-
I'll tell the tale
-
now listen to me
-
With a hey ho
-
the wind and the rain
-
but merry or sad
-
Which shall it be?
-
For the rain... it raineth every day
-
Once upon Twelfth Night,
or what you will
-
aboard a ship, bound home
to Messaline
-
The festive company
dressed for mascarade and singing songs
-
to each other and amusing
-
delight into the rest in two young twins
-
the storm has forced their vessel
from her course
-
And now they strike
upon submerging rocks
-
uncertain of what two leave
and what to save
-
A brother and sister, often
since their father's death
-
have but themselves
-
alone in the whole world
-
deep currents and the
sinking bark above them
-
divide what had not
ever been kept apart
-
the poor survivors
reach an alien shore
-
For Messaline, with this country,
is at war.
-
What country, friends, is this?
-
This is Illyria, lady.
-
And what should I do in Illyria?
-
My brother...
-
he is in Elysium.
-
Perchance he is not drown'd?
-
My Lady Viola... It is perchance
that yourself were saved.
-
My poor brother!
-
Sebastian!
-
The war between their kingdom and ours
Too often has led to bloody arguments
-
We must not be discovered
in this place
-
Who governs here?
-The Duke. Orsino
-
Orsino?
-
I heard my father name him
-
he was a bachelor then.
- So he is now. Or was so very late.
-
It is said no woman
may approach his court
-
but from one month ago 'twas fresh in murmur
that he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
-
What's she?
-That's her! Olivia!
-
Daughter of a Count who
died some twelve months since
-
Her brother has lately also died.
-
And in her grief, it is said she has abjured
the sight and company of men.
-
O that I served that lady
-
That were hard to compass
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
-
No, not the duke's.
-
I prithee...
-
...Be my aid. For such disguise as haply
shall become the form of my intent.
-
I'll serve this duke:
Thou shall present me as a boy to him:
-
It may be worth thy pains for I can sing
-
And speak to him in many sorts of music
-
That will allow me very worth his service.
-
Oh, I thank thee!
-
TWELFTH NIGHT
-
TWELFTH NIGHT or
WHAT YOU WILL.
-
If music be the food of love, play on
-
Give me... excess of it
-
... surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so...
-
... die.
-
That strain again!
-
it had a dying fall:
-
O, it came o'er my ear
like the sweet sound,
-
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
-
Stealing and giving odour!
-
Enough
-
no more!
-
'Tis not so sweet now
as it was before.
-
How now!... what news of Olivia?
-So please my lord, I might not be admitted
-
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
-
"The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view "
-
"But, like a cloistress..."
-
"... all this to season a brother's dead love, which she would
keep fresh and lasting in her sad remembrance."
-
O, she that hath a heart
of that fine frame
-
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
-
My Lord Orsino...
-
Here comes the Count!
-
-Who saw Cesario, ho?
-On your attendance, my lord here.
-
Cesario...
-
Thou know'st no less but all
-
I have unclasp'd
to thee the book even of my secret soul:
-
Therefore, good youth,
address thy gait unto her
-
Stand at her doors, and tell them : there
thy fixed foot shall grow till thou have audience.
-
Sure, my noble lord, if she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
as it is spoke, she never will admit me.
-
Be clamorous
and leap all civil bounds!
-
Say I do speak with her, my lord,
what then?
-
Then unfold
the passion of my love,
-
It shall become thee well
to act my woes
-
She will attend it better in thy youth
- I think not so, my Lord.
-
Dear lad, believe it
-
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man:
-
Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious
-
thy small pipe Is as the maiden's organ,
shrill and sound,
-
And all is semblative a woman's part.
-
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair.
-
Some three or four : attend him.
-
By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in
earlier o' nights
-
That quaffing and drinking
will undo you
-
I heard my lady
talk of it yesterday
-
and of a foolish knight that you brought in
one night here to be her wooer.
-
Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?
- Ay, he.
-
- He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.
- What's that to the purpose?
-
Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. and speaks
three or four languages word for word without book!
-
he's a fool and a he's great quareller.
-
and but that he hath the gift of a coward
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.
-
Sir Toby Belch!
-
Sir Andrew Agueface!
-
- How now, Sir Toby Belch!
- Sweet Sir Andrew!
-
God Bless you, fair shrew.
-
-And you too, sir.
- What's that?
-
- My niece's chambermaid.
- oh good Mistress Accost...
-
- I desire better acquaintance.
-My name is Mary.
-
Good Mistress Mary Accost,--
-
'accost' is front her, board her,
-
woo her, assail her.
-
Fare you well, gentlemen.
-
Is that the meaning of "accost"?
-
O knight when did I
see thee so put down?
-
What a plague means my niece,
to take the death of her brother thus?
-
I am sure care's
an enemy to life.
-
I ride home tomorrow, Sir Tobias.
-
"Pourquoi", my dear boy?
-What is "pourquoi"?
-
Do or not do?
-
I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues
that I have in fencing and dancing!
-
O, had I but followed the arts!
-
I am going home tomorrow.
your niece will not be seen.
-
or if she be, it's four to one she'll none of me:
the count himself here hard by woos her.
-
She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above
her degree, I have heard her swear't.
-
Tut, there's life in't,man.
-
I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
strangest mind in the world
-
I delight in masques and revels
sometimes altogether.
-
- Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?
- Faith, I can cut a caper.
-
And I think I have the back-trick simply
as strong as any man in Illyria.
-
Wherefore are these things hid?
-
wherefore have
these gifts a curtain before 'em?
-
why dost thou not go to church
in a galliard and come home...
-
... in a coranto?
-
Is it a world to hide virtues in?
-
- My lady will hang thee for thy absence.
- Let her hang me: I fear no colours.
-
- I can tell thee where that saying was born.
- Where, good Mistress Mary?
-
In the war.
-
Well, God give them wisdom
that have it
-
and those that are fools,
let them use their talents.
-
- You are resolute, then?
- I am resolved on two points...
-
That if one break, the other will hold
or, if both break, your breeches fall.
-
If Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a
piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.
-
Peace, you rogue,
-
no more o' that.
-
- God bless thee, lady!
- Take the fool away...
