Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter. Why you have given me such clear lights of favour, To put on yellow stockings and to frown Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, First told me thou wast mad; then camest in smiling, 315 you have] you 've S. Walker conj. 320 seal, not] seal, nor F4. 327 hope,] hope? F4. 330 and gull] F1. or gull F2F3F4. 320 325 330 335 340 camest in] cam'st thou Theobald. camest thou in Keightley. 337 such forms which] those forms which or such forms as Keightley conj. presupposed] preimpos'd Collier, ed. 2 (Collier MS.). Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge Of thine own cause. Fab. Good madam, hear me speak, And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come 345 350 355 Oli. Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee! Clo. Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but that's all By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.' But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:' and thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. one. 363 Mal. Oli. 365 I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. [Exit. He hath been most notoriously abused. Duke. Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace: He hath not told us. of the captain yet: When that is known, and golden time convents, A solemn combination shall be made Cesario, come ; Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister, Clo. [Sings] 370 [Exeunt all, except Clown. When that I was and a little tiny boy, A foolish thing was but a toy, 375 For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man's estate, With hey, ho, &c. 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain, &c. But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, &c. 380 NOTES. NOTE I. IN our enumeration of the Dramatis Personæ we have omitted what Johnson calls 'the cant of the modern stage,' i.e. the unnecessary descriptions given by Rowe. NOTE II. 1. 1. 26. Mr Knight reads 'years' heat,' but follows Malone in interpreting 'heat' as a participle. It is more probably a substantive. NOTE III. I. 3. 48, 49. Sidney Walker supposed that as the first Folio has no. stop after 'acquaintance' it was intended that the sentence should be regarded as incomplete, and he therefore would read 'acquaintance-'. The real reason of the omission of the stop in F, is that the word occurs so near the end of the line that there was no room for its insertion. It is found in all the other Folios. NOTE IV. I. 5. 193. Mr Dyce conjectures that something more than the speaker's name has been omitted in the Folios before 'Tell me your mind.' Capell proposed to omit these words, on the ground that, in addition to other objections against them, they cause the speech to end metrically. We leave the text undisturbed, because we think that there is some corruption which Warburton's plausible emendation does not remove. NOTE V. 1. 5. 239. Sidney Walker conjectures that 'a word or words are lost before adorations, involving the same metaphor as the rest of the two lines.' Perhaps the lost word may have been 'earthward' or 'earthly,' so that all the four elements 'of which our life consists' (II. 3. 9) would be represented in the symptoms of Orsino's passion. |