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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. DUKE ORSINO's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>If music be the food of love, play on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>The appetite may sicken, and so die.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>That strain again! it had a dying fall:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>That breathes upon a bank of violets,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>That, notwithstanding thy capacity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>Of what validity and pitch soe'er,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>But falls into abatement and low price,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>That it alone is high fantastical.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>Will you go hunt, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>What, Curio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>The hart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19> Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>Methought she purged the air of pestilence!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>That instant was I turn'd into a hart;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>E'er since pursue me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VALENTINE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>How now! what news from her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VALENTINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>So please my lord, I might not be admitted;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>But from her handmaid do return this answer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>The element itself, till seven years' heat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>Shall not behold her face at ample view;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>And water once a day her chamber round</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>With eye-offending brine: all this to season</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>And lasting in her sad remembrance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>To pay this debt of love but to a brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>How will she love, when the rich golden shaft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>Her sweet perfections with one self king!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The sea-coast.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>What country, friends, is this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>This is Illyria, lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>And what should I do in Illyria?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>My brother he is in Elysium.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>It is perchance that you yourself were saved.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>Assure yourself, after our ship did split,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>When you and those poor number saved with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>Most provident in peril, bind himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>So long as I could see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>For saying so, there's gold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>Whereto thy speech serves for authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>The like of him. Know'st thou this country?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>Not three hours' travel from this very place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>Who governs here?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.25>A noble duke, in nature as in name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.26>What is the name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.27>Orsino.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.28>Orsino! I have heard my father name him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.29>He was a bachelor then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.30>And so is now, or was so very late;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.31>For but a month ago I went from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.32>And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.33>What great ones do the less will prattle of,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.34>That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.35>What's she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.36>A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.37>That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.38>In the protection of his son, her brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.39>Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.40>They say, she hath abjured the company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.41>And sight of men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.42> O that I served that lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.43>And might not be delivered to the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.44>Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.45>What my estate is!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.46>That were hard to compass;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.47>Because she will admit no kind of suit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.48>No, not the duke's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.49>There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.50>And though that nature with a beauteous wall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.51>Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.52>I will believe thou hast a mind that suits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.53>With this thy fair and outward character.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.54>I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.55>Conceal me what I am, and be my aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.56>For such disguise as haply shall become</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.57>The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.58>Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.59>It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.60>And speak to him in many sorts of music</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.61>That will allow me very worth his service.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.62>What else may hap to time I will commit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.63>Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Captain</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.64>Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.65>When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.66>I thank thee: lead me on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. OLIVIA'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>What a plague means my niece, to take the death of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>exceptions to your ill hours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>Why, let her except, before excepted.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>limits of order.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>these boots too: an they be not, let them hang</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>themselves in their own straps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Ay, he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>What's that to the purpose?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>he's a very fool and a prodigal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>word for word without book, and hath all the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>gifts of nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>he would quickly have the gift of a grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>that say so of him. Who are they?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>her as long as there is a passage in my throat and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Sweet Sir Andrew!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>Bless you, fair shrew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>And you too, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>What's that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>My niece's chambermaid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>My name is Mary, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Good Mistress Mary Accost,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>her, woo her, assail her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>By my troth, I would not undertake her in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>Fare you well, gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>never draw sword again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>An you part so, mistress, I would I might never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>fools in hand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>Sir, I have not you by the hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>It's dry, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.67>Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.68>keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.69>A dry jest, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.70>Are you full of them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.71>Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.72>now I let go your hand, I am barren.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.73>O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.74>see thee so put down?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.75>Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.76>put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.77>than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.78>great eater of beef and I believe that does harm to my wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.79>No question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.80>An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.81>to-morrow, Sir Toby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.82>Pourquoi, my dear knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.83>What is 'Pourquoi'? do or not do? I would I had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.84>bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.85>fencing, dancing and bear-baiting: O, had I but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.86>followed the arts!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.87>Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.88>Why, would that have mended my hair?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.89>Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.90>But it becomes me well enough, does't not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.91>Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.92>hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.93>and spin it off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.94>Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.95>will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.96>she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.97>She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.98>her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.99>have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.100>man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.101>I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.102>strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.103>and revels sometimes altogether.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.104>Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.105>As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.106>degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.107>with an old man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.108>What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.109>Faith, I can cut a caper.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.110>And I can cut the mutton to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.111>And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.112>as any man in Illyria.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.113>Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.114>these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.115>take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.116>thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.117>a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.118>so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.119>dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.120>I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.121>leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.122>Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.123>flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.124>What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.125>Taurus! That's sides and heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.126>No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.127>caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attire</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>VALENTINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.1>If the duke continue these favours towards you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.2>Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.3>known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.4>You either fear his humour or my negligence, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.5>you call in question the continuance of his love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.6>is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>VALENTINE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.7>No, believe me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.8>I thank you. Here comes the count.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.9>Who saw Cesario, ho?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.10>On your attendance, my lord; here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.11>Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.12>Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.13>To thee the book even of my secret soul:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.14>Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.15>Be not denied access, stand at her doors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.16>And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.17>Till thou have audience.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.18>Sure, my noble lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.19>If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.20>As it is spoke, she never will admit me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.21>Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.22>Rather than make unprofited return.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.23>Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.24>O, then unfold the passion of my love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.25>Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.26>It shall become thee well to act my woes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.27>She will attend it better in thy youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.28>Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.29>I think not so, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.30>Dear lad, believe it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.31>For they shall yet belie thy happy years,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.32>That say thou art a man: Diana's lip</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.33>Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.34>Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.35>And all is semblative a woman's part.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.36>I know thy constellation is right apt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.37>For this affair. Some four or five attend him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.38>All, if you will; for I myself am best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.39>When least in company. Prosper well in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.40>And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.41>To call his fortunes thine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.42>I'll do my best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.43>To woo your lady:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.44>yet, a barful strife!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.4.45>Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. OLIVIA'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MARIA and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.1>Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.2>not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.3>way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.4>Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.5>world needs to fear no colours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.6>Make that good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.7>He shall see none to fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.8>A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.9>saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.10>Where, good Mistress Mary?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.11>In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.12>Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.13>that are fools, let them use their talents.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.14>Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.15>to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.16>Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.17>for turning away, let summer bear it out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.18>You are resolute, then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.19>Not so, neither; but I am resolved on two points.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.20>That if one break, the other will hold; or, if both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.21>break, your gaskins fall.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.22>Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.23>Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.24>piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.25>Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.26>lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.27>Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.28>Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.29>prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.30>pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.31>'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.32>God bless thee, lady!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.33>Take the fool away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.34>Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.35>Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.36>besides, you grow dishonest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.37>Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.38>will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.39>the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.40>himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.41>he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.42>that's mended is but patched: virtue that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.43>transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.44>amends is but patched with virtue. If that this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.45>simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.46>what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.47>calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.48>away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.49>Sir, I bade them take away you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.50>Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.51>facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.52>motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.53>prove you a fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.54>Can you do it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.55>Dexterously, good madonna.