Enter OLIVIA. Oli. Hold, Toby; on thy life, I charge thee, hold. Sir To. Madam! Oli. Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch, Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight! Be not offended, dear Cesario ? Rudesby,' be gone ?-I pr'ythee, gentle friend, [Exeunt SIR TOBY, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN. Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway In this uncivil and unjust extent2 Against thy peace. Go with me to my house; Seb. What relish is in this ? how runs the stream? Clo. Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio the lunatic. Mal. Sir Topas, Sir Topas, good Sir Topas, go to my lady. Clo. Out, hyperbolical fiend! how vexest thou this man? talkest thou nothing but of ladies! Sir To. Well said, master parson. Mal. Sir Topas, never was man thus wronged: good Sir Topas, do not think I am mad: they have laid me here in hideous darkness. Clo. Fye, thou dishonest Sathan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones, that will use the devil himself with courtesy: Say'st thou, that house is dark? Mal. As hell, Sir Topas. Clo. Why, it hath bay-windows11 transparent as barricadoes, and the clear stories 2 towards the southnorth are as lustrous as ebony; and yet complainest thou of obstruction? Mal. I am not mad, Sir Topas: I say to you, this house is dark. Clo. Madman, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more Oli. Nay, come, I pr'ythee: 'Would thou'dst be puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. rul'd by me! Seb. Madam, I will. Oli. O, say so, and so be! SCENE II. A Room in Olivia's House. MARIA and Clown. [Exeunt. Enter Mar. Nay, I pr'ythee, put on this gown, and this beard; make him believe, thou art Sir Topas the curate; do it quickly: I'll call Sir Toby the whilst. [Exit MARIA. Clo. Well, I'll put it on, and I will dissemble" myself in't; and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to become the function well; nor lean enough to be thought a good student: but to be said, an honest man, and a good housekeeper, goes as fairly as to say, a careful man, and a great scholar. The competitors enter. Mal. I say, this house is as dark as ignorance, though ignorance were as dark as hell; and I say, there was never man thus abused: I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question, 13 Clo. What is the opinion of Pythagoras concerning wild-fowl? Mal. That the soul of our grandam might haply inhabit a bird. Clo. What thinkest thou of his opinion? Mal. I think nobly of the soul, and no way approve his opinion. Clo. Fare thee well: Remain thou still in darkness: thou shalt hold the opinion of Pythagoras, ere I will allow of thy wits; and fear to kill a woodcock, 14 lest thou dispossess the soul of thy grandam. Fare thee well. Mal. Sir Topas, Sir Topas, Sir To. My most exquisite Sir Topas ! Mar. Thou might'st have done this without thy beard and gown; he sees thee not. Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA. Sir To. Jove bless thee, master parson. Sir To. To him in thine own voice, and bring me Clo. Bonos dies, Sir Toby: for as the old hermit word how thou findest him; I would, we were well of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily rid of this knavery. If he may be conveniently desaid to a niece of king Gorboduc, That, that is, is:livered, I would he were; for I am now so far in so I, being master parson, am master parson: For what is that, but that? and is, but is ?io Sir To. To him, Sir Topas. Clo. What, hoa, I say ;-Peace in this prison! Sir To. The knave counterfeits well: a good knave. Mal. [in an inner chamber.] Who calls there? offence with my niece, that I cannot pursue with any safety this sport to the upshot. Come by and by to my chamber. [Exeunt SIR TOBY and MARIA. Clo. Hey Robin, jolly Robin,16 Tell me how thy lady does. [Singing. first folio reads clear stores, the second folio clear stones, which was followed by all subsequent editors The emendation and explanation are Mr. Blakeway's. Randle Holme, however, in his Academy of Armory; says that clear story windows are such windows that have no transum or cross-piece in the middle to break the same into two lights." 13 Regular conversation. 14 The clown mentions a woodcock because it was proverbial as a foolish bird, and therefore a proper an cestor for a man out of his wits. 15 A proverbial phrase not yet satisfactorily explain. ed. The meaning, however, appears to be 'I can turn my hand to any thing, or assume any character.' Flo 8 The modern editors have changed this to fat with- rio in his translation of Montaigne, speaking of Arisout any apparent reason. 9 Confederates. 10 A humorous banter upon the language of the schools. 11 Bay windows were large projecting windows, probably so called because they occupied a whole bay or space between two cross beams in a building. Minshew says a bay-window, so called 'because it is builded in manner of a bay or road for ships, i. e. round.' 