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
[367] _O, if_] _so if_ Becket conj.
[368] [Exit.] F2 F3 F4. om. F1.
[373] _a most_] om. Hanmer.
[374] _'Slid_] _Od's lid_ Hanmer.
[375] _never_] _ne'er_ Hanmer.
[377] _An_] _Theobald_. _And_ Ff. _If_ Pope.
_not,--_] Theobald. _not._ Ff.
[378] _let's_] _let us_ Hanmer.
[379] _any_] om. Hanmer.
[Exeunt.] Rowe. [Exit. Ff.
ACT IV.
SCENE I. _Before_ OLIVIA'S _house_.
_Enter_ SEBASTIAN _and_ Clown.
_Clo._ Will you make me believe that I am not sent for
you?
_Seb._ Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:
Let me be clear of thee.
_Clo._ Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; 5
nor I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come
speak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario; nor
this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.
_Seb._ I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else:
Thou know'st not me. 10
_Clo._ Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some
great man and now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I
am afraid this great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.
I prithee now, ungird thy strangeness and tell me what I
shall vent to my lady: shall I vent to her that thou art 15
coming?
_Seb._ I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me:
There's money for thee: if you tarry longer,
I shall give worse payment.
_Clo._ By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise 20
men that give fools money get themselves a good report--after
fourteen years' purchase.
_Enter_ SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY, _and_ FABIAN.
_Sir And._ Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for
you.
_Seb._ Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. 25
Are all the people mad?
_Sir To._ Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the
house.
_Clo._ This will I tell my lady straight: I would not be
in some of your coats for two pence. 30
[_Exit._
_Sir To._ Come on, sir; hold.
_Sir And._ Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to
work with him; I'll have an action of battery against him,
if there be any law in Illyria: though I stroke him first,
yet it's no matter for that. 35
_Seb._ Let go thy hand.
_Sir To._ Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my
young soldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed;
come on.
_Seb._ I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? 40
If thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.
_Sir To._ What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce
or two of this malapert blood from you.
_Enter_ OLIVIA.
_Oli._ Hold, Toby; on thy life, I charge thee, hold!
_Sir To._ Madam! 45
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