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SCENT IV.

OR, WHAT YOU WILL.

Iknow not; but thy intercepter, full of despight, bloody as the hunter, attends thee at the orchard eu: dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assailant is quick, skilful, and deadly. Via. You mistake, sir: I am sure, no man hath any quarrel to me; my remembrance is very free ant clear from any image of offence done to any

man.

Se To. You'll find it otherwise, I assure you: therefore, if you hold your life at any price, betake you to your guard; for your opposite bath in him what youth, strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish Kan withal.

Vo I pray you, sir, what is he?

Sir To. He is knight, dubbed with unhacked raper, and on carpet consideration; but he is a devil in private brawl: souls and bodies hath he dvanced three; and his incensement at this moment is so implacable, that satisfaction can be none but by pangs of death and sepulchre: hob, nob, is his word; give t or take't.

Ve. I will return again into the house, and desire some conduct of the lady. I am no fighter. I have heard of some kind of men, that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor: belike, is a man of that quirk.

Se T. Sir, no; his indignation derives itself out of a very competent injury; therefore get you on, and give him his desire. Back you shall not to the louse, unless you undertake that with me, which with as much safety you might answer him; therefore, on, or strip your sword stark naked: for medde you must, that's certain, or forswear to wear imon about you.

Via. This is as uncivil, as strange. I beseech you, done this courteous office, as to know of the knight what my offence to him is: it is something of my nerligence, nothing of my purpose.

S To. I will do so. Signior Fabian, stay you by this gentleman til! my return. [Exir Sir TOBY. Via, Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter? Fab. I know the knight is incensed against you, even to a mortal abitrement; but nothing of the

errumstance more.

lia. I beseech you, what manner of man is he? Fab. Nothing of that wonderful promise, to read him by his form, as you are like to find him in the proof of his valor. He is, in leed. sir, the most skilful, bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of Illyria: Will y walk towards him? I will make your peace with him, if I can.

Fo. I shall be much bound to you for't: I am one, that would rather go with sir priest, than sir Luight: I care not who knows so much of iny mettle. [Exeunt.

Re-enter Sir TOBY with Sir ANDREW. Sir To. Why, man, he's a very devil; I have not seen such a virago. I had a pass with him, rapier. srahbard, and all, and he gives me the stuck-in, with such a mortal motion, that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he pays you as surely as your feet hit the ground they step on: They say he has been fencer to the Sophy.

Ant. Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him. To. Ay, but he will not now be pacified: bian can scarce hold him yonder.

the supportance of his vow; he protests, he will no、 hurt you.

Vio. Pray God defend me! A little thing would make me tell them how much I lack of a man.

Asite Fab. Give ground, if you see him furious. Sir To. Come, sir Andrew, there's no remedy. the gentleman will, for his honor s sake, have on bout with you: he cannot by the duello avoid it but he has promised me, as he is a gentleman and a soldier, he will not hurt you. Come on; to t. Sir And. Pray God, he keep his oath! [Draws. Enter ANTONIO.

man

Vio. I do assure you, 'tis against my will. Draws
Ant. Put up your sword;-if this young gentle-
Have done offence, I take the fault on me;
If you offend him, I for him defy you. [Drawing.
Sir To. You, sir? why, what are you
Ant. One, sir, that for his love dares yet do more
Than you have heard him brag to you he will.
Sir To. Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for
[Draws.
you.

Enter two Officers.

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Fab. O good sir Toby, hold; here come the officers.
Sir To. I'll be with you anon. To ANTON10.
Vio. Pray, sir, put up your sword, if you please.
To Sir ANDREW.

Sir And. Marry, will 1, sir;-and. for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my word: He will bear you easily, and reins well.

10. This is the man, do thy office.
2 Off. Antonio, I arrest thee at the suit
Of Count Orsino.

Ant.

You do mistake me, sir.

1 Off. No, sir, no jot; I know your favor well,
Though now you have no sea-cap on your head.--
Take him away; he knows, I know him well.
Ant. I must obey. This comes with seeking
you;

But there's no remedy; I shall answer it.
What will you do? Now my necessity
Makes me to ask you for my purse: It grieves me
Much more for what I cannot do for you,
Than what befals myself. You stand amaz'd;
But be of comfort.

