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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 I ought to be, you must Óli. Pr'ythee, read i' thy right wits. [allow vox. 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.)
Fab. (reads.) 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?
Clo. Ay, madam.
Duke. This savours not much of distraction.
Oli. See him delivered, Fabian; bring him hither.
[Exit Fabian.
My lord, so please you, these things further thought
To think me as well a sister as a wife. [on,
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,

your sex,

So much against the mettle of
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.
Oli.

A sister?-you are she.

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Ay, my lord, the same :

Madam, you have done me wrong,

Have I, Malvolio? no.

Mal. Lady,you have. Pray you, peruse that letter: You must not now deny it is your hand,

Or say,

Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase;
'tis not your seal, nor your invention:
You can say none of this: well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honour,

Why you have given me such clear lights of favour;
Bade me come smiling, and cross-garter'd to you,
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
Upon sir Toby, and the lighter people :
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck, and gull,
That e'er invention play'd on? tell me why.

Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though, I confess, much like the character:
But, out of question, 'tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she

| First told me, thou wast mad; then cam'st in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presuppos'd
Upon thee in the letter. Pry'thee, be content:
This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;
But, when we know the grounds and authors of it.
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.
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,
Most freely I confess, myself, and Toby,
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceiv'd against him: Maria writ
The letter, at sir Toby's great importance;
In recompense whereof, he hath married her.
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,
May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;
If that the injuries be justly weigh'd,
That have on both sides past.

Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee! 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 von

Exit
Oli. He hath been most notoriously abus'd.
Duke. Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace :-
He hath not told us of the captain yet;
When that is known, and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls.-Meantime, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence.-Cesario, come;
For so you shall be, while you are a man;
But, when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen. [Exeunt.
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Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it raineth every day,

But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
'Gainst knave and thief men shut their gate,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came, alas! to wive.
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.
But when I came unto my bed,

With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
With toss-pots still had drunken head,
For the rain it raineth every day.
A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every d
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P. 83, c. 1, 1. 15. Of what validity and pitch soe-
ver Validity is here used for value. MA-
LONE, who reads soe'er

Id. 1. 18. That it alone is high-fantastical.] High-
fantastical, means fantastical to the height.
Id. 1. 32. The element itself. till seven years
heat] Heat for heated. The air, till it shall
have been warmed by seven revolutions of the
sun, shall not, &c.
Id. 1. 45. (Her sweet perfections,)] Liver, brain,
and heart, are admitted in poetry as the resi-
dence of passions, judgment, and sentiments.
These are what Shakspeare calls, her sweet
perfections, though he has not very clearly
expressed what he might design to have said.
STEEVENS.

SCENE II.

Id. c. 2, 1. 2. "This is Illyria, lady." MALONE.
P. 84, c. 1, 1.9. That will allow me-] To allow

is to approve.

Id. 1.57.

Id. 1.58.

SCENE III

Id. l. 69.

a sink-a-pace.] 1. e. a cinque-pace: the name of a dance, the measures whereof are regulated by the number five.

Id. l. 74. flame-coloured stock.] i. e. stock

ing.

Id. 1. 77. Taurus? that's sides and heart] Alluding to the medical astrology still preserved in almanacks, which refers the affections of particular parts of the body to the predominance of particular constellations. JOHNSON.

SCENE IV.

--a barful strife! i. e. a P. 85, c. 1,7. 46 contest full of impediments.

Id. l. 58.

one.

Id. l. 73.

SCENE V.

lenten anwser] a short and spare

if one (point) break,] Points were metal hooks, fastened to the hose or breeches, (which had then no opening or buttons,) and going into straps or eyes fixed to the doublet, and thereby keeping the hose from falling down. BLACKSTONE.

-no better than the fools' zaId c. 2, l. 64. nies.] i. e. fools' baubles, which had upon the top of them the head of a fool. DOUCE.

--as tall a man-] Tall means stout, Id. 1.73 Now Mercury endue thee with leasing,

Id. 1. 36.
courageous.
Id. 1. 42. Viol-de-gamboys." MALONE.
a coystril, i. e. a coward cock.
like a parish-top.] A large top was
formerly kept in every village, to be whipped
in frosty weather, that the peasants might be
kept warm by exercise, and out of mischief,
while they could not work.

