{"id":165,"date":"2015-06-24T16:09:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit1x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=165"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:37:36","slug":"act-v","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/rangercollege-britlit1-curry\/chapter\/act-v\/","title":{"raw":"Act V","rendered":"Act V"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_180\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]\"Oil<\/a> A Scene from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: Act V, Scene i[\/caption]\r\n

Act V, Scene 1<\/h2>\r\n

Before OLIVIA\u2019s house.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

[Enter Clown and FABIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.<\/span>2190<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Any thing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Do not desire to see this letter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my <\/span>\r\n<\/span>dog again.<\/span>2195<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse <\/span>2200<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>for my friends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, sir, the worse.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How can that be?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; <\/span>2205<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by <\/span>\r\n<\/span>my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and by my friends, I am abused: so that, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives <\/span>\r\n<\/span>make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for <\/span>2210<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>my friends and the better for my foes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, this is excellent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be <\/span>\r\n<\/span>one of my friends.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.<\/span>2215<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would <\/span>\r\n<\/span>you could make it another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, you give me ill counsel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and let your flesh and blood obey it.<\/span>2220<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a <\/span>\r\n<\/span>double-dealer: there's another.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old <\/span>\r\n<\/span>saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of <\/span>2225<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>You can fool no more money out of me at this throw: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>if you will let your lady know I am here to speak <\/span>\r\n<\/span>with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake <\/span>\r\n<\/span>my bounty further.<\/span>2230<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come <\/span>\r\n<\/span>again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think <\/span>\r\n<\/span>that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I <\/span>\r\n<\/span>will awake it anon.<\/span>2235<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter ANTONIO and Officers]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That face of his I do remember well; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd <\/span>2240<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>A bawbling vessel was he captain of, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For shallow draught and bulk unprizable; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With which such scathful grapple did he make <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With the most noble bottom of our fleet, <\/span>2245<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>That very envy and the tongue of loss <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

First Officer<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Orsino, this is that Antonio <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And this is he that did the Tiger board, <\/span>2250<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>When your young nephew Titus lost his leg: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>In private brabble did we apprehend him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But in conclusion put strange speech upon me: <\/span>2255<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>I know not what 'twas but distraction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hast made thine enemies?<\/span>2260<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Orsino, noble sir, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Antonio never yet was thief or pirate, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Though I confess, on base and ground enough, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither: <\/span>2265<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>That most ingrateful boy there by your side, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>His life I gave him and did thereto add <\/span>\r\n<\/span>My love, without retention or restraint, <\/span>2270<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>All his in dedication; for his sake <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Did I expose myself, pure for his love, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Into the danger of this adverse town; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Drew to defend him when he was beset: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Where being apprehended, his false cunning, <\/span>2275<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Not meaning to partake with me in danger, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And grew a twenty years removed thing <\/span>\r\n<\/span>While one would wink; denied me mine own purse, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Which I had recommended to his use <\/span>2280<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Not half an hour before.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How can this be?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>When came he to this town?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To-day, my lord; and for three months before, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>No interim, not a minute's vacancy, <\/span>2285<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Both day and night did we keep company.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter OLIVIA and Attendants]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Three months this youth hath tended upon me; <\/span>2290<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>But more of that anon. Take him aside.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What would my lord, but that he may not have, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable? <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam!<\/span>2295<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Gracious Olivia,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If it be aught to the old tune, my lord, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear <\/span>2300<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>As howling after music.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Still so cruel?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Still so constant, lord.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars <\/span>2305<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death, <\/span>2310<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Kill what I love?\u2014a savage jealousy <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Since you to non-regardance cast my faith, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And that I partly know the instrument <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That screws me from my true place in your favour, <\/span>2315<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But this your minion, whom I know you love, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Him will I tear out of that cruel eye, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Where he sits crowned in his master's spite. <\/span>2320<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>To spite a raven's heart within a dove.