2 Off. Come, sir, away.

Ant. I must entreat of you some of that money.
Vio. What money, sir?

For the fair kindness you have show'd me here,
And, part, being prompted by your present trouble,
Out of my lean and low ability
I'll lend you something: my having is not much;
I'll make division of my present with you:
Hold, there is half my coffer.
Ant.
Will you deny me now!
Ist possible that my deserts to you
Can lack persuasion Do not tempt my misery,
Lest that it make me so unsound a man,
As to upbraid you for those kindnesses
That I have done for you.

Vio.
I know of none;
Nor know I you by voice, or any feature:
I hate ingratitude more in a man,
Fa-Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.
O heavens themselves!
2 Off. Come, sir, I pray you, go.
Ant. Let me speak a little. This youth that you
see here,

So Ant. Plague on't; an I thought he had been valint, and so cunning in fence. I'd have seen him demned cre I'd have challenged him. Let him let the matter slip, and I'll give him my horse, grey Caplet

Sir To. I'll make the motion: Stand here, make a good show on't; this shall end without the perdit n of souls. Marry, I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you. Aside.

Re-enter FABIAN and VIOLA.

I have his horse [To FAB.] to take up the quarrel;
have persuaded him, the youth's a devil.
F. He is as horribly conceited of him; and
pants, and looks pale, as if a bear were at his heels.
ST. There's no remedy, sir; he will fight with
E for his oath's sake: marry, he hath better be-
thought him of his quarrel, and he finds that now
scarce to be worth talking of: therefore draw, for
• Rapier.
• Ready.
Stoccato, an Italian term in fencing.

Ant.

I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death;
Reliev'd him with such sanctity of love.—
And to his image, which, methought, did promise
Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
The time goes by.
1 Off. What's that to us?

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SCENE I.-The Street before Olivia's House. Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown.

Clo. Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you you

Seb. Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow; Let me be clear of thee.

Cle. Well held out, i'faith! No, I do not know you; nor I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is not master Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither.Nothing that is so, is so.

Seb. I pr'ythee, vent thy folly somewhere else; Thou know'st not me.

Clo. Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.-I pr'ythee now, ungird thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady: Shall I vent to her, that thou art coming?

Seb. I pr'ythee, foolish greek, depart from me; There's money for thee; if thou tarry longer, I shall give worse payment.

Clo. By my troth, thou hast an open hand :These wise men that give fools money, get themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase. Enter Sir ANDREW, Sir TOBY and FABIAN. Sir And. Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you. [Striking SEBASTIAN. Seb. Why, there's for thee, and there, and there: Are all the people mad? [Beating Sir ANDREW. Sir To. Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.

Clo. This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be in some of your coats for two-pence.

Exit Clown. Sir To. Come on, sir; hold. [Holding SEB. Sir And. Nay, let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him; I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria: though 1 struck him first, yet it's no matter for that. Seb. Let go thy hand.

Sir To. Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.

Seb. I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou know?

If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword. [Draws. Sir To. What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two of this malapert blood from you.

Enter OLIVIA.

[Draws.

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Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botched up, that thou thereby
Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:
Do not deny: Beshrew his soul for me,
He started one poor heart of mine in thee.

Seb. What relish is in this? how runs the stream!
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream :-
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep:
Oli. Nay, come, I pr'ythee: 'Would thou'dst be
rul'd by me!
Seb. Madam, I will.
Oli.

O, say so, and so be!
[Exeunt.

SCENE II-A Room in Olivia's House.

Enter MARIA and Clown.

Mar. Nay, I pr'ythee, put on this gown, and this beard; make him believe thou art sir Topas. the curate; do it quickly: I'll call sir Toby the [Exit MARIA.

whilst.

Clo. Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in't; and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not fat enough to become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student: but to be said, an honest man, and a good housekeeper, goes as fairly, as to say, a careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.

Enter Sir TOBY BELCH and MARIA.

Sir To. Jove bless thee, Master Parson.

Clo. Bonos dies, sir Toby: for as the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of king Gorboduc, That, that is, is; so I, being master parson, an; master parson; For what is that, but that? and is, but is?"

Sir To. To him, sir Topas.

