_Fab._ We shall have a rare letter from him: but you'll not deliver
it?
_Sir To._ Never trust me then; and by all means stir on the youth to
an answer. I think, oxen and wainropes cannot hale them together. For
Andrew, if he were opened, and you find so much blood in his liver as
will clog the foot of a flea, I'll eat the rest of the anatomy.
_Fab._ And his opposite, the youth, bears in his visage no great
presage of cruelty.
_Sir To._ Look, where the youngest wren of nine comes.
_Enter_ MARIA.
_Mar._ If you desire the spleen, and will laugh yourselves into
stitches, follow me: yon gull Malvolio is turned heathen, a very
renegado; for there is no Christian, that means to be saved by believing
rightly, can ever believe such impossible passages of grossness. He's in
yellow stockings.
_Sir To._ And cross-gartered?
_Mar._ Most villainously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the
church.--I have dogg'd him, like his murderer: He does obey every point
of the letter that I dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into
more lines, than are in a map: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis.
_Sir To._ Come, bring us, bring us where he is.
[_Exeunt._
ACT THE FOURTH.
SCENE 1.
_A Room in_ OLIVIA'S _House_.
_Enter_ OLIVIA _and_ MARIA.
_Oli._ I have sent after him:--He says, he'll come.
How shall I feast him? what bestow on him?
I speak too loud.----
Where is Malvolio?
_Mar._ He's coming, madam;
But in strange manner. He is sure possessed.
_Oli._ Why, what's the matter? does he rave?
_Mar._ No, madam,
He does nothing but smile: your ladyship
Were best have guard about you, if he come;
For, sure, the man is tainted in his wits.
_Oli._ Go call him hither. [_Exit_ MARIA.
I'm as mad as he,
If sad and merry madness equal be.--
_Enter_ MALVOLIO, _in yellow Stockings, cross-garter'd, and_ MARIA.
How now, Malvolio?
_Mal._ Sweet lady, ho, ho. [_Smiles fantastically._
_Oli._ Smilest thou?
I sent for thee upon a sad occasion.
_Mal._ Sad, lady? I could be sad: This does make some obstruction in
the blood, this cross-gartering: But what of that? if it please the eye
of one, it is with me as the very true sonnet is: _Please one, and
please all_.
_Oli._ Why, how dost thou, man? What is the matter with thee?
_Mal._ Not black in my mind, though yellow in my legs.--It did come
to his hands, and commands shall be executed. I think, we do know the
sweet Roman hand.
_Oli._ Wilt thou go to bed, Malvolio?
_Mal._ To bed!--Ay, sweet-heart; and I'll come to thee.
_Oli._ Heaven comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and kiss thy
hand so oft?
_Mar._ How do you, Malvolio?
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