-
- Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.
- I'll no more of you: besides, you grow dishonest.
-
bid the dishonest man mend himself
if he mend, he is no longer dishonest
-
if he cannot, let the
botcher mend him!
-
Any thing that's mended
is but patched...
-
virtue that transgresses
is but patched with sin
-
and sin that amends
is but patched with virtue.
-
As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower.
-
The lady bade take away the fool
therefore, I say again, take her away.
-
Sir, I bade them take away you.
-
Misprision in the highest degree!
Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
-
- Can you do it?
- Dexterously, good madonna.
-
Make your proof.
-
I must catechise you for it, madonna.
-
Good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.
-
Well, sir, for want
of other idleness,
-
Good madonna,
why mournest thou?
-
Good fool, for my
brother's death.
-
- I think his soul is in hell, madonna.
- I know his soul is in heaven, fool.
-
The more fool, madonna, to mourn for
your brother's soul being in heaven.
-
Take away the fool, gentlemen.
-
What think you of this fool, Malvolio?
Doth he not mend?
-
Yes, and shall do till
the pangs of death shake him:
-
infirmity, that decays the wise,
doth ever make the better fool.
-
God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity,
for the better increasing your folly!
-
How say you to that,
gentle Malvolio?
-
I marvel your ladyship takes delight
in such a barren rascal...
-
Look you now, he's out
of his guard already.
-
unless you laugh and minister occasion
to him, he is gagged.
-
Oh, you are sick of
self-love, Malvolio,
-
and taste with a
distempered appetite.
-
there is no slander in an allowed fool,
though he do nothing but rail...
-
nor no railing in a known discreet man,
though he do nothing but reprove.
-
Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman
much desires to speak with you.
-
- From the Count Orsino, is it?
- I know not, madam.
-
- Who of my people hold him in delay?
- Sir Toby.
-
- he speaks nothing but madman.
- Go you, Malvolio.
-
if it be a suit from the count, I am sick,
or not at home what you will, to dismiss it.
-
Now you see, sir,
how your fooling grows old...
-
... and people dislike it.
-
Thou hast spoke for us, madonna,
as if thy eldest son should be a fool
-
whose skull Jove cram with brains! for, here he comes,
one of thy kin has a most weak pia mater.
-
By mine honour, half drunk.
-
What is he at the gate, cousin?
-
A gentleman.
-
What gentleman?
-T�is a gentleman...
-
a plague o' these pickle-herring!
-
- How now, sot!
- Good Sir Tobias!...!
-
Cousin, cousin, how have you come
so early by this lethargy?
-
Lechery! I defy lechery.
-
- There's one at the gate.
- Ay, marry, what is he?
-
Let him be the devil,
an he will, I care not
-
Give me faith, say I.
-
Well, it's all one.
-
- What's a drunken man like?
- Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man...
-
one draught above heat makes him a fool
the second mads him
-
and a third drowns him.
-
Go thou and seek the crowner,
-
he's drowned...
-
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you.
I told him you were sick I told him you were asleep
-
- Tell him he shall not speak with me.
- Has been told so
-
and he says, he'll stand at your door like a
sheriff's post, but he'll speak with you.
-
- What kind o' man is he?
- Why, of mankind.
-
- What manner of man?
- Of very ill manner he'll speak with you, will you or no.
-
- Of what personage and years is he?
- Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy
-
one would think his mother's milk
were scarce out of him.
-
Let him approach:
call in my gentlewoman.
-
Gentlewoman...
-
my lady calls.
-
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.
-
Give me my veil.
-
Well... The honourable lady of the house...
-
... which is she?
-
Speak to me I shall answer for her.
Your will?
-
Most radiant, exquisite and unmatched beauty,...
-
pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her.
I would be loath to cast away my speech. I have taken great pains to learn it.
-
Whence came you, sir?
-
that question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me
modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,
-
- Are you a comedian?
- No, my profound heart!
-
- Are you the lady of the house?
- I am.
-
- I will on with my speech in your praise
- Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.
-
- Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.
- It is the more like to be feigned...
-
I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allowed
your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you.
-
If you be not mad, be gone
if you have reason, be brief.
-
Will you hoist sail, sir?
Here lies your way.
-
No, good swabber
I am to hull here a little longer.
-
- Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady?
- Speak your office.
-
It alone concerns your ear.
-
I bring no overture of war,
my words are of peace as matter.
-
Yet you began rudely.
What are you? what would you?
-
The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I
learned from my entertainment.
-
What I am, and what I would,
are as secret as maidenhead...
-
to your ears, divinity,
to any other's, profanation.
-
Give us the place alone...
-
we will hear this divinity.
-
Now Sir, what is your text?
-
- Most sweet lady,�
-A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.
-
-Where lies your text?
-In Orsino's bosom.
-
- In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?
-in the first of his heart.
-
O, I have read it: it is heresy.
-
-Have you no more to say?
-Good madam, let me see your face.
-
Have you any commission from your lord
to negotiate with my face?
-
You are now out of your text: but
we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
-
Look you, sir, such a one I was this present:
is't not well done?
-
Excellently done,
if God did all.
-
'Tis in grain, sir
'twill endure wind and weather.
-
'Tis beauty truly blent,
-
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,
-
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.
-
O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted.
-
I will giveout divers schedules of my beauty:
it shall be inventoried,
-
and every particle and utensil labelled to my will:
as, item, two lips, indifferent red
-
item, two brown eyes, with lids to them
-
item, one neck, one chin, and so forth.
-
I see you what you are, you are too proud
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
-
My lord and master loves you:
-
O, such love could be but recompensed,
though you were crown'd the nonpareil of beauty!
-
How does he love me?
-
With adorations
-
fertile tears,
-
With groans that thunder love,
-
with sighs of fire.
-
Your lord does know my mind
I cannot love him:
-
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate,
-
of fresh and stainless youth
learn'd and valiant
-
but yet I cannot love him
-
If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suffering,
-
such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense
-
I would not understand it.
-
Why, what would you?
-
Make me a willow cabin
at your gate,
-
And call upon my soul
within the house
-
Write loyal cantons
of contemned love
-
And sing them loud
even in the dead of night
-
Halloo your name
to the reverberate hills
-
And make
the babbling gossip of the air
-
Cry out...