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.56>Make your proof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.57>I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.58>of virtue, answer me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.59>Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.60>Good madonna, why mournest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.61>Good fool, for my brother's death.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.62>I think his soul is in hell, madonna.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.63>I know his soul is in heaven, fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.64>The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.65>soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.66>What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.67>Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.68>infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.69>better fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.70>God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.71>better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.72>sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.73>word for two pence that you are no fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.74>How say you to that, Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.75>I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.76>barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.77>with an ordinary fool that has no more brain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.78>than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.79>already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.80>him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.81>that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.82>than the fools' zanies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.83>Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.84>with a distempered appetite. To be generous,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.85>guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.86>things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.87>there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.88>nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.89>man, though he do nothing but reprove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.90>Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.91>speakest well of fools!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.92>Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.93>desires to speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.94>From the Count Orsino, is it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.95>I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.96>Who of my people hold him in delay?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.97>Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.98>Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.99>madman: fie on him!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MARIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.100>Go you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.101>am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.102>Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.103>people dislike it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.104>Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.105>son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.106>brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.107>most weak pia mater.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.108>By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.109>A gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.110>A gentleman! what gentleman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.111>'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.112>pickle-herring! How now, sot!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.113>Good Sir Toby!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.114>Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.115>Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.116>Ay, marry, what is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.117>Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.118>me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.119>What's a drunken man like, fool?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.120>Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.121>draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.122>him; and a third drowns him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.123>Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.124>coz; for he's in the third degree of drink, he's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.125>drowned: go, look after him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.126>He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.127>to the madman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.128>Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.129>you. I told him you were sick; he takes on him to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.130>understand so much, and therefore comes to speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.131>with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.132>have a foreknowledge of that too, and therefore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.133>comes to speak with you. What is to be said to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.134>lady? he's fortified against any denial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.135>Tell him he shall not speak with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.136>Has been told so; and he says, he'll stand at your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.137>door like a sheriff's post, and be the supporter to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.138>a bench, but he'll speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.139>What kind o' man is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.140>Why, of mankind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.141>What manner of man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.142>Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.143>Of what personage and years is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.144>Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.145>a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.146>cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.147>in standing water, between boy and man. He is very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.148>well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.149>would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.150>Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.151>Gentlewoman, my lady calls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.152>Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.153>We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter VIOLA, and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.154>The honourable lady of the house, which is she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.155>Speak to me; I shall answer for her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.156>Your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.157>Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.158>pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.159>for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.160>my speech, for besides that it is excellently well</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.161>penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.162>beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.163>comptible, even to the least sinister usage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.164>Whence came you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.165>I can say little more than I have studied, and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.166>question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.167>modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.168>that I may proceed in my speech.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.169>Are you a comedian?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.170>No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.171>of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.172>the lady of the house?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.173>If I do not usurp myself, I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.174>Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.175>yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.176>to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.177>on with my speech in your praise, and then show you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.178>the heart of my message.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.179>Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.180>Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.181>It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.182>keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.183>and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.184>than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.185>you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.186>moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.187>Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.188>No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.189>longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.190>lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.191>Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.192>the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.193>It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.194>war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.195>hand; my words are as fun of peace as matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.196>Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.197>The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.198>learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.199>would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.200>divinity, to any other's, profanation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.201>Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt MARIA and Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.202>Now, sir, what is your text?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.203>Most sweet lady,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.204>A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.205>Where lies your text?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.206>In Orsino's bosom.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.207>In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.208>To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.209>O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.210>Good madam, let me see your face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.211>Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.212>with my face? You are now out of your text: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.213>we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.214>Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.215>not well done?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Unveiling</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.216>Excellently done, if God did all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.217>'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.218>'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.219>Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.220>Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.221>If you will lead these graces to the grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.222>And leave the world no copy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.223>O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.224>out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.225>inventoried, and every particle and utensil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.226>labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.227>indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.228>them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.229>you sent hither to praise me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.230>I see you what you are, you are too proud;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.231>But, if you were the devil, you are fair.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.232>My lord and master loves you: O, such love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.233>Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.234>The nonpareil of beauty!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.235>How does he love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.236>With adorations, fertile tears,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.237>With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.238>Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.239>Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.240>Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.241>In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.242>And in dimension and the shape of nature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.243>A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.244>He might have took his answer long ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.245>If I did love you in my master's flame,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.246>With such a suffering, such a deadly life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.247>In your denial I would find no sense;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.248>I would not understand it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.249>Why, what would you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.250>Make me a willow cabin at your gate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.251>And call upon my soul within the house;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.252>Write loyal cantons of contemned love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.253>And sing them loud even in the dead of night;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.254>Halloo your name to the reverberate hills</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.255>And make the babbling gossip of the air</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.256>Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.257>Between the elements of air and earth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.258>But you should pity me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.259>You might do much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.260>What is your parentage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.261>Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.262>I am a gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.263> Get you to your lord;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.264>I cannot love him: let him send no more;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.265>Unless, perchance, you come to me again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.266>To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.267>I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.268>I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.269>My master, not myself, lacks recompense.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.270>Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.271>And let your fervor, like my master's, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.272>Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.273>'What is your parentage?'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.274>'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.275>I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.276>Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.277>Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.278>soft, soft!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.279>Unless the master were the man. How now!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.280>Even so quickly may one catch the plague?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.281>Methinks I feel this youth's perfections</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.282>With an invisible and subtle stealth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.283>To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.284>What ho, Malvolio!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.285> Here, madam, at your service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.286>Run after that same peevish messenger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.287>The county's man: he left this ring behind him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.288>Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.289>Desire him not to flatter with his lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.290>Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.291>If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.292>I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.293>Madam, I will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.294>I do I know not what, and fear to find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.295>Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.296>Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.5.297>What is decreed must be, and be this so.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. The sea-coast.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>ANTONIO: Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>me in manners the rather to express myself. You</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>which I called Roderigo. My father was that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>for some hour before you took me from the breach of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>the sea was my sister drowned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>Alas the day!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>though I could not with such estimable wonder</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>If you will not murder me for my love, let me be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>your servant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>If you will not undo what you have done, that is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>I have many enemies in Orsino's court,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>Else would I very shortly see thee there.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>But, come what may, I do adore thee so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>arrived but hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>into a desperate assurance she will none of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>come again in his affairs, unless it be to report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>it his that finds it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>I left no ring with her: what means this lady?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>She made good view of me; indeed, so much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>For she did speak in starts distractedly.