath!
Enter Antonio.
VIOLA.
[Draws.] I do assure you 'tis against my will.
ANTONIO.
Put up your sword. If this young gentleman
Have done offence, I take the fault on me.
If you offend him, I for him defy you.
SIR TOBY.
You, sir? Why, what are you?
ANTONIO.
[Draws.] One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more
Than you have heard him brag to you he will.
SIR TOBY.
[Draws.] Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.
Enter Officers.
FABIAN.
O good Sir Toby, hold! Here come the officers.
SIR TOBY.
[To Antonio.] I'll be with you anon.
VIOLA.
[To Sir Andrew.] Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.
SIR ANDREW.
Marry, will I, sir; and for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my
word. He will bear you easily, and reins well.
FIRST OFFICER.
This is the man; do thy office.
SECOND OFFICER.
Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit
Of Count Orsino.
ANTONIO.
You do mistake me, sir.
FIRST OFFICER.
No, sir, no jot. I know your favour well,
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.—
Take him away, he knows I know him well.
ANTONIO.
I must obey. This comes with seeking you;
But there's no remedy, I shall answer it.
What will you do? Now my necessity
Makes me to ask you for my purse. It grieves me
Much more for what I cannot do for you,
Than what befalls myself. You stand amaz'd,
But be of comfort.
SECOND OFFICER.
Come, sir, away.
ANTONIO.
I must entreat of you some of that money.
VIOLA.
What money, sir?
For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,
And part being prompted by your present trouble,
Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something. My having is not much;
I'll make division of my present with you.
Hold, there's half my coffer.
ANTONIO.
Will you deny me now?
Is't possible that my deserts to you
Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,
Lest that it make me so unsound a man
As to upbraid you with those kindnesses
That I have done for you.
VIOLA.
I know of none,
Nor know I you by voice or any feature.
I hate ingratitude more in a man
Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
ANTONIO.
O heavens themselves!
SECOND OFFICER.
Come, sir, I pray you go.
ANTONIO.
Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here
I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,
Reliev'd him with such sanctity of love;
And to his image, which methought did promise
Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
FIRST OFFICER.
What's that to us? The time goes by. Away!
ANTONIO.
But O how vile an idol proves this god!
Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind.
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil.
FIRST OFFICER.
The man grows mad, away with him. Come, come, sir.
ANTONIO.
Lead me on.
[Exeunt Officers with Antonio.]
VIOLA.
Methinks his words do from such passion fly
That he believes himself; so do not I.
Prove true, imagination, O prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!
SIR TOBY.
Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian. We'll whisper o'er a
couplet or two of most sage saws.
VIOLA.
He nam'd Sebastian. I my brother know
Yet living in my glass; even such and so
In favour was my brother, and he went
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
For him I imitate. O if it prove,
Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
[Exit.]
SIR TOBY.
A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a hare. His dishonesty
appears in leaving his friend here in necessity, and denying him; and for his
cowardship, ask Fabian.
FABIAN.
A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.
SIR ANDREW.
'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.
SIR TOBY.
Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.
SIR ANDREW.
And I do not—
[Exit.]
FABIAN.
Come, let's see the event.
SIR TOBY.
I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.
[Exeunt.]
ACT IV.
SCENE I. The Street before Olivia's House.
Enter Sebastian and Clown.
CLOWN.
Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
SEBASTIAN.
Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow.
Let me be clear of thee.
CLOWN.
Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you
by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not Master
Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so, is so.
SEBASTIAN.
I prithee vent thy folly somewhere else,
Thou know'st not me.
CLOWN.
Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now applies it to
a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a
cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent
to my lady. Shall I vent to her that thou art coming?
SEBASTIAN.
I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me.
There's money for thee; if you tarry longer
I shall give worse payment.
CLOWN.
By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men that give fools money get
themselves a good report—after fourteen years' purchase.
Enter Sir Andrew, Sir Toby and Fabian.
SIR ANDREW.
Now sir, have I met you again? There's for you.
[Striking Sebastian.]
SEBASTIAN.
Why, there's for thee, and there, and there.
Are all the people mad?
[Beating Sir Andrew.]
SIR TOBY.
Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.
CLOWN.
This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of your coats for
twopence.
[Exit Clown.]
SIR TOBY.
Come on, sir, hold!
SIR ANDREW.
Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him. I'll have
an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria. Though I
struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.
SEBASTIAN.
Let go thy hand!
SIR TOBY.
Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier, put up your iron: you
are well fleshed. Come on.
