2503Or say, tis not your seale, not your inuention:

2504You can say none of this. Well, grant it then,

2505And tell me in the modestie of honor,

2506Why you haue giuen me such cleare lights of fauour,

2507Bad me come smiling, and crosse-garter'd to you,

2508To put on yellow stockings, and to frowne

2509Vpon sir Toby, and the lighter people:

2510And acting this in an obedient hope,

2511Why haue you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,

2512Kept in a darke house, visited by the Priest,

2513And made the most notorious gecke and gull,

2514That ere inuention plaid on? Tell me why?

2515Ol. Alas Maluolio, this is not my writing,

2516Though I confesse much like the Charracter:

2517But out of question, tis Marias hand.

2518And now I do bethinke me, it was shee

2519First told me thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling,

2520And in such formes, which heere were presuppos'd

2521Vpon thee in the Letter: prethee be content,

2522This practice hath most shrewdly past vpon thee:

2523But when we know the grounds, and authors of it,

2524Thou shalt be both the Plaintiffe and the Iudge

2525Of thine owne cause.

2526Fab. Good Madam heare me speake,

2527And let no quarrell, nor no braule to come,

2528Taint the condition of this present houre,

2529Which I haue wondred at. In hope it shall not,

2530Most freely I confesse my selfe, and Toby

2531Set this deuice against Maluolio heere,

2532Vpon some stubborne and vncourteous parts

2533We had conceiu'd against him. Maria writ

2534The Letter, at sir Tobyes great importance,

2535In recompence whereof, he hath married her:

2536How with a sportfull malice it was follow'd,

2537May rather plucke on laughter then reuenge,

2538If that the iniuries be iustly weigh'd,

2539That haue on both sides past.

2540Ol. Alas poore Foole, how haue they baffel'd thee?

2541Clo. Why some are borne great, some atchieue great-

2542nesse, and some haue greatnesse throwne vpon them. I

2543was one sir, in this Enterlude, one sir Topas sir, but that's

2544all one: By the Lotd Foole, I am not mad: but do you re-

2545member, Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascall,

2546and you smile not he's gag'd: and thus the whirlegigge

2547of time, brings in his reuenges.

2548Mal. Ile be reueng'd on the whole packe of you?

2549Ol. He hath bene most notoriously abus'd.

2550Du. Pursue him, and entreate him to a peace:

2551He hath not told vs of the Captaine yet,

2552When that is knowne, and golden time conuents

2553A solemne Combination shall be made

2554Of our deere soules. Meane time sweet sister,

2555We will not part from hence. Cesario come

2556(For so you shall be while you are a man:)

2557But when in other habites you are seene,

2558Orsino's Mistris, and his fancies Queene. Exeunt