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And I, most jocund, apt and willingly, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.<\/span>2325<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Where goes Cesario?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>After him I love <\/span>\r\n<\/span>More than I love these eyes, more than my life, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>If I do feign, you witnesses above <\/span>2330<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Punish my life for tainting of my love!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long? <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Call forth the holy father.<\/span>2335<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come, away!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Husband!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, husband: can he that deny?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Her husband, sirrah!<\/span>2340<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, my lord, not I.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That makes thee strangle thy propriety: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art <\/span>2345<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>As great as that thou fear'st. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[Enter Priest]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>O, welcome, father! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Here to unfold, though lately we intended <\/span>2350<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>To keep in darkness what occasion now <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Priest<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A contract of eternal bond of love, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, <\/span>2355<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Attested by the holy close of lips, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And all the ceremony of this compact <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Seal'd in my function, by my testimony: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave <\/span>2360<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>I have travell'd but two hours.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be <\/span>\r\n<\/span>When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case? <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow? <\/span>2365<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My lord, I do protest\u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, do not swear! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.<\/span>2370<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter SIR ANDREW]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently <\/span>\r\n<\/span>to Sir Toby.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What's the matter?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby<\/span>2375<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your <\/span>\r\n<\/span>help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Who has done this, Sir Andrew?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for<\/span>\r\n<\/span>a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.<\/span>2380<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My gentleman, Cesario?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for <\/span>\r\n<\/span>nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't <\/span>\r\n<\/span>by Sir Toby.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you: <\/span>2385<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>You drew your sword upon me without cause; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I <\/span>\r\n<\/span>think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown]<\/i> <\/span>2390<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>but if he had not been in drink, he would have <\/span>\r\n<\/span>tickled you othergates than he did.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How now, gentleman! how is't with you?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end <\/span>2395<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes <\/span>\r\n<\/span>were set at eight i' the morning.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I <\/span>\r\n<\/span>hate a drunken rogue.<\/span>2400<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I'll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a <\/span>\r\n<\/span>knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.<\/span>2405<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter SEBASTIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But, had it been the brother of my blood, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I must have done no less with wit and safety. <\/span>2410<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I do perceive it hath offended you: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows <\/span>\r\n<\/span>We made each other but so late ago.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, <\/span>2415<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>A natural perspective, that is and is not!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Antonio, O my dear Antonio! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>How have the hours rack'd and tortured me, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Since I have lost thee!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sebastian are you?<\/span>2420<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fear'st thou that, Antonio?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How have you made division of yourself? <\/span>\r\n<\/span>An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Most wonderful!<\/span>2425<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Do I stand there? I never had a brother; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Nor can there be that deity in my nature, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Of here and every where. I had a sister, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Of charity, what kin are you to me? <\/span>2430<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>What countryman? what name? what parentage?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Such a Sebastian was my brother too, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>So went he suited to his watery tomb: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>If spirits can assume both form and suit <\/span>2435<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>You come to fright us.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A spirit I am indeed; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But am in that dimension grossly clad <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Which from the womb I did participate. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, <\/span>2440<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My father had a mole upon his brow.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And so had mine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And died that day when Viola from her birth <\/span>2445<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Had number'd thirteen years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, that record is lively in my soul! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>He finished indeed his mortal act <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That day that made my sister thirteen years.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If nothing lets to make us happy both <\/span>2450<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>But this my masculine usurp'd attire, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Do not embrace me till each circumstance <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That I am Viola: which to confirm, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'll bring you to a captain in this town, <\/span>2455<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I was preserved to serve this noble count. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>All the occurrence of my fortune since <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hath been between this lady and this lord.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[To OLIVIA]<\/i> So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: <\/span>2460<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>But nature to her bias drew in that. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>You would have been contracted to a maid; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Be not amazed; right noble is his blood. <\/span>2465<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I shall have share in this most happy wreck. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[To VIOLA]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.<\/span>2470<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And all those sayings will I overswear; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And those swearings keep as true in soul <\/span>\r\n<\/span>As doth that orbed continent the fire <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That severs day from night.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Give me thy hand; <\/span>2475<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/span>And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The captain that did bring me first on shore <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.<\/span>2480<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And yet, alas, now I remember me, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>A most extracting frenzy of mine own <\/span>2485<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>From my remembrance clearly banish'd his. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>How does he, sirrah?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves's end as <\/span>\r\n<\/span>well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a <\/span>\r\n<\/span>letter to you; I should have given't you to-day <\/span>2490<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>so it skills not much when they are delivered.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Open't, and read it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers <\/span>\r\n<\/span>the madman. <\/span>2495<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>[Reads]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>'By the Lord, madam,'\u2014<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How now! art thou mad?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship <\/span>\r\n<\/span>will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.<\/span>2500<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Prithee, read i' thy right wits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to <\/span>\r\n<\/span>read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Read it you, sirrah.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[To FABIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Reads]<\/i> 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the <\/span>\r\n<\/span>world shall know it: though you have put me into <\/span>\r\n<\/span>darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over <\/span>\r\n<\/span>me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as <\/span>\r\n<\/span>your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced <\/span>2510<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt <\/span>\r\n<\/span>not but to do myself much right, or you much shame. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little <\/span>\r\n<\/span>unthought of and speak out of my injury. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'<\/span>2515<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Did he write this?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, madam.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This savours not much of distraction.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[Exit FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>2520<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>My lord so please you, these things further <\/span>\r\n<\/span>thought on, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>To think me as well a sister as a wife, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Here at my house and at my proper cost.<\/span>2525<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[To VIOLA]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Your master quits you; and for your service done him, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>So much against the mettle of your sex, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>So far beneath your soft and tender breeding, <\/span>2530<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>And since you call'd me master for so long, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Here is my hand: you shall from this time be <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Your master's mistress.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A sister! you are she.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Is this the madman?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, my lord, this same. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>How now, Malvolio!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, you have done me wrong, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Notorious wrong.<\/span>2540<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Have I, Malvolio? no.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>You must not now deny it is your hand: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention: <\/span>2545<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>You can say none of this: well, grant it then <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And tell me, in the modesty of honour, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Why you have given me such clear lights of favour, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Bade me come smiling and cross-garter'd to you, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>To put on yellow stockings and to frown <\/span>2550<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And, acting this in an obedient hope, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And made the most notorious geck and gull <\/span>2555<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Though, I confess, much like the character <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But out of question 'tis Maria's hand. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And now I do bethink me, it was she <\/span>2560<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And in such forms which here were presupposed <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But when we know the grounds and authors of it, <\/span>2565<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Of thine own cause.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good madam, hear me speak, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Taint the condition of this present hour, <\/span>2570<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Most freely I confess, myself and Toby <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Set this device against Malvolio here, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts <\/span>\r\n<\/span>We had conceived against him: Maria writ <\/span>2575<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>The letter at Sir Toby's great importance; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>In recompense whereof he hath married her. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>How with a sportful malice it was follow'd, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>May rather pluck on laughter than revenge; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>If that the injuries be justly weigh'd <\/span>2580<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>That have on both sides pass'd.