And. Odours, pregnant, and vouchsafed: Ile get "em all three already
Ol. Let the Garden doore be shut, and leaue mee to my hearing. Giue me your hand sir
Vio. My dutie Madam, and most humble seruice
Ol. What is your name?
Vio. Cesario is your seruants name, faire Princesse
Ol. My seruant sir? "Twas neuer merry world, Since lowly feigning was call"d complement: Y"are seruant to the Count Orsino youth
Vio. And he is yours, and his must needs be yours: Your seruants seruant, is your seruant Madam
Ol. For him, I thinke not on him: for his thoughts, Would they were blankes, rather then fill"d with me
Vio. Madam, I come to whet your gentle thoughts On his behalfe
Ol. O by your leaue I pray you.
I bad you neuer speake againe of him; But would you vndertake another suite I had rather heare you, to solicit that, Then Musicke from the spheares
Vio. Deere Lady
Ol. Giue me leaue, beseech you: I did send, After the last enchantment you did heare, A Ring in chace of you. So did I abuse My selfe, my seruant, and I feare me you: Vnder your hard construction must I sit, To force that on you in a shamefull cunning Which you knew none of yours. What might you think?
Haue you not set mine Honor at the stake, And baited it with all th" vnmuzled thoughts That tyrannous heart can think? To one of your receiuing Enough is shewne, a Cipresse, not a bosome, Hides my heart: so let me heare you speake
Vio. I pittie you
Ol. That"s a degree to loue
Vio. No not a grize: for tis a vulgar proofe That verie oft we pitty enemies
Ol. Why then me thinkes "tis time to smile agen: O world, how apt the poore are to be proud?
If one should be a prey, how much the better To fall before the Lion, then the Wolfe?
Clocke strikes.
The clocke vpbraides me with the waste of time: Be not affraid good youth, I will not haue you, And yet when wit and youth is come to haruest, Your wife is like to reape a proper man: There lies your way, due West
Vio. Then Westward hoe: Grace and good disposition attend your Ladyship: You"l nothing Madam to my Lord, by me: Ol. Stay: I prethee tell me what thou thinkst of me?
Vio. That you do thinke you are not what you are
Ol. If I thinke so, I thinke the same of you
Vio. Then thinke you right: I am not what I am
Ol. I would you were, as I would haue you be
Vio. Would it be better Madam, then I am?
I wish it might, for now I am your foole
Ol. O what a deale of scorne, lookes beautifull?
In the contempt and anger of his lip, A murdrous guilt shewes not it selfe more soone, Then loue that would seeme hid: Loues night, is noone.
Cesario, by the Roses of the Spring, By maid-hood, honor, truth, and euery thing, I loue thee so, that maugre all thy pride, Nor wit, nor reason, can my pa.s.sion hide: Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause: But rather reason thus, with reason fetter; Loue sought, is good: but giuen vnsought, is better
Vio. By innocence I sweare, and by my youth, I haue one heart, one bosome, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor neuer none Shall mistris be of it, saue I alone.
And so adieu good Madam, neuer more, Will I my Masters teares to you deplore
Ol. Yet come againe: for thou perhaps mayst moue That heart which now abhorres, to like his loue.
Exeunt.
Scoena Secunda.
Enter Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Fabian.
And. No faith, Ile not stay a iot longer: To. Thy reason deere venom, giue thy reason
Fab. You must needes yeelde your reason, Sir Andrew?
And. Marry I saw your Neece do more fauours to the Counts Seruing-man, then euer she bestow"d vpon mee: I saw"t i"th Orchard
To. Did she see the while, old boy, tell me that
And. As plaine as I see you now
Fab. This was a great argument of loue in her toward you
And. S"light; will you make an a.s.se o"me
Fab. I will proue it legitimate sir, vpon the Oathes of iudgement, and reason
To. And they haue beene grand Iurie men, since before Noah was a Saylor
Fab. Shee did shew fauour to the youth in your sight, onely to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, to put fire in your Heart, and brimstone in your Liuer: you should then haue accosted her, and with some excellent iests, fire-new from the mint, you should haue bangd the youth into dumbenesse: this was look"d for at your hand, and this was baulkt: the double gilt of this opportunitie you let time wash off, and you are now sayld into the North of my Ladies opinion, where you will hang like an ysickle on a Dutchmans beard, vnlesse you do redeeme it, by some laudable attempt, either of valour or policie
And. And"t be any way, it must be with Valour, for policie I hate: I had as liefe be a Brownist, as a Politician
To. Why then build me thy fortunes vpon the basis of valour. Challenge me the Counts youth to fight with him hurt him in eleuen places, my Neece shall take note of it, and a.s.sure thy selfe, there is no loue-Broker in the world, can more preuaile in mans commendation with woman, then report of valour
Fab. There is no way but this sir Andrew
An. Will either of you beare me a challenge to him?
To. Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and briefe: it is no matter how wittie, so it bee eloquent, and full of inuention: taunt him with the license of Inke: if thou thou"st him some thrice, it shall not be amisse, and as many Lyes, as will lye in thy sheete of paper, although the sheete were bigge enough for the bedde of Ware in England, set "em downe, go about it. Let there bee gaulle enough in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no matter: about it
And. Where shall I finde you?
To. Wee"l call thee at the Cubiculo: Go.
Exit Sir Andrew.
Fa. This is a deere Manakin to you Sir Toby