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
_Priest._ A contract of eternal bond of love, 150
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal'd in my function, by my testimony: 155
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave
I have travell'd but two hours.
_Duke._ O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow, 160
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
_Vio._ My lord, I do protest--
_Oli._ O, do not swear!
Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear. 165
_Enter_ SIR ANDREW.
_Sir And._ For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one
presently to Sir Toby.
_Oli._ What's the matter?
_Sir And._ He has broke my head across and has given
Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your 170
help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.
_Oli._ Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
_Sir And._ The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took
him for a coward, but he's the very devil incardinate.
_Duke._ My gentleman, Cesario? 175
_Sir And._ 'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my
head for nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't
by Sir Toby.
_Vio._ Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
You drew your sword upon me without cause; 180
But I bespake you fair, and hurt you not.
_Sir And._ If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have
hurt me: I think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.
_Enter_ SIR TOBY _and_ Clown.
Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: but if
he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates 185
than he did.
_Duke._ How now, gentleman! how is't with you?
_Sir To._ That's all one: has hurt me, and there's the
end on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?
_Clo._ O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes 190
were set at eight i' the morning.
_Sir To._ Then he's a rogue, and a passy measures panyn:
I hate a drunken rogue.
_Oli._ Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with
them? 195
_Sir And._ I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be
dressed together.
_Sir To._ Will you help? an ass-head and a coxcomb
and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!
_Oli._ Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to. 200
[_Exeunt Clown_, _Fabian_, _Sir Toby_, _and Sir Andrew_.
_Enter_ SEBASTIAN.
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