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Sir And. Here comes the fool, i' faith.

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Clo. How now, my hearts! Did you never see the picture of we three ?1

Sir To. 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: 't was very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy lemon3: hadst it? Clo. I did impeticote thy gratuity: for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.

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

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

Sir And. There's a testril of me, too: if one knight give away sixpence so will I give another: go to, a song.* Clo. Would you 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.

SONG.

O, mistress mine! where are you roaming? O! stay, for here your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low. Trip no farther, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers' meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. Sir And. Excellent good, i' faith. Sir To. Good, good.

Clo.

What is love? 't is not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter ;

What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Sir And. A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.
Sir To. A contagious breath.

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

Sir To. To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch, that will draw three souls out of one weaver ? shall we do that?

Sir And. An you love me, let's do 't: I am a dog

at a catch.

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Clo. "His eyes do show his days are almost done.” [Singing.15

Mal. Is't even so?

Sir To. "But I will never die."
Clo. Sir Toby, there you lie.
Mal. This is much credit to you.
Sir To. "Shall I bid him go ?"
Clo. "What an if you do ?"

Sir To. “Shall I bid him go, and spare not ?"
Clo. "O no, no, no, no, you dare not.”

Sir To. Out o' tune16!-Sir, ye lie. Art any more than a steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale ?17

Clo. Yes, by saint Anne; and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.

Sir To. Thou 'rt i' the right.-Go, sir: rub your chain with crumbs18. A stoop of wine, Maria!

Mal. Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any thing more than contempt, you would not give means for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand. [Exit.

Mar. Go shake your ears.

Sir And. 'T were as good a deed as to drink when a

2 Used synony

1 A common tavern sign and print, of two fools, with the inscription, "we be three"-the spectator forming the third. mously with voice. 3 Mistress. 4 f. e. end this speech thus: "if one knight give a—” 5 and hear in f. e. 6 Contained in Ravenscroft's "Deuteromélia," 1609, where the air is given to these words:

"Hold thy peace, and I pr'ythee hold thy peace,

Thou knave, thou knave! hold thy peace, thou knave."

12 The derivation of

7 May mean a sharper or a Chinese. 8 A popular tune. 9 The burden, with variations, as "Three merry boys," &c., of several old songs. 10 From the ballad of The Godly and Constant wyfe, Susannah-a stanza is in Percy's Reliques, Vol. I. 11 Botchers'. this is not known; it means, CC Go, and be hanged." 13 The ballad from which this is taken is in Percy's Reliques, Vol. I. 14 15 Not in 16 So the old copies; Theobald reads: time. 17 These dainties were eaten on Saints' days, greatly to the horror of the Puritans, for whose benefit the passage may have been intended, 18 Stewards wore gold chains, which were cleaned with crumbs.

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man's a-hungry, to challenge him to the field, and then, | Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, to break promise with him, and make a fool of him.

Sir To. Do 't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge, or I'll deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth. Mar. Sweet sir Toby, be patient for to-night. Since that youth of the count's was to-day with my lady, she is much out of quiet. For monsieur Malvolio, let me alone with him: if I do not gull him into a nayword', and make him a common recreation, do not think Í have wit enough to lie straight in my bed. I know, I can do it. [him. Sir To. Possess us, possess us: tell us something of Mar. Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan. Sir And. O! if I thought that, I'd beat him like a dog. Sir To. What! for being a Puritan? thy exquisite reason, dear knight?

Sir And. I have no exquisite reason for 't, but I have reason good enough.

Mar. The devil a Puritan that he is, or any thing constantly, but a time pleaser; an affectioned ass, that cons state without book, and utters it by great swarths: the best persuaded of himself; so crammed, as he thinks, with excellences, that it is his ground of faith, that all that look on him love him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work.

Sir To. What wilt thou do?

Mar. I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady, your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands.

Sir To. Excellent! I smell a device.
Sir And. I have 't in my nose, too.

Sir To. He shall think, by the letter that thou wilt drop, that it comes from my niece, and that she is in love with him.

Mar. My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.
Sir And. And your horse, now, would made him an ass.
Mar. Ass I doubt not.

Sir And. O! 't will be admirable.

Mar. Sport royal, I warrant you: I know, my physic will work with him. I will plant you two, and let the fool make a third, where he shall find the letter: observe his construction of it. For this night, to bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.

Sir To. Good night, Penthesilea.

Sir And. Before me, she's a good wench.

[Exit.

That old and antique song, we heard last night;
Methought, it did relieve my passion much,
More than light airs, and recollected terms,
Of these most brisk and giddy-paced tunes5:
Come; but one verse.

Cur. He is not here, so please your lordship, should sing it.

Duke. Who was it?

that

Cur. Feste, the jester, my lord: a fool, that the lady Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.