Clo. What, hoa ! say,- Peace in this prison! Sir To. The knave counterfeits well; a good knave. Mal. In an inner chamber.] Who calls there! Malvolio, the lunatic. Clo. Sir Topas, the curate, who comes to visit

Mal. Sir Topas, sir Topas, good sir Topas, go to my lady.

Clo. Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man talkest thou nothing but of ladies? Sir To. Well said, master parson.

Mal. Sir Topas, never was a man thus wronged: good sir Topas, do not think I am mad; they have laid me here in hideous darkness.

Clo. Fie, thou dishonest Sathan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those geň tle ones, that will use the devil himself with courtesy: Say'st thou, that house is dark!

Mal. As hell, sir Topas.

Clo. Why, it hath bay-windows transparent as barricadoes, and the clear stones towards the south north are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction?

Mal. I am not mad, sir Topas; I say to you, this house is dark.

Clo. Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou ar nore puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

Confederates.

Mal. I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there was never man thus abused: I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question.

Co. What is the opinion of Pythagoras, concerning wild-fowl!

Mal. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird.

Co. What thinkest thou of his opinion?

Mal. I think nobly of the soul, and no way approse his opinion.

Co. Fare thee well: Remain thou still in darkDess: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras, ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well.

Mat. Sir Topas, sir Topas,—

Sir To. My most exquisite sir Topas!
Clo. Nay, I'm for all waters."

Mar. Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown; he sees thee not.

S To. To him in thine own voice, and bring he word how thou findest him: I would, we were well rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently delvered, I would he were; for I am now so far in offence with my niece, that I cannot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Come by and byte my chamber. [Exeunt Sir Tony and MARIA. Ca. Hey Robin, jolly Robin.

Tell me how thy lady does.

Mr. Fool,

Cle. My lady is unkind, perdy. Mat. Fool,

Alas, why is she so?

Mal. Fool, I say;

[Singing.

Co. She loves another- Who calls, ha?

Mal. Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand. help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and Paper; as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for t.

Ca. Master Malvolio! Mai. Ay, good fool. C. Alas, sir, how fell you beside your five wits? Mal. Fool, there was never man so notoriously acused; I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Ca But as well! then you are mad, indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a fool.

Mil. They have here propertied me; keep me

in darkness, send ministers to me, asses, and do all They can to face me out of my wits.

Co. Advise you what you say; the minister is bere. Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens reore! endeavor thy self to sleep, and leave thy vain bile habble.

Mal. Sr Topas,

Co. Maintain no words with him, good fellow. 1, sir! not I, sir. God b' wi' you, good sir Topas-Marry, amen.-I will, sir, I will. Mai Fool, fool, fool, I say,-.

Co. Alas, sir, be patient. What say you, sir? I an shent for speaking to you.

Mal. Good tool, help me to some light, and some per; I tell thee, I am as well in my wits, as auy man in Illyria.

Well-a-day, that you were, sir! Mal By this hand, I am: Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey what I will set down

to my lady; it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of letter did.

Clo. I will help you to 't. But tell me true, are you not mad indeed? or do you but counterfeit Mal. Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true. Clo. Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman, tül I see his brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. Mal. Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree⚫ I pr'ythee be gone.

Clo.

I am gone, sir, And anon, sir, Pll be with you again, In a trice;

Like to the old vice Your need to sustain.

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This pearl she gave me, I do feel ́t and see`t:
And though 'tis wonder that enwraps me thus,
Yet 'tis not madness. Where's Antonio then?
I could not find him at the Elephant:
Yet there he was; and there I found his credit,1
That he did range the town to seek me out.
His counsel now might do me golden service:
For though my soul disputes well with my sense,
That this may be some error, but no madness,
Yet doth this accident and flood of fortune
So far exceed all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes,
And wrangle with my reason, that persuades nie
To any other trust, but that I am mad,
Or else the lady's mad; yet, if 'twere so,
She could not sway her house, command her fol-
Take, and give back, affairs and their despatch,
With such a smooth, discreet, and stable bearing,
As, I perceive, she does: there's something in 't,
That is deceivable. But here comes the lady.

lowers,

Enter OLIVIA and a Priest.

