{"id":162,"date":"2015-06-24T16:02:55","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/americanlit1x22x1\/?post_type=chapter&p=162"},"modified":"2015-06-24T17:45:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T17:45:50","slug":"act-iv","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-britlit1\/chapter\/act-iv\/","title":{"raw":"Act IV","rendered":"Act IV"},"content":{"raw":"[caption id=\"attachment_185\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"235\"]\"Oil<\/a> Viola and the Countess, 1859[\/caption]\r\n

Act IV, Scene 1<\/h2>\r\nBefore OLIVIA\u2019s house.\r\n

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

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Let me be clear of thee.<\/span>1955<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come <\/span>\r\n<\/span>speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou <\/span>1960<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>know'st not me.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some <\/span>\r\n<\/span>great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my <\/span>\r\n<\/span>folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy <\/span>1965<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my <\/span>\r\n<\/span>lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There's <\/span>\r\n<\/span>money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give <\/span>\r\n<\/span>worse payment.<\/span>1970<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men <\/span>\r\n<\/span>that give fools money get themselves a good <\/span>\r\n<\/span>report\u2014after fourteen years' purchase.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.<\/span>1975<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are all <\/span>\r\n<\/span>the people mad?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be <\/span>\r\n<\/span>in some of your coats for two pence.<\/span>1980<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come on, sir; hold.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to work <\/span>\r\n<\/span>with him; I'll have an action of battery against <\/span>\r\n<\/span>him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I <\/span>1985<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Let go thy hand.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young <\/span>\r\n<\/span>soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If <\/span>1990<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two <\/span>\r\n<\/span>of this malapert blood from you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!<\/span>1995<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Be not offended, dear Cesario. <\/span>2000<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Rudesby, be gone! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I prithee, gentle friend, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway <\/span>\r\n<\/span>In this uncivil and thou unjust extent <\/span>2005<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Against thy peace. Go with me to my house, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks <\/span>\r\n<\/span>This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me, <\/span>2010<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>He started one poor heart of mine in thee.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What relish is in this? how runs the stream? <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Or I am mad, or else this is a dream: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!<\/span>2015<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, I will.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, say so, and so be!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exeunt]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Act IV, Scene 2<\/h2>\r\n

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

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

Maria<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do <\/span>\r\n<\/span>it quickly; I'll call Sir Toby the whilst.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself <\/span>2025<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>in't; and I would I were the first that ever <\/span>\r\n<\/span>dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to <\/span>\r\n<\/span>become the function well, nor lean enough to be <\/span>\r\n<\/span>thought a good student; but to be said an honest man <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a <\/span>2030<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Jove bless thee, master Parson.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily <\/span>2035<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>said to a niece of King Gorboduc, 'That that is is;' <\/span>\r\n<\/span>so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To him, Sir Topas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!<\/span>2040<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Within]<\/i> Who calls there?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio <\/span>\r\n<\/span>the lunatic.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.<\/span>2045<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>talkest thou nothing but of ladies?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well said, Master Parson.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me <\/span>2050<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>here in hideous darkness.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most <\/span>\r\n<\/span>modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones <\/span>\r\n<\/span>that will use the devil himself with courtesy: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>sayest thou that house is dark?<\/span>2055<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>As hell, Sir Topas.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>and the clearstores toward the south north are as <\/span>\r\n<\/span>lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of <\/span>\r\n<\/span>obstruction?<\/span>2060<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness <\/span>\r\n<\/span>but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than <\/span>\r\n<\/span>the Egyptians in their fog.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though <\/span>2065<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there <\/span>\r\n<\/span>was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you <\/span>\r\n<\/span>are: make the trial of it in any constant question.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.<\/span>2070<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What thinkest thou of his opinion?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will <\/span>\r\n<\/span>allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest <\/span>2075<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My most exquisite Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I am for all waters.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Maria<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and <\/span>2080<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>gown: he sees thee not.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how <\/span>\r\n<\/span>thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this <\/span>\r\n<\/span>knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I <\/span>\r\n<\/span>would he were, for I am now so far in offence with <\/span>2085<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this <\/span>\r\n<\/span>sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Singing]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>'Hey, Robin, jolly Robin, <\/span>2090<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Tell me how thy lady does.'<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>'My lady is unkind, perdy.'<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>'Alas, why is she so?'<\/span>2095<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, I say!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>'She loves another'\u2014Who calls, ha?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my <\/span>\r\n<\/span>hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to <\/span>2100<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>thee for't.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Master Malvolio?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, good fool.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I <\/span>2105<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no <\/span>\r\n<\/span>better in your wits than a fool.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to <\/span>2110<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>face me out of my wits.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Advise you what you say; the minister is here. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore! <\/span>\r\n<\/span>endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain <\/span>\r\n<\/span>bibble babble.<\/span>2115<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>sir? not I, sir. God be wi' you, good Sir Topas. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, fool, fool, I say!<\/span>2120<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am <\/span>\r\n<\/span>shent for speaking to you.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I <\/span>\r\n<\/span>tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well-a-day that you were, sir<\/span>2125<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and <\/span>\r\n<\/span>light; and convey what I will set down to my lady: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing <\/span>\r\n<\/span>of letter did.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you <\/span>2130<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see his <\/span>\r\n<\/span>brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree: I <\/span>2135<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>prithee, be gone.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Singing]<\/i> <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I am gone, sir, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And anon, sir, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>I'll be with you again, <\/span>2140<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>In a trice, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Like to the old Vice, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Your need to sustain; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Who, with dagger of lath, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>In his rage and his wrath, <\/span>2145<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Cries, ah, ha! to the devil: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Like a mad lad, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Pare thy nails, dad; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Adieu, good man devil.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