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>Invites me in this churlish messenger.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>Poor lady, she were better love a dream.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>How easy is it for the proper-false</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>For such as we are made of, such we be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>What will become of this? As I am man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>My state is desperate for my master's love;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>As I am woman,--now alas the day!--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>O time! thou must untangle this, not I;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>It is too hard a knot for me to untie!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. OLIVIA's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>surgere,' thou know'st,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>late is to be up late.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>four elements?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>of eating and drinking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>Here comes the fool, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>of 'we three'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>leman: hadst it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>is done. Now, a song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>A love-song, a love-song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Ay, ay: I care not for good life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>O mistress mine, where are you roaming?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>That can sing both high and low:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>Trip no further, pretty sweeting;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>Journeys end in lovers meeting,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>Every wise man's son doth know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>Excellent good, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>Good, good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>What is love? 'tis not hereafter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Present mirth hath present laughter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>What's to come is still unsure:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>In delay there lies no plenty;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Youth's a stuff will not endure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>A contagious breath.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55>Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63>'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>constrained in't to call thee knave, knight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>I shall never begin if I hold my peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>Good, i' faith. Come, begin.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Catch sung</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>turn you out of doors, never trust me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Tillyvally. Lady!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>more natural.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>For the love o' God, peace!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>time in you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>tell you, that, though she harbours you as her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>you farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>Nay, good Sir Toby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>'His eyes do show his days are almost done.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>Is't even so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>'But I will never die.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>Sir Toby, there you lie.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>This is much credit to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>'Shall I bid him go?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>'What an if you do?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>steward? Dost thou think, because thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>mouth too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>thing more than contempt, you would not give means</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>Go shake your ears.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>break promise with him and make a fool of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>alone with him: if I do not gull him into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>I know I can do it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>dear knight?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>good enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>that cons state without book and utters it by great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>his grounds of faith that all that look on him love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>notable cause to work.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>What wilt thou do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>himself most feelingly personated. I can write very</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>can hardly make distinction of our hands.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>Excellent! I smell a device.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>I have't in my nose too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>that they come from my niece, and that she's in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>love with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>And your horse now would make him an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>Ass, I doubt not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>O, 'twill be admirable!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>work with him. I will plant you two, and let the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>observe his construction of it. For this night, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>Good night, Penthesilea.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>Before me, she's a good wench.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>what o' that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>I was adored once too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>more money.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178>the end, call me cut.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>Come, come, I'll go burn some sack; 'tis too late</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>to go to bed now: come, knight; come, knight.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.1>Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.2>Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.3>That old and antique song we heard last night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.4>Methought it did relieve my passion much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.5>More than light airs and recollected terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.6>Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.7>Come, but one verse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.8>He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.9>Who was it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.10>Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.11>Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.12>Seek him out, and play the tune the while.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CURIO. Music plays</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.13>Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.14>In the sweet pangs of it remember me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.15>For such as I am all true lovers are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.16>Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.17>Save in the constant image of the creature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.18>That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.19>It gives a very echo to the seat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.20>Where Love is throned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.21>Thou dost speak masterly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.22>My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.23>Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.24>Hath it not, boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.25> A little, by your favour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.26>What kind of woman is't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.27>Of your complexion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.28>She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.29>About your years, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.30>Too old by heaven: let still the woman take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.31>An elder than herself: so wears she to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.32>So sways she level in her husband's heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.33>For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.34>Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.35>More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.36>Than women's are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.37> I think it well, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.38>Then let thy love be younger than thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.39>Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.40>For women are as roses, whose fair flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.41>Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.42>And so they are: alas, that they are so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.43>To die, even when they to perfection grow!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CURIO and Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.44>O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.45>Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.46>The spinsters and the knitters in the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.47>And the free maids that weave their thread with bones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.48>Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.49>And dallies with the innocence of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.50>Like the old age.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.51>Are you ready, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.52>Ay; prithee, sing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.53>SONG.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.54>Come away, come away, death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.55>And in sad cypress let me be laid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.56>Fly away, fly away breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.57>I am slain by a fair cruel maid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.58>My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.59>O, prepare it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.60>My part of death, no one so true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.61>Did share it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.62>Not a flower, not a flower sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.63>On my black coffin let there be strown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.64>Not a friend, not a friend greet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.65>My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.66>A thousand thousand sighs to save,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.67>Lay me, O, where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.68>Sad true lover never find my grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.69>To weep there!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.70>There's for thy pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.71>No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.72>I'll pay thy pleasure then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.73>Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.74>Give me now leave to leave thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.75>Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.76>tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.77>thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.78>constancy put to sea, that their business might be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.79>every thing and their intent every where; for that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.80>it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.81>Let all the rest give place.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>CURIO and Attendants retire</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.82>Once more, Cesario,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.83>Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.84>Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.85>Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.86>The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.87>Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.88>But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.89>That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.90>But if she cannot love you, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.91>I cannot be so answer'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.92>Sooth, but you must.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.93>Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.94>Hath for your love a great a pang of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.95>As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.96>You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.97>There is no woman's sides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.98>Can bide the beating of so strong a passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.99>As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.100>So big, to hold so much; they lack retention</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.101>Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.102>No motion of the liver, but the palate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.103>That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.104>But mine is all as hungry as the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.105>And can digest as much: make no compare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.106>Between that love a woman can bear me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.107>And that I owe Olivia.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.108>Ay, but I know--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.109>What dost thou know?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.110>Too well what love women to men may owe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.111>In faith, they are as true of heart as we.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.112>My father had a daughter loved a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.113>As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.114>I should your lordship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.115>And what's her history?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.116>A blank, my lord. She never told her love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.117>But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.118>Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.119>And with a green and yellow melancholy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.120>She sat like patience on a monument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.121>Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.122>We men may say more, swear more: but indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.123>Our shows are more than will; for still we prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.124>Much in our vows, but little in our love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.125>But died thy sister of her love, my boy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.126>I am all the daughters of my father's house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.127>And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.128>Sir, shall I to this lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.129>Ay, that's the theme.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.130>To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.4.131>My love can give no place, bide no denay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. OLIVIA's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.1>Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.2>Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.3>let me be boiled to death with melancholy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.4>Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.5>rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.6>I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.7>favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.8>To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.9>fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.10>An we do not, it is pity of our lives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.11>Here comes the little villain.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.12>How now, my metal of India!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.13>Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.14>coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.15>sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.16>hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.17>know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.18>him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Throws down a letter</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.19>for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.20>'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.21>me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.22>thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.23>of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.24>exalted respect than any one else that follows her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.25>What should I think on't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.26>Here's an overweening rogue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.27>O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.28>of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.29>'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.30>Peace, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.31>To be Count Malvolio!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.32>Ah, rogue!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.33>Pistol him, pistol him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.34>Peace, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.35>There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.36>married the yeoman of the wardrobe.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.37>Fie on him, Jezebel!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.38>O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.39>imagination blows him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.40>Having been three months married to her, sitting in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.41>my state,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.42>O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.43>Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.44>gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.45>Olivia sleeping,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.46>Fire and brimstone!