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was <\/span>\r\n<\/span>one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but <\/span>2585<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>that's all one. 'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.' <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such <\/span>\r\n<\/span>a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:' <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.<\/span>2590<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He hath been most notoriously abused.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Pursue him and entreat him to a peace: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>He hath not told us of the captain yet: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>When that is known and golden time convents, <\/span>2595<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>A solemn combination shall be made <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>We will not part from hence. Cesario, come; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For so you shall be, while you are a man; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But when in other habits you are seen, <\/span>2600<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Orsino's mistress and his fancy's queen.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exeunt all, except Clown]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Sings]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>When that I was and a little tiny boy, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, <\/span>2605<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>A foolish thing was but a toy, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For the rain it raineth every day. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But when I came to man's estate, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, <\/span>2610<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But when I came, alas! to wive, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>By swaggering could I never thrive, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>2615<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>But when I came unto my beds, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With toss-pots still had drunken heads, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>A great while ago the world begun, <\/span>2620<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>But that's all one, our play is done, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And we'll strive to please you every day.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>","rendered":"

\"Oil<\/a><\/p>\n

A Scene from Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare: Act V, Scene i<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Act V, Scene 1<\/h2>\n

Before OLIVIA\u2019s house.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Enter Clown and FABIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.<\/span>2190<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Any thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Do not desire to see this letter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire my <\/span>
\n<\/span>dog again.<\/span>2195<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I know thee well; how dost thou, my good fellow?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse <\/span>2200<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>for my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, sir, the worse.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How can that be?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me; <\/span>2205<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by <\/span>
\n<\/span>my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, <\/span>
\n<\/span>and by my friends, I am abused: so that, <\/span>
\n<\/span>conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives <\/span>
\n<\/span>make your two affirmatives why then, the worse for <\/span>2210<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>my friends and the better for my foes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, this is excellent.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be <\/span>
\n<\/span>one of my friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there’s gold.<\/span>2215<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would <\/span>
\n<\/span>you could make it another.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, you give me ill counsel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, <\/span>
\n<\/span>and let your flesh and blood obey it.<\/span>2220<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a <\/span>
\n<\/span>double-dealer: there’s another.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old <\/span>
\n<\/span>saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex, <\/span>
\n<\/span>sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of <\/span>2225<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; one, two, three.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>You can fool no more money out of me at this throw: <\/span>
\n<\/span>if you will let your lady know I am here to speak <\/span>
\n<\/span>with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake <\/span>
\n<\/span>my bounty further.<\/span>2230<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come <\/span>
\n<\/span>again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think <\/span>
\n<\/span>that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: <\/span>
\n<\/span>but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I <\/span>
\n<\/span>will awake it anon.<\/span>2235<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter ANTONIO and Officers]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That face of his I do remember well; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear’d <\/span>2240<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war: <\/span>
\n<\/span>A bawbling vessel was he captain of, <\/span>
\n<\/span>For shallow draught and bulk unprizable; <\/span>
\n<\/span>With which such scathful grapple did he make <\/span>
\n<\/span>With the most noble bottom of our fleet, <\/span>2245<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>That very envy and the tongue of loss <\/span>
\n<\/span>Cried fame and honour on him. What’s the matter?<\/span><\/p>\n

First Officer<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Orsino, this is that Antonio <\/span>
\n<\/span>That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And this is he that did the Tiger board, <\/span>2250<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>When your young nephew Titus lost his leg: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, <\/span>
\n<\/span>In private brabble did we apprehend him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But in conclusion put strange speech upon me: <\/span>2255<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>I know not what ’twas but distraction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief! <\/span>
\n<\/span>What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Hast made thine enemies?<\/span>2260<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Orsino, noble sir, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Antonio never yet was thief or pirate, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Though I confess, on base and ground enough, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Orsino’s enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither: <\/span>2265<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>That most ingrateful boy there by your side, <\/span>
\n<\/span>From the rude sea’s enraged and foamy mouth <\/span>
\n<\/span>Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was: <\/span>
\n<\/span>His life I gave him and did thereto add <\/span>
\n<\/span>My love, without retention or restraint, <\/span>2270<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>All his in dedication; for his sake <\/span>
