Act IV · Scene I
Before OLIVIA's house.
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Enter SEBASTIAN and Clown
Clown
Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
SEBASTIAN
Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow:Let me be clear of thee.
Clown
Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; norI am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you comespeak with her; nor your name is not Master Cesario;nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so.
SEBASTIAN
I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else: Thouknow'st not me.
Clown
Vent my folly! he has heard that word of somegreat man and now applies it to a fool. Vent myfolly! I am afraid this great lubber, the world,will prove a cockney. I prithee now, ungird thystrangeness and tell me what I shall vent to mylady: shall I vent to her that thou art coming?
SEBASTIAN
I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me: There'smoney for thee: if you tarry longer, I shall giveworse payment.
Clown
By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise menthat give fools money get themselves a goodreport--after fourteen years' purchase.
Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY BELCH, and FABIAN
SIR ANDREW
Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.
SEBASTIAN
Why, there's for thee, and there, and there. Are allthe people mad?
SIR TOBY BELCH
Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.
Clown
This will I tell my lady straight: I would not bein some of your coats for two pence.
Exit
SIR TOBY BELCH
Come on, sir; hold.
SIR ANDREW
Nay, let him alone: I'll go another way to workwith him; I'll have an action of battery againsthim, if there be any law in Illyria: though Istruck him first, yet it's no matter for that.
SEBASTIAN
Let go thy hand.
SIR TOBY BELCH
Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my youngsoldier, put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.
SEBASTIAN
I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now? Ifthou darest tempt me further, draw thy sword.
SIR TOBY BELCH
What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or twoof this malapert blood from you.
Enter OLIVIA
OLIVIA
Hold, Toby; on thy life I charge thee, hold!
SIR TOBY BELCH
Madam!
OLIVIA
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!
Exeunt SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN
OLIVIA
I prithee, gentle friend,Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, swayIn this uncivil and thou unjust extentAgainst thy peace. Go with me to my house,And hear thou there how many fruitless pranksThis ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou therebyMayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go:Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,He started one poor heart of mine in thee.
SEBASTIAN
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!
OLIVIA
Nay, come, I prithee; would thou'ldst be ruled by me!
SEBASTIAN
Madam, I will.
OLIVIA
O, say so, and so be!
Exeunt