Oli. Moft wonderful! Seb. Do I ftand there: I never had a brother: So went he fuited to his watry tomb; Seb. A fpirit I am, indeed; But am in that dimenfion grofly clad, Vio. And dy'd that day when Viola from her [birth Do not embrace me, till each circumstance I'll bring you to a captain in this town Hath Hath been between this lady and this lord. But nature to her bias drew in that. Duke. Be not amaz'd; right noble is his blood.- Duke. Give me thy hand; And let me fee thee in thy woman's weeds. Vio. The captain, that did bring me first on fhore, Hath my maid's garments: he, upon fome action, Is now in durance; at Malvolio's fuit, A gentleman, and follower of my lady's. Oli. He fhall enlarge him: Fetch Malvolio hither, And yet, alas, now I remember me, They fay, poor gentleman, he's much diftract, Re-enter Clown with a letter. A moft extracting frenzy of mine own Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the ftave's end, as well as a man in his cafe may do: h'as here writ a letter to you; I fhould have given't you you to-day morning; but as a madman's epiftles are no gofpels, fo it skills not much, when they are deliver'd. Oli. Open't, and read it. Clo. Look then to be well edify'd, when the fool delivers the madman.-By the Lord, madamOli. How now, art thou mad? Clo. No, madam. I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you muft allow vox. 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 princefs, and give ear. Oli. Read it you, firrah. [To FABIAN. Fab. [Reads.] By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world fhall know it: though you have put me into darkness, and given your drunken coufin rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my fenfes, as well as your ladyfhip. I have your own letter that induc'd me to the femilance I put on; with the which, I doubt not but to do myfelf much right, or you much fhame. Think of me as you pleafe. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and fpeak out of my injury. The madly us'd MALVOLIO. Cli. Did he write this? Clo. Ay, madam. Duke. This favours not much of distraction. [Exit FABIAN My lord, fo pleafe you, thefe things further thought Your Your mafter quits you: and, for your fervice done him, So much against the metal of your fex, [T, VIOLA. Oli. A fifter?-you are she. Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO. Duke. Is this the madman? Oli. Ay, my lord, this fame: How now, Malvolio? Mal. Madam, you have done me wrong, notoOli. Have I, Malvolio? no. [rious wrong. Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you, perufe that You must not now deny it is your hand, [letter: in hand, or phrafe; nor your invention : Write from it, if you can, Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, First told me, thou waft mad; then cam'ft infmiling, And And in fuch forms which here were prefuppofed Fab. Good madam, hear me fpeak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee? Clo. Why, fome are born great, fame atchieve greatnefs, and fome have greatness thrown upon them. I was one, fir, in this interlude; one fir Topas, fir; but that's all one :-By the Lord, fool, I am not mad; -But do you remember, madam,-Why laugh you at fuch a barren rafcal? an you file not, he's gegg'd: And thus the whirligig of time brings in his re venges. Mal. I'll be reveng'd on the whole pack of you. [Exit. Oli. He hath been most notoriously abus'd. Duke. Purfue him and entreat him to a peace: He hath not told us of the captain yet; When |