SEBASTIAN.
I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now?
If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword.
[Draws.]
SIR TOBY.
What, what? Nay, then, I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from
you.
[Draws.]
Enter Olivia.
OLIVIA.
Hold, Toby! On thy life I charge thee hold!
SIR TOBY.
Madam.
OLIVIA.
Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! Out of my sight!
Be not offended, dear Cesario.
Rudesby, be gone!
[Exeunt Sir Toby, Sir Andrew and Fabian.]
I prithee, gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby
Mayst smile at this. Thou shalt not choose but go.
Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,
He started one poor heart of mine, in thee.
SEBASTIAN.
What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
OLIVIA.
Nay, come, I prithee. Would thou'dst be ruled by me!
SEBASTIAN.
Madam, I will.
OLIVIA.
O, say so, and so be!
[Exeunt.]
SCENE II. A Room in Olivia's House.
Enter Maria and Clown.
MARIA.
Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir
Topas the curate. Do it quickly. I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.
[Exit Maria.]
CLOWN.
Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in't, and I would
I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to
become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student, but to
be said, an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say, a
careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.
Enter Sir Toby and Maria.
SIR TOBY.
Jove bless thee, Master Parson.
CLOWN.
Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw
pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that
is, is': so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for what is
'that' but 'that'? and 'is' but
'is'?
SIR TOBY.
To him, Sir Topas.
CLOWN.
What ho, I say! Peace in this prison!
SIR TOBY.
The knave counterfeits well. A good knave.
Malvolio within.
MALVOLIO.
Who calls there?
CLOWN.
Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic.
MALVOLIO.
Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.
CLOWN.
Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man? Talkest thou nothing but of
ladies?
SIR TOBY.
Well said, Master Parson.
MALVOLIO.
Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged. Good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad.
They have laid me here in hideous darkness.
CLOWN.
Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms, for I am one
of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy.
Say'st thou that house is dark?
MALVOLIO.
As hell, Sir Topas.
CLOWN.
Why, it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clerestories
toward the south-north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of
obstruction?
MALVOLIO.
I am not mad, Sir Topas. I say to you this house is dark.
CLOWN.
Madman, thou errest. I say there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou
art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.
MALVOLIO.
I say this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as
hell; and I say there was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you are.
Make the trial of it in any constant question.
CLOWN.
What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wildfowl?
MALVOLIO.
That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.
CLOWN.
What think'st thou of his opinion?
MALVOLIO.
I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.
CLOWN.
Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness. Thou shalt hold the opinion of
Pythagoras ere I will allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou
dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.
MALVOLIO.
Sir Topas, Sir Topas!
SIR TOBY.
My most exquisite Sir Topas!
CLOWN.
Nay, I am for all waters.
MARIA.
Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown. He sees thee not.
SIR TOBY.
To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how thou find'st him. I
would we were well rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I
would he were, for I am now so far in offence with my niece that I cannot
pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.
[Exeunt Sir Toby and Maria.]
CLOWN.
[Singing.]
Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,
Tell me how thy lady does.
MALVOLIO.
Fool!
CLOWN.
My lady is unkind, perdy.
MALVOLIO.
Fool!
CLOWN.
Alas, why is she so?
MALVOLIO.
Fool, I say!
CLOWN.
She loves another—
Who calls, ha?
MALVOLIO.
Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and
pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee
for't.
CLOWN.
Master Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
Ay, good fool.
CLOWN.
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?
MALVOLIO.
Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool,
as thou art.
CLOWN.
But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a
fool.
MALVOLIO.
They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, send ministers to me, asses,
and do all they can to face me out of my wits.
CLOWN.
Advise you what you say: the minister is here. [As Sir Topas] Malvolio,
Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore. Endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave
thy vain bibble-babble.
MALVOLIO.
Sir Topas!
CLOWN.
[As Sir Topas] Maintain no words with him, good fellow. [As
himself] Who, I, sir? not I, sir. God buy you, good Sir Topas. [As Sir
Topas] Marry, amen. [As himself] I will sir, I will.
MALVOLIO.
Fool, fool, fool, I say!
CLOWN.
Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? I am shent for speaking to you.
MALVOLIO.
Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee I am as well in my
wits as any man in Illyria.
CLOWN.
Well-a-day that you were, sir!
MALVOLIO.
By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey what I
will set down to my lady. It shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of
letter did.
CLOWN.
I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do you
but counterfeit?
MALVOLIO.
Believe me, I am not. I tell thee true.