-
"Olivia"!
-
O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
-
But you should pity me!
-
You might do much.
-
What is your parentage?
-
Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.
-
Get you to your lord
-
I cannot love him:
-
let him send no more
-
Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
To tell me how he takes it.
-
Fare you well: I thank you for your pains:
spend this for me.
-
I am no fee'd post, lady
keep your purse:
-
My master, not myself,
lacks recompense.
-
Farewell, fair cruelty.
-
'What is your parentage?'
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
-
I am a gentleman.'
I'll be sworn thou art
-
Nay, not too fast.
Unless the master were the man.
-
How now!
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
-
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an invisible and subtle stealth
-
To creep in at mine eyes.
-
Well, let it be.
-
What ho, Malvolio!
-
Here, madam, at your service.
-
Run after that same peevish messenger,
The county's man:
-
he left this ring behind him,
Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.
-
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Nor hold him up with hopes I am not for him:
-
If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,
I'll give him reasons for't:
-
- hie thee, Malvolio.
-Madam, I will.
-
I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
-
Fate, show thy force:
ourselves we do not owe
-
What is decreed must be,
and be this so.
-
Were not you even now
with the Countess Olivia?
-
Even now, sir on a moderate pace
I have since arrived but hither.
-
he returns this ring to you, sir: you might have
saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.
-
She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord
into a desperate assurance she will none of him:
-
-Well, receive it so!
- She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.
-
Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her and her
will is, it should be so returned:
-
if it be worth stooping for, there it lies in your eye
if not, be it his that finds it.
-
I left no ring with her!
-
what means this lady?
-
Fortune forbid my outside
have not charm'd her!
-
She made good view of me
-
indeed, so much, That sure methought
her eyes had lost her tongue, For she did speak in starts
-
distractedly.
-
She loves me!
-
Sure...
-
I am the man!
-
Will you stay no longer?
-
-Let me yet know of you... wither you are bound!
-No.
-
You must know of me then, Antonio.
-
My name is Sebastian.
-
My father was that Sebastian of Messaline,
whom I know you have heard of.
-
He left behind him myself
and a sister... Viola.
-
both born in an hour:
would we had so ended!
-
but you, sir, altered that...
-
Before you took me from the breach
of the sea was my sister drowned.
-
alas the day!
-
A lady, sir, though it was said
she much resembled me -
-
was yet of many
accounted beautiful.
-
O good Antonio,
forgive me your trouble.
-
If you will not murder me for my love,
let me be your servant.
-
Desire it not!
-
Fare ye well at once!
-
I am bound to
the Count Orsino's court: farewell.
-
The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
-
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there.
-
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
-
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
-
That instant was I turn'd into a hart
And my desires,
-
like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.
-
Approach! Sir Andrew!
-
Maria!
-
Maria!
-
Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!
-
Did you never see the picture
of 'we three'?
-
Welcome, ass!
-
Three happy boys we
-
Three happy boys we
-
Sir Tobias!
-
Tillyvally. Lady!
-
Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.
-
... and Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey!
-
Malvolio's nose is no whipstock,
and the Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.
-
Excellent!
-
Now a song!
-
Come on there is sixpence for you:
let's have a song.
-
That old and antique song
we heard last night:
-
Methought it did relieve my passion much,
-
He is not here, so please your lordship
that should sing it.
-
-Who was it?
-Feste, my lord.
-
a fool that the lady
Olivia's father took much delight in.
-
- Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?
-A love-song.
-
-A love-song!
- Ay, ay: I care not for good life.
-
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
-
O, stay and hear
-
your true love's coming,
-
How dost thou like this tune?
-
It gives a very echo to the seat
Where Love is throned.
-
Thou dost speak masterly.
-
Every wise man's son doth know.
-
Excellent good, i' faith!
-
Good! Good!
-
What is love? 'tis not hereafter
-
Present mirth hath present laughter
-
My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye
Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:
-
Hath it not, boy?
-
- A little, by your favour.
- What kind of woman is't?
-
Of your complexion.
-
She is not worth thee, then.
-
What years, i' faith??
-About your years, my lord.
-
Too old by heaven!
-
let still the woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
-
For, boy...
-
however we do praise ourselves,
-
Our fancies are more
giddy and unfirm,
-
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.
-
-I think it well, my lord.
-Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
-
For women are as roses,
-
whose fair flower,
being once display'd,
-
doth fall that very hour.
-
And so they are
-
alas, that they are so
-
To die, even when they to perfection grow!
-
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.
-
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
-
A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.
-
- A contagious breath.
- Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.
-
But...
-
... shall we make the welkin dance indeed?
-
Shall we?!
-
There lives a man in Babylon
-
'O, the twelfth day of December,'�
-
my true love said to me...
-
My masters... are you mad?
-
Have yeno wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like
tinkers at this time of night?
-
Do ye make an
alehouse of my lady's house?
-
Is there no respect of place, persons, nor
time in you?
-
We did keep time, sir, in our catches.
-
Sneck up!
-
Sir Toby...
-
I must be round with you.:
-
My lady bade me tell you, that,
though she harbours you as her kinsman,
-
she's nothing allied to your disorders.
If you can separate yourself and your...
-
... misdemeanors, you
are welcome to the house if not,...
-
... she is very willing to bid
you farewell.
-
'Farewell, dear heart,
-
since I must needs be gone.'
-
'His eyes do show
his days are almost done.'
-
- 'But I will never die.'
- Sir Toby, there you lie.
-
- This is much credit to you!
- 'Shall I bid him go?'
-
'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'
-
'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'
-
Out o' tune, sir: ye lie.
-
Art any more than a
steward?
-
Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous...
-
...there shall be no more cakes and ale?
-
Yes, by Saint Anne,
and ginger shall be hot i' the mouth too.
-
Thou'rt i' the right.
Go, sir, rub your chain with crumbs.
-
A stoup of wine, Maria!
-
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!
-
Go shake your ears.
-
-Bolts and shackles!
-be patient... for tonight!
-
For Monsieur Malvolio...
if I do not make him a common recreation...