Duke. Seek him out, and play the tune the while.
[Exit CURIO.-Music again."
Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love, [TO VIOLA."
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are:
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is belov'd.-How dost thou like this tune?
Vio. It gives a very echo to the seat
Where Love is thron'd.
Duke.

Thou dost speak masterly.
My life upon 't, young though thou art, thine eye
Hath stay'd upon some favours that it loves;
Hath it not, boy?
Vio.
A little, by your favour.
Duke. What kind of woman is 't?
Vio.
Of your complexion.
Duke. She is not worth thee, then. What years i'
faith?

Vio. About your years, my lord.

Duke. Too old, by heaven. Let still the woman take
An elder than herself; so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart:
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,
Than women's are.

Vio.
I think it well, my lord.
Duke. Then, let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;
For women are as roses, whose fair flower,
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.
Vio. And so they are: alas! that they are so ;
To die, even when they to perfection grow!
Re-enter CURIO, and Clown.

Duke. O, fellow! come, the song we had last night.-
Mark it, Cesario; it is old, and plain :

Sir To. She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, adores me: what o' that?

Sir And. I was adored once too.

And the free9 maids, that weave their thread with bones,
Do use to chaunt it: it is silly sooth,

Sir To. Let's to bed, knight.—Thou hadst need send And dallies with the innocence of love, for more money.

Sir And. If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.

Sir To. Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i' the end, call me cut3.

Sir And. If I do not, never trust me; take it how you will. Sir To. Come, come: I'll go burn some sack, 't is too late to go to bed now. Come, knight; come, knight.

[Exeunt.

SCENE IV.-A Room in the DUKE's Palace.
Enter DUKE, VIOLA, CURIO, and others.

Duke. Give me some music. [Music.4]-Now, good
morrow, friends.-

Like the old age.

Clo. Are you ready, sir?
Duke. Ay, pr'ythee, sing.

Clo.

THE SONG,

Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away, breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with
O! prepare it :

My part of death no one so true
Did share it.

[Music.

yew,

Not a flower, not a flower sweet,
On my black coffin let there be strown ;

1 By-word, a laughing-stock. 2 Affected. 3 Curtail horse. 4 Not in f. e. 5 times in f. e. 6 Music: in f. e. 7 Not in f. e. 8 Counte

nance.

9 Chaste, pure.

Not a friend, not a friend greet

To her in haste give her this jewel; say,

My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown: My love can give no place, bide no denay.

A thousand thousand sighs to save,

Lay me, O! where

Sad true lover never find my grave, To weep there. Duke. There's for thy pains. [Giving him money.1 Clo. No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir. Duke. I'll pay thy pleasure then.

Clo. Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.

Duke. I give thee now leave to leave me.2

Clo. Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal !-I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent every where; for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.-Farewell. [Exit CLOWN. Duke. Let all the rest give place.— [Exeunt CURIO and Attendants. Once more, Cesario, Get thee to yond' same sovereign cruelty: Tell her, my love, more noble than the world, Prizes not quantity of dirty lands : The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her, Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune; But 't is that miracle, and queen of gems, That nature pranks her in, attracts my soul. Vio. But, if she cannot love you, sir? Duke. I cannot be so answer'd. Vio.

SCENE VOLIVIA'S Garden.

[Exeunt.

Enter Sir TOBY BELCH, Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK, and FABIAN.

Sir To. Come thy ways, signior Fabian.

Fab. Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport, let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Sir To. Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly, rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame ?

Fab. I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o' favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here. Sir To. To anger him, we'll have the bear again, and we will fool him black and blue;-shall we not, sir Andrew?

Sir And. An we do not, it is pity of our lives.

Enter MARIA.

Sir To. Here comes the little villain.-How now, my metal of India ?3

Mar. Get ye all three into the box-tree. Malvolio's coming down this walk: he has been yonder i̇' the sun, practising behaviour to his own shadow, this half hour. Observe him, for the love of mockery; for, I know, this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him. Close, in the name of jesting! [The men hide themselves.] Lie thou there; [drops a letter] for here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling. [Exit Maria. Enter MALVOLIO.

Mal. 'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once Sooth, but you must. told me, she did affect me; and I have heard herself

Say, that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Hath for your love as great a pang of heart
As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;
You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?
Duke. There is no woman's sides

Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big to hold so much: they lack retention.
Alas! their love may be call'd appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffers surfeit, cloyment, and revolt ;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,

And can digest as much. Make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me,
And that I owe Olivia.

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Duke. What dost thou know?

Vio. Too well what love women to men may owe:

In faith, they are as true of heart as we.

My father had a daughter lov'd a man,

As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.

And what's her history?

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Duke. Vio. A blank, my lord. She never told her love,— But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought: And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Was not this love, indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but, indeed, Our shows are more than will, for still we prove Much in our vows, but little in our love.