Id. 1. 59. Castiliano vulgo ;] a cant term, per-
haps expressive of contempt.
Id. c. 2, 1. 65 mistress Mall's picture?] The
real name of the woman whom I suppose to
have been meant by Sir Toby, was Mary
Frith The appellation by which she was
generally known, was Mall Cutpurse. She
was at once a prostitute, a bawd, a bully, a
thief, a receiver of stolen goods, &c. &c. On
the books of the Stationers' Company, August
1610, is enterred" A Booke called the
Madde Pranks of Merry Mall of the Bank-
side, with her Walks in Man's Apparel, and
to what Purpose. Written by John Day,"
STERVENS.

for thou speakest well of fools!] i. e. May Mercury teach thee to lie, since thou liest in favour of fools!

P. 86, c. 1, 7. 14.

a most weak pia mater. The pia mater is the membrane that immediately covers the substance of the brain. ] i. e. above proper above heat

heat.

Id. l. 31.

Id. 1. 48.

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stand at your door like a sheriff's

] It was the custom for that officer to have large posts set up at his door, 's an indication of his office: the original of which was, that the king's proclamation, and other public acts might be affixed thereon, by way of publication. or a codling when 'tis almost an Id. 1. 58 apple :] A codling auciently meant an imma ture apple

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Id. c. 2, 12 I am very comptible,] Comptible for submissive.

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-1 am to hull here-] To hull means to drive to and fro upon the water, without 1. 28. sails or rudder.

P. 86, c. 2, l. 29.- ▬▬▬ some mollification for your | giant, Ladies, in romance, are guarded by giants, who repel all improper or troublesome advances. Viola may likewise allude to the diminutive size of Maria, who is called, on subsequent occasions, little villain, youngest wren of nine, &c.

Id. l. 60 Look you, sir, such a one as I was this present: Is't not well done?] The line should perhaps run thus:

Look you, sir, such as once I was, this presents."

Id. I. 63. Tis beauty truly blent.] i. e. blended, mixed together.

Id 1 79. Though your beauty were unparalleled, it would not be more than a just recompense for such love as my master's. MALONE.

P. 87, c. 1, l. 7. In voices well divulg'd,] Well spoken by the world.

Id. l. 18. Write loyal cantons] for cantos.
Id. 1. 53. The county's man:] County for count.
Id l. 61. Mine eye, &c.] I think the meaning is,

I fear that my eyes will seduce my understand-
ing; that I am indulging a passion for this
beautiful youth, which my reason cannot ap-
prove. MALONE.

Id. l. 62. — Ourselves we do not owe;} i. e. we are not our own masters. We cannot govern ourselves.

ACT II.

SCENE 1.

Id. c. 2, l. 3- To express myself] That is, to reveal myself.

Id. l. 11. — the breach of the sea,] i. e. what we now call the breaking of the sea.

Id. l. 15. — with such estimable wonder,] wonder and esteem.

SCENE II.

Id. l. 50." She took the ring of me!" MALONE. Id. 1. 67. the pregnant enemy -} i. e. enemy of mankind.

Id. 1. 69. How easy is it for the proper-false

In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!] How easy is it, for those who are at once proper (i. e. fair in their appearance) and false, (i. e. deceitful) to make an impress on on the easy hearts of women? 1d. 1. 72. How will this fadge?] To fadge, is to suit, to fit.

SCENE III.

P. 88, c. 1, l. 7. —— diluculo surgere,] saluberrinum est: an adage.

Id. 1. 19. a stoop-] A stoop seems to have been something more than half a gallon. Id. 1. 25. the fool has an excellent breast.] i. e. voice.

Id. 1. 31. I sent thee sixpence for thy leman :) i e. mistress.

Id. 1. 34. I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose is no whipstock:] i. e. I did impetticoat or impocket thy gratuity, for Malvolio may smell our connection.

Id. l. 43. of good life?] i. e. of a moral, or, perhaps, a jovial turn.

Id. l. 65. - make the welkin dance-] That is, drink till the sky seems to turn round. Id. 1. 67. draw three souls out of one weaver?] i. e. hale the soul out of a weaver (the warmest lover of a song) thrice over; or, in other words, give him thrice more delight than it would give another man. MALONE.

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Id. c. 2, l. 19. Tilly-valley, laay!) Tilly-valley was an interjection of contempt; or as Mr. Douce thinks, is a hunting phrase borrowed from the French.

Id. 1. 25. coziers' catches-] A cozier is a tailor, or botcher.