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.47>O, peace, peace!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.48>And then to have the humour of state; and after a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.49>demure travel of regard, telling them I know my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.50>place as I would they should do theirs, to for my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.51>kinsman Toby,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.52>Bolts and shackles!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.53>O peace, peace, peace! now, now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.54>Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.55>out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.56>up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.57>approaches; courtesies there to me,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.58>Shall this fellow live?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.59>Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.60>I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.61>smile with an austere regard of control,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.62>And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.63>Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.64>your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.65>What, what?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.66>'You must amend your drunkenness.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.67>Out, scab!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.68>Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.69>'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.70>a foolish knight,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.71>That's me, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.72>'One Sir Andrew,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.73>I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.74>What employment have we here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Taking up the letter</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.75>Now is the woodcock near the gin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.76>O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.77>aloud to him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.78>By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.79>very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.80>great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.81>Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.82>[Reads] 'To the unknown beloved, this, and my good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.83>wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.84>Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.85>uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.86>This wins him, liver and all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.87>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.88>Jove knows I love: But who?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.89>Lips, do not move;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.90>No man must know.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.91>'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.92>altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.93>thee, Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.94>Marry, hang thee, brock!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.95>[Reads]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.96>I may command where I adore;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.97>But silence, like a Lucrece knife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.98>With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.99>M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.100>A fustian riddle!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.101>Excellent wench, say I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.102>'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.103>me see, let me see, let me see.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.104>What dish o' poison has she dressed him!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.105>And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.106>'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.107>me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.108>evident to any formal capacity; there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.109>obstruction in this: and the end,--what should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.110>that alphabetical position portend? If I could make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.111>that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.112>I,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.113>O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.114>Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.115>rank as a fox.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.116>M,--Malvolio; M,--why, that begins my name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.117>Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.118>excellent at faults.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.119>M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.120>that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.121>And O shall end, I hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.122>Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.123>And then I comes behind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.124>Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.125>more detraction at your heels than fortunes before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.126>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.127>M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.128>yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.129>every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.130>here follows prose.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.131>'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.132>am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.133>are born great, some achieve greatness, and some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.134>have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.135>their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.136>and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.137>cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.138>opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.139>thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.140>the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.141>that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.142>yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.143>cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.144>made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.145>thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.146>not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.147>She that would alter services with thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.148>THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.149>Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.150>open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.151>I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.152>acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.153>I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.154>me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.155>loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.156>late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.157>and in this she manifests herself to my love, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.158>with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.159>of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.160>be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.161>cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.162>on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.163>postscript.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.164>'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.165>entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.166>thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.167>presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.168>Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.169>everything that thou wilt have me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.170>I will not give my part of this sport for a pension</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.171>of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.172>I could marry this wench for this device.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.173>So could I too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.174>And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.175>Nor I neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.176>Here comes my noble gull-catcher.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.177>Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.178>Or o' mine either?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.179>Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.180>bond-slave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.181>I' faith, or I either?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.182>Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.183>the image of it leaves him he must run mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.184>Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.185>Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.186>If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.187>his first approach before my lady: he will come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.188>her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.189>abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.190>and he will smile upon her, which will now be so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.191>unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.192>melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.193>into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.194>me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.195>To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.5.196>I'll make one too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. OLIVIA's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter VIOLA, and Clown with a tabour</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Save thee, friend, and thy music: dost thou live by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>thy tabour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>No, sir, I live by the church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Art thou a churchman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>the church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>So thou mayst say, the king lies by a beggar, if a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>but a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>wrong side may be turned outward!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>Nay, that's certain; they that dally nicely with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>words may quickly make them wanton.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Why, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Thy reason, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>words are grown so false, I am loath to prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>reason with them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>Art not thou the Lady Olivia's fool?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly: she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>herrings; the husband's the bigger: I am indeed not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>her fool, but her corrupter of words.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>I saw thee late at the Count Orsino's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>the fool should be as oft with your master as with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>Hold, there's expenses for thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>By my troth, I'll tell thee, I am almost sick for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>one;</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>lady within?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>Yes, being kept together and put to use.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>a Cressida to this Troilus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>within, sir. I will construe to them whence you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>come; who you are and what you would are out of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>welkin, I might say 'element,' but the word is over-worn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>This fellow is wise enough to play the fool;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>And to do that well craves a kind of wit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>He must observe their mood on whom he jests,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>The quality of persons, and the time,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>And, like the haggard, cheque at every feather</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>That comes before his eye. This is a practise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>As full of labour as a wise man's art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>For folly that he wisely shows is fit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>Save you, gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>And you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>Dieu vous garde, monsieur.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>Et vous aussi; votre serviteur.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>you should enter, if your trade be to her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>I am bound to your niece, sir; I mean, she is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>list of my voyage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>My legs do better understand me, sir, than I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>I mean, to go, sir, to enter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>are prevented.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVIA and MARIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>odours on you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>That youth's a rare courtier: 'Rain odours;' well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>My matter hath no voice, to your own most pregnant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>and vouchsafed ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:' I'll get 'em</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>all three all ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and MARIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>Give me your hand, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>My duty, madam, and most humble service.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>What is your name?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>My servant, sir! 'Twas never merry world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>Since lowly feigning was call'd compliment:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>And he is yours, and his must needs be yours:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>For him, I think not on him: for his thoughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>On his behalf.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102> O, by your leave, I pray you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>I bade you never speak again of him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>But, would you undertake another suit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>I had rather hear you to solicit that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Than music from the spheres.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>Dear lady,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>After the last enchantment you did here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>A ring in chase of you: so did I abuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>Myself, my servant and, I fear me, you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Under your hard construction must I sit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>Which you knew none of yours: what might you think?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>Have you not set mine honour at the stake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>And baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>Enough is shown: a cypress, not a bosom,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>Hideth my heart. So, let me hear you speak.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>I pity you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.121> That's a degree to love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.122>No, not a grize; for 'tis a vulgar proof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.123>That very oft we pity enemies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.124>Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.125>O, world, how apt the poor are to be proud!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.126>If one should be a prey, how much the better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.127>To fall before the lion than the wolf!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Clock strikes</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.128>The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.129>Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.130>And yet, when wit and youth is come to harvest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.131>Your were is alike to reap a proper man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.132>There lies your way, due west.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.133>Then westward-ho! Grace and good disposition</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.134>Attend your ladyship!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.135>You'll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.136>Stay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.137>I prithee, tell me what thou thinkest of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.138>That you do think you are not what you are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.139>If I think so, I think the same of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.140>Then think you right: I am not what I am.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.141>I would you were as I would have you be!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.142>Would it be better, madam, than I am?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.143>I wish it might, for now I am your fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.144>O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.145>In the contempt and anger of his lip!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.146>A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.147>Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.148>Cesario, by the roses of the spring,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.149>By maidhood, honour, truth and every thing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.150>I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.151>Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.152>Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.153>For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.154>But rather reason thus with reason fetter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.155>Love sought is good, but given unsought better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.156>By innocence I swear, and by my youth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.157>I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.158>And that no woman has; nor never none</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.159>Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.160>And so adieu, good madam: never more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.161>Will I my master's tears to you deplore.