Duke. But died thy sister of her love, my boy? Vio. I am all the daughters of my father's house, And all the brothers too; and yet I know not.Sir, shall I to this lady? Duke.

Ay, that's the theme.

1 Not in f. e. 2 Give me now leave to leave thee: in fe.

come thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more exalted respect than any one else that follows her. What should I think on 't?

Sir To. Here's an over-weening rogue!

Fab. O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkeycock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!

Sir And. 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue.-
Sir To. Peace! I say.

Mal. To be count Malvolio.

Sir To. Ah, rogue!

Sir And. Pistol him, pistol him.

Sir To. Peace! peace!

Mal. There is example for 't: the lady of the Strachy

married the yeoman of the wardrobe.

Sir And. Fie on him, Jezebel.

Fab. O, peace! now he's deeply in: look, how imagination blows him.

Mal. Having been three months married to her, sitting in my state,—

Sir To. O, for a stone bow to hit him in the eye! Mal. Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet gown, having come from a day-bed, where I have left Olivia sleeping:

Sir To. Fire and brimstone !
Fab. O, peace! peace!

Mal. And then to have the honours of state; and after a demure travel of regard,—telling them, I know my place, as I would they should do theirs,-to ask for my kinsman Toby

Sir To. Bolts and shackles !

Fab. O, peace, peace, peace! now, now.

Mal. Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make out for him. I frown the while; and, perchance, wind up my watch, or play with my-some rich jewel. Toby approaches; court'sies there to me.

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Sir To. Shall this fellow live?

sequel; that suffers under probation: A should follow,

Fab. Though our silence be drawn from us by th' but O does. ears'; yet peace!

Mal. I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of control.

Sir To. And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?

Mal. Saying, "Cousin Toby, my fortunes, having cast me on your niece, give me this prerogative of speech."Sir To. What, what?

Mal. "You must amend your drunkenness."
Sir To. Out, scab!

Fab. Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. Mal. "Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with a foolish knight."

Sir And. That's me, I warrant you.
Mal. "One sir Andrew."

Sir And. I knew 't was I; for many do call me fool. Mal. [Seeing the letter.] What employment have we here?

Fab. Now is the woodcock near the gin.

Sir To. O, peace! and the spirit of humours intimate reading aloud to him!

Mal. [Taking up the letter.] By my life, this is my lady's hand! these be her very C's, her U's, and her T's; and thus makes she her great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.

Sir And. Her C's, her U's, and her T's: Why that? Mal. [Reads.] "To the unknown beloved, this, and my good wishes:" her very phrases!-By your leave, wax. -Soft!-and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she uses to seal: 't is my lady. To whom should this be?

Fab. This wins him, liver and all.
Mal. [Reads.] "Jove knows, I love;
But who?

Lips do not move:

No man must know."

"No man must know."-What follows? the number's altered." No man must know:"—if this should be thee, Malvolio ?

Sir To. Marry, hang thee, brock2 !
Mal. [Reads.] {{ I may command, where I adore;
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
M, O, A, I, doth sway my life."

Fab. A fustian riddle.

Sir To. Excellent wench, say I.

Mal. "M, O, A, I, doth sway my life."-Nay, but first, let me see,-let me see,-let me see.

Fab. What a dish of poison has she dressed him! Sir To. And with what wing the stannyel3 checks at it!

Mal. I may command where I adore." Why, she may command me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is evident to any formal capacity. There is no obstruction in this.-And the end,-what should that alphabetical position portend? if I could make that resemble something in me,-Softly !-M, O, A, I.— Sir To. O ay, make up that. He is now at a cold

scent.

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Fab. Did not I say, he would work it out? the cur excellent at faults.

Mal. M.-But then there is no consonancy in the

Fab And O! shall end, I hope.

Sir To. Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry,
Mal. And then I comes behind.

O!

Fab. Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels, than fortunes before you.

Mal. M, O, A, I-this simulation is not as the former-and yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for every one of these letters are in my name. Soft! here follows prose.-[Reads.] "If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Thy fates open their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them. And, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh. Be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants: let thy tongue tang arguments of state: put thyself into the trick of singularity. She thus advises thee, that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever crossgartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and not worthy to touch fortune's fingers. Farewell. She that would alter services with thee,

The fortunate-unhappy." Day-light and champaign discovers not more: this is open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will baffle sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I will be point-device' the very man. I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade me, for every reason excites to this, that my lady loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of late; she did praise my leg being cross-gartered; and in this she manifests herself to my love, and with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting on. Jove, and my stars be praised! -Here is yet a postscript. [Reads.] "Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling: thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my presence still smile, dear my sweet, I pr'ythee."-Jove, I thank thee.—I will smile I will do every thing that thou wilt have me.

[Exit.