[Exit]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Act IV, Scene 3<\/h2>\r\n

OLIVIA\u2019s garden.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This is the air; that is the glorious sun; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio, then? <\/span>2155<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>I could not find him at the Elephant: <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Yet there he was; and there I found this credit, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That he did range the town to seek me out. <\/span>\r\n<\/span>His counsel now might do me golden service; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>For though my soul disputes well with my sense, <\/span>2160<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>That this may be some error, but no madness, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune <\/span>\r\n<\/span>So far exceed all instance, all discourse, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That I am ready to distrust mine eyes <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And wrangle with my reason that persuades me <\/span>2165<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>To any other trust but that I am mad <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>She could not sway her house, command her followers, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Take and give back affairs and their dispatch <\/span>\r\n<\/span>With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing <\/span>2170<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>As I perceive she does: there's something in't <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Now go with me and with this holy man <\/span>2175<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Into the chantry by: there, before him, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And underneath that consecrated roof, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>Plight me the full assurance of your faith; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That my most jealous and too doubtful soul <\/span>\r\n<\/span>May live at peace. He shall conceal it <\/span>2180<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span>Whiles you are willing it shall come to note, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>What time we will our celebration keep <\/span>\r\n<\/span>According to my birth. What do you say?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I'll follow this good man, and go with you; <\/span>\r\n<\/span>And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.<\/span>2185<\/b><\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\r\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine, <\/span>\r\n<\/span>That they may fairly note this act of mine!<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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

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

Viola and the Countess, 1859<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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

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

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

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Let me be clear of thee.<\/span>1955<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well held out, i’ faith! No, I do not know you; nor <\/span>
\n<\/span>I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come <\/span>
\n<\/span>speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario; <\/span>
\n<\/span>nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thou <\/span>1960<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>know’st not me.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some <\/span>
\n<\/span>great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my <\/span>
\n<\/span>folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, <\/span>
\n<\/span>will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thy <\/span>1965<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my <\/span>
\n<\/span>lady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There’s <\/span>
\n<\/span>money for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall give <\/span>
\n<\/span>worse payment.<\/span>1970<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men <\/span>
\n<\/span>that give fools money get themselves a good <\/span>
\n<\/span>report\u2014after fourteen years’ purchase.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Now, sir, have I met you again? there’s for you.<\/span>1975<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why, there’s for thee, and there, and there. Are all <\/span>
\n<\/span>the people mad?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hold, sir, or I’ll throw your dagger o’er the house.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be <\/span>
\n<\/span>in some of your coats for two pence.<\/span>1980<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come on, sir; hold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Andrew Aguecheek<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, let him alone: I’ll go another way to work <\/span>
\n<\/span>with him; I’ll have an action of battery against <\/span>
\n<\/span>him, if there be any law in Illyria: though I <\/span>1985<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>struck him first, yet it’s no matter for that.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Let go thy hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young <\/span>
\n<\/span>soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? If <\/span>1990<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two <\/span>
\n<\/span>of this malapert blood from you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!<\/span>1995<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam!<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Where manners ne’er were preach’d! out of my sight! <\/span>
\n<\/span>Be not offended, dear Cesario. <\/span>2000<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Rudesby, be gone! <\/span>
\n<\/span>[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>I prithee, gentle friend, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway <\/span>
\n<\/span>In this uncivil and thou unjust extent <\/span>2005<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Against thy peace. Go with me to my house, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks <\/span>
\n<\/span>This ruffian hath botch’d up, that thou thereby <\/span>
\n<\/span>Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me, <\/span>2010<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>He started one poor heart of mine in thee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What relish is in this? how runs the stream? <\/span>
\n<\/span>Or I am mad, or else this is a dream: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep; <\/span>
\n<\/span>If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!<\/span>2015<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, come, I prithee; would thou’ldst be ruled by me!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madam, I will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>O, say so, and so be!<\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Act IV, Scene 2<\/h2>\n