-
... do not think I have wit enough to lie
straight in my bed: I know I can do it.
-
Possess us, possess us
tell us something of him.
-
- Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.
- O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!
-
The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing
constantly, but a time-pleaser
-
so crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is
his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him
-
and on that vice in him will my revenge find
notable cause to work.
-
What wilt thou do?
-
I will drop in his way some obscure
epistles of love
-
wherein 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.
-
- Excellent! I smell a device.
-I have't in my nose too.
-
But for this night...
-
To bed...
-
Dream on the event.
-
Farewell.
-
Good night, Penthesilea!
-
Before me, she's a good wench.
-
She's a beagle, true-bred,
-
and one that adores me...
-
what o' that?
-
I was adored once too.
-
Come, come, I'll go burn some sack
'tis too late to go to bed now
-
Disguise...
-
I see, thou art a wickedness,
-
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
-
How will this fadge?
-
As I am man,
-
My state is desperate for my master's love
-
As I am woman,
-
�now alas the day!�
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
-
Come hither, boy!
-
Come, boy. Come!
-
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else...
-
That live in her.
-
when liver, brain and heart,
are all supplied with one self king!
-
Sir, shall I to this lady?
-
Ay, that's the theme.
To her in haste...
-
Tell her my love can give no place,
bide no denay.
-
Malvolio is
coming down this walk!
-
Come thy ways, Signior Fabian. Wouldst thou not
be glad to have the niggardly rascally sheep-biter
come by some notable shame?
-
He brought me out o' favour with
my lady about a bear-baiting here.
-
Get ye all three into the box-tree!
-
"My Lady..."
-
"My Lady. Countess..."
-
for here comes the trout
that must be caught with tickling.
-
'Tis but fortune all is fortune..
-
Maria once told me
she did affect me-
-
and I have heard herself come
thus near, that,.-
-
-should she fancy,...
-
... it should be one of my complexion
-
Besides, she uses me with a more...
...exalted respect
-
'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!
-
-To be Count Malvolio!...
-Ah, rogue!
-
Having been three months married to her,
-
-... sitting in my state...
-O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!!
-
Calling my officers about me,
in my branched velvet gown...
-
having come from a day-bed,
where I have left
-
Olivia sleeping,...
-
and then, 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!
-
I frown the while
and perchance wind up my watch,...
-
... or play with my -
-
- some rich jewel.
-
Toby approaches courtesies there to me,
I extend my hand to him...
-
...thus saying, 'Cousin Toby,
You must amend your drunkenness!'
-
Out, scab!
-
What employment have we here?
-
By my life, this is my lady's hand!
-
"'To the unknown... beloved"
-
"... this, and my good wishes."
-
By your leave, wax.
Soft!...
-
and the impressure her Lucrece,
with which she uses to seal.
-
'tis my lady.
-
To whom should this be?
-
"Jove knows I love: But who? "
-
"Lips, do not move
No man must know. "
-
"'No man must know "?
-
if this should be thee, Malvolio?!
-
"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. "
-
-M.O.A.I...
- Excellent wench, say I.
-
Let me see... "M.O.A.I."
-
" I may command where I adore."
-
Why, she may command
me: I serve her she is my lady.
-
and the end,-what should
that alphabetical position portend? "M.O.A.I"?
-
Moai... Moa... i... M!
-
M,- Malvolio M,- why, that begins my name!
-
A should follow but O does.
-
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.
-
"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 'em.."
-
"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 co-...
-
"Remember who commended
thy yellow stockings,"
-
"and wished to see thee ever
cross-gartered."
-
" 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."
-
Daylight and champaign
discovers not more.
-
I will be proud,
I will baffle Sir Toby...
-
I will wash off gross acquaintance,
I will be point-devise 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.
-
Jove and my stars be praised!
-
Here is yet a postscript!
-
"Y'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 prithee."
-
Jove, I thank thee!
-
I will smile!
-
I will do everything
that thou wilt have me.!
-
Jove, I thank thee!
-
Jove, I am happy!
-
- I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands!
- I could marry this wench for this device!
-
-Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?
-Or o' mine either?
-
- Nay, but say true does it work upon him?
- Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.
-
Then, mark his first approach
before my lady:
-
he will come to
her in yellow stockings,
-
and 'tis a colour she abhors!
-
Save thee, friend,
dost thou live by thy music?
-
- No, sir, I live by the church.
-Art thou a churchman?
-
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.
-
Hold, there's expenses for thee.
-
Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair,
send thee a beard!
-
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?
-
I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir,
to bring a Cressida to this Troilus.
-
I understand you, sir 'tis well begged.
-
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 her whence you come
-
- Save you, gentleman.
- And you, sir.
-
-Dieu vous garde, monsieur.
- Et vous aussi votre serviteur.
-
I hope, sir, you are
as I am yours.
-
my niece is desirous
you should enter, if your trade be to her.
-
your niece, sir is the list of my voyage.
But we are prevented.
-
Most excellent accomplished lady,
the heavens rain odours on you!
-
'Rain odours'? well.
That youth's a rare courtier:
-
My matter hath no voice, to your own
most pregnant and vouchsafed ear.
-
'Odours,' 'pregnant' and 'vouchsafed:'
I'll get 'em all three all ready.
-
Let the garden door be shut,
and leave me to my hearing.
-
- Give me your hand, sir.
- My duty, madam, and most humble service.
-
-What's your name?
- Cesario is your servant's name, fair princess.
-
- You're servant to the Count Orsino, youth.
- And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.
-
For him, I think not on him...
-
for his thoughts, Would they were blanks,
rather than fill'd with me!
-
- I come to whet your gentle thoughts on his behalf.
- Give me leave, beseech you.
-
I did send...
-
... After the last enchantment you did here...
-
A ring... in chase of you
-
so did I abuse myself,
my servant and, I fear me, you
-
To force that on you, in a shameful cunning,
which you knew none of yours...
-
what might you think?
Have you not set mine honour at the stake?
-
- So, let me hear you speak.
- I pity you.
-
That's a degree to love.
-
No, not a grize.
-
For 'tis a vulgar proof,
That very oft we pity enemies.
-
Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again.