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.162>Yet come again; for thou perhaps mayst move</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.163>That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. OLIVIA's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>Thy reason, dear venom, give thy reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>I saw't i' the orchard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>As plain as I see you now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>This was a great argument of love in her toward you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>I will prove it legitimate, sir, upon the oaths of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>judgment and reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>And they have been grand-jury-men since before Noah</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>was a sailor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>She did show favour to the youth in your sight only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>put fire in your heart and brimstone in your liver.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>You should then have accosted her; and with some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>excellent jests, fire-new from the mint, you should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>have banged the youth into dumbness. This was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>looked for at your hand, and this was balked: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>double gilt of this opportunity you let time wash</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>off, and you are now sailed into the north of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>lady's opinion; where you will hang like an icicle</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>on a Dutchman's beard, unless you do redeem it by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>An't be any way, it must be with valour; for policy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>I hate: I had as lief be a Brownist as a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>politician.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>Why, then, build me thy fortunes upon the basis of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>valour. Challenge me the count's youth to fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>with him; hurt him in eleven places: my niece shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>take note of it; and assure thyself, there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>commendation with woman than report of valour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>There is no way but this, Sir Andrew.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>paper, although the sheet were big enough for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>bed of Ware in England, set 'em down: go, about it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>write with a goose-pen, no matter: about it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>Where shall I find you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>I have been dear to him, lad, some two thousand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>strong, or so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>not deliver't?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>Never trust me, then; and by all means stir on the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>youth to an answer. I think oxen and wainropes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>cannot hale them together. For Andrew, if he were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>the anatomy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>great presage of cruelty.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>into stitches, follow me. Yond gull Malvolio is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>turned heathen, a very renegado; for there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>Christian, that means to be saved by believing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>of grossness. He's in yellow stockings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>And cross-gartered?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>i' the church. I have dogged him, like his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>murderer. He does obey every point of the letter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>face into more lines than is in the new map with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>a thing as 'tis. I can hardly forbear hurling things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>at him. I know my lady will strike him: if she do,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>he'll smile and take't for a great favour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>Come, bring us, bring us where he is.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SEBASTIAN and ANTONIO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>I would not by my will have troubled you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>But, since you make your pleasure of your pains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>I will no further chide you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>I could not stay behind you: my desire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>And not all love to see you, though so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>As might have drawn one to a longer voyage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>But jealousy what might befall your travel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>Being skilless in these parts; which to a stranger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>Unguided and unfriended, often prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>Rough and unhospitable: my willing love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>The rather by these arguments of fear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>Set forth in your pursuit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>My kind Antonio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>I can no other answer make but thanks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>And thanks; and ever [ ] oft good turns</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>But, were my worth as is my conscience firm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>You should find better dealing. What's to do?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>Shall we go see the reliques of this town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>To-morrow, sir: best first go see your lodging.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>I am not weary, and 'tis long to night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>With the memorials and the things of fame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>That do renown this city.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Would you'ld pardon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>I do not without danger walk these streets:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst the count his galleys</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>I did some service; of such note indeed,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>That were I ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>Belike you slew great number of his people.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>The offence is not of such a bloody nature;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>Albeit the quality of the time and quarrel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>Might well have given us bloody argument.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>It might have since been answer'd in repaying</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>What we took from them; which, for traffic's sake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>Most of our city did: only myself stood out;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>For which, if I be lapsed in this place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>I shall pay dear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40> Do not then walk too open.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>It doth not fit me. Hold, sir, here's my purse.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>In the south suburbs, at the Elephant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Is best to lodge: I will bespeak our diet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>With viewing of the town: there shall you have me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>Why I your purse?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>Haply your eye shall light upon some toy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>You have desire to purchase; and your store,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>I think, is not for idle markets, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>I'll be your purse-bearer and leave you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>For an hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>To the Elephant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53> I do remember.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. OLIVIA's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter OLIVIA and MARIA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>I have sent after him: he says he'll come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>How shall I feast him? what bestow of him?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>For youth is bought more oft than begg'd or borrow'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>I speak too loud.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>Where is Malvolio? he is sad and civil,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>And suits well for a servant with my fortunes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>Where is Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>He's coming, madam; but in very strange manner. He</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>is, sure, possessed, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>Why, what's the matter? does he rave?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>No. madam, he does nothing but smile: your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>he come; for, sure, the man is tainted in's wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>Go call him hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MARIA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>I am as mad as he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>If sad and merry madness equal be.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARIA, with MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>How now, Malvolio!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>Sweet lady, ho, ho.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>Smilest thou?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>what of that? if it please the eye of one, it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>with me as the very true sonnet is, 'Please one, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>please all.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs. It</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>did come to his hands, and commands shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>executed: I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>To bed! ay, sweet-heart, and I'll come to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so and kiss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>thy hand so oft?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>How do you, Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>At your request! yes; nightingales answer daws.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>Why appear you with this ridiculous boldness before my lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>'Be not afraid of greatness:' 'twas well writ.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>What meanest thou by that, Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>'Some are born great,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Ha!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>'Some achieve greatness,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>What sayest thou?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>Heaven restore thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>'Remember who commended thy yellow stocking s,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>Thy yellow stockings!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>Cross-gartered!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so;'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Am I made?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>Why, this is very midsummer madness.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Servant</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Servant</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>returned: I could hardly entreat him back: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>attends your ladyship's pleasure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>I'll come to him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Servant</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>my cousin Toby? Let some of my people have a special</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>care of him: I would not have him miscarry for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>half of my dowry.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>O, ho! do you come near me now? no worse man than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>Sir Toby to look to me! This concurs directly with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>the letter: she sends him on purpose, that I may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>appear stubborn to him; for she incites me to that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says she;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>let thy tongue tang with arguments of state; put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>thyself into the trick of singularity;' and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>consequently sets down the manner how; as, a sad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>habit of some sir of note, and so forth. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>limed her; but it is Jove's doing, and Jove make me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>thankful! And when she went away now, 'Let this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>fellow be looked to:' fellow! not Malvolio, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>after my degree, but fellow. Why, every thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>adheres together, that no dram of a scruple, no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>scruple of a scruple, no obstacle, no incredulous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>or unsafe circumstance--What can be said? Nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>that can be can come between me and the full</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>prospect of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>doer of this, and he is to be thanked.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>the devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>himself possessed him, yet I'll speak to him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>Here he is, here he is. How is't with you, sir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>how is't with you, man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.87>Go off; I discard you: let me enjoy my private: go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.88>off.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.89>Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.90>I tell you? Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.91>care of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.92>Ah, ha! does she so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.93>Go to, go to; peace, peace; we must deal gently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.94>with him: let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.95>is't with you? What, man! defy the devil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.96>consider, he's an enemy to mankind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.97>Do you know what you say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.98>La you, an you speak ill of the devil, how he takes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.99>it at heart! Pray God, he be not bewitched!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.100>Carry his water to the wise woman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.101>Marry, and it shall be done to-morrow morning, if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.102>live. My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.103>How now, mistress!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.104>O Lord!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.105>Prithee, hold thy peace; this is not the way: do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.106>you not see you move him? let me alone with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.107>No way but gentleness; gently, gently: the fiend is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.108>rough, and will not be roughly used.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.109>Why, how now, my bawcock! how dost thou, chuck?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.110>Sir!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.111>Ay, Biddy, come with me. What, man! 'tis not for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.112>gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan: hang</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.113>him, foul collier!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.114>Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.115>My prayers, minx!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.116>No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.117>Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.118>things: I am not of your element: you shall know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.119>more hereafter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.120>Is't possible?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.121>If this were played upon a stage now, I could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.122>condemn it as an improbable fiction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.123>His very genius hath taken the infection of the device, man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.124>Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air and taint.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.125>Why, we shall make him mad indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.126>The house will be the quieter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.127>Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound. My</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.128>niece is already in the belief that he's mad: we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.129>may carry it thus, for our pleasure and his penance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.130>till our very pastime, tired out of breath, prompt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.131>us to have mercy on him: at which time we will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.132>bring the device to the bar and crown thee for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.133>finder of madmen. But see, but see.