_Fab._ I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out of favour
with my lady, about a bear-baiting here.
_Sir To._ To anger him, we'll have the bear again; and we will fool
him black and blue:--Shall we not, Sir Andrew?
_Sir And._ An we do not, it is pity of our lives.
_Enter_ MARIA, _with a Letter_.
_Sir To._ Here comes the little villain:--How now, my nettle of
India?
_Mar._ Get ye all three behind yon clump: Malvolio's coming down
this walk; he has been yonder i' the sun, practising behaviour to his
own shadow, this half hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for, I
know, this letter will make a contemplative idiot of him.--Close, in the
name of jesting! [_The men hide themselves._]--Lie thou there; [_Throws
down a letter._] for here comes the trout that must be caught with
tickling. [_Exit_ MARIA.
_Enter_ MALVOLIO.
_Mal._ 'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told me, she did
affect me: and I have heard herself come thus near, that, should she
fancy, it should be one of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a
more exalted respect, than any one else that follows her. What should I
think on't?
_Sir To._ Here's an over-weening rogue!
_Fab._ Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him; how he jets
under his advanced plumes!
_Sir And._ 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue:--
_Mal._ To be Count Malvolio;--
_Sir To._ Ah, rogue!
_Sir And._ Pistol him, pistol him.
_Sir To._ Peace, peace!
_Mal._ There is example for't; the lady of the strachy married the
yeoman of the wardrobe.
_Sir And._ Fie on him, Jezebel!
_Fab._ Now he's deeply in; look, how imagination blows him.
_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 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 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 up my watch, or play with some
rich jewel. Toby approaches: courtsies there to me:--
_Sir To._ Shall this fellow live?
_Fab._ Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.
_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 me on your
niece, give me this prerogative of speech_:--
_Sir To._ What, what?
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