-
The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
-
Be not afraid, good youth,
I will not have you.
-
And yet, when wit
and youth is come to harvest...
-
Your wife is alike
to reap a proper man.
-
There lies your way, due west.
-
Then westward-ho!
-
You'll nothing, madam,
to my lord by me?
-
Stay!
-
I prithee, tell me
what thou thinkest of me.
-
That you do think you are
not what you are.
-
- If I think so, I think the same of you.
- Then think you right: I am not what I am.
-
I would you was
as I would have you be!
-
Would it be better, madam, than I am?
I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
-
O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip!
-
Grace and good disposition
Attend your ladyship!
-
Cesario, by the roses
of the spring,
-
By maidhood, honour,
truth and every thing,
-
I love thee so, that,
-
...maugre all thy pride,
nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
-
By innocence I swear, and by my youth
I have one heart, one bosom and one truth,
-
And that no woman has
-
nor never none shall mistress be of it,
save I alone.
-
And so...
-
adieu, good madam...
-
never more will I my master's tears
to you deplore.
-
Yet come again for thou perhaps mayst move
That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.
-
- I could not stay behind you...
- My kind Antonio!
-
And not all love to see you,
you sir are a stranger to these parts...
-
I can no other answer make
but thanks, And thanks.
-
and oft good turns
are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.
-
I am not weary, and 'tis long to night.
-
I pray you, let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials -
-
- and the things of fame
that do renown this city.
-
I do not without danger walk these streets...
-
Once, in a sea-fight, 'gainst Orsino his galleys
I did some service...
-
of such note indeed, that were I
ta'en here it would scarce be answer'd.
-
Belike you slew
great number of his people.?
-
For which, if I be lapsed in this place,
I shall pay dear.
-
- Do not then walk too open.
- You shall find me at the Elephant.
-
Why I your purse?
-
Haply your eye shall light upon some toy
You have desire to purchase
-
and your store,
I think, is not for idle markets, sir.
-
- At the Elephant.
- I do remember.
-
if ever thou shalt love, 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 beloved.
-
O, fellow, come, play that piece
of song we had last night.
-
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain
-
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
do use to chant it...
-
Come away,
-
come away, death,
-
And in sad cypress
-
let me be laid
-
Fly away breath
-
Fly away, fly away breath
-
I am slain
-
by a fair cruel maid.
-
Not a friend,
-
not a friend greet
-
My poor corpse,
-
where my bones shall be thrown:
-
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
-
Lay me, O, where
-
Sad true lover
-
never find my grave,
-
To weep there!
-
- There's for thy pains.
- No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.
-
- I'll pay thy pleasure then.
- Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid,
-
one time or another.
-
Now, the melancholy god protect you
for your mind is a very opal.
-
Farewell.
-
Once more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty!
-
- But if she cannot love you, sir?
- I cannot so be answer'd.
-
Sooth, but you must.
-
Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, hath for your love
a 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?
-
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,
-
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.
-
- Ay, but I know...
- What dost thou know?
-
Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
-
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be,
-
... perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
-
And what's her history?
-
A blank, my lord.
-
She never told her love,
-
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
-
Feed on her damask cheek.
-
she pined 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.
-
But died thy sister
of her love, my boy?
-
I am all the daughters
of my father's house,
-
And all the brothers too.
-
and yet I know not.
-
I'll do my best
To woo your lady...
-
yet, a barful strife!
-
Whoe'er I woo,
myself would be his wife.
-
No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.
-
Thy reason, dear venom,
give thy reason.
-
Marry, I saw your niece do more favours to the
count's serving-man than ever she bestowed upon me!
-
- I saw't i' the orchard.!
- Did she see thee the while, old boy? tell me that.
-
As plain as I see you now.
-
This was a great argument of love in her toward you.
-
'Slight, will you make an ass o' me?
-
She did show favour to the youth in your sight only
to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour.
-
You should then have accosted her
and banged the youth into dumbness.
-
you are now sailed
into the north of my lady's opinion.
-
unless you do redeem it by
some laudable attempt either of valour or policy.
-
It must be with valour for policy
I hate: I had as lief be a puritan as a politician..
-
Why, then, challenge me
the count's youth to fight with him
-
hurt him in eleven places:
my niece shall take note of it.
-
there is no love-broker in the world
can more prevail than report of valour.
-
- Will either of you bear me a challenge to him?
- Go, write it in a martial hand be curst and brief!
-
it is no matter how witty,
so it be eloquent.
-
about it!
-
Taunt him with the licence of ink!
-
Where shall I find you?
-
We'll call thee at the cubiculo: go.
-
This is a dear manikin to you, Sir Toby.
-
I have been dear to him, lad,
some two thousand strong, or so.
-
Yond gull Malvolio is
turned heathen.
-
- He's in yellow stockings.
- And cross-gartered?
-
How now... Malvolio...?
-
Sweet lady, ho, ho.
-
Smilest thou?
I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
-
Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some
obstruction in the blood, this cross-gartering.
-
but what of that? if it please the eye of one...
-
- 'Please one, and please all.'
- Why, how dost thou, man? what is the matter with thee?
-
Not black in my mind,...
though yellow in my legs.
-
It did come to his hands,
-
and commands shall be executed
-
I think we do know
the sweet Roman hand.
-
Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
-
To bed?
-
ay, sweet-heart.
-
and I'll come to thee.
-
God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so
and kiss thy hand so oft?
-
How do you, Malvolio?
-
Why appear you with this
ridiculous boldness before my lady?
-
'Be not afraid of greatness:'
'twas well writ.
-
'Some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon them.'
-
'Remember who commended
thy yellow stockings,'
-
'Go to thou art made, if thou desirest to be so '
'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'
-
Why, this is very
midsummer madness!
-
Madam, the young gentleman
of the Count Orsino's is returned.
-
I'll come to him.
-
Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to.
-
Where's my cousin Toby?
Let some of my people have a special care of him
-
O, ho! do you come near me now?
-
no worse man than
Sir Toby to look to me!
-
she sends him on purpose, that I may appear
stubborn to him I have limed her!!!
-
but it is Jove's doing,
and Jove make me thankful!