12 Clear stories, in Gothic Architecture, denote the row of windows running along the upper part of a lofty hall or of a church, over the arches of the nave: q. d. a clear story, a story without joists, rafters, or flooring. Over each side of the nave is a row of clere story windows.”—Ormerod's Hist. of Cheshire, i. 450. The totle, says he hath an oar in every water, and med. dleth with all things.' And in his Second Frutes, there is an expression more resembling the import of that in the text. I am a knight for all saddles. Nash in his Lenten Stuffe, 1599, has almost the language of the clown. He is first broken to the sea in the Herring. man's skiffe or cock-boate, where having learned to brooke all waters, and drink as he can out of a tarrie can.' Mason's conjecture, that the allusion is to the water hue or colour of precious stones, is surely inad. missible. 16 This ballad may be found in Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry, Vol. i. p. 194, ed. 1794. Dr. Not has also printed it among the poems of Sir Thomas Wiatt the elder, p. 188, Clo. Master Malvolio! Clo. Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? Mal. Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused: I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art. Clo. But as well? then you are mad, indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a fool. Mal. They have here propertied me ; keep me in darkness, send ministers to me, asses, and do all they can to face me out of my wits. Clo. Advise you what you say: the minister is here,-Malvolio, Malvolio, thy wits the heavens restore! endeavour thyself to sleep, and leave thy vain bibble babble. Mal. Sir Topas, Clo. Maintain no words with him, good fellow. Mal. Good fool, help me to some light, and some paper; I tell thee, I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria. Clo. Well-a-day,-that you were, sir! Mal. By this hand, I am: Good fool, some ink, paper, and light, and convey what I will set down to my lady; it shall advantage thee more than ever the bearing of letter did. Clo. I will help you to't. But tell me true, are you not mad, indeed? or do you but counterfeit ? Mal. Believe me, I am not; I tell thee true. This pearl she gave me, I do feel't and see't: Take, and give back affairs, and their despatch, Oli. Blame not this haste of mine: If you mean Now, go with me, and with this holy man, Seb. I'll follow this good man, and go with you; ACT V. Enter Clown and FABIAN. Clo. Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman till I see SCENE I The Street before Olivia's House his brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. Fab. Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter. quest. Fab. Any thing. Clo. Do not desire to see this letter. Fab. That is, to give a dog, and, in recompense, desire my dog again. Enter DUKE, VIOLA, and Attendants. Clo. Truly, sir, the better for my foes, and the worse for my friends. Duke. Just the contrary; the better for thy friends. Duke. How can that be? Clo. Marry sir, they praise me, and make an ass the catastrophe. See Note on K. Henry V. Act. iv. Sc. 4. 6 i. e. intelligence. Mr. Steevens has referred to several passages which seem to imply that this word was used for oral intelligence. I find it thus in a letter from Elizabeth to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton among the Conway Papers. This beror came from you with great spede-We have heard his credit and fynd your> carefulness and diligence very great.' 7 i. e. reason. 8 Servants. 9 i. e. deceptious. 10 Chantry,' a little chapel, or particular altar in some cathedral or parochial church, endowed for the purpose of having masses sung therein for the souls of the founders 11 Until. 5 The vice was the fool of the old moralities. He was grotesquely dressed in a cap with ass's ears, a long coat, and a dagger of lath. One of his chief employments was to make sport with the devil, leaping on his back and belabouring him with his dagger, till he made him roar. The devil, however, always carried him off in the end. The moral was, that sin, which 12 Troth or fidelity. It should be remarked that this has the courage to make very merry with the devil, and was not an actual marriage, but a betrothing, affiancis allowed by him to take very great liberties, must ing, or solemn promise of future marriage; anciently finally become his prey. This used also to be the regu- distinguished by the name of espousals. This has been lar end of Punch in the puppet show (who was the legi-established by Mr. Douce in his very interesting Illus timate successor of the old vice or iniquity,) until mo-trations of Shakspeare, where the reader will find much dern innovation, in these degenerate times, reversed curious matter on the subject, in a note on this passage of me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself; and by my friends I am abused: so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives,' why, then the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes. Duke. Why, this is excellent. Clo. By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be one of my friends. Duke. Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's gold. Clo. But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would you could make it another. Duke. O, you give me ill counsel. Clo. Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once, and let your flesh and blood obey it. Duke. Well, I will be so much a sinner to be a double-dealer; there's another. Clo. Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and *he old saying is, the third pays for all; the triplex, sir, is a good tripping measure; or the bells of St. Bennet, sir, may put you in mind; One, two, three. Duke. You can fool no more money out of me at this throw: if you will let your lady know, I am here to speak with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my bounty further. Clo. Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty, till I come again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think, that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness; but, as you say, sir, let your bounty I will awake it anon. take a nap, [Exit Clown. Enter ANTONIO and Officers. Vio. Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me. Duke. That face of his I do remember well; Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd Vio. He did me kindness, sir; drew on my side; Duke. Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief! What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies, Whom thou, in terms so bloody, and so dear,' Hast made thine enemies? Ant. Orsino, noble sir, Be pleas'd that I shake off these names you give me; Antonio never yet was thief, or pirate, Though, I confess, on base and ground enough, Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither: That most ingrateful boy there, by your side, From the rude sea's enrag'd and foamy mouth Did I redeem: a wreck past hope he was: His life I gave him, and did thereto add My love, without retention or restraint, All his in dedication: for his sake, 1 So, in Marlowe's Lust's Dominion :Come let's kisse. Moor. Away, away. Queen. No, no, says I; and twice away says stay. Sir Philip Sidney has enlarged upon the thought in the Sixty-third Stanza of Astrophel and Stella. 2 Mischievous, destructive. 3 Freight. 4 Inattentive to his character or condition, like a desperate man. Did I expose myself, pure for his love, Duke. Here comes the countess; now heaven walks on earth. But for thee, fellow, fellow, thy words are madness: Three months this youth hath tended upon me; But more of that anon. -Take him aside. Oli. Still so constant, lord. Duke. What! to perverseness? you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breath'd out, That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do? Oli. Even what it please my lord, that shall become him. Duke. Why should I not, had I the heart to do it Like the Egyptian thief, at point of death, Kill what I love; a savage jealousy, That sometimes savours nobly ?-But hear me this: Since you to non-regardance cast my faith, And that I partly know the instrument That screws me from my true place in your favour, Live you, the marble-breasted tyrant, still; But this your minion, whom, I know, you love, And whom, by heaven, I swear, I tender dearly, Him will I tear out of that cruel eye, Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.Come boy with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief: I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love, [Following. Oli. Where goes Cesario? Vio. After him I love, More than I love these eyes, more than my life, More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife: If I do feign, you witnesses above, Punish my life for tainting of my love! Oli. Ah me, detested! how am I beguil'd! chief of a band of robbers. Theogenes and Chariclea falling into their hands, Thyamis falls in love with Cha riclea, and would have married her. But, being attack ed by a stronger band of robbers, he was in such feat for his mistress that he causes her to be shut into a cave with his treasure. It was customary with those barbarians, when they despaired of their own safety, first to make away with those whom they held most dear, and 5 Tooke has so adinirably accounted for the appli- desired for companions in the next life. Thyamis, cation of the epithet dear by our ancient writers to any therefore, benetted round with enemies, raging with object which excites a sensation of hurt, pain, and con-love, jealousy, and anger, went to his cave, and calling sequently of anxiety, solicitude, care, earnestness, aloud in the Egyptian tongue, so soon as he heard himthat I shall refer to it as the best comment upon the ap-self answered towards the cave's mouth by a Grecian, parently opposite uses of the word in our great poet. 6 Dull, gross. 