Id 1. 28 Sneck up!] Mr. Malone and others observe, that from the manner in which this cant phrase is employed in our ancient comedies, it seems to have been synonimous to the modern expression-Go hang yourself. STEEVENS. Id. 1. 53. —— rub your chain with crums :] Stewards anciently wore a chain as a mark of superiority over other servants. And the best method of cleaning any gilt plate, is by rubbing it with crums.

Id. 1. 56. —— rule:] Rule is method of life.
Id. 1.70. -a nayword.] a byeword.
Id. 1. 73. Possess us,] This is, inform us, tell us.
P. 89, c. 1, l. 6.—an affection'd ass,] Affec
tion'd means affected.

Id. l. 8. —— great swarths :] A swarth is as much grass or corn as a mower cuts down at one stroke of his scythe.

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Penthesilea. i. e. Amazon. call me Cut.] i. e. call me horse.

SCENE IV.

Id. l. 57. recollected -] Studied, or perhaps oft repeated.

Id. 1. 77. favour -] i. e. countenance. Id. c. 2,1 23. free —] Is, perhaps, artless. free from art.

Id. 1. 24. — silly sooth,] It is plain, simple truth.

Id. 1. 25. And dallies with the—] Plays or trifles. Id. l. 26. the old age.] The ages past, times

of simplicity.

Id. 1. 31. The cypress wood, of which coffins were made.

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Id. l. 51. - nettle of India?] The nettle of I dia is the plant that produces what is called cow-itch, a substance only used for the pur pose of tormenting, by its itching quality. Id. l. 71. how he jets-] To jet is to strut. Id. c. 2, l. 2. the lady of the strachy-] No probable meaning has been discovered for this word by the commentators.

Id. l. 7. my state,-] A state, in ancient lan guage, signifies a chair with a canopy over it Id. I. 10. —— come from a day-bed,] i. e. a

couch.

Id. l. 25. Though our silence be drawn from us with cars,] í. e. though it is the greates pain to us to keep silence.

Id. 1. 68. — brock! i. e. badger; a term of con tempt.

Id. l. 78. —— stannyel-] The stannyel is the common stone-hawk, which inhabits old buildings and rocks.

P. 91, c. 1, l. 2. — formal capacity.] i. e. any one whose capacity is not out of form.

Id. 1. 9. Sowter-Sowter is here perhaps the name of a hound.

Id. 1. 36. Be opposite-] That is, be adverse,

hostile.

Id. 1. 48. Daylight and champian—] i. e. broad day and an open country.

P, 91, c. 1,1. 51. ——I will be point-de-vice, i. e. with the utmost possible exactness. Id. 1. 70. - a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.) Alluding, as Dr. Farmer observes, to Sir Robert Shirley, who was just returned in the character of embassador from the Sophy. He boasted of the great rewards he had received, and lived in London with the utmost splendor.

Id c. 2, l. 1. tray-trip? some kind of game. Id. 1. 8. aqua-vitæ ] is the old name of strong waters.

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the list —] is the bound, limit, farthest point. JOHNSON.

Id. 1. 39. - most preguant and vouchsafed ear.] Pregnant for ready; vouchsafed for vouch- | safing.

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"all three all ready." MALONE. Id. 1.65. "'beseech you." MALONE. I. 1. 73. To one of your receiving-] i. e. to one of your ready apprehension.

Id. 1.74. -a cyprus,] is a transparent stuff. Id. c. 2, l. 3. a grise:1 is a step, sometimes written greese, from degres, French.

Id.1 3. tis a vulgar proof, That is, it is a common proof.

Id. 1. 38. And that no woman has ;] And that heart and bosom I have never yielded to any

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P. 94, c. 1, l. 15. —— midsummer madness ] 'Tis midsummer moon with you, is a proverb in Ray's Collection; signifying, you are mad. STEEVENS.

Id. 1. 37. - I have limed her;] I have entangled or caught her.

Id. c. 2, 1. 3.

Id. I. 39. Fellow!] This word, which originally signified companion, was not yet totally degraded to its present meaning; and Malvolio takes it in the favourable sense. JOHNSON. cherry-pit-] Cherry-pit is pitching cherry-stones into a little hole. Id. l. 4. Hang him, foul collier!] Collier was, in our author's time, a term of the highest reproach. Id. 1. 27.. a finder of madmen] Finders of madmen must have been those who acted under the writ De lunatico inquirendo.