-
And when she went away now, 'Let this fellow be looked to:'
fellow! not Malvolio, nor after my degree, but fellow.
-
Why, every thing
adheres together!
-
What can be said?
-
Nothing that can be...
-
... can come between me and the full
prospect of my hopes.
-
If all the devils of hell be drawn in little,
yet I'll speak to him.
-
Go off I discard you.
-
Sir Toby, my lady prays you
to have a care of him.
-
Ah, ha! does she so?
-
- What, man! defy the devil!
- Do you know what you say?
-
La you, an you speak ill of the devil,
how he takes it at heart!
-
-Carry his water to the wise woman.
- it shall be done to-morrow morning.
-
- My lady would not lose him for more than I'll say.
- How now, mistress!
-
- let me enjoy my private.
- Get him to say his prayers, good Sir Toby, get him to pray!
-
My prayers, minx!
-
- No, I warrant you, he will not hear of godliness.
-you are idle shallow things...
-
I am not of your element: you shall know
more hereafter.
-
Is't possible?
-
If this were played upon a stage now, I could
condemn it as an improbable fiction.
-
Come, we'll have him in a dark room and bound.
-
- Why, we shall make him mad indeed.
- My niece is already in the belief that he's mad
-
we may carry it thus,
for our pleasure and his penance.
-
a scurvy fellow thou art!
-
More matter for a May morning.
-
Here's the challenge, read it.
-
- I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.
- Is't so saucy?
-
'Youth, whatsoever thou art,
thou art but a scurvy fellow.'
-
Good, and valiant.
-
"Thou comest to the lady Olivia, and in my
sight she uses thee kindly."
-
"but that is not the matter
I challenge thee for"
-
Very brief, and to exceeding good sense...
-
" I will waylay thee going home where if it
be thy chance to kill me,..."
-
Good!
-
"...Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain."
-
Still you keep o' the windy side
of the law: good.
-
"Fare thee well and God have mercy upon
one of our souls!"
-
"He may have mercy upon mine but
my hope is better"
-
"and so look to thyself."
-
"Thy friend,..."
-
"... as thou usest him,
and thy sworn enemy,."
-
ANDREW AGUECHEEK.
-
If this letter move him not, his legs cannot!
I'll give't him.
-
He is now in some commerce with my lady,
but will by and by depart.
-
Go, Sir Andrew: scout me for him at the corner the
orchard like a bum-baily.
-
so soon as ever thou seest him, draw
and, as thou drawest swear horrible! Away!
-
Nay, let me alone for swearing!
-
I will deliver his challenge by
word of mouth.
-
And I beseech you come again to-morrow.
What shall you ask of me that I'll deny?
-
Nothing but this
your true love for my master.
-
How with mine honour may I give him that
Which I have given to you?
-
I will acquit you!
-
Thou art a foolish fellow...
-
Will you make me believe
that I am not sent for you?
-
Go to, go to!...
-
Well, come again to-morrow:
fare thee well!
-
A fiend like thee
might bear my soul to hell!
-
-Let me be clear of thee!
-Well... Hell not.
-
- Gentleman, God save thee.
- And you, sir.
-
That defence thou hast,
betake thee to't.
-
of what nature the wrongs are thou hast
done him, I know not but thy intercepter
-
...bloody as the hunter,
attends thee at the orchard-end.
-
You mistake, sir I am sure no man
hath any quarrel to me.
-
You'll find it otherwise,
I assure you.
-
therefore, if you hold your life at any price,
betake you to your guard
-
for your opposite hath in him what
youth, strength...
-
...skill and wrath can furnish man withal.
-
- I beseech you, sir, what is he?
- he is a devil in private brawl.
-
souls and bodies
hath he divorced three.
-
I will return again into the house and
desire some conduct of the lady.
-
I am no fighter.
-
I beseech you to know what my offence to him is:
it is something of my negligence, nothing of my purpose.
-
Signior Fabian, stay you by this
gentleman till my return.
-
Pray you, sir, do you know of this matter?
-
I know the knight is incensed against you,
even to a mortal arbitrement...
-
Why, man, he's a very devil
I have not seen such a firago.
-
I had a pass with him, and he gives me
the stuck in with such a mortal motion...
-
... that it is inevitable they say he has been
fencer to the Shah of Persia.
-
- Pox on't, I'll not meddle with him.
- Ay, but he will not now be pacified.
-
- Fabian can scarce hold him yonder
- Plague on't!
-
Let him let the matter slip,
and I'll give him my horse.
-
I'll make the motion.
-
stand here, make a good show on't.
-
I'll ride your horse as well as I ride you.
-
- I will make your peace with him if I can.
- I shall be much bound to you for't.
-
- I have persuaded him the youth's a devil.
- He is as horribly conceited of him.
-
There's no remedy, sir he will fight
with you for's oath sake.
-
- Give ground, if you see him furious.
- Come, Sir Andrew, there's no remedy.
-
the gentleman will, for his honour's sake,
have one bout with you.
-
Come on...
-
To't!
-
Put up your sword!
-
If this young gentleman
Have done offence...
-
- I take the fault on me.
- You, sir! why, what are you?
-
One, sir, that for his love
dares yet do more -
-
Than you have heard him
brag to you he will.
-
Nay, if you be an undertaker, I am for you.
-
hold! here come the officers.
-
I'll be with you anon.
-
-Put your sword up.
-and, for that I promised you, I'll be as good as my word.
-
he will bear you easily
and reins well.
-
Antonio, I arrest thee
at the suit of Count Orsino.
-
-You do mistake me, sir.
-No, sir, no jot.
-
I know your favour well,
-
Though now you have
no sea-cap on your head.
-
Take him away: he knows I know him well.
-
I must obey.
This comes with seeking you:
-
What will you do, now my necessity
Makes me to ask you for my purse?
-
- Come, sir, away.
- I must entreat of you some of that money.
-
What money, sir? For the fair kindness
you have show'd me here I'll lend you something...
-
Will you deny me now?
-
Come, sir.
-
This youth that you see here
I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death,
-
What's that to us? Go tell my lord Orsino,
We will haul him here.
-
Lead me on.