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.134>More matter for a May morning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.135>Here's the challenge, read it: warrant there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.136>vinegar and pepper in't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.137>Is't so saucy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.138>Ay, is't, I warrant him: do but read.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.139>Give me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.140>'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.141>Good, and valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.142>[Reads] 'Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.143>why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.144>A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.145>[Reads] 'Thou comest to the lady Olivia, and in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.146>sight she uses thee kindly: but thou liest in thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.147>throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.148>Very brief, and to exceeding good sense--less.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.149>[Reads] 'I will waylay thee going home; where if it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.150>be thy chance to kill me,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.151>Good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.152>[Reads] 'Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.153>Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.154>[Reads] 'Fare thee well; and God have mercy upon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.155>one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.156>my hope is better, and so look to thyself. Thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.157>friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.158>ANDREW AGUECHEEK.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.159>If this letter move him not, his legs cannot:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.160>I'll give't him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.161>You may have very fit occasion for't: he is now in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.162>some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.163>Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.164>orchard like a bum-baily: so soon as ever thou seest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.165>him, draw; and, as thou drawest swear horrible; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.166>it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.167>swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.168>more approbation than ever proof itself would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.169>earned him. Away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.170>Nay, let me alone for swearing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.171>Now will not I deliver his letter: for the behavior</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.172>of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.173>capacity and breeding; his employment between his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.174>lord and my niece confirms no less: therefore this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.175>letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.176>terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.177>clodpole. But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.178>word of mouth; set upon Aguecheek a notable report</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.179>of valour; and drive the gentleman, as I know his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.180>youth will aptly receive it, into a most hideous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.181>opinion of his rage, skill, fury and impetuosity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.182>This will so fright them both that they will kill</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.183>one another by the look, like cockatrices.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter OLIVIA, with VIOLA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.184>Here he comes with your niece: give them way till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.185>he take leave, and presently after him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.186>I will meditate the while upon some horrid message</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.187>for a challenge.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, FABIAN, and MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.188>I have said too much unto a heart of stone</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.189>And laid mine honour too unchary out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.190>There's something in me that reproves my fault;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.191>But such a headstrong potent fault it is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.192>That it but mocks reproof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.193>With the same 'havior that your passion bears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.194>Goes on my master's grief.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.195>Here, wear this jewel for me, 'tis my picture;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.196>Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.197>And I beseech you come again to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.198>What shall you ask of me that I'll deny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.199>That honour saved may upon asking give?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.200>Nothing but this; your true love for my master.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.201>How with mine honour may I give him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.202>Which I have given to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.203>I will acquit you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.204>Well, come again to-morrow: fare thee well:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.205>A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.206>Gentleman, God save thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.207>And you, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.208>That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.209>nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.210>not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.211>the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.212>dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.213>thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.214>You mistake, sir; I am sure no man hath any quarrel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.215>to me: my remembrance is very free and clear from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.216>any image of offence done to any man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.217>You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.218>if you hold your life at any price, betake you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.219>your guard; for your opposite hath in him what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.220>youth, strength, skill and wrath can furnish man withal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.221>I pray you, sir, what is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.222>He is knight, dubbed with unhatched rapier and on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.223>carpet consideration; but he is a devil in private</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.224>brawl: souls and bodies hath he divorced three; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.225>his incensement at this moment is so implacable,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.226>that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.227>and sepulchre. Hob, nob, is his word; give't or take't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.228>I will return again into the house and desire some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.229>conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.230>of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.231>others, to taste their valour: belike this is a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.232>of that quirk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.233>Sir, no; his indignation derives itself out of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.234>very competent injury: therefore, get you on and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.235>give him his desire. Back you shall not to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.236>house, unless you undertake that with me which with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.237>as much safety you might answer him: therefore, on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.238>or strip your sword stark naked; for meddle you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.239>must, that's certain, or forswear to wear iron about you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.240>This is as uncivil as strange. I beseech you, do me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.241>this courteous office, as to know of the knight what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.242>my offence to him is: it is something of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.243>negligence, nothing of my purpose.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.244>I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.245>gentleman till my return.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.246>Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.247>I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.248>mortal arbitrement; but nothing of the circumstance more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.249>I beseech you, what manner of man is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.250>Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.251>his form, as you are like to find him in the proof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.252>of his valour. He is, indeed, sir, the most skilful,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.253>bloody and fatal opposite that you could possibly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.254>have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.255>towards him? I will make your peace with him if I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.256>can.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.257>I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.258>had rather go with sir priest than sir knight: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.259>care not who knows so much of my mettle.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter SIR TOBY BELCH, with SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.260>Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.261>firago. I had a pass with him, rapier, scabbard and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.262>all, and he gives me the stuck in with such a mortal</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.263>motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.264>pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.265>step on. They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.266>Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.267>Ay, but he will not now be pacified: Fabian can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.268>scarce hold him yonder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.269>Plague on't, an I thought he had been valiant and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.270>cunning in fence, I'ld have seen him damned ere I'ld</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.271>have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.272>and I'll give him my horse, grey Capilet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.273>I'll make the motion: stand here, make a good show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.274>on't: this shall end without the perdition of souls.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Aside</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.275>Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FABIAN and VIOLA</i></p> | |
| <p><i>To FABIAN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.276>I have his horse to take up the quarrel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.277>I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.278>He is as horribly conceited of him; and pants and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.279>looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.280>[To VIOLA] There's no remedy, sir; he will fight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.281>with you for's oath sake: marry, he hath better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.282>bethought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.283>scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.284>the supportance of his vow; he protests he will not hurt you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.285>[Aside] Pray God defend me! A little thing would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.286>make me tell them how much I lack of a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.287>Give ground, if you see him furious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.288>Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy; the gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.289>will, for his honour's sake, have one bout with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.290>he cannot by the duello avoid it: but he has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.291>promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.292>will not hurt you. Come on; to't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.293>Pray God, he keep his oath!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.294>I do assure you, 'tis against my will.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They draw</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter ANTONIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.295>Put up your sword. If this young gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.296>Have done offence, I take the fault on me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.297>If you offend him, I for him defy you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.298>You, sir! why, what are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.299>One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.300>Than you have heard him brag to you he will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.301>Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>They draw</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.302>O good Sir Toby, hold! here come the officers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.303>I'll be with you anon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.304>Pray, sir, put your sword up, if you please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.305>Marry, will I, sir; and, for that I promised you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.306>I'll be as good as my word: he will bear you easily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.307>and reins well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.308>This is the man; do thy office.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.309>Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.310>You do mistake me, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.311>No, sir, no jot; I know your favour well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.312>Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.313>Take him away: he knows I know him well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.314>I must obey.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To VIOLA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.315>This comes with seeking you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.316>But there's no remedy; I shall answer it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.317>What will you do, now my necessity</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.318>Makes me to ask you for my purse? It grieves me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.319>Much more for what I cannot do for you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.320>Than what befalls myself. You stand amazed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.321>But be of comfort.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.322>Come, sir, away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.323>I must entreat of you some of that money.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.324>What money, sir?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.325>For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.326>And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.327>Out of my lean and low ability</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.328>I'll lend you something: my having is not much;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.329>I'll make division of my present with you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.330>Hold, there's half my coffer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.331>Will you deny me now?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.332>Is't possible that my deserts to you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.333>Can lack persuasion? Do not tempt my misery,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.334>Lest that it make me so unsound a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.335>As to upbraid you with those kindnesses</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.336>That I have done for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.337>I know of none;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.338>Nor know I you by voice or any feature:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.339>I hate ingratitude more in a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.340>Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.341>Or any taint of vice whose strong corruption</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.342>Inhabits our frail blood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.343>O heavens themselves!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>Second Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.344>Come, sir, I pray you, go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.345>Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.346>I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.347>Relieved him with such sanctity of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.348>And to his image, which methought did promise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.349>Most venerable worth, did I devotion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.350>What's that to us? The time goes by: away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech142><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.351>But O how vile an idol proves this god</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.352>Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.353>In nature there's no blemish but the mind;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.354>None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.355>Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.356>Are empty trunks o'erflourish'd by the devil.