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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 lov'd 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 pin'd 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 |
boil'd 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? |
AGUECHEEK. 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! [As the men hide she drops |
a letter] Lie thou there; for here comes the trout that must be |
caught with tickling. |
Exit |
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 any one 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 advanc'd plumes! |
AGUECHEEK. 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue- |
SIR TOBY. Peace, I say. |
MALVOLIO. To be Count Malvolio! |
SIR TOBY. Ah, rogue! |
AGUECHEEK. 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. |
AGUECHEEK. 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 branch'd 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 my- 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. |
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