The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Sir To._ Here's an overweening rogue!
_Fab._ O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock
of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
_Sir And._ 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue! 30
_Sir To._ Peace, I say.
_Mal._ To be Count Malvolio!
_Sir To._ Ah, rogue!
_Sir And._ Pistol him, pistol him.
_Sir To._ Peace, peace! 35
_Mal._ There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy
married the yeoman of the wardrobe.
_Sir And._ Fie on him, Jezebel!
_Fab._ O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how imagination
blows him. 40
_Mal._ Having been three months married to her, sitting
in my state,--
_Sir To._ O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!
_Mal._ Calling my officers about me, in my branched
velvet gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have 45
left Olivia sleeping,--
_Sir To._ Fire and brimstone!
_Fab._ O, peace, peace!
_Mal._ And then to have the humour of state; and after a
demure travel of regard, telling them I know my place as I 50
would they should do theirs, to ask for my kinsman Toby,--
_Sir To._ Bolts and shackles!
_Fab._ O, peace, peace, peace! now, now.
_Mal._ Seven of my people, with an obedient start,
make out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind 55
up my watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; courtesies there to me,--
_Sir To._ Shall this fellow live?
_Fab._ Though our silence be drawn from us with cars,
yet peace. 60
_Mal._ I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my
familiar smile with an austere regard of control,--
_Sir To._ And does not Toby take you a blow o' the
lips then?
_Mal._ Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast 65
me on your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--
_Sir To._ What, what?
_Mal._ 'You must amend your drunkenness.'
_Sir To._ Out, scab!
_Fab._ Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. 70
_Mal._ 'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time
with a foolish knight,'--
_Sir And._ That's me, I warrant you.
_Mal._ 'One Sir Andrew,'--
_Sir And._ I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool. 75
_Mal._ What employment have we here?
[_Taking up the letter._
_Fab._ Now is the woodcock near the gin.
_Sir To._ O, peace! and the spirit of humours intimate
reading aloud to him!
_Mal._ By my life, this is my lady's hand: these be her 80
very C's, her U's and her T's; and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.
_Sir And._ Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?
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