\n<\/span>Did I expose myself, pure for his love, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Into the danger of this adverse town; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Drew to defend him when he was beset: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Where being apprehended, his false cunning, <\/span>2275<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Not meaning to partake with me in danger, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And grew a twenty years removed thing <\/span>
\n<\/span>While one would wink; denied me mine own purse, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Which I had recommended to his use <\/span>2280<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Not half an hour before.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How can this be?<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>When came he to this town?<\/span><\/p>\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To-day, my lord; and for three months before, <\/span>
\n<\/span>No interim, not a minute’s vacancy, <\/span>2285<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Both day and night did we keep company.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter OLIVIA and Attendants]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth. <\/span>
\n<\/span>But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Three months this youth hath tended upon me; <\/span>2290<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>But more of that anon. Take him aside.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What would my lord, but that he may not have, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable? <\/span>
\n<\/span>Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam!<\/span>2295<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Gracious Olivia,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord,\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If it be aught to the old tune, my lord, <\/span>
\n<\/span>It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear <\/span>2300<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>As howling after music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Still so cruel?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Still so constant, lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, to perverseness? you uncivil lady, <\/span>
\n<\/span>To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars <\/span>2305<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>My soul the faithfull’st offerings hath breathed out <\/span>
\n<\/span>That e’er devotion tender’d! What shall I do?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death, <\/span>2310<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Kill what I love?\u2014a savage jealousy <\/span>
\n<\/span>That sometimes savours nobly. But hear me this: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Since you to non-regardance cast my faith, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And that I partly know the instrument <\/span>
\n<\/span>That screws me from my true place in your favour, <\/span>2315<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But this your minion, whom I know you love, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Him will I tear out of that cruel eye, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Where he sits crowned in his master’s spite. <\/span>2320<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief: <\/span>
\n<\/span>I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, <\/span>
\n<\/span>To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And I, most jocund, apt and willingly, <\/span>
\n<\/span>To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.<\/span>2325<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Where goes Cesario?<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>After him I love <\/span>
\n<\/span>More than I love these eyes, more than my life, <\/span>
\n<\/span>More, by all mores, than e’er I shall love wife. <\/span>
\n<\/span>If I do feign, you witnesses above <\/span>2330<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Punish my life for tainting of my love!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long? <\/span>
\n<\/span>Call forth the holy father.<\/span>2335<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come, away!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Husband!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, husband: can he that deny?<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Her husband, sirrah!<\/span>2340<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, my lord, not I.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear <\/span>
\n<\/span>That makes thee strangle thy propriety: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Be that thou know’st thou art, and then thou art <\/span>2345<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>As great as that thou fear’st. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[Enter Priest]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>O, welcome, father! <\/span>
\n<\/span>Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Here to unfold, though lately we intended <\/span>2350<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>To keep in darkness what occasion now <\/span>
\n<\/span>Reveals before ’tis ripe, what thou dost know <\/span>
\n<\/span>Hath newly pass’d between this youth and me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Priest<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A contract of eternal bond of love, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Confirm’d by mutual joinder of your hands, <\/span>2355<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Attested by the holy close of lips, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Strengthen’d by interchangement of your rings; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And all the ceremony of this compact <\/span>
\n<\/span>Seal’d in my function, by my testimony: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave <\/span>2360<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>I have travell’d but two hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be <\/span>
\n<\/span>When time hath sow’d a grizzle on thy case? <\/span>
\n<\/span>Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, <\/span>
\n<\/span>That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow? <\/span>2365<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet <\/span>
\n<\/span>Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My lord, I do protest\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, do not swear! <\/span>
\n<\/span>Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.<\/span>2370<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter SIR ANDREW]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently <\/span>
\n<\/span>to Sir Toby.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What’s the matter?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby<\/span>2375<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your <\/span>
\n<\/span>help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Who has done this, Sir Andrew?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The count’s gentleman, one Cesario: we took him for<\/span>
\n<\/span>a coward, but he’s the very devil incardinate.<\/span>2380<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My gentleman, Cesario?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>‘Od’s lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for <\/span>
\n<\/span>nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do’t <\/span>
\n<\/span>by Sir Toby.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you: <\/span>2385<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>You drew your sword upon me without cause; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But I bespoke you fair, and hurt you not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me: I <\/span>
\n<\/span>think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown]<\/i> <\/span>2390<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: <\/span>
\n<\/span>but if he had not been in drink, he would have <\/span>
