Your mafter quits you: and, for your fervice) In recompence whereof, he hath marry'd her.

done him,

So much against the metal of your fex, [To Viola.
So far beneath your foft and tender breeding,
And fince you call'd me mafter for fo long,
Here is my hand; you shall from this time be
Your matter's mistrefs.

Oli. A fifter?--you are the.

Re-enter Fabian, with Malvolio. Duke. Is this the madman?

How with a fportful malice it was follow'd,
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;
If that the injuries be juftly weigh'd,
That have on both fides paft.

Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee +?

Cla. Why, "fome are born great, fome atchieve greatnefs, and fome have greatness thrown upon [volio?" them." I was one, fir, in this interlude; one Sir Oli. Ay, my lord, this fame: How now, Mal-Topas, fir; but that's all one :-"By the Lord, Mal. Madam, you have done me wrong, no-" fool, I am not mad!"-But do you remember, madan,-"Why laugh you at fuch a barren rafcal? [letter" an you fmile not, he's gagg'd:" And thus the

torious wrong.

Oli. Have I, Malvolio? no.

Mal. Lady, you have, Pray you, perufe that whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

You must not now deny it is your hand,
Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase:
Or fay, 'tis not your feal, nor your invention:
You can fay none of this: Well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
Why you have given me fuch clear lights of favour;
Bade me come fmiling, and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow ftockings, and to frown
Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people :
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you fuffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, vifited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck 2, and gull,
That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why?

I

Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confefs, much like the character:
But, out of question, 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was the
First told me, thou waft mad; then cam'st in smiling,
And in fuch forms which here were prefuppos'd
Upon thee in the letter. Pr'ythee, he content:
This practice hath most fhrewdly pafs'd upon thee;
But, when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own caufe.

Fab. Good madam, hear me fpeak:
And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,
Taint the condition of this prefent hour,
Which I have wondred at. In hope it fhall not,
Most freely I confefs, myfelf, and Toby,
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon fome ftubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceiv'd against him: Maria writ
The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance 3;

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 intreat him to a peace :-
He hath not told us of the captain yet;
When that is known, and golden time convents S
A folemn combination fhall be made
Of our dear fouls:-Mean time, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence.-Cefario, come;
For fo you fhall be, while you are a man;
But, when in other habits you are feen,
Orfino's mittrefs, and his fancy's queen. [Exeunt.
Clown fings.

1 Meaning, people of lefs dignity or importance.

When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With bey, bo, the wind and the rain,

A foolish thing was but a toy,

For the rain it raineth every
But when I came to man's eftate,
With hey, bo, &c.

day.

'Gainft knaves and thieves, men fut their gate, For the rain, &c.

But when I came, alas! to wive,

With hey, bo, &c.

2 i, e. fool. 3 Importance is importunement.

Baffled in this place means, treated with the greatcft ignominy imaginable. 5 i. e. calls us to gether again.

WINTER'S

Satyrs for a dance, Shepherds, Shepherdeffes, Guards, and Attendants.
SCENE, fometimes in Sicilia; jometimes in Bohemia.

Bohemia. They were trained together in their childhoods; and there rooted betwixt them then fuch an affection, which cannot chufe but branch now. Since their more mature dignities, and royal neceffities, made separation of their fociety, their encounters, though not personal, have been royally

on my fervices are now on foot, you shall fee, as I attorney'd, with interchange of gifts, letters, loving have faid, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia.

Cam. I think, this coming fummer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the vifitation which he justly owes him.

embaffies; that they have feem'd to be together,
though abfent; fhook hands, as over a vaft ; and
embrac'd, as it were, from the ends of opposed
winds. The heavens continue their loves!
Arch. I think, there is not in the world either
You have an un-

Arch. Wherein our entertainment fhall fhame malice, or matter, to alter it. us, we will be juftified in our loves: for, indeed,fpeakable comfort of your young prince MamilCam. Befeech you, lius; it is a gentleman of the greateit promife, that ever came into my note.