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech143><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.357>The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech144><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.358>Lead me on.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit with Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech145><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.359>Methinks his words do from such passion fly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.360>That he believes himself: so do not I.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.361>Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.362>That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech146><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.363>Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian: we'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.364>whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech147><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.365>He named Sebastian: I my brother know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.366>Yet living in my glass; even such and so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.367>In favour was my brother, and he went</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.368>Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.369>For him I imitate: O, if it prove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.370>Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech148><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.371>A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.372>a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.373>friend here in necessity and denying him; and for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.374>his cowardship, ask Fabian.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech149><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.375>A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech150><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.376>'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech151><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.377>Do; cuff him soundly, but never draw thy sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech152><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.378>An I do not,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech153><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.379>Come, let's see the event.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech154><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.380>I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before OLIVIA's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>Let me be clear of thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>know'st not me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>worse payment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>that give fools money get themselves a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>report--after fourteen years' purchase.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, and FABIAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>the people mad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>in some of your coats for two pence.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>Come on, sir; hold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>with him; I'll have an action of battery against</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Let go thy hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>of this malapert blood from you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Madam!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>Be not offended, dear Cesario.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>Rudesby, be gone!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>I prithee, gentle friend,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>In this uncivil and thou unjust extent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>He started one poor heart of mine in thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>What relish is in this? how runs the stream?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Madam, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62> O, say so, and so be!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. OLIVIA's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter MARIA and Clown</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>it quickly; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>in't; and I would I were the first that ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>become the function well, nor lean enough to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>thought a good student; but to be said an honest man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Jove bless thee, master Parson.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>To him, Sir Topas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>[Within] Who calls there?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>the lunatic.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>talkest thou nothing but of ladies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>Well said, Master Parson.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>here in hideous darkness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>that will use the devil himself with courtesy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>sayest thou that house is dark?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>As hell, Sir Topas.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>and the clearstores toward the south north are as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>obstruction?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>the Egyptians in their fog.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>are: make the trial of it in any constant question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>What thinkest thou of his opinion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>Sir Topas, Sir Topas!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>My most exquisite Sir Topas!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>Nay, I am for all waters.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MARIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>gown: he sees thee not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>would he were, for I am now so far in offence with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>[Singing]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Tell me how thy lady does.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>Fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>'My lady is unkind, perdy.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>Fool!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>'Alas, why is she so?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>Fool, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>'She loves another'--Who calls, ha?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>thee for't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>Master Malvolio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>Ay, good fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.82>Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.83>am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.84>But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.85>better in your wits than a fool.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.86>They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.87>send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.88>face me out of my wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.89>Advise you what you say; the minister is here.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.90>Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.91>endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.92>bibble babble.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.93>Sir Topas!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.94>Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.95>sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.96>Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.97>Fool, fool, fool, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.98>Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.99>shent for speaking to you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.100>Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.101>tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.102>Well-a-day that you were, sir</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.103>By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.104>light; and convey what I will set down to my lady:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.105>it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.106>of letter did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.107>I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.108>not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.109>Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.110>Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.111>brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.112>Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.113>prithee, be gone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.114>[Singing]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.115>I am gone, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.116>And anon, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.117>I'll be with you again,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.118>In a trice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.119>Like to the old Vice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.120>Your need to sustain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.121>Who, with dagger of lath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.122>In his rage and his wrath,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.123>Cries, ah, ha! to the devil:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.124>Like a mad lad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.125>Pare thy nails, dad;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.126>Adieu, good man devil.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. OLIVIA's garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter SEBASTIAN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.1>This is the air; that is the glorious sun;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.2>This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.3>And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.4>Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.5>I could not find him at the Elephant:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.6>Yet there he was; and there I found this credit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.7>That he did range the town to seek me out.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.8>His counsel now might do me golden service;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.9>For though my soul disputes well with my sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.10>That this may be some error, but no madness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.11>Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.12>So far exceed all instance, all discourse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.13>That I am ready to distrust mine eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.14>And wrangle with my reason that persuades me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.15>To any other trust but that I am mad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.16>Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.17>She could not sway her house, command her followers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.18>Take and give back affairs and their dispatch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.19>With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.20>As I perceive she does: there's something in't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.21>That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVIA and Priest</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.22>Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.23>Now go with me and with this holy man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.24>Into the chantry by: there, before him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.25>And underneath that consecrated roof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.26>Plight me the full assurance of your faith;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.27>That my most jealous and too doubtful soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.28>May live at peace. He shall conceal it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.29>Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.30>What time we will our celebration keep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.31>According to my birth. What do you say?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.32>I'll follow this good man, and go with you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.33>And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.34>Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.3.35>That they may fairly note this act of mine!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before OLIVIA's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter Clown and FABIAN</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4>Do not desire to see this letter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>dog again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>for my friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>No, sir, the worse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>How can that be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>and by my friends, I am abused: so that,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>my friends and the better for my foes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Why, this is excellent.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>one of my friends.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>you could make it another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>O, you give me ill counsel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>and let your flesh and blood obey it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>double-dealer: there's another.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>You can fool no more money out of me at this throw:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>if you will let your lady know I am here to speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>my bounty further.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>will awake it anon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter ANTONIO and Officers</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>That face of his I do remember well;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>A bawbling vessel was he captain of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>With which such scathful grapple did he make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>With the most noble bottom of our fleet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>That very envy and the tongue of loss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>First Officer</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Orsino, this is that Antonio</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>And this is he that did the Tiger board,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60>Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>In private brabble did we apprehend him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>I know not what 'twas but distraction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>Hast made thine enemies?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>Orsino, noble sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>Though I confess, on base and ground enough,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>That most ingrateful boy there by your side,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>His life I gave him and did thereto add</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78>My love, without retention or restraint,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>All his in dedication; for his sake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>Did I expose myself, pure for his love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>Into the danger of this adverse town;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>Drew to defend him when he was beset:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>Where being apprehended, his false cunning,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>Not meaning to partake with me in danger,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>And grew a twenty years removed thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>Which I had recommended to his use</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>Not half an hour before.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>How can this be?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>When came he to this town?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>To-day, my lord; and for three months before,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>No interim, not a minute's vacancy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>Both day and night did we keep company.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter OLIVIA and Attendants</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>Three months this youth hath tended upon me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>But more of that anon. Take him aside.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>What would my lord, but that he may not have,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>Madam!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>Gracious Olivia,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>As howling after music.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>Still so cruel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>Still so constant, lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>Why should I not, had I the heart to do it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>Kill what I love?--a savage jealousy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>And that I partly know the instrument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>That screws me from my true place in your favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>But this your minion, whom I know you love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>To spite a raven's heart within a dove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>Where goes Cesario?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>After him I love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>More than I love these eyes, more than my life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>If I do feign, you witnesses above</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>Punish my life for tainting of my love!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>Call forth the holy father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>Come, away!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>Husband!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146> Ay, husband: can he that deny?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>Her husband, sirrah!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>No, my lord, not I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>That makes thee strangle thy propriety:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>As great as that thou fear'st.