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- TWELFTH NIGHT
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- Act 3 Scene 1
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- (Enter Viola as Cesario and Feste the clown, with pipe and tabor)
- l1l Viola Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live by
- l2l thy tabor?
- l3l Feste No, sir, I live by the church.
- l4l Viola Art thou a churchman?
- l5l Feste No such matter, sir. I do live by the church for I
- l6l do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the
- l7l church.
- l8l Viola So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar if a
- l9l beggar dwell near him, or the church stands by thy
- l10l tabor if thy tabor stand by the church.
- l11l Feste You have said, sir. To see this age!ùA sentence is
- l12l but a cheverel glove to a good wit, how quickly the
- l13l wrong side may be turned outward.
- l14l Viola Nay, thatÆs certain. They that dally nicely with
- l15l words may quickly make them wanton.
- l16l Feste I would therefore my sister had had no name, sir.
- l17l Viola Why, man?
- l18l Feste Why, sir, her nameÆs a word, and to dally with
- l19l that word might make my sister wanton. But indeed,
- l20l words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.
- l21l Viola Thy reason, man?
- l22l Feste Troth, sir, I can yield you none without words, and
- l23l words are grown so false I am loath to prove reason
- l24l with them.
- l25l Viola I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and carest for
- l26l nothing.
- l27l Feste Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my
- l28l conscience, sir, I do not care for you. If that be to care
- l29l for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.
- l30l Viola Art not thou the Lady OliviaÆs fool?
- l31l Feste No indeed, sir, the Lady Olivia has no folly, she
- l32l will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and fools are
- l33l as like husbands as pilchards are to herringsùthe
- l34l husbandÆs the bigger. I am indeed not her fool, but her
- l35l corrupter of words.
- l36l Viola I saw thee late at the Count OrsinoÆs.
- l37l Feste Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun,
- l38l it shines everywhere. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool
- l39l should be as oft with your master as with my mistress.
- l40l I think I saw your wisdom there.
- l41l Viola Nay, an thou pass upon me, IÆll no more with
- l42l thee. (Giving money) Hold, thereÆs expenses for thee.
- l43l Feste Now Jove in his next commodity of hair send thee
- l44l a beard.
- l45l Viola By my troth IÆll tell thee, I am almost sick for one,
- l46l though I would not have it grow on my chin. Is thy
- l47l lady within?
- l48l Feste Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?
- l49l Viola Yes, being kept together and put to use.
- l50l Feste I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring
- l51l a Cressida to this Troilus.
- l52l Viola (giving money) I understand you, sir, Ætis well
- l53l begged.
- l54l Feste The matter I hope is not great, sir; begging but a
- l55l beggarùCressida was a beggar. My lady is within, sir.
- l56l I will conster to them whence you come. Who you are
- l57l and what you would are out of my welkinùI might
- l58l say ôelementö, but the word is over-worn.
- (Exit)
- l59l Viola This fellow is wise enough to play the fool,
- l60l And to do that well craves a kind of wit.
- l61l He must observe their mood on whom he jests,
- l62l The quality of persons, and the time,
- l63l And, like the haggard, check at every feather
- l64l That comes before his eye. This is a practice
- l65l As full of labour as a wise manÆs art,
- l66l For folly that he wisely shows is fit,
- l67l But wise men, folly-fallÆn, quite taint their wit.
- (Enter Sir Toby and Sir Andrew)
- l68l Sir Toby Save you, gentleman.
- l69l Viola And you, sir.
- l70l Sir Andrew Dieu vous garde, monsieur.
- l71l Viola Et vous aussi, votre serviteur.
- l72l Sir Andrew I hope, sir, you are, and I am yours.
- l73l Sir Toby Will you encounter the house? My niece is
- l74l desirous you should enter if your trade be to her.
- l75l Viola I am bound to your niece, sir: I mean she is the
- l76l list of my voyage.
- l77l Sir Toby Taste your legs, sir, put them to motion.
- l78l Viola My legs do better understand me, sir, than I
- l79l understand what you mean by bidding me taste my
- l80l legs.
- l81l Sir Toby I mean to go, sir, to enter.
