_Sir To._ Ay, Biddy, come with me.--What, man! 'tis not for gravity
to play at cherry-pit with Satan: Hang him, foul collier!
_Mar._ Get him to say his prayers, Sir Toby.
_Mal._ My prayers, minx?
_Mar._ No, I warrant you, he'll not hear of godliness.
_Mal._ Go, hang yourselves all! you are idle shallow things: I am
not of your element; you shall know more hereafter. Begone. Ha! ha!
ha! [_Exit_ MALVOLIO.
_Omnes._ Ha! ha! ha!
_Sir To._ Is't possible?
_Fab._ If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as
an improbable fiction.
_Sir To._ His very genius hath taken the infection of the device,
man.
_Mar._ Nay, pursue him now; lest the device take air, and taint.
_Fab._ Why, we shall make him mad, indeed.
_Mar._ The house will be the quieter.
_Sir To._ Come, we'll have him in a dark room, and bound.--Follow
him, and let him not from thy sight. [_Exit_ MARIA.
But see, but see.
_Fab._ More matter for a May morning.
_Enter_ SIR ANDREW, _with a Letter_.
_Sir And._ Here's the challenge, read it; I warrant, there's vinegar
and pepper in't.
_Fab._ Is't so saucy?
_Sir And._ Ay, is it, I warrant him: do but read.
_Sir To._ Give me.--[_Reads._] _Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art
but a scurvy fellow._
_Fab._ Good and valiant.
_Sir To._ _Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call
thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't._
_Fab._ A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.
_Sir To._ _Thou comest to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses
thee kindly: but thou liest in thy throat, that is not the matter I
challenge thee for._
_Fab._ Very brief, and exceeding good sense-less.
_Sir To._ _I will way-lay thee going home; where if it be thy chance
to kill me_,--
_Fab._ Good.
_Sir To._ _Thou killest me like a rogue and a villain._
_Fab._ Still you keep o' the windy side of the law: Good.
_Sir To._ _Fare thee well; and heaven have mercy upon one of our
souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but my hope is better, and so look
to thyself. Thy friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy_, ANDREW
AGUECHEEK.--If this letter move him not, his legs cannot: I'll give't
him.
_Fab._ You may have very fit occasion for't; he is now in some
commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.
_Sir To._ Go, Sir Andrew; scout me for him at the corner of the
garden, like a bum-bailiff; so soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and,
as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft, that a
terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twang'd off, gives
manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
Away.
_Sir And._ Nay, let me alone for swearing. [_Exit_ SIR ANDREW.
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