CLOWN.
Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his brains. I will
fetch you light, and paper, and ink.
MALVOLIO.
Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I prithee be gone.
CLOWN.
[Singing.]
I am gone, sir, and anon, sir,
I'll be with you again,
In a trice, like to the old Vice,
Your need to sustain;
Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath,
Cries 'ah, ha!' to the devil:
Like a mad lad, 'Pare thy nails, dad.
Adieu, goodman devil.'
[Exit.]
SCENE III. Olivia's Garden.
Enter Sebastian.
SEBASTIAN.
This is the air; that is the glorious sun,
This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't,
And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?
I could not find him at the Elephant,
Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,
That he did range the town to seek me out.
His counsel now might do me golden service.
For though my soul disputes well with my sense
That this may be some error, but no madness,
Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes
And wrangle with my reason that persuades me
To any other trust but that I am mad,
Or else the lady's mad; yet if 'twere so,
She could not sway her house, command her followers,
Take and give back affairs and their dispatch,
With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing
As I perceive she does. There's something in't
That is deceivable. But here the lady comes.
Enter Olivia and a Priest.
OLIVIA.
Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,
Now go with me and with this holy man
Into the chantry by: there, before him
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith,
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
May live at peace. He shall conceal it
Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,
What time we will our celebration keep
According to my birth. What do you say?
SEBASTIAN.
I'll follow this good man, and go with you,
And having sworn truth, ever will be true.
OLIVIA.
Then lead the way, good father, and heavens so shine,
That they may fairly note this act of mine!
[Exeunt.]
ACT V.
SCENE I. The Street before Olivia's House.
Enter Clown and Fabian.
FABIAN.
Now, as thou lov'st me, let me see his letter.
CLOWN.
Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.
FABIAN.
Anything.
CLOWN.
Do not desire to see this letter.
FABIAN.
This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire my dog again.
Enter Duke, Viola, Curio and Lords.
DUKE.
Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
CLOWN.
Ay, sir, we are some of her trappings.
DUKE.
I know thee well. How dost thou, my good fellow?
CLOWN.
Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for my friends.
DUKE.
Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.
CLOWN.
No, sir, the worse.
DUKE.
How can that be?
CLOWN.
Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly
I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and
by my friends I am abused. So that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four
negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and
the better for my foes.
DUKE.
Why, this is excellent.
CLOWN.
By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends.
DUKE.
Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold.
CLOWN.
But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another.
DUKE.
O, you give me ill counsel.
CLOWN.
Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood
obey it.
DUKE.
Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer: there's another.
CLOWN.
Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play, and the old saying is, the third
pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of
Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind—one, two, three.
DUKE.
You can fool no more money out of me at this throw. If you will let your lady
know I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my
bounty further.
CLOWN.
Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come again. I go, sir, but I would
not have you to think that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: but
as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon.
[Exit Clown.]
Enter Antonio and Officers.
VIOLA.
Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.
DUKE.
That face of his I do remember well.
Yet when I saw it last it was besmear'd
As black as Vulcan, in the smoke of war.
A baubling vessel was he captain of,
For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,
With which such scathful grapple did he make
With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
That very envy and the tongue of loss
Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?
FIRST OFFICER.
Orsino, this is that Antonio
That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy,
And this is he that did the Tiger board
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg.
Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,
In private brabble did we apprehend him.
VIOLA.
He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side,
But in conclusion, put strange speech upon me.
I know not what 'twas, but distraction.
DUKE.
Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief,
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
Hast made thine enemies?
ANTONIO.
Orsino, noble sir,
Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:
Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
Though, I confess, on base and ground enough,
Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
That most ingrateful boy there by your side
From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth
Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was.
His life I gave him, and did thereto add
My love, without retention or restraint,
All his in dedication. For his sake
Did I expose myself, pure for his love,
Into the danger of this adverse town;
Drew to defend him when he was beset;
Where being apprehended, his false cunning
(Not meaning to partake with me in danger)
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
And grew a twenty years' removed thing
While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,
Which I had recommended to his use
Not half an hour before.
VIOLA.
How can this be?
DUKE.
When came he to this town?
ANTONIO.
Today, my lord; and for three months before,
No int'rim, not a minute's vacancy,
Both day and night did we keep company.
Enter Olivia and Attendants.
DUKE.
Here comes the Countess, now heaven walks on earth.
But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness.
Three months this youth hath tended upon me;
But more of that anon. Take him aside.
OLIVIA.
What would my lord, but that he may not have,
Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?
Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.
VIOLA.
Madam?
DUKE.
Gracious Olivia—
OLIVIA.
What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord—
VIOLA.
My lord would speak, my duty hushes me.
OLIVIA.
If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.
DUKE.
Still so cruel?
OLIVIA.
Still so constant, lord.
DUKE.
What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,
To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars
My soul the faithfull'st off'rings hath breathed out
That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?
OLIVIA.
Even what it please my lord that shall become him.
DUKE.
Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,
Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,
Kill what I love?—a savage jealousy
That sometime savours nobly. But hear me this:
Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
And that I partly know the instrument
That screws me from my true place in your favour,
Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.
But this your minion, whom I know you love,
And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,
Him will I tear out of that cruel eye
Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.—
Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
VIOLA.
And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.
OLIVIA.
Where goes Cesario?
VIOLA.
After him I love
More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.
If I do feign, you witnesses above
Punish my life for tainting of my love.
OLIVIA.
Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd!
VIOLA.
Who does beguile you? Who does do you wrong?
OLIVIA.
Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?
Call forth the holy father.
[Exit an Attendant.]
DUKE.
[To Viola.] Come, away!
OLIVIA.
Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.
DUKE.
Husband?
OLIVIA.
Ay, husband. Can he that deny?
DUKE.
Her husband, sirrah?
VIOLA.
No, my lord, not I.
OLIVIA.
Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
That makes thee strangle thy propriety.
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up.
Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art
As great as that thou fear'st.
Enter Priest.
O, welcome, father!
Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence
Here to unfold—though lately we intended
To keep in darkness what occasion now
Reveals before 'tis ripe—what thou dost know
Hath newly passed between this youth and me.
PRIEST.
A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirmed by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings,
And all the ceremony of this compact
Sealed in my function, by my testimony;
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave,
I have travelled but two hours.
DUKE.
O thou dissembling cub! What wilt thou be
When time hath sowed a grizzle on thy case?
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
VIOLA.
My lord, I do protest—
OLIVIA.
O, do not swear.
Hold little faith, though thou has too much fear.
Enter Sir Andrew.
SIR ANDREW.
For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently to Sir Toby.
OLIVIA.
What's the matter?
SIR ANDREW.
'Has broke my head across, and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too.
For the love of God, your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.
OLIVIA.
Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
SIR ANDREW.
The Count's gentleman, one Cesario. We took him for a coward, but
he's the very devil incardinate.
DUKE.
My gentleman, Cesario?
SIR ANDREW.
'Od's lifelings, here he is!—You broke my head for nothing;
and that that I did, I was set on to do't by Sir Toby.
VIOLA.
Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
You drew your sword upon me without cause,
But I bespake you fair and hurt you not.
Enter Sir Toby, drunk, led by the Clown.
SIR ANDREW.
If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me. I think you set nothing by a
bloody coxcomb. Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall hear more: but if he had
not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.
DUKE.
How now, gentleman? How is't with you?
SIR TOBY.
That's all one; 'has hurt me, and there's th' end
on't. Sot, didst see Dick Surgeon, sot?
CLOWN.
O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight
i' th' morning.
SIR TOBY.
Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures pavin. I hate a drunken
rogue.
OLIVIA.
Away with him. Who hath made this havoc with them?
SIR ANDREW.
I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dressed together.
SIR TOBY.
Will you help? An ass-head, and a coxcomb, and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a
gull?
OLIVIA.
Get him to bed, and let his hurt be looked to.
[Exeunt Clown, Fabian, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew.]
Enter Sebastian.
SEBASTIAN.
I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman;
But had it been the brother of my blood,
I must have done no less with wit and safety.
You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that
I do perceive it hath offended you.
Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
We made each other but so late ago.
DUKE.
One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons!
A natural perspective, that is, and is not!
SEBASTIAN.
Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me
Since I have lost thee.
ANTONIO.
Sebastian are you?
SEBASTIAN.
Fear'st thou that, Antonio?
ANTONIO.
How have you made division of yourself?
An apple cleft in two is not more twin
Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
OLIVIA.
Most wonderful!
SEBASTIAN.
Do I stand there? I never had a brother:
Nor can there be that deity in my nature
Of here and everywhere. I had a sister,
Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured.
Of charity, what kin are you to me?
What countryman? What name? What parentage?
VIOLA.
Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;
Such a Sebastian was my brother too:
So went he suited to his watery tomb.
If spirits can assume both form and suit,
You come to fright us.
SEBASTIAN.