-
A very dishonest paltry boy,
and more a coward than a hare
-
leaving his friend here in necessity
and denying him...
-
A coward, a most devout coward,
religious in it.
-
- 'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.
- Do cuff him soundly...
-
- but never draw thy sword.
- An I do not!
-
The have wronged me :
they have laid me into darkness!
-
The world shall know it!
-
No, I do not know you nor
I am not sent to you by my lady!
-
nor your name is not Master Cesario
nor this is not my nose neither.
-
Nothing that is so is so.
-
I prithee, foolish Greek, vent thy folly
somewhere else: Thou know'st not me.
-
"Vent my folly"! and tell me,
what I shall vent to my lady?
-
Shall I vent to her
that thou art coming?
-
There's
money for thee.
-
if you tarry longer, I shall give
worse payment.
-
By my troth,
thou hast an open hand!
-
Now, sir, have I met you again?
there's for you!
-
Why, there's for thee!
-
Are all
the people mad?
-
Hold, sir, or I'll throw
your dagger o'er the house.
-
I would not be in some of
your coats for two pence.
-
I'll have an action of battery against him,
though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that!
-
- Let go thy hand!
- I will not let you go, my young soldier!
-
I will be free from thee!!!
-
What wouldst thou now?
-
What, what?
-
Nay, then I must have an ounce or two
of this malapert blood from you.
-
Hold, Toby!!!
-
On thy life I charge thee, hold!
-
-Madam!
-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 prithee, gentle friend, go with me to my house,
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botch'd up...
-
that thou thereby mayst smile at this:
thou shalt not choose but go: Do not deny.
-
What relish is in this?
how runs the stream?
-
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream?
-
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep
-
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
-
Nay, come, I prithee
would thou'ldst be ruled by me!
-
Madam...
-
I will.
-
O, say so, and so be!
-
Prove true, imagination...
-
O, prove true.
-
I would I were the first that ever
dissembled in such a gown.
-
- Jove bless thee, master Parson.
- Bonos dies, Sir Toby.
-
As the old hermit of Prague, who never saw pen and ink,
very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc...
-
'That that is is ' so I, being Master Parson, am Master
Parson for, what is 'that' but 'that,' and 'is' but 'is'?
-
To him, Sir Topas.
-
What, ho, I say! peace in this prison!
-
Who calls there?
-
Master Topas, the curate,
who comes to visit Malvolio, the lunatic.
-
Good Master Topas, good Master Topas,
go to my lady...
-
Out, hyperbolical fiend!
Talkest thou nothing but of ladies?
-
He counterfeits well.
-
Good Sir Topas,
do not think I am mad.
-
they have laid me
here in hideous darkness....
-
- Sayest thou that house is dark?
- As Hell, Master Topas.
-
Why it hath bay windows
transparent as barricadoes
-
and the clearstores toward
the south north are as lustrous as ebony.
-
I am not mad.
-
This is the air...
-
that is the glorious sun
-
This pearl she gave me,
I do feel't and see't
-
Yet doth this accident and
flood of fortune so far exceeds -
-
- all instance, all discourse,
That I am ready to distrust mine eyes...
-
...and wrangle with my reason that persuades me
To any other trust but that I am mad...
-
I am not... mad!
-
- Fare thee well.
- Master Topas!
-
I would we were well rid of this
knavery....
-
I am now so far in offence
with my niece -
-
that I cannot pursue with any safety.
-
Come by and by to my chamber.
-
jolly Robin...
-
Tell me how thy lady does.'
-
Feste!
-
Feste!
-
Feste!
-
Feste! Good Feste! help me to a candle,
and pen, ink and paper.
-
Mr Malvolio! Alas, sir, how fell you
besides your five wits?
-
Never was a man
so notoriously abused!
-
They have here propertied me kept me
in darkness, sent ministers to me!
-
I am as well in my wits
as any man in Illyria!
-
- Well-a-day that you were, sir
- By this hand, I am!
-
Good Feste, some ink, paper and light
and convey what I will set down to my lady.
-
Or else the lady's mad?
-
yet, if 'twere so,
She could not sway her house...
-
command her followers, take and give back affairs
and their dispatch as I perceive she does
-
There's something in't
that is... deceiveable.
-
Blame not this haste of mine.
-
If you mean well, Now go with me
and with this holy man into the chantry by...
-
there, before him, plight me
the full assurance of your faith...
-
That my most jealous and
too doubtful soul may live at peace.
-
He shall conceal it whiles you are willing it
shall come to note. What do you say?
-
I'll follow this good man, and go with you
And, having sworn truth, ever will be true.
-
But tell me true, are you
not mad indeed?
-
Or do you but counterfeit?
-
Believe me, I am not
-
I tell thee true.
-
Nay, I'll ne'er believe a madman
till I see his brains.
-
I will fetch you light and paper and ink.
-
I'll requite it in the highest degree!
-
I am gone, sir,
-
And anon, sir,
I'll be with you again,
-
In a trice, like to the old Vice,
Your need to sustain...
-
Who, with dagger of lath,
In his rage and his wrath,
-
Cries, ah, ha!
-
to the devil...
-
Like a mad lad,
Pare thy nails, dad
-
Adieu, good man devil.
-
Now, as thou lovest me,
let me see his letter.
-
Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
-
Ay, sir we are some of her trappings.
-
If you will let your lady know I am here and bring her
along with you, it may awake my bounty further.
-
Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty
till I come again.
-
This is the man, sir,
that did rescue me.
-
- That face of his I do remember well...
- this is that Antonio, that took the Phoenix.
-
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg.
-
- He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side...
- 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?
-
Orsino, noble sir,
-
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,
-
His life I gave him!
For his sake...
-
-... faced the danger
of this adverse town!
-
How can this be?
-
When came he to this town?
-
Yester-day, my lord and for three months before,
Both day and night did we keep company.
-
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.
-
Bring him away.
-
What would my lord,
but that he may not have?
-
Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.
-
- Gracious Olivia...
- What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord -
-
My lord would speak
my duty hushes me.
-
If it be aught
to the old tune, my lord
-
It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.
-
- Still so cruel?
- Still so constant, lord.