Arch. Verily, I fpeak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with fuch magnificence— Cam. I very well agree with you in the hopes in fo rare-I know not what to fay.We will of him: It is a gallant child; one that, indeed, give you fleepy drinks; that your fenfes, unin- phyficks the fubject 2, makes old hearts fresh : telligent of our infufficience, may, though they they, that went on crutches ere he was born, decannot praife us, as little accufe us.

Cam. You pay a great deal too dear, for what's given freely.

Arch. Believe me, I fpeak as my understanding instructs me, and as mine honefty puts it to ut

terance.

Cam. Sicilia cannot fhew himself over kind to

fire yet their life, to see him a man.

· Arch. Would they elfe be content to die? Cam. Yes; if there were no other excufe why they fhould defire to live.

Arch. If the king had no fon, they would defire to live on crutches 'till he had one.

[Exeunt.

1 Vaflum is the ancient term for wale uncultivated land; over a vaft, therefore, means at a great and vacant diftance from each other. 2 Meaning, has the power of affuaging the fenfe of

mifery.

SCENE

Her. To tell, he longs to fee his fon, were ftrong: Of this make no conclufion; left you say,

1 That is here put for Oh! The meaning is, "Oh, that no fneaping (or checking) winds at home may blow." 2 i. e. hinder or detain. 3 G fignifies a flage or journey. In the time of royal progreffes the king's flages, as we may fee by the journals of them in the Heralds Office, were called his gets; from the old French word gifte, diverforium. 4. c. indeed, or in very deed. 5 i. e. a fingle vibration, or ticking, made by the pendulum of a clock. A diminutive of lord. 7 Setting afide original An bating the impofition from the oficace of our fift parents, we might have boldly protefted our

Leo. Never, but once.
Her. What

have I twice faid well? when
'twas before?
[u.

I pr'ythee, tell me : Cram us with praife, and make
As fat as tame things: One good deed, dying
tonguefefs,

Shaughters a thousand, waiting upon that.
Our praifes are our wages: You may ride us
With one foft kifs a thousand furlong, ere
With Ipur we heat an acre.
But to the goal 1 ;--
My laft good deed was, to intreat his flay;
What was my firft,? It has an elder filter,
Or I mistake you; O, would her name were Grace !]
But once before I spoke to the p rpofe: When?
Nay, let me have 't; I long.

Offic'd with me: We two will walk, my lord,
And leave you to your graver steps.-Hermione,

Leo. Thou want'ft a rough paili 6, and the shoots 7 How thou lov'ft us, fhew in our brother's welcome,

1 Meaning, to come to the point, or purpofe. 2 Alluding to the cuftom of people clapping the palms of their hands together when they conclude or make a bargain. Hence the phrafe to clap up a bargain. 3 A leflon upon the horn at the death of the deer. 4 Perhaps derived from beau and coq. We ftill fay that fuch a one is a jolly cock, a cock of the game. 5 A virginal is a very all kind of pinnet. Pafh is kifs, from paz Spanith. i. e. thou want a mouth made rough by a beard to kifs with. 7 Shoots are branches, i. e. horns. Leontes is alluding to the enligns of cuckoldom. 8 Blacks was the common term for mourning. 9 Bourn is boundary. 10 i. e. blue eye; an eye of the fame colour with the welkin, or sky. 1 i. e. a piece or flice of myself. 12 Affection here means imagination. 13 i. c. credible. 14 This line would feem to belong to the preceding speaker. 15 A proverbial faying, borrowed from the French, and implying, Will you put up affronts ? 16 Another proverbial expreffion, meaning, "May his dole or fhare in lite be to be a happy man." 17 Meaning; next to my heart.

Her. If you would feek us,

We are yours i' the garden: Shall's attend you Leo. To your own bents difpofe you: you'll be found,

[there More than the common blocks :-Not noted, is't,
But of the finer natures? by fome feverals,
Of head-piece extraordinary? lower meffes,
Perchance, are to this bufinefs purblind: fay.
Cam. Bufinefs, my lord? I think, most under-
Bohemia ftays here longer.
[ftand

Be you beneath the sky :-I am angling now,
Though you perceive me not how I give line;
[Afide, obferving Hermione.