- l82l Viola I will answer you with gait and entrance.
- (Enter Olivia, and Maria, her gentlewoman)
- l83l But we are prevented.
- (To Olivia) Most excellent accomplished
- l84l lady, the heavens rain odours on you.
- l85l Sir Andrew (to Sir Toby) That youthÆs a rare courtier;
- l86l ôrain odoursöùwell.
- l87l Viola My matter hath no voice, lady, but to your own
- l88l most pregnant and vouchsafed ear.
- l89l Sir Andrew (to Sir Toby) ôOdoursö, ôpregnantö, and
- l90l ôvouchsafedöùIÆll get Æem all three already.
- l91l Olivia Let the garden door be shut, and leave me to my
- l92l hearing.
- (Exeunt Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria)
- l93l Give me your hand, sir.
- l94l Viola My duty, madam, and most humble service.
- l95l Olivia What is your name?
- l96l Viola Cesario is your servantÆs name, fair princess.
- l97l Olivia My servant, sir? ÆTwas never merry world
- l98l Since lowly feigning was called compliment.
- l99l YouÆre servant to the Count Orsino, youth.
- l100l Viola And he is yours, and his must needs be yours.
- l101l Your servantÆs servant is your servant, madam.
- l102l Olivia For him, I think not on him. For his thoughts,
- l103l Would they were blanks rather than filled with me.
- l104l Viola Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
- l105l On his behalf.
- Olivia O by your leave, I pray you.
- l106l I bade you never speak again of him;
- l107l But would you undertake another suit,
- l108l I had rather hear you to solicit that
- l109l Than music from the spheres.
- Viola Dear ladyù
- l110l Olivia Give me leave, beseech you. I did send,
- l111l After the last enchantment you did here,
- l112l A ring in chase of you. So did I abuse
- l113l Myself, my servant, and I fear me you.
- l114l Under your hard construction must I sit,
- l115l To force that on you in a shameful cunning
- l116l Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
- l117l Have you not set mine honour at the stake
- l118l And baited it with all thÆ unmuzzled thoughts
- l119l That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiving
- l120l Enough is shown. A cypress, not a bosom,
- l121l Hides my heart. So let me hear you speak.
- l122l Viola I pity you.
- Olivia ThatÆs a degree to love.
- l123l Viola No, not a grece, for Ætis a vulgar proof
- l124l That very oft we pity enemies.
- l125l Olivia Why then, methinks Ætis time to smile again.
- l126l O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!
- l127l If one should be a prey, how much the better
- l128l To fall before the lion than the wolf!
- (Clock strikes)
- l129l The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.
- l130l Be not afraid, good youth, I will not have you;
- l131l And yet when wit and youth is come to harvest
- l132l Your wife is like to reap a proper man.
- l133l There lies your way, due west.
- Viola Then westward ho!
- l134l Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship.
- l135l YouÆll nothing, madam, to my lord by me?
- l136l Olivia Stay. I prithee tell me what thou thinkÆst of me.
- l137l Viola That you do think you are not what you are.
- l138l Olivia If I think so, I think the same of you.
- l139l Viola Then think you right, I am not what I am.
- l140l Olivia I would you were as I would have you be.
- l141l Viola Would it be better, madam, than I am?
- l142l I wish it might, for now I am your fool.
- l143l Olivia (aside) O, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
- l144l In the contempt and anger of his lip!
- l145l A murdÆrous guilt shows not itself more soon
- l146l Than love that would seem hid. LoveÆs night is noon.
- l147l (To Viola) Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
- l148l By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
- l149l I love thee so that, maugre all thy pride,
- l150l Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
- l151l Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
- l152l For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause.
- l153l But rather reason thus with reason fetter:
- l154l Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.
- l155l Viola By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
- l156l I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
- l157l And that no woman has, nor never none
- l158l Shall mistress be of it save I alone.
- l159l And so adieu, good madam. Never more
- l160l Will I my masterÆs tears to you deplore.
- l161l Olivia Yet come again, for thou perhaps mayst move
- l162l That heart which now abhors, to like his love.
- (Exeunt severally)
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