A spirit I am indeed,
But am in that dimension grossly clad,
Which from the womb I did participate.
Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
And say, 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.'
VIOLA.
My father had a mole upon his brow.
SEBASTIAN.
And so had mine.
VIOLA.
And died that day when Viola from her birth
Had numbered thirteen years.
SEBASTIAN.
O, that record is lively in my soul!
He finished indeed his mortal act
That day that made my sister thirteen years.
VIOLA.
If nothing lets to make us happy both
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Do not embrace me till each circumstance
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
That I am Viola; which to confirm,
I'll bring you to a captain in this town,
Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help
I was preserv'd to serve this noble count.
All the occurrence of my fortune since
Hath been between this lady and this lord.
SEBASTIAN.
[To Olivia.] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
But nature to her bias drew in that.
You would have been contracted to a maid;
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived:
You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.
DUKE.
Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
[To Viola.] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
VIOLA.
And all those sayings will I over-swear,
And all those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the fire
That severs day from night.
DUKE.
Give me thy hand,
And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.
VIOLA.
The captain that did bring me first on shore
Hath my maid's garments. He, upon some action,
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman and follower of my lady's.
OLIVIA.
He shall enlarge him. Fetch Malvolio hither.
And yet, alas, now I remember me,
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.
Enter Clown, with a letter and Fabian.
A most extracting frenzy of mine own
From my remembrance clearly banished his.
How does he, sirrah?
CLOWN.
Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end as well as a man in
his case may do. Has here writ a letter to you. I should have given it you
today morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills
not much when they are delivered.
OLIVIA.
Open 't, and read it.
CLOWN.
Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman. By
the Lord, madam,—
OLIVIA.
How now, art thou mad?
CLOWN.
No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to
be, you must allow vox.
OLIVIA.
Prithee, read i' thy right wits.
CLOWN.
So I do, madonna. But to read his right wits is to read thus; therefore
perpend, my princess, and give ear.
OLIVIA.
[To Fabian.] Read it you, sirrah.
FABIAN.
[Reads.] By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it.
Though you have put me into darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over
me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your
own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt
not but to do myself much right or you much shame. Think of me as you please. I
leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury.
The madly-used Malvolio.
OLIVIA.
Did he write this?
CLOWN.
Ay, madam.
DUKE.
This savours not much of distraction.
OLIVIA.
See him delivered, Fabian, bring him hither.
[Exit Fabian.]
My lord, so please you, these things further thought on,
To think me as well a sister, as a wife,
One day shall crown th' alliance on't, so please you,
Here at my house, and at my proper cost.
DUKE.
Madam, I am most apt t' embrace your offer.
[To Viola.] Your master quits you; and for your service done him,
So much against the mettle of your sex,
So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,
And since you call'd me master for so long,
Here is my hand; you shall from this time be
You master's mistress.
OLIVIA.
A sister? You are she.
Enter Fabian and Malvolio.
DUKE.
Is this the madman?
OLIVIA.
Ay, my lord, this same.
How now, Malvolio?
MALVOLIO.
Madam, you have done me wrong,
Notorious wrong.
OLIVIA.
Have I, Malvolio? No.
MALVOLIO.
Lady, you have. Pray you peruse that letter.
You must not now deny it is your hand,
Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase,
Or say 'tis not your seal, not your invention:
You can say none of this. Well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,
Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people;
And acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck and gull
That e'er invention played on? Tell me why?
OLIVIA.
Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though I confess, much like the character:
But out of question, 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she
First told me thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presuppos'd
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content.
This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee.
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.
FABIAN.
Good madam, hear me speak,
And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,
Taint the condition of this present hour,
Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,
Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceiv'd against him. Maria writ
The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance,
In recompense whereof he hath married her.
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,
If that the injuries be justly weigh'd
That have on both sides passed.
OLIVIA.
Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!
CLOWN.
Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude, one Sir
Topas, sir, but that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not
mad.' But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such a barren
rascal? And you smile not, he's gagged'? And thus the whirligig of
time brings in his revenges.
MALVOLIO.
I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
[Exit.]
OLIVIA.
He hath been most notoriously abus'd.
DUKE.
Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace:
He hath not told us of the captain yet.
When that is known, and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls.—Meantime, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence.—Cesario, come:
For so you shall be while you are a man;
But when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen.
[Exeunt.]
Clown sings.
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came, alas, to wive,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came unto my beds,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
For the rain it raineth every day.
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
[Exit.]
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