Sir To. Then he's a rogue. After a passy-measure, or a pavin*, I hate a drunken rogue. Oli. Away with him: Who hath made this bavock with them? Sir And. I'll help you, sir Toby, because we'll be dressed together. Sir To. Will you help an ass-head, and a cox. comb, and a knave? a thin-faced knave, a gull? Oli. Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to. [Exeunt Clown, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew. Enter Sebastian. Seb. I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kins man; But, had it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less, with wit, and safety. Duke. One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons? A natural perspective, that is, and is not. How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me, Ant. Sebastian are you i Seb. Fear'st thou that, Antonio? Ant. How have you made division of yourself? An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian? Seb. Do I stand there? I never had a brother: Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd:- Serious dancers. + Out of charity tell me. What countryman? what name? what parent age? Vio. Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father; So went be suited to his watery tomb: Seb. Vio. My father had a mole upon his brow. Vio. And died that day when Viola from her birth Had number'd thirteen years. Seb. O, that record is lively in my soul! He finished, indeed, his mortal act, That day that made my sister thirteen years. Do not embrace me, till each circumstance Of place, time, fortune, do cohere, and jump, I'll bring you to a captain in this town, Where lie my naiden weeds; by whose gentle help, 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. If this be so, as yet the glass seenis true, * Hinders. I shall have share in this most happy wreck: [To Viola. Thou never should'st love woman like to me. 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, IIath my maid's garments: he, upon some action, Is now in durauce; at Malvolio's suit. A gentleman, and follower of my lady's. Oli. He shall enlarge him :-Fetch Malvolio hither: And yet, alas, now I remember me, Re-enter Clown, with a letter. A most extracting phrensy of mine own Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end, as well as a man in his case may do: he has here writ a letter to you, I should have given it 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 thon mad? Clo. No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow vox*. Oli. Pr'ythee, read i'thy right wits. * Voice. .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 world shall know it: though you have put me into darkness, 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 me as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury. The madly-used Malvolio. Oli. Did he write this? Clo. Ay, madam. Duke. This savours not much of distraction. Oli. See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither. [Exit Fabian. My lord, so please you, these things further thought on, To think me as well a sister as a wife, One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Duke. Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer. Your master quits you; [To Viola.] and, for your service done him, So much against the mettlet of your sex, So far beneath your soft and tender breeding, Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter: You must not now deny it is your hand, Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase; Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, First told me, thou wast mad; then cam❜st in smiling, And in such forms which here were presuppos'd Of thine own cause. Fab. Good madam, hear me speak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Taint the condition of this present hour, Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not, Most freely I confess, myself, and Toby, Bet this device against Malvolio here, |