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Seb. O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble. Ant. If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant.

Seb. If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once my bosom is full of kindness, and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.

[Exit.

Ant. The gentleness of all the gods go with thee! I have many enemies in Orsino's court, Else would I very shortly see thee there. But, come what may, I do adore thee so, That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.

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[Exit.

SCENE II. A street.

Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following.

Mal. Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia? Vio. Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since arrived but hither.

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Mal. She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself. She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord into a desperate assurance she will none of him and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to come again in his affairs,

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unless it be to report your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.

Vio. She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.

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Mal. Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be it his that finds it.

[Exit.

Vio. I left no ring with her what means this lady? 15
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me; indeed, so much,
That methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.

She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.

None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.
I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,

Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper-false

9, 10 Receive it so] Receive it, sir Capell.

11 the ring of me: I'll] the ring of me,

Пle Ff (I'le FF). the ring of me!
I'll Malone (Anon. conj.). no ring
of me; I'll Dyce, ed. 2 (Malone
conj.). this ring of me! She'll
Malone conj.

16 have not] should have Hanmer.
18 That......her] Methought her eager
Seymour conj. That methought that
her Keightley.

That] F. That sure FF3F4. That
oft Jackson conj. That, as Dyce,
ed. 2 (S. Walker conj.).

methought] Rowe. me thought Ff.
had lost] did let Hanmer. had crost

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Warburton. had los'd Becket conj. 22 None...none.] This line is transposed by Hanmer to the beginning of the speech.

none.] none; F1. none? F2FF423 I am the] I should be Hanmer.

man: if it be so, as 'tis,] man, if...so, as tis, F1. man, if...so as tis, Fg ('tis, F3F4). man-If it be so, (as, 'tis;) Theobald. man, if...so: as 'tis, Hanmer.

27, 28 the proper-false......their forms] thy purpose false...thy forms Jackson conj.

27 the proper-false] Malone. the proper false Ff. impresses false Wellesley conj.

In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!

For such as we are made of, such we be.

How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,

My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman,-now alas the day!-
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie !

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[Exit.

SCENE III. OLIVIA'S house.

Enter SIR TOBY and SIR ANDREW.

Sir To. Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be a-bed after midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo surgere,' thou know'st,

Sir And. Nay, by my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up late is to be up late.

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Sir To. A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can. To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is early so

29 our] FF3F4. OF.

30 made of, such] Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.). made, if such Ff. made, ev'n such Hanmer. See note (VI).

32 monster] minister Hanmer.

32, 33 as much on him; And] as much

on him As Dyce (ed. 2).

34 man] a man F3F4.

37 breathe] breath F,F3

39 to] t' Ff.

SCENE III.] ACT III. SCENE I. Spedding conj.

Olivia's house.] Rowe.

2 diluculo] Rowe. Deliculo F. Diliculo FF3F4

3 know'st,-] Theobald. know'st. Ff.

that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the four elements?

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Sir And. Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists of eating and drinking.

Sir To. Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink. Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!

Sir And.

Enter Clown.

Here comes the fool, i' faith.

Clo. How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture of 'we three'?

Sir To.

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Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch. Sir And. By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg, and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman hadst it?

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Clo. I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.

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Sir And. Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all is done. Now, a song.

9 Does...life] Rowe (ed. 2). Does... lives Ff. Do...lives Malone.

12 Thou'rt] Capell. Th'art Ff. Thou art Steevens.

13 Marian] Maria Pope.

stoup] stoope FF2F3. stoop F

18 breast] breath L. H. apud Theobald conj.

20 In sooth] Theobald (ed. 2). Insooth Ff.

22 Pigrogromitus] Pigrogomitus Bos

well.

24 leman] Theobald. Lemon Ff.
25 impeticos thy gratillity] impeticoat

thy gratility Steevens (1773). im-
peticoat thy gratuity Steevens, 1778
(Johnson conj.).

impeticos] impiticose Nicholson conj. (N. & Q., 1864).

gratillity] gratulity Kinnear conj. 27 Myrmidons] Theobald. Mermidons

Ff.

Mirmidons Pope.

Sir To. Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have

a song.

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Sir And. There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a

Clo. Would you have a have a love-song, or a song of good

life?

Sir To. A love-song, a love-song.

Sir And. Ay, ay: I care not for good life.
Clo. [Sings]

O mistress mine, where are you roaming?

O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:

Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

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Sir And.

A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.

Sir To. A contagious breath.

Sir And. Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.

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Sir To. To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the

welkin dance indeed? shall we

33 give a-] See note (VII).

39 and hear;] and heare, F,F. and

hear, F3F4 for here Collier MS.

42 lovers] lovers' Warburton.

46 love?] Pope. loue, Ff.

49 delay] decay Warburton.

50 Then come kiss me] Come, a kiss then Johnson conj.

sweet and twenty] sweet-and-twenty Reed. sweet, and twenty Theobald. 52 true] a true Rowe.

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