_Seb._ [_Draws his sword._] Why, there's for thee, and there, and
there:--Are all the people mad?
[_Beating_ SIR ANDREW.
_Enter_ SIR TOBY _and_ FABIAN.
_Sir To._ Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.
_Clo._ This will I tell my lady straight--I would not be in some of
your coats for two-pence.
[_Exit_ CLOWN.
_Sir To._ Come on, sir; hold. [_Holding_ SEBASTIAN.
_Sir And._ Nay, let him alone. I'll go another way to work with him;
I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in
Illyria: though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that.
_Seb._ Let go thy hand.
_Sir To._ Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier,
put up your iron: you are well flesh'd; come on.
_Seb._ [_Disengages himself._] I will be free from thee.
--What would'st thou now?
If thou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.
_Sir To._ What, what?--[_Draws._]--Nay, then I must have an ounce or
two of this malapert blood from you. [_They fight._
_Enter_ OLIVIA, _and two Servants_.
_Fab._ Hold, good Sir Toby, hold:--my lady here!
[_Exit_ FABIAN.
_Oli._ Hold, Toby; on thy life, I charge thee, hold.
_Sir To._ Madam?
_Oli._ Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
Fit for the mountains, and the barbarous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preach'd! out of my sight!
Be not offended, dear Cesario:----
Rudesby, be gone!--
_Sir To._ Come along, knight. [_Exit_ SIR TOBY.
_Oli._ And you, sir, follow him.
_Sir And._ Oh, oh!--Sir Toby,--
[_Exit_ SIR ANDREW.
_Oli._ I pr'ythee, gentle friend,
Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
In this uncivil and unjust extent
Against thy peace. Go with me to my house;
And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby
May'st smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go;
Do not deny.
_Seb._ What relish is in this? how runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream:--
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
_Oli._ Nay, come, I pr'ythee: 'Would thou'dst be ruled by me!
_Seb._ Madam, I will.
_Oli._ O, say so, and so be! [_Exeunt._
SCENE IV.
_A Gallery in_ OLIVIA'S _House_.
_Enter_ MARIA, _with a black Gown and Hood, and_ CLOWN.
_Mar._ Nay, I pr'ythee, put on this gown and hood; make him believe,
thou art Sir Topas the curate; do it quickly: I'll call Sir Toby the
whilst.
[_Exit_ MARIA.
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