7 This Egyptian Thief was Thyamis. The story related in the Aethiopics of Heliodorus. He was the making to the person by the direction of her voice, he caught her by the hair with his left hand, and (suppos. ing her to be Chariclea) with his right hand plunged his sword into her breast. Vio. Who does beguile you? who does do you | Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, drunk, led by the Clown. wrong? Oli. Hast thou forgot thyself! Is it so long!- Ay, husband; Can he that deny? No, my lord, not I. Re-enter Attendant and Priest. Father, I charge thee by thy reverence, Priest. A contract of eternal bond of love. Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;2 Seal'd in my function, by my testimony: Here comes Sir Toby halting, you shall hear more: but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did. Duke. How now, gentleman? how is't with you? Sir To. That's all one; he has hurt me, and there's an end on't.-Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot? Clo. O he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes were set at eight i'the morning. Sir To. Then he's a rogue and a passy-measures pavin; I hate a drunken rogue. Oli. Away with him: Who hath made this havock 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 coxcomb, 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. Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my By that I do perceive it hath offended you; Duke. My gentleman, Cesario? Sir And. Od's lifelings, here he is :-You broke my head for nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't by Sir Toby. Vio. Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you: You drew your sword upon me, without cause; But I bespake you fair, and hurt you not. Sir And. If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me; I think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb. 1 i. e. suppress, or disown thy property. 2 In ancient espousals the man received as well as gave a ring. 3 So, in Cary's Present State of England, 1626. Queen Elizabeth asked a knight named Young, how he liked a company of brave ladies? He answered, as I like my silver haired conies at home, the cases are far better than the bodies.' + Otherways. 5 The parin was a grave Spanish dance. Sir John Hawkins derives it from pavo a peacock, and says that every pavin had its galliard, a lighter kind of air formed out of the former. Thus, in Middleton's More Dissemblers beside Women : "I can dance nothing but ill favour'dly, A strain or two of passe measures gulliard. By which it appears that the passe measure puran, and the passe measure galliard were only two different measures of one dance. Sir Toby therefore means by this quaint expression that the surgeon is a rogue and a Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows Duke. One face, one voice one habit, and two A natural perspective, that is, and is not. Ant. Sebastian are you? Seb. Seb. Do I stand there? I never had a brother; Seb. Vio. My father had a mole upon his brow. grave solemn corcomb. In the first act of the play he Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon 7 Out of charity, tell me. Vio. And died that day when Viola from her birth Had number'd thirteen years. Seb. O, that record is lively in my soul! But nature to her bias drew in that. [TO VIOLA. Thou never shouldst 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 Hath my maid's garments: he, upon some action, Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit, A gentleman and follower of my lady's. . Oli. He shall enlarge him:-Fetch hither: on, To think me as well a sister as a wife, 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 mettles of your sex, Oli. A sister?-you are she. You must not now deny it is your hand, Why you have given me such clear lights of favour; And yet, alas, now I remember me, A most extracting frenzy 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 to you to-day morning; but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much when they are delivered. Cli. 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 thou mad? Clo. No, madam, I do but read madness: an hour ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.3 you, sirrah. 4 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 princess, and give ear. Oli. Read it [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. Upon Sir Toby, and the lighter people : And, acting this in an obedient hope, Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, And in such forms which here were presuppos'd Fab. And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee! Clo. Why, some are born great, some achieve greatthrown upon them. I ness, and some have greatness |