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Sir To. Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bond-slave?

Sir And. I' faith, or I either?

Sir To. Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad. Mar. Nay, but say true: does it work upon him? Sir To. Like aqua-vitæ with a midwife.

Mar. If you will then see the fruits of the sport,

1 with ears: in f. e. 2 Badger. 3 A species of hawk. * One in his senses. 5 The name of a dog. 6 An open country. 7 Exactly.

* Some game of dice.

mark his first approach before my lady: he will come to her in yellow stockings, and 't is a colour she abhors; and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon her, which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melancholy as she is,

that it cannot but turn him into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow me.

Sir To. To the gates of Tartarus, thou most excellent devil of wit! [Exeunt.

Sir And. I'll make one too.

ACT III.

SCENE I.-OLIVIA'S Garden.
Enter VIOLA, and Clown playing on pipe and tabor.
Vio. Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou
live by thy tabor?

Clo. No, sir; I live by the church.
Vio. Art thou a churchman ?

Clo. No such matter, sir: I do live by the church; for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.

Vio. So thou may'st say, the king lives by a beggar, if a beggar dwell near him; or, the church stands by thy tabor, if thy tabor stand by the church.

Clo. You have said, sir-To see this age!-A sentence is but a cheveril1 glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Vio. Nay, that's certain: they, that dally nicely with words, may quickly make them wanton. [sir. Clo. I would, therefore, my sister had had no name, Vio. Why, man?

Clo. Why, sir, her name's a word; and to dally with that word, might make my sister wanton. But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds disgraced them.

Vio. Thy reason, man?

Clo. Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words; and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Vio. I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and carest for nothing.

Clo. Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my conscience, sir, I do not care for you: if that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.

Vio. Art not thou the lady Olivia's fool? Clo. No, indeed, sir; the lady Olivia has no folly: she will keep no fool, sir, till she be married; and fools are as like husbands, as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger. I am, indeed, not her fool, but her corrupter of words.

Vio. 1 saw thee late at the count Orsino's. Clo. Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb, like the sun it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master, as with my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.

Vio. Nay, an thou pass upon me, I'll no more with thee. Hold; there's expenses for thee. [Giving money.2 Clo. Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard.

Vio. By my troth, I'll tell thee: I am almost sick for one, though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy lady within?

Clo. Would not a pair of these have bred, sir? Vio. Yes, being kept together, and put to use. Clo. I would play lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring a Cressida to this Troilus.

Vip. I understand you, sir: 't is well begg'd.

3

[Giving more. 2 3 Not in f. e. 4 And in f. e. 5 Wild, untrained hawk. Limit, aim. 8 Anticipated. 9 Not in f. e.

1 Kid. quite taint."

Clo. The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will construe to them whence you come; who you are, and what you would, are out of my welkin: I might say element, but the word is over[Exit.

worn.

Vio. This fellow's wise enough to play the fool,
And to do that well craves a kind of wit:
He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
The quality of persons, and the time,
Not like the haggard', check at every feather
That comes before his eye. This is a practice

As full of labour as a wise man's art
For folly, that he wisely shows, is fit,
But wise men's folly fall'n quite taints their wit.
Enter Sir TOBY BELCH and Sir ANDREW
AGUE-CHEEK.

Sir To. Save you, gentleman.
Vio. And you, sir.

Sir And. Dieu vous garde, monsieur.
Vio. Et vous aussi: votre serviteur.

Sir And. I hope, sir, you are; and I am yours. Sir To. Will you encounter the house? my niece is desirous you should enter, if your trade be to her.

Vio. I am bound to your niece, sir: I mean, she is the list of my voyage.

Sir To. Taste your legs, sir: put them to motion. Vio. My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs.

Sir To. I mean, to go, sir, to enter.

Vio. I will answer you with gait and entrance. But we are prevented.

Enter OLIVIA and MARIA. Most excellent accomplished lady, the heavens rain odours on you! "Rain

Sir And. That youth's a rare courtier. odours !" well.

Vio. My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and vouchsafed ear. Sir And. "Odours," "pregnant," and "vouchsafed:"I'll get 'em all three all ready.

[Writing in his table-book. Oli. Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my hearing. [Exeunt Sir TOBY, Sir ANDREW, and MARIA. Give me your hand, sir.

Vio. My duty, madam, and most humble service. Oli. What is your name?

Vio. Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess. Oli. My servant, sir? 'T was never merry world, Since lowly feigning was called compliment. You're servant to the count Orsino, youth.

Vio. And he is yours, and his must needs be yours: Your servant's servant is your servant, madam.

Oli. For him, I think not on him for his thoughts, 'Would they were blanks, rather than fill'd with me! Vio. Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts On his behalf.

6 So the old copies, which Tyrwhitt changed to "men, folly-fallen,

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