Oli. Blame not this haste of mine; If you mear well,

Now go with me and with this holy man,
Into the chantry by: there, before him,
And underneath that consecrated roof,
Plight me the full assurance of your faith:
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
May live at peace: He shall conceal it,
Whiles you are willing it shall come to note;
What time we will our celebration keep
According to my birth.- What do you say?
Seb. I'll follow this good man, and go with you;
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
Oli. Then lead the way, good father;-
heaven so shine,

That they may fairly note this act of mine!

And

[Exeunt.

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Clo. Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of ine; now my toes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, 1 profit in the knowledge of myself; and by any friends I am abused: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, it your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then the worse for my friends, and the better for my toes.

Duke. Why, this is excellent.

Co. By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends.

Duke. Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold.

Co. But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another.

Dan. O, you give me ill counsel.

Clo. Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your hesh and blood obey it.

Duke. Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer; there's another.

Cio. Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old saying is, the third pays for all: the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of St. Bennet, sir, may put you in mind: One, two, three. Duke. You can fool no more money out of me at this throw: if you will let your lady know, I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my bounty further.

Cio. Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come agam. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think, that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness: but as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon. Exu Clown.

Enter ANTONIO and Officers.

Vio. Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me. Duke. That face of his I do remember wed; Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd As black as Vulcan, m the smoke of war: A bowbling vessel was he captain of, For shallow draught, and buik, unprizable; With which such scathful grappie did he make With the most noble botto.n of our fleet, That very envy, and the tongue of loss, Cry'd time and honor on hum. What's the matter? iOff. Ors.no, this is that Antonio, That took the Phoenix, and her fraught

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And this is he, that did the Tiger board,
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:
Here in the streets, desperate of shame, and state,
In private brabble did we apprehend him.

Vio. He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side;
But, in conclusion, put strange speech upon me,
I know not what 'twas, but distraction.

Duke. Notable pirate! thou sait-water thief! What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, Whom thou, in terms so bloody, and so dear, Hast made thine enemies!

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Be pleas'd that I shake off these names you give me ;
Antonio never yet was thiet, or pirate;
Though, I confess, on base and ground enough,
Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
That most ingrateful boy there, by your side,
From the rude sea s enrag d and foamy mouth
Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:
His life I gave him, and did thereto add
My love, without retention, or restraint,
All his in dedication: for his sake,
Did I expose myself, pure for his love,
Into the danger of this adverse town;
Drew to defend him, when he was beset;
Where being apprehended, his false cunning,
(Not meaning to partake with me in danger,)
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
And grew a twenty-years-removed thing,

While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,
Which I had recommended to his use
Not half an hour before.

Vio.

How can this be?

Duke. When came he to this town!

Ant. To-day, my lord; and for three months before,

(No interim, not a minute's vacancy,)
Both day and night did we keep company.

Enter OLIVIA and Attendants.

Duke. Here comes the countess; now hea en walks on earth.

• Freight.

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Still so cruel ?

Oli. Still so constant, lord.

Duke. What! to perverseness? you uncivil lady To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull st offerings hath breath'd out, That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do! Oli. Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.

Duke. Why should I not, had I the heart to do it, Like to the Egyptian thief, at point of death, Kill what I love; a savage jealousy, That sometime savors nobly!-But hear me this: Since you to non-regardance cast my faith, And that I partly know the instrument That screws me from my true place in your favor, Live you, the marble-breasted tyrant, still; But this, your minion, whom, I know, you love, And whoin, by heaven, I swear, I tender dearly, Hun will I tear out of that cruel eye,

Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.Come boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mschief;

I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
To spite a raven's heart within a dove. [Going.
Vio. And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.

Oli. Where goes Cesario?
Vio.

Following

After him I love,
More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
More, by all mores, than e'er i shall love wite:
If I do feign, you witnesses above,
Punish my life, for tainting of my love!

Oli. Ah me, detested! how am I beguild!
Vio. Who does beguile you? who does do you
wrong?

Oli. Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?
Call forth the holy father. Exit an Attendant.
Duke.
Come away. To V10. A.
Oli. Whither, my lord? -Cesario, husband, sidy.
Duke. Husband?

Oli.
Ay, husband; Can he that deny?
Duke. Her husband, sirrah?

Vio.
No, my lord, not 1.
Oi. Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear,
That makes thee strangle thy propriety:
Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up;
Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art
As great as that thou fear'st.-0, welcome, faut er!
Re-enter Attendant and Priest.

Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,
Here to unfold (though lately we intended
To keep in darkness, what occasion now
Reveals before 'tis ripe) what thou dost know
Hath newly past between this youth and me.
Priest. A contract of eternal bond of love,
Confirm d by mutual joinder of your hands.
Attested by the holy close of lips,

Strengthened by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:
Since when, my watch hath told ine, toward my

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Q. Who has done this, sir Andrew?

Er And. The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we tock him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.

Dake. My gentleman, Cesario!

Sir And. Od's lifelings, here he is: -You broke my bead for nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to Git by sir Toby.

Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you: Y drew your sword upon me. without cause; But I pake you fair, and hurt you not.

Sr And. If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have br me; I think, you set nothing by a bloody cox

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But had it been the brother of my blood,

Lust have done no less, with wit, and safety. You throw a strange regard upon me, and

by that I do perceive it hath oflended you; Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows

We made each other but so late ago.

Seb. O, that recórd is lively in my soul! He finished, indeed, his mortal act That day that made my sister thirteen years. Vio. If not ing lets to make us happy both, But this my masculine usurp'd attire," Do not embrace me, till eacli circumstance of place, time, fortune, do cohere, and jump, That I am Viola: which to confirm, I'll bring you to a captain in this town, Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help I was preserv'd, to serve this noble count: All the occurrence of my fortune since Hath been between this lady and this lord. Seb. So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: [TO OLIVIA. But nature to her bias drew in that. You would have been contracted to a maid; Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived, You are betroth'd both to a maid and man. Duke. Be not amaz'd; right noble is his blood.→ If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, I shall have share in this most happy wreck · Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times,

TO VIOLA

Thou never shouldst love woman like to me

Vio. And all those sayings will I over-swear; And all those swearings keep as true in soul, As doth that orb'd continent, the fire, That severs day from night.

Duke.

Give me thy hand, And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds. Vio. The captain, that did bring me first on shore, Is now in durance; at Malvolio's suit, Hath my maid's garments: he, upon some action,

A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.

Oli. He shall enlarge him;-Fetch Malvolio hither:

And yet, alas, now I remember nic,
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract
Re-enter Clown, with a Letter.

A most extracting frenzy of mine own
From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.-
How does he, sirrah?

stave's end, as well as a man in his case may do: Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Beelzebub at the he has here writ a letter to you; I should have giv en it to you to-day morning; but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much, when they are delivered.

Oli. Open it, and read it.

Clo. Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman:- - By the Lord, madam,-Oli. How now, art thou nad?

Clo. No, madam, I do but read madness: an your

Dake. One face, one voice, one habit, and two ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must

persons;

A natural perspective, that is, and is not.

Seh. Antonio, O my dear Antonio!

Ew have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me, Snce I have lost thee!

Aat. Sebastian are you?

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Fear'st thou that, Antonio? Ant. How have you made division of yourself?A apple, cleft in two, is not more twin Thalese two creatures. Which is Sebastian? G. Most wonderful!

M. Do I stand there? I never had a brother:
Norcan there be that deity in my nature,
fare and every where. I had a sister,
Won the blind waves and surges have devour'd:-
Charity, what kin are you to ine! To VIOLA.
What countryman? what name? what parentage?
Pa of Messaline: Sebastian was my father;
Suha Sebastian was my brother too,
No went he suited to his watery tomb:
pants can assume both form and suit,
I come to fright us.

A spirit I am, indeed;
Bam in that dimension grossly clad,
Nch from the womb I did participate.
Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
ald my tears let fall upon your cheek.
And say-Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!
My father had a mole upon his brow.
5. And so had mine.

F. And died that day when Viola from her birth Dad number'd thirteen years.

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Oli. Pr'ythee, read i thy right wits.

Clo. So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to read thus: therefore perpend, my princess and give ear.

Oli. Read it you, sirrah.

TO FABIAN.

Fab. Reads. By the lord, madam, you wrong me, and the worl! shall know it: though you have put me into darkners, and given your drunken cousin rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right, or you much shame. Think of ine as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and Speak out of my injury. The madly used

Oli. Did he write this? Clo. Ay, madam.

MALVOLIO

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