\n<\/span>tickled you othergates than he did.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How now, gentleman! how is’t with you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That’s all one: has hurt me, and there’s the end <\/span>2395<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>on’t. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, he’s drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes <\/span>
\n<\/span>were set at eight i’ the morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Then he’s a rogue, and a passy measures panyn: I <\/span>
\n<\/span>hate a drunken rogue.<\/span>2400<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with them?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I’ll help you, Sir Toby, because well be dressed together.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb and a <\/span>
\n<\/span>knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look’d to.<\/span>2405<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH, and SIR ANDREW]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter SEBASTIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman: <\/span>
\n<\/span>But, had it been the brother of my blood, <\/span>
\n<\/span>I must have done no less with wit and safety. <\/span>2410<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that <\/span>
\n<\/span>I do perceive it hath offended you: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows <\/span>
\n<\/span>We made each other but so late ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons, <\/span>2415<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>A natural perspective, that is and is not!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Antonio, O my dear Antonio! <\/span>
\n<\/span>How have the hours rack’d and tortured me, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Since I have lost thee!<\/span><\/p>\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sebastian are you?<\/span>2420<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fear’st thou that, Antonio?<\/span><\/p>\n

Antonio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How have you made division of yourself? <\/span>
\n<\/span>An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin <\/span>
\n<\/span>Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Most wonderful!<\/span>2425<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Do I stand there? I never had a brother; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Nor can there be that deity in my nature, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Of here and every where. I had a sister, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Whom the blind waves and surges have devour’d. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Of charity, what kin are you to me? <\/span>2430<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>What countryman? what name? what parentage?<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Such a Sebastian was my brother too, <\/span>
\n<\/span>So went he suited to his watery tomb: <\/span>
\n<\/span>If spirits can assume both form and suit <\/span>2435<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>You come to fright us.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A spirit I am indeed; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But am in that dimension grossly clad <\/span>
\n<\/span>Which from the womb I did participate. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, <\/span>2440<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And say ‘Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!’<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My father had a mole upon his brow.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And so had mine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And died that day when Viola from her birth <\/span>2445<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Had number’d thirteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, that record is lively in my soul! <\/span>
\n<\/span>He finished indeed his mortal act <\/span>
\n<\/span>That day that made my sister thirteen years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>If nothing lets to make us happy both <\/span>2450<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>But this my masculine usurp’d attire, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Do not embrace me till each circumstance <\/span>
\n<\/span>Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump <\/span>
\n<\/span>That I am Viola: which to confirm, <\/span>
\n<\/span>I’ll bring you to a captain in this town, <\/span>2455<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help <\/span>
\n<\/span>I was preserved to serve this noble count. <\/span>
\n<\/span>All the occurrence of my fortune since <\/span>
\n<\/span>Hath been between this lady and this lord.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[To OLIVIA]<\/i> So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: <\/span>2460<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>But nature to her bias drew in that. <\/span>
\n<\/span>You would have been contracted to a maid; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived, <\/span>
\n<\/span>You are betroth’d both to a maid and man.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Be not amazed; right noble is his blood. <\/span>2465<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, <\/span>
\n<\/span>I shall have share in this most happy wreck. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[To VIOLA]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times <\/span>
\n<\/span>Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.<\/span>2470<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>And all those sayings will I overswear; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And those swearings keep as true in soul <\/span>
\n<\/span>As doth that orbed continent the fire <\/span>
\n<\/span>That severs day from night.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Give me thy hand; <\/span>2475<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/span>And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Viola<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The captain that did bring me first on shore <\/span>
\n<\/span>Hath my maid’s garments: he upon some action <\/span>
\n<\/span>Is now in durance, at Malvolio’s suit, <\/span>
\n<\/span>A gentleman, and follower of my lady’s.<\/span>2480<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither: <\/span>
\n<\/span>And yet, alas, now I remember me, <\/span>
\n<\/span>They say, poor gentleman, he’s much distract. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>A most extracting frenzy of mine own <\/span>2485<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>From my remembrance clearly banish’d his. <\/span>
\n<\/span>How does he, sirrah?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the staves’s end as <\/span>
\n<\/span>well as a man in his case may do: has here writ a <\/span>
\n<\/span>letter to you; I should have given’t you to-day <\/span>2490<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>morning, but as a madman’s epistles are no gospels, <\/span>
\n<\/span>so it skills not much when they are delivered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Open’t, and read it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers <\/span>
\n<\/span>the madman. <\/span>2495<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>[Reads]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>‘By the Lord, madam,’\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>How now! art thou mad?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship <\/span>
\n<\/span>will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.<\/span>2500<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Prithee, read i’ thy right wits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to <\/span>
\n<\/span>read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Read it you, sirrah.<\/span><\/p>\n

[To FABIAN]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Reads]<\/i> ‘By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the <\/span>
\n<\/span>world shall know it: though you have put me into <\/span>
\n<\/span>darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over <\/span>