P. 95, c. 1, l. 44. He is knight, dubbed with unhacked rapier, and on carpet consideration;] That is, he is no soldier by profession, not a knight banneret, dubbed in the field of battle, but, on carpet consideration, at a festivity, or on some peaceable occasion, when knights receive their dignity kneeling, not on the ground, as in war, but on a carpet. Mr. Malone reads unhatch'd.

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Id. l. 49. · hob, nob,] This adverb is corrupted from hap ne hap; as would ne would, will ne will; that is, let it happen or not; and signifies at random, at the mercy of chance; and is, perhaps, the origin of our hob nob, or challenge to drink a glass of wine at din

ner.

Id. c. 2, l. 10. "Firago."- MALONE.] A corruption of virago. Id. l. 11. the stuck-1] The stuck is a corrupted abbreviation of the stoccata, an Italian term in fencing.

Id. l. 13. he pays you-] i. e. hits you, does

for you.

Id. l. 43.

by the duello-] i. e. by the laws of the duello.

Id. 1. 55. Nay, if you be an undertaker,] A man who takes upon himself the quarrel of another.

ACT IV.

SCENE I.

P. 96, c. 2, l. 7. 1 pr'ythee, foolish Greek,1 Greek, was as much as to say bawd or pander. He understood the Clown to be acting in that Id. l. 46. In this uncivil and unjust extent—] Exoffice. tent in law, is taken here for violence in general. JOHNSON.

SCENE II.

Id. l. 73. The competitors enter.] That is, the confederates or associates.

P. 97, c. 1, l. 23. —— it hath bay-windows-] A bay-window is the same as a bow-window; a window in a recess or bay.

Id. l. 24. Clear story, a term in architecture, denoting the row of windows running along the upper part of a lofty hall or church.

Id.

36. constant question.] i. e. regular

conversation.

come;] i. e. I Id. l. 50. Nay, I am for all waters.] Shakspeare is supposed to allude to the sense of the word water as used by jewellers, which makes a play of words with Topas.

suppose he says, &c. Id l. 46. But in very strange manner. He is sure possess'd, madam." MALONE.

Id. . 50. "Some guard"] Malone prints this speech

as prose. Id. l. 53.

"I am as mad as he." MALONE.

Id. l. 78. propertied me ;] They have taken possession of me, as of me, as of a man unable to look to himself.

101 EXPLANATORY NOTES ON TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL

P. 97. c. 2, 1. 10. 1 am shent, &c.] i. e. scolded, | Id. 1. 17. - interchangement of your ring; In reproved.

Id. l. 30. Like to the old vice,] The rice was the fool of the old moralities.

SCENE III.

Id. l. 45. Yet there he was, and there I found this credit,] i. e. account, information. ld. l. 51. all instance, all discourse.] Discourse, for reason. Instance is example. Id. l. 60.. deceivable. For deceptions. Id. l. 69.- Whiles- is until, and still so used in the northern counties.

ACT V.

SCENE L

P. 98, c. 1, l. 58. --scathful,-) i. e. mischievous, destructive.

Id. c. 2, l. 37. - as fat and fulsome-] Fat means dull.

Id. 1. 48. Like to the Egyptian thief, &c.] This Egyptian thief was Thyamis, recorded in Heliodorus' Ethiopics.

P. 99, c. 1, l. 4.--strangle thy propriety : Suppress, or disown thy property.

our ancient marriage ceremong, the man received as well as gave a ring.

Id. 1. 23. case?] Case is a word used con temptuously for skin.

Id. 1. 62. Then he's a rogue. After a passy-measure, or a pavin, I hate a drunken rogue.] i. e. next to a passy-measure or a pavin, &c. It is in character, that sir Toby should express a strong dislike of serious dances, such as the passamezzo and the pavan are described to be. TYRWHITT. Mr. Malone reads, "and a passy measures pavin."

Id. l. 67.- "Will you help? An ass-head, &c." MALONE.

Id. c. 2, l. 2. A natural perspective.] A glass used for optical deception.

Id. l. 16. Of charity,] i. e. out of charity, tell me, &c.

Id. l. 78. A most extracting frenzy -] i. e. a frenzy that drew me away from every thing but its own object. P. 100. c. 1, 1.7.

- you must allow vox.] i. e. my tone or voice.

Id. 1. 61. geck,] A fool. Id. c. 2, l. 16. at sir Toby's great impor tance;] importunacy.

Ia. 1. 36. - convents, i. e. shall serve, agree, convenient.

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