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

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

Maria<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I prithee, put on this gown and this beard; <\/span>
\n<\/span>make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate: do <\/span>
\n<\/span>it quickly; I’ll call Sir Toby the whilst.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself <\/span>2025<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>in’t; and I would I were the first that ever <\/span>
\n<\/span>dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to <\/span>
\n<\/span>become the function well, nor lean enough to be <\/span>
\n<\/span>thought a good student; but to be said an honest man <\/span>
\n<\/span>and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a <\/span>2030<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Jove bless thee, master Parson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for, as the old hermit of <\/span>
\n<\/span>Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily <\/span>2035<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>said to a niece of King Gorboduc, ‘That that is is;’ <\/span>
\n<\/span>so I, being Master Parson, am Master Parson; for, <\/span>
\n<\/span>what is ‘that’ but ‘that,’ and ‘is’ but ‘is’?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To him, Sir Topas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!<\/span>2040<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Within]<\/i> Who calls there?<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio <\/span>
\n<\/span>the lunatic.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady.<\/span>2045<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man! <\/span>
\n<\/span>talkest thou nothing but of ladies?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well said, Master Parson.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir <\/span>
\n<\/span>Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me <\/span>2050<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>here in hideous darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most <\/span>
\n<\/span>modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones <\/span>
\n<\/span>that will use the devil himself with courtesy: <\/span>
\n<\/span>sayest thou that house is dark?<\/span>2055<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>As hell, Sir Topas.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Why it hath bay windows transparent as barricadoes, <\/span>
\n<\/span>and the clearstores toward the south north are as <\/span>
\n<\/span>lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of <\/span>
\n<\/span>obstruction?<\/span>2060<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness <\/span>
\n<\/span>but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than <\/span>
\n<\/span>the Egyptians in their fog.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though <\/span>2065<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there <\/span>
\n<\/span>was never man thus abused. I am no more mad than you <\/span>
\n<\/span>are: make the trial of it in any constant question.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild fowl?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.<\/span>2070<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>What thinkest thou of his opinion?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fare thee well. Remain thou still in darkness: <\/span>
\n<\/span>thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras ere I will <\/span>
\n<\/span>allow of thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock, lest <\/span>2075<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas, Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>My most exquisite Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I am for all waters.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maria<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and <\/span>2080<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>gown: he sees thee not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sir Toby Belch<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>To him in thine own voice, and bring me word how <\/span>
\n<\/span>thou findest him: I would we were well rid of this <\/span>
\n<\/span>knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I <\/span>
\n<\/span>would he were, for I am now so far in offence with <\/span>2085<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>my niece that I cannot pursue with any safety this <\/span>
\n<\/span>sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber.<\/span><\/p>\n

[Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Singing]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>‘Hey, Robin, jolly Robin, <\/span>2090<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Tell me how thy lady does.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>‘My lady is unkind, perdy.’<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>‘Alas, why is she so?’<\/span>2095<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, I say!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>‘She loves another’\u2014Who calls, ha?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my <\/span>
\n<\/span>hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink and paper: <\/span>
\n<\/span>as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to <\/span>2100<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>thee for’t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Master Malvolio?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Ay, good fool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused: I <\/span>2105<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>But as well? then you are mad indeed, if you be no <\/span>
\n<\/span>better in your wits than a fool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>They have here propertied me; keep me in darkness, <\/span>
\n<\/span>send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to <\/span>2110<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>face me out of my wits.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Advise you what you say; the minister is here. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore! <\/span>
\n<\/span>endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain <\/span>
\n<\/span>bibble babble.<\/span>2115<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Sir Topas!<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Who, I, <\/span>
\n<\/span>sir? not I, sir. God be wi’ you, good Sir Topas. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Merry, amen. I will, sir, I will.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, fool, fool, I say!<\/span>2120<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Alas, sir, be patient. What say you sir? I am <\/span>
\n<\/span>shent for speaking to you.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Good fool, help me to some light and some paper: I <\/span>
\n<\/span>tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Well-a-day that you were, sir<\/span>2125<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>By this hand, I am. Good fool, some ink, paper and <\/span>
\n<\/span>light; and convey what I will set down to my lady: <\/span>
\n<\/span>it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing <\/span>
\n<\/span>of letter did.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I will help you to’t. But tell me true, are you <\/span>2130<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit?<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Nay, I’ll ne’er believe a madman till I see his <\/span>
\n<\/span>brains. I will fetch you light and paper and ink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Malvolio<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Fool, I’ll requite it in the highest degree: I <\/span>2135<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>prithee, be gone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Feste<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>[Singing]<\/i> <\/span>
\n<\/span>I am gone, sir, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And anon, sir, <\/span>
\n<\/span>I’ll be with you again, <\/span>2140<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>In a trice, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Like to the old Vice, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Your need to sustain; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Who, with dagger of lath, <\/span>
\n<\/span>In his rage and his wrath, <\/span>2145<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Cries, ah, ha! to the devil: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Like a mad lad, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Pare thy nails, dad; <\/span>
\n<\/span>Adieu, good man devil.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

 <\/p>\n

Act IV, Scene 3<\/h2>\n

OLIVIA\u2019s garden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>This is the air; that is the glorious sun; <\/span>
\n<\/span>This pearl she gave me, I do feel’t and see’t; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And though ’tis wonder that enwraps me thus, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Yet ’tis not madness. Where’s Antonio, then? <\/span>2155<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>I could not find him at the Elephant: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Yet there he was; and there I found this credit, <\/span>
\n<\/span>That he did range the town to seek me out. <\/span>
\n<\/span>His counsel now might do me golden service; <\/span>
\n<\/span>For though my soul disputes well with my sense, <\/span>2160<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>That this may be some error, but no madness, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune <\/span>
\n<\/span>So far exceed all instance, all discourse, <\/span>
\n<\/span>That I am ready to distrust mine eyes <\/span>
\n<\/span>And wrangle with my reason that persuades me <\/span>2165<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>To any other trust but that I am mad <\/span>
\n<\/span>Or else the lady’s mad; yet, if ’twere so, <\/span>
\n<\/span>She could not sway her house, command her followers, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Take and give back affairs and their dispatch <\/span>
\n<\/span>With such a smooth, discreet and stable bearing <\/span>2170<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>As I perceive she does: there’s something in’t <\/span>
\n<\/span>That is deceiveable. But here the lady comes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean well, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Now go with me and with this holy man <\/span>2175<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Into the chantry by: there, before him, <\/span>
\n<\/span>And underneath that consecrated roof, <\/span>
\n<\/span>Plight me the full assurance of your faith; <\/span>
\n<\/span>That my most jealous and too doubtful soul <\/span>
\n<\/span>May live at peace. He shall conceal it <\/span>2180<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span>Whiles you are willing it shall come to note, <\/span>
\n<\/span>What time we will our celebration keep <\/span>
\n<\/span>According to my birth. What do you say?<\/span><\/p>\n

Sebastian<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>I’ll follow this good man, and go with you; <\/span>
\n<\/span>And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.<\/span>2185<\/b><\/span>
\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Olivia<\/b><\/a><\/span>. <\/b>Then lead the way, good father; and heavens so shine, <\/span>
\n<\/span>That they may fairly note this act of mine!<\/span><\/p>\n

[Exeunt]<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t

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