\n<\/span>me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as <\/span>
\n<\/span>your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced <\/span>2510<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt <\/span>
\n<\/span>not but to do myself much right, or you much shame. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little <\/span>
\n<\/span>unthought of and speak out of my injury. <\/span>
\n<\/span>THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.’<\/span>2515<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Did he write this?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, madam.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This savours not much of distraction.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>See him deliver’d, Fabian; bring him hither. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[Exit FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>2520<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>My lord so please you, these things further <\/span>
\n<\/span>thought on, <\/span>
\n<\/span>To think me as well a sister as a wife, <\/span>
\n<\/span>One day shall crown the alliance on’t, so please you, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Here at my house and at my proper cost.<\/span>2525<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer. <\/span>
\n<\/span>[To VIOLA]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>Your master quits you; and for your service done him, <\/span>
\n<\/span>So much against the mettle of your sex, <\/span>
\n<\/span>So far beneath your soft and tender breeding, <\/span>2530<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>And since you call’d me master for so long, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Here is my hand: you shall from this time be <\/span>
\n<\/span>Your master’s mistress.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>A sister! you are she.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Is this the madman?<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, my lord, this same. <\/span>
\n<\/span>How now, Malvolio!<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, you have done me wrong, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Notorious wrong.<\/span>2540<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Have I, Malvolio? no.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter. <\/span>
\n<\/span>You must not now deny it is your hand: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Or say ’tis not your seal, nor your invention: <\/span>2545<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>You can say none of this: well, grant it then <\/span>
\n<\/span>And tell me, in the modesty of honour, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Why you have given me such clear lights of favour, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Bade me come smiling and cross-garter’d to you, <\/span>
\n<\/span>To put on yellow stockings and to frown <\/span>2550<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Upon Sir Toby and the lighter people; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And, acting this in an obedient hope, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Why have you suffer’d me to be imprison’d, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And made the most notorious geck and gull <\/span>2555<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>That e’er invention play’d on? tell me why.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Though, I confess, much like the character <\/span>
\n<\/span>But out of question ’tis Maria’s hand. <\/span>
\n<\/span>And now I do bethink me, it was she <\/span>2560<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And in such forms which here were presupposed <\/span>
\n<\/span>Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content: <\/span>
\n<\/span>This practise hath most shrewdly pass’d upon thee; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But when we know the grounds and authors of it, <\/span>2565<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge <\/span>
\n<\/span>Of thine own cause.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fabian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good madam, hear me speak, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come <\/span>
\n<\/span>Taint the condition of this present hour, <\/span>2570<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Which I have wonder’d at. In hope it shall not, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Most freely I confess, myself and Toby <\/span>
\n<\/span>Set this device against Malvolio here, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts <\/span>
\n<\/span>We had conceived against him: Maria writ <\/span>2575<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>The letter at Sir Toby’s great importance; <\/span>
\n<\/span>In recompense whereof he hath married her. <\/span>
\n<\/span>How with a sportful malice it was follow’d, <\/span>
\n<\/span>May rather pluck on laughter than revenge; <\/span>
\n<\/span>If that the injuries be justly weigh’d <\/span>2580<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>That have on both sides pass’d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, ‘some are born great, some achieve greatness, <\/span>
\n<\/span>and some have greatness thrown upon them.’ I was <\/span>
\n<\/span>one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but <\/span>2585<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>that’s all one. ‘By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.’ <\/span>
\n<\/span>But do you remember? ‘Madam, why laugh you at such <\/span>
\n<\/span>a barren rascal? an you smile not, he’s gagged:’ <\/span>
\n<\/span>and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I’ll be revenged on the whole pack of you.<\/span>2590<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>He hath been most notoriously abused.<\/span><\/p>\n

Orsino<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Pursue him and entreat him to a peace: <\/span>
\n<\/span>He hath not told us of the captain yet: <\/span>
\n<\/span>When that is known and golden time convents, <\/span>2595<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>A solemn combination shall be made <\/span>
\n<\/span>Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister, <\/span>
\n<\/span>We will not part from hence. Cesario, come; <\/span>
\n<\/span>For so you shall be, while you are a man; <\/span>
\n<\/span>But when in other habits you are seen, <\/span>2600<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Orsino’s mistress and his fancy’s queen.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Exeunt all, except Clown]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Sings]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>When that I was and a little tiny boy, <\/span>
\n<\/span>With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, <\/span>2605<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>A foolish thing was but a toy, <\/span>
\n<\/span>For the rain it raineth every day. <\/span>
\n<\/span>But when I came to man’s estate, <\/span>
\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>‘Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, <\/span>2610<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>But when I came, alas! to wive, <\/span>
\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>By swaggering could I never thrive, <\/span>
\n<\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>2615<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>But when I came unto my beds, <\/span>
\n<\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>With toss-pots still had drunken heads, <\/span>
\n<\/span>For the rain, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>A great while ago the world begun, <\/span>2620<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>With hey, ho, &c. <\/span>
\n<\/span>But that’s all one, our play is done, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And we’ll strive to please you every day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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