_Seb._ A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was
yet of many accounted beautiful: but, though I could not overfar believe
that, yet thus far I will boldly publish her, she bore a mind that envy
could not but call fair. [_He weeps._]
_Ant._ If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your
servant.
_Seb._ If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him
whom you have recovered, desire it not. Fare ye well at once: my bosom
is full of kindness; and I am yet so near the manners of my mother,
that, upon the least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I
am bound to the Duke Orsino's court, farewell.
_Ant._ The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
_Seb._ Fare ye well. [_Exeunt._
SCENE II.
_A Dining-room in_ OLIVIA'S _House_.
SIR TOBY _and_ SIR ANDREW _discovered, drinking and smoking_.
_Sir To._ Come, Sir Andrew: not to be a-bed after midnight, is to be
up betimes; and _diluculo surgere_, thou know'st,----
_Sir And._ Nay, by my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up late,
is to be up late.
_Sir To._ A false conclusion; I hate it as an unfill'd can: To be up
after midnight, and to go to bed then, is early; so that, to go to
bed after midnight, is to go to bed betimes. Do not our lives
consist of the four elements?
_Sir And._ 'Faith, so they say; but, I think, it rather consists of
eating and drinking.
_Sir To._ Thou art a scholar; let us therefore eat and
drink.--Maria, I say!----a stoop of wine!
[_The_ CLOWN _sings without_.
[SIR ANDREW _and_ SIR TOBY _rise_.
_Sir And._ Here comes the fool, i'faith.
_Enter_ CLOWN.
_Clo._ How now, my hearts? Did you never see the picture of we
three?
_Sir To._ Welcome, ass.
_Sir And._ I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg; and
so sweet a voice to sing, as the fool has.--In sooth, thou wast in very
gracious fooling last night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the
Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus; 'twas very good, i'faith. I
sent thee sixpence for thy leman: Hadst it?
_Clo._ I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no
whipstock: My lady has a white hand, and the Myrmidons are no bottle
ale-houses.
_Sir And._ Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, when all is
done. Now, a song.
_Sir To._ Come on: Shall we rouse the night-owl in a catch, that
will draw three souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that?
_Sir And._ An you love me, let's do 't: I am dog at a catch.
_Clo._ By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.
_Sir And._ Begin, fool: it begins,--[_Sings._] _Hold thy peace._
_Clo._ Hold my peace!--I shall never begin, if I hold my peace.
_Sir And._ Good, i'faith!--Come, begin:--that, or something
else,--or what you will.
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