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Priest</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>O, welcome, father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>Here to unfold, though lately we intended</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>To keep in darkness what occasion now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>Priest</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>A contract of eternal bond of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>Attested by the holy close of lips,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>And all the ceremony of this compact</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>I have travell'd but two hours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.168>O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.169>When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.170>Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.171>That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.172>Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.173>Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.174>My lord, I do protest--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.175>O, do not swear!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.176>Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.177>For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.178>to Sir Toby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.179>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.180>He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.181>a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.182>help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.183>Who has done this, Sir Andrew?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.184>The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.185>a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.186>My gentleman, Cesario?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.187>'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.188>nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.189>by Sir Toby.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.190>Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.191>You drew your sword upon me without cause;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.192>But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.193>If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.194>think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.195>Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.196>but if he had not been in drink, he would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.197>tickled you othergates than he did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.198>How now, gentleman! how is't with you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.199>That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.200>on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.201>O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.202>were set at eight i' the morning.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.203>Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.204>hate a drunken rogue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.205>Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>SIR ANDREW</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.206>I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>SIR TOBY BELCH</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.207>Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.208>knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.209>Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter SEBASTIAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.210>I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.211>But, had it been the brother of my blood,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.212>I must have done no less with wit and safety.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.213>You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.214>I do perceive it hath offended you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.215>Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.216>We made each other but so late ago.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.217>One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.218>A natural perspective, that is and is not!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.219>Antonio, O my dear Antonio!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.220>How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.221>Since I have lost thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.222>Sebastian are you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.223> Fear'st thou that, Antonio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.224>How have you made division of yourself?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.225>An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.226>Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.227>Most wonderful!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.228>Do I stand there? I never had a brother;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.229>Nor can there be that deity in my nature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.230>Of here and every where. I had a sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.231>Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.232>Of charity, what kin are you to me?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.233>What countryman? what name? what parentage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.234>Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.235>Such a Sebastian was my brother too,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.236>So went he suited to his watery tomb:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.237>If spirits can assume both form and suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.238>You come to fright us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.239>A spirit I am indeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.240>But am in that dimension grossly clad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.241>Which from the womb I did participate.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.242>Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.243>I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.244>And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.245>My father had a mole upon his brow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.246>And so had mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.247>And died that day when Viola from her birth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.248>Had number'd thirteen years.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.249>O, that record is lively in my soul!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.250>He finished indeed his mortal act</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.251>That day that made my sister thirteen years.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.252>If nothing lets to make us happy both</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.253>But this my masculine usurp'd attire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.254>Do not embrace me till each circumstance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.255>Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.256>That I am Viola: which to confirm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.257>I'll bring you to a captain in this town,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.258>Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.259>I was preserved to serve this noble count.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.260>All the occurrence of my fortune since</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.261>Hath been between this lady and this lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>SEBASTIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.262>[To OLIVIA] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.263>But nature to her bias drew in that.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.264>You would have been contracted to a maid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.265>Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.266>You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.267>Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.268>If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.269>I shall have share in this most happy wreck.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To VIOLA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.270>Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.271>Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.272>And all those sayings will I overswear;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.273>And those swearings keep as true in soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.274>As doth that orbed continent the fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.275>That severs day from night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.276>Give me thy hand;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.277>And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.278>The captain that did bring me first on shore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.279>Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.280>Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.281>A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.282>He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.283>And yet, alas, now I remember me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.284>They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.285>A most extracting frenzy of mine own</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.286>From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.287>How does he, sirrah?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.288>Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.289>well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.290>letter to you; I should have given't you to-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.291>morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.292>so it skills not much when they are delivered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.293>Open't, and read it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.294>Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.295>the madman.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Reads</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.296>'By the Lord, madam,'--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.297>How now! art thou mad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.298>No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.299>will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.300>Prithee, read i' thy right wits.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.301>So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.302>read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.303>Read it you, sirrah.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To FABIAN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.304>[Reads] 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.305>world shall know it: though you have put me into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.306>darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.307>me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.308>your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.309>me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.310>not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.311>Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.312>unthought of and speak out of my injury.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.313>THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.314>Did he write this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.315>Ay, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.316>This savours not much of distraction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.317>See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit FABIAN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.318>My lord so please you, these things further</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.319>thought on,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.320>To think me as well a sister as a wife,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.321>One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.322>Here at my house and at my proper cost.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.323>Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To VIOLA</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.324>Your master quits you; and for your service done him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.325>So much against the mettle of your sex,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.326>So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.327>And since you call'd me master for so long,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.328>Here is my hand: you shall from this time be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.329>Your master's mistress.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.330>A sister! you are she.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.331>Is this the madman?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.332>Ay, my lord, this same.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.333>How now, Malvolio!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.334> Madam, you have done me wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.335>Notorious wrong.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.336> Have I, Malvolio? no.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.337>Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.338>You must not now deny it is your hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.339>Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.340>Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.341>You can say none of this: well, grant it then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.342>And tell me, in the modesty of honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.343>Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.344>Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.345>To put on yellow stockings and to frown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.346>Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.347>And, acting this in an obedient hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.348>Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.349>Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.350>And made the most notorious geck and gull</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.351>That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.352>Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.353>Though, I confess, much like the character</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.354>But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.355>And now I do bethink me, it was she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.356>First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.357>And in such forms which here were presupposed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.358>Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.359>This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.360>But when we know the grounds and authors of it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.361>Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.362>Of thine own cause.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>FABIAN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.363>Good madam, hear me speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.364>And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.365>Taint the condition of this present hour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.366>Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.367>Most freely I confess, myself and Toby</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.368>Set this device against Malvolio here,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.369>Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.370>We had conceived against him: Maria writ</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.371>The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.372>In recompense whereof he hath married her.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.373>How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.374>May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.375>If that the injuries be justly weigh'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.376>That have on both sides pass'd.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.377>Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.378>Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.379>and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.380>one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.381>that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.382>But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.383>a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.384>and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>MALVOLIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.385>I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>OLIVIA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.386>He hath been most notoriously abused.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.387>Pursue him and entreat him to a peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.388>He hath not told us of the captain yet:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.389>When that is known and golden time convents,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.390>A solemn combination shall be made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.391>Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.392>We will not part from hence. Cesario, come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.393>For so you shall be, while you are a man;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.394>But when in other habits you are seen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.395>Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all, except Clown</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>Clown</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.396>[Sings]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.397>When that I was and a little tiny boy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.398>With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.399>A foolish thing was but a toy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.400>For the rain it raineth every day.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.401>But when I came to man's estate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.402>With hey, ho, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.403>'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.404>For the rain, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.405>But when I came, alas! to wive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.406>With hey, ho, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.407>By swaggering could I never thrive,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.408>For the rain, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.409>But when I came unto my beds,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.410>With hey, ho, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.411>With toss-pots still had drunken heads,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.412>For the rain, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.413>A great while ago the world begun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.414>With hey, ho, & c.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.415>But that's all one, our play is done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.416>And we'll strive to please you every day.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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