-
What, to perverseness?
you uncivil lady,
-
My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath
breathed out that e'er devotion tender'd!
-
- What shall I do?
- Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.
-
Why should I not, in savage jealousy like to the
Egyptian thief at point of death, kill what I love?
-
But Madam, hear me this:
-
Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
-
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,
-
And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.
-
Come, boy, with me
my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
-
- Where goes Cesario?
- 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.
-
- Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!
- Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?
-
Hast thou forgot thyself?
is it so long?
-
- Call forth the holy father!
- Come, away!
-
Whither, my lord?
Cesario, husband, stay!
-
- Husband!
- Ay, husband: can he that deny?
-
- Her husband, sirrah?
- No, my lord, not I.
-
Fear not, Cesario
take thy fortunes up!
-
O, welcome, father!
-
Father
-
I charge thee, by thy reverence, here to unfold,
though lately we intended to keep in darkness
-
what thou dost know hath newly
pass'd between this youth and me.
-
A contract of
eternal bond of love...
-
Confirm'd by mutual
joinder of your hands...
-
Strengthen'd by
interchangement of your rings
-
Seal'd in my function,
by my testimony.
-
O thou dissembling cub!
-
what wilt thou be when time
hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?
-
Farewell, and take her...
-
but direct thy feet where thou and I
henceforth may never meet.
-
- My lord, I do protest...
- O, do not swear!
-
Hold little faith,
though thou hast too much fear.
-
For the love of God, a surgeon!
Send one presently to Sir Toby!
-
For the love of God, your help!
-
- What's the matter?
- He has broke my head across and has given Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too
-
I had rather than
forty pound I were at home!
-
Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
-
The count's gentleman, one Cesario:
he's the very devil incardinate.
-
- My gentleman, Cesario?
- '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.
-
I never hurt you:
You drew your sword upon me without cause!
-
If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have
hurt me: Here comes Sir Toby halting
-
If he had not been in drink, he would have
tickled you othergates than he did!
-
- How now, gentleman! how is't with you?
- That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the end on't.
-
- Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?
- O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone.
-
I hate a drunken rogue.
-
Away with him!
-
Who hath made this havoc with them?
-
I'll help you, Sir Toby,
because well be dressed together.
-
Will you help me?
-
an ass-head... and a coxcomb?
-
and a knave, a thin-faced knave!
-
A gull!
-
Get him to bed,
and let his hurt be look'd to.
-
I am sorry, madam,
I have hurt your kinsman.
-
But, had it been the brother of my blood,
I must have done no less with wit and safety.
-
Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
We made each other but so late ago.
-
Antonio!
-
O my dear Antonio! How have the hours rack'd
and tortured me, since I have lost thee!
-
- Sebastian... are you?
- Fear'st thou that, Antonio?
-
How have you made division of yourself?
-
Which is Sebastian?
-
Most wonderful!
-
Do I stand there?
-
I never had a brother
-
but I had a sister, whom the blind waves
and surges have devour'd.
-
Of charity, what kin are you to me?
-
What countryman?
-
what name? what parentage?
-
Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father
-
Such a Sebastian was my brother too,
-
So went he suited to his watery tomb:
-
Were you a woman,
as the rest goes even...
-
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
-
and say :
-
'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'
-
My father had a mole upon his brow.
-
And so had mine.
-
And died that day
when Viola from her birth...
-
... That day that made my sister thirteen years.
-
If nothing lets to make us happy both
-
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Do not embrace me...
-
till each circumstance
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere...
-
... and jump I am..
-
Viola...
-
which to confirm,
I'll bring you to a captain
-
by whose gentle help
I was preserved...
-
to serve this noble count.
-
So comes it, lady,
you have been mistook
-
But nature to her bias drew in that.
-
You would have been
contracted to a maid
-
Nor are you therein,
by my life, deceived,
-
You are betroth'd
both to a maid and man.
-
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
-
I shall have share in this most happy wreck.
-
Boy,
-
Thou hast said to me a thousand times
thou never shouldst love woman like to me.
-
And all those sayings will I overswear
-
Give me thy hand
-
Your master quits you
-
and for your service done him,
So much against the mettle of your sex,
-
Here is my hand
-
you shall from this time be
-
Your master's mistress.
-
And let me see thee
in thy woman's weeds.
-
A sister! you are she.
-
From Malvolio?
-
What now? Malvolio?
-
Madam, you have done me wrong,
Notorious wrong.
-
Have I, Malvolio? no.
-
Lady, you have.
Pray you, peruse that letter.
-
You must not now deny it is your hand.
well, grant it then!
-
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,
-
Why you have given me
such clear lights of favour?
-
bade me come smiling
and cross-garter'd to you,
-
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
-
Why have you suffer'd me
to be imprison'd, kept in a dark house,
-
visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck...
-
and gull that e'er invention
play'd on? tell me...
-
... Why?
-
Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
-
Though, I confess,
much like the character
-
But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.
-
And now I do bethink me, it was she
First told me thou wast mad
-
This practise hath most shrewdly
pass'd upon thee
-
Good madam, hear me speak,
-
Most freely I confess, Maria writ
The letter at Sir Toby's great importance
-
In recompense whereof
he hath married her.
-
Alas, poor fool,
how have they baffled thee!
-
" 'Why, some are born great,..."
-
"... Some achieve greatness...."
-
"... And some have greatness thrown upon them. "
-
I was one, sir, in this interlude...
-
...one Master Topas.
-
'By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.'
-
But do you remember? 'Madam, why laugh you at such
a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagged:'
-
And thus the whirligig of time...
-
... brings in his revenges.
-
I'll be revenged...
-
on the whole pack of you.
-
Pursue him and entreat him to a peace.
-
When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
-
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day.
-
But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho.
-
'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
-
For the rain it raineth every day.
-
He hath been most notoriously abused.
-
No, it is done and golden time convents.
-
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls.
-
But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho.
-
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain.
-
But when I came unto my beds,
-
With hey, ho.
-
With toss-pots still had drunken heads,
-
For the rain.
-
A great while ago the world begun, 2620
With hey, ho.
-
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day.
-
And I'll strive to please you every day.
-
Every day.
-
Every day.