1212Actus Tertius, Scaena prima. 1213Enter Viola and Clowne. 1214Vio. Saue thee Friend and thy Mu
sick: do
st thou liue
1216Clo. No
sir, I liue by the Church.
1217Vio. Art thou a Churchman?
1218Clo. No
such matter
sir, I do liue by the Church: For,
1219I do liue at my hou
se, and my hou
se dooth
stand by the
1221Vio. So thou mai
st say the Kings lyes by a begger, if a
1222begger dwell neer him: or the Church
stands by thy Ta
- 1223bor, if thy Tabor
stand by the Church.
1224Clo. You haue
said
sir: To
see this age: A
sentence is
1225but a cheu'rill gloue to a good witte, how quickely the
1226wrong
side may be turn'd outward.
1227Vio. Nay that's certaine: they that dally nicely with
1228words, may quickely make them wanton.
1229Clo. I would therefore my
sister had had no name Sir.
1231Clo. Why
sir, her names a word, and to dallie with
1232that word, might make my
sister wanton: But indeede,
1233words are very Ra
scals,
since bonds di
sgrac'd them.
Clo.
Twelfe Night, or, What you will. 273
1235Clo. Troth
sir, I can yeeld you none without wordes,
1236and wordes are growne
so fal
se, I am loath to proue rea
- 1238Vio. I warrant thou art a merry fellow, and car'
st for
1240Clo. Not
so
sir, I do care for
something: but in my con
- 1241science
sir, I do not care for you: if that be to care for no
- 1242thing
sir, I would it would make you inui
sible.
1243Vio. Art not thou the Lady
Oliuia's foole?
1244Clo. No indeed
sir, the Lady
Oliuia has no folly,
shee
1245will keepe no foole
sir, till
she be married, and fooles are
1246as like hu
sbands, as Pilchers are to Herrings, the Hu
s- 1247bands the bigger, I am indeede not her foole, but hir cor
- 1249Vio. I
saw thee late at the Count
Orsino's.
1250Clo. Foolery
sir, does walke about the Orbe like the
1251Sun, it
shines euery where. I would be
sorry
sir, but the
1252Foole
should be as oft with your Ma
ster, as with my Mi
- 1253stris: I thinke I
saw your wi
sedome there.
1254Vio. Nay, and thou pa
sse vpon me, Ile no more with
1255thee. Hold there's expences for thee.
1256Clo. Now Ioue in his next commodity of hayre,
send
1258Vio. By my troth Ile tell thee, I am almo
st sicke for
1259one, though I would not haue it grow on my chinne. Is
1261Clo Would not a paire of the
se haue bred
sir?
1262Vio. Yes being kept together, and put to v
se.
1263Clo. I would play Lord
Pandarus of
Phrygia sir, to bring
1264a
Cressida to this
Troylus. 1265Vio. I vnder
stand you
sir, tis well begg'd.
1266Clo. The matter I hope is not great
sir; begging, but a
1267begger:
Cressida was a begger. My Lady is within
sir. I
1268will con
ster to them whence you come, who you are, and
1269what you would are out of my welkin, I might
say Ele
- 1270ment, but the word is ouer-worne.
exit 1271Vio. This fellow is wi
se enough to play the foole,
1272And to do that well, craues a kinde of wit:
1273He mu
st ob
serue their mood on whom he ie
sts,
1274The quality of per
sons, and the time:
1275And like the Haggard, checke at euery Feather
1276That comes before his eye. This isa pra
ctice,
1277As full of labour as a Wi
se-mans Art:
1278For folly that he wi
sely
shewes, is
fit;
1279But wi
semens folly falne, quite taint their wit.
1280Enter Sir Toby and Andrew. 1281To. Saue you Gentleman.
1283And. Dieu vou guard Monsieur.
1284Vio. Et vouz ousie vostre seruiture.
1285An. I hope
sir, you are, and I am yours.
1286To. Will you incounter the hou
se, my Neece is de
si- 1287rous you
should enter, if your trade be to her.
1288Vio. I am bound to your Neece
sir, I meane
she is the
1290To. Ta
ste your legges
sir, put them to motion.
1291Vio. My legges do better vnder
stand me
sir, then I vn
- 1292der
stand what you meane by bidding me ta
ste my legs.
1293To. I meane to go
sir, to enter.
