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Act 4, Scene 1

The Street before OLIVIA'S House.

  1. [Enter SEBASTIAN and CLOWN.]
  2. Feste
  3. 1715 Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
  4. Sebastian
  5. 1716 Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow;
  6. 1717 Let me be clear of thee.
  7. Feste
  8. 1718 Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor I am not
  9. 1719 sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your
  10. 1720 name is not Master Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither.—
  11. 1721 Nothing that is so is so.
  12. Sebastian
  13. 1722 I pr'ythee vent thy folly somewhere else. Thou know'st not me.
  14. Feste
  15. 1723 Vent my folly! he has heard that word of some great man, and
  16. 1724 now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this great
  17. 1725 lubber, the world, will prove a cockney.—I pr'ythee now, ungird
  18. 1726 thy strangeness, and tell me what I shall vent to my lady. Shall
  19. 1727 I vent to her that thou art coming?
  20. Sebastian
  21. 1728 I pr'ythee, foolish Greek, depart from me;
  22. 1729 There's money for thee; if you tarry longer
  23. 1730 I shall give worse payment.
  24. Feste
  25. 1731 By my troth, thou hast an open hand:—These wise men that
  26. 1732 give fools money get themselves a good report after fourteen
  27. 1733 years' purchase.
  28. [Enter SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY, and FABIAN.]
  29. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
  30. 1734 Now, sir, have I met you again? there's for you.
  31. [Striking SEBASTIAN.]
  32. Sebastian
  33. 1735 Why, there's for thee, and there, and there.
  34. 1736 Are all the people mad?
  35. [Beating SIR ANDREW.]
  36. Sir Toby Belch
  37. 1737 Hold, sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er the house.
  38. Feste
  39. 1738 This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of
  40. 1739 your coats for twopence.
  41. [Exit CLOWN.]
  42. Sir Toby Belch
  43. 1740 Come on, sir; hold.
  44. [Holding SEBASTIAN.]
  45. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
  46. 1741 Nay, let him alone; I'll go another way to work with
  47. 1742 him; I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any
  48. 1743 law in Illyria: though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for
  49. 1744 that.
  50. Sebastian
  51. 1745 Let go thy hand.
  52. Sir Toby Belch
  53. 1746 Come, sir, I will not let you go. Come, my young soldier,
  54. 1747 put up your iron: you are well fleshed; come on.
  55. Sebastian
  56. 1748 I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou now?
  57. 1749 If thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy sword.
  58. [Draws.]
  59. Sir Toby Belch
  60. 1750 What, what? Nay, then I must have an ounce or two of this
  61. 1751 malapert blood from you.
  62. [Draws.]
  63. [Enter OLIVIA.]
  64. Olivia
  65. 1752 Hold, Toby; on thy life, I charge thee hold.
  66. Sir Toby Belch
  67. 1753 Madam?
  68. Olivia
  69. 1754 Will it be ever thus? Ungracious wretch,
  70. 1755 Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves,
  71. 1756 Where manners ne'er were preach'd! Out of my sight!
  72. 1757 Be not offended, dear Cesario!—
  73. 1758 Rudesby, be gone!—I pr'ythee, gentle friend,
  74. [Exeunt SIR TOBY, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN.]
  75. Olivia
  76. 1759 Let thy fair wisdom, not thy passion, sway
  77. 1760 In this uncivil and unjust extent
  78. 1761 Against thy peace. Go with me to my house,
  79. 1762 And hear thou there how many fruitless pranks
  80. 1763 This ruffian hath botch'd up, that thou thereby
  81. 1764 Mayst smile at this: thou shalt not choose but go;
  82. 1765 Do not deny. Beshrew his soul for me,
  83. 1766 He started one poor heart of mine in thee.
  84. Sebastian
  85. 1767 What relish is in this? how runs the stream?
  86. 1768 Or I am mad/ or else this is a dream:—
  87. 1769 Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
  88. 1770 If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!
  89. Olivia
  90. 1771 Nay, come, I pr'ythee. Would thou'dst be ruled by me!
  91. Sebastian
  92. 1772 Madam, I will.
  93. Olivia
  94. 1773 O, say so, and so be!
  95. [Exeunt.]