Go to, go to!
How the holds up the neb,, the bill to him!
And arms her with the boldness of a wife

[Exeunt Polixenes, Hermione, and attendants.
To her allowing hufband! Gone already; [one.—
Inch-thick, knee-deep! o'er head and ears a fork'd1
Go, play, boy, play ;-thy mother plays, and I
Play too; but fo difgrac'da part, whofe iffue
Will hifs me to my grave; contempt and clamour
Will be my knell.-Go, play, boy, play ;-There
have been,

Or I am much deceiv'd, cuckolds ere now;
And many a man there is, even at this prefent,
Now, while Ifpeak this, holds his wife by the arm,
That little thinks fhe hath been fluic'd in his abfence,
And his pond fifh'd by his next neighbour, by
Sir Smile, his neighbour: nay, there's comfort in't,
Whiles other men have gates; and thofe gates
open'd,

As mine, against their will: Should all defpair,
That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind
Would hang themselves. Phyfick for't there is none;
It is a bawdy planet, that will ftrike

Where 'tis predominant ; and 'tis powerful, think it,
From eaft, weft, north, and fouth: be it concluded,
No barricado for a belly; know it;

It will let in and out the enemy,

With bag and baggage: many a thousand of us
Have the difeafe and feel't not.-How now, boy?
Mam. I am like you, they fay.

Leo. Why, that's fome comfort.-
What? Camillo there?

Cam. Ay, my good lord.

man.

Leo. Go, play, Mamillius; thou'rt an honest
[Exit Mamillius.
Camillo, this great fir will yet stay longer.
Cam. You had much ado to make his anchor hold;
When you caft out, it ftill came home 2.

Leo. Didft note it?

Cam. He would not stay at your petitions; made His bufinefs more material 3.

Leo. Didft perceive it ?—

They're here with me already; whispering,
Sicilia is a fo-forth: 'Tis far gone,
When I fhall guft 5 it laft.-How care't,
That he did stay?

Cam. At the good queen's entreaty.

I may be negligent, foolish, and fearful ;
In every one of thele no man is free,
But that his negligence, his folly, fear,
Amongst the infinite doings of the world,
Sometime puts forth: In your affairs, my lord,
If ever I were wilful-negligent,

It was my folly; if industriously

I play'd the fool, it was my negligence,
Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful
To do a thing, where I the illue doubted,
Whereof the execution did cry out
Against the non-performance, 'twas a fear
Which oft infects the wifeft: thefe, my lord,
Are fuch allow'd infirmities, that honesty
Is never free of. But, 'befeech your grace,
Be plainer with me; let me know my treipais
By its own vifage: if I then deny it,
'Tis none of mine.

[ing 4. Leo. Have not you feen, Camillo,
round-(But that's past doubt : you have: or your eye-glafs
Is thicker than acuckold's horn) or heard,
Camillo,For, to a vifion to apparent, rumour

[tinent;

Leo. At the queen's, be't: good, thould be per-
Bat fo it is, it is not. Was this taken
By any understanding pate but thine?
For thy conceit is foaking, will draw in

Cannot be mute) or thought, (for cogitation
Refides not in that man, that does not think it)
My wife is flippery? If thou wilt, confefs;
Or elfe be impudently negative,

To have nor eyes, nor ears, nor thought: Then say,
My wife's a hobby-horfe; deserves a name

3 More urgent

That is, a horned one; a cuckold. 2 Meaning, the anchor would not take hold. and important. 4. c. rounding in the car. (whispering, or telling fecretly) a phrase in use at that time. 5 i. e. tafte it. 6 Mefs is is a contraction of mifter, an appellation ufed by the Scot. Lower meffes, therefore. are graduates of a lower form. The fpeaker is now inentioning gradations of understanding, and not of rank. 7 To hox is to ham-itring. 7 Meaning, that the act was not neceflary to be done.

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