1294Vio. I will an
swer you with gate and entrance, but we
1296Enter Oliuia, and Gentlewoman. 1297Mo
st excellent accompli
sh'd Lady, the heauens raine O
- 1299And. That youth's a rare Courtier, raine odours, wel.
1300Vio. My matter hath no voice Lady, but to your owne
1301mo
st pregnant and vouch
safed eare.
1302And. Odours, pregnant, and vouch
safed: Ile get 'em
1304Ol. Let the Garden doore be
shut, and leaue mee to
1305my hearing. Giue me your hand
sir.
1306Vio. My dutie Madam, and mo
st humble
seruice.
1307Ol. What is your name?
1308Vio. Cesario is your
seruants name, faire Prince
sse.
1309Ol. My
seruant
sir? 'Twas neuer merry world,
1310Since lowly feigning was call'd complement:
1311y'are
seruant to the Count
Orsino youth.
1312Vio. And he is yours, and his mu
st needs be yours:
1313your
seruants
seruant, is your
seruant Madam.
1314Ol. For him, I thinke not on him: for his thoughts,
1315Would they were blankes, rather then
fill'd with me.
1316Vio. Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts
1318Ol. O by your leaue I pray you.
1319I bad you neuer
speake againe of him;
1320But would you vndertake another
suite
1321I had rather heare you, to
solicit that,
1322Then Mu
sicke from the
spheares.
1324Ol. Giue me leaue, be
seech you: I did
send,
1325After the la
st enchantment you did heare,
1326A Ring in chace of you. So did I abu
se
1327My
selfe, my
seruant, and I feare me you:
1328Vnder your hard con
stru
ction mu
st I
sit,
1329To force that on you in a
shamefull cunning
1330Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
1331Haue you not
set mine Honor at the
stake,
1332And baited it with all th'vnmuzled thoughts
1333That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiuing
1334Enough is
shewne, a Cipre
sse, not a bo
some,
1335Hides my heart:
so let me heare you
speake.
1337Ol. That's a degree to loue.
1338Vio. No not a grize: for tis a vulgar proofe
1339That verie oft we pitty enemies.
1340Ol. Why then me thinkes 'tis time to
smile agen:
1341O world, how apt the poore are to be proud?
1342If one
should be a prey, how much the better
1343To fall before the Lion, then the Wolfe?
1345The clocke vpbraides me with the wa
ste of time:
1346Be not a
ffraid good youth, I will not haue you,
1347And yet when wit and youth is come to harue
st,
1348your wife is like to reape a proper man:
1349There lies your way, due We
st.
1350Vio. Then We
stward hoe:
1351Grace and good di
spo
sition attend your Lady
ship:
1352You'l nothing Madam to my Lord, by me:
1353Ol. Stay: I prethee tell me what thou think
st of me?
1354Vio. That you do thinke you are not what you are.
1355Ol. If I thinke
so, I thinke the
same of you.
1356Vio. Then thinke you right: I am not what I am.
1357Ol. I would you were, as I would haue you be.
1358Vio. Would it be better Madam, then I am?
1359I wi
sh it might, for now I am your foole.
1360Ol. O what a deale of
scorne, lookes beautifull?
1361In the contempt and anger of his lip,
1362A murdrous guilt
shewes not it
selfe more
soone,
1363Then loue that would
seeme hid: Loues night, is noone.
1364Cesario, by the Ro
ses of the Spring,
1365By maid-hood, honor, truth, and euery thing,
1366I loue thee
so, that maugre all thy pride,
Z Nor
266 Twelfe Night, or, What you will.
1367Nor wit, nor rea
son, can my pa
ssion hide:
1368Do not extort thy rea
sons from this clau
se,
1369For that I woo, thou therefore ha
st no cau
se:
1370But rather rea
son thus, with rea
son fetter;
1371Loue
sought, is good: but giuen vn
sought, is better.
1372Vio. By innocence I
sweare, and by my youth,
1373I haue one heart, one bo
some, and one truth,
1374And that no woman has, nor neuer none
1375Shall mi
stris be of it,
saue I alone.
1376And
so adieu good Madam, neuer more,
1377Will I my Ma
sters teares to you deplore.
1378Ol. Yet come againe: for thou perhaps may
st moue
1379That heart which now abhorres, to like his loue.
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