Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian? Oli. Most wonderful! Do I stand there? I never had a brother: Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd :— What countryman? what name? what parentage? Seb. [To VIOLA. Vio. And died that day when Viola from her birth Had number'd thirteen years. Set. O, that record is lively in my soul ! That day that made my sister thirteen years. Do not embrace me, till each circumstance I'll bring you to a captain, in this town Where lie my maiden weeds, by whose gentle help All the occurrence of my fortune since Hath been between this lady and this lord. So comes it, lady, you have been mistook : Seb. But nature to her bias drew in that. If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, [TO OLIVIA. [To VIOLA. Duke. Be not amaz'd; right noble is his blood. I shall have share in this most happy wrack: Duke. Give me thy hand; And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds. Vio. The captain that did bring me first on shore, Is now in durance; at Malvolio's suit, A gentleman, and follower of my lady's. Oli. He shall enlarge him :-Fetch Malvolio hither :- They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract. Re-enter Clown, with a letter. A most extracting frenzy of mine own From my remembrance clearly banish'd his. How does he, sirrah? Clo. Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end, as well as a man in his case may do: he has here writ a letter to you; I should have given it to you to-day morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not much when they are delivered. Oli. Open it, and read it. Clo. Look then to be well edified, when the fool delivers the madman :-'By the Lord, madam,' Oli. How now! art thou mad? Clo. No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow vox. Oli. Prithee, read i' thy right wits. Clo. So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits, is to read thus therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear. Oli. Read it you, sirrah. [TO FABIAN. 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it: though you have put me into darkness, and given your drunken cousin rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt not but to do myself much right, or you much shame. Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury. 'THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.' Oli. Did he write this? Duke. This savours not much of distraction. Oli. See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither. [Exit FABIAN. My lord, so please you, these things further thought on, To think me as well a sister as a wife, One day shall crown the alliance on 't, so please you, Here at my house, and at my proper cost. Duke. Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer. Your master quits you; [to VIOLA] and, for your service done him, So much against the mettle of your sex, So far beneath your soft and tender breeding, And since you call'd me master for so long, Here is my hand; you shall from this time be Your master's mistress. Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter: You must not now deny it is your hand, Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase; Why you have given me such clear lights of favour; Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing, First told me thou wast mad; thou cam'st in smiling, Fab. Good madam, hear me speak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Taint the condition of this present hour, Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not, That have on both sides pass'd. Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee! 674 TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL. [ACT v. Clo. Why, 'some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.' I was one, sir, in this interlude; one sir Topas, sir; but that's all one :- -"By the Lord, fool, I am not mad;'-But do you remember? Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagg'd:' And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. Mal. I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. Oli. He hath been most notoriously abus'd. When that is known, and golden time convents, Of our dear souls.-Meantime, sweet sister, SONG. Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came to man's estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, But when I came, alas! to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, But when I came unto my bed, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A great while ago the world begun, [Exit. [Exeunt. [Exit. SCENE I.-Sicilia. An Antechamber in Leontes' Palace. Enter CAMILLO and ARCHIDAMUS. Arch. If you shall chance, Camillo, to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on foot, you shall see, as I have said, great difference betwixt our Bohemia and your Sicilia. Cam. I think, this coming summer, the king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. Arch. Wherein our entertainment shall shame us we will be justified in our loves: for, indeed,— Cam. 'Beseech you, Arch. Verily, I speak it in the freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence-in so rare-I know not what to say. -We will give you sleepy drinks, that your senses, unintelligent of our insufficience, may, though they cannot praise us, as little accuse us. Cam. You pay a great deal too dear for what's given freely. |