ACT V.
Scene I. [Before Olivia's house.]
Enter Clown and Fabian.
Fab. Now, as thou lovest me, let me see [his] letter.
Clo. Good Master Fabian, grant me another request.
Fab. Any thing.
Clo. Do not desire to see this letter.
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Fab. This is, to give a dog, and in recompense desire
my dog again.
Enter Duke, Viola, Curio, and [Lords].
Duke. Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
Clo. Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.
Duke. I know thee well: how dost thou, my good fellow?
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Clo. Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the worse
for my friends.
Duke. Just the contrary; the better for thy friends.
Clo. No, sir, the worse.
Duke. How can that be?
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Clo. Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of
me; now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass: so that by
my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself; and by
my friends I am abused: so [that, conclusions] to be as kisses,
if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then,
the worse [for my friends], and the better for my foes.
Duke. Why, this is excellent.
Clo. By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be
one of my friends.
Duke. Thou shalt not be the worse for me: there's gold.
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Clo. But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would
you could make it another.
Duke. O, you give me ill counsel.
Clo. Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,
and let your flesh and blood obey it.
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Duke. Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a double-dealer:
there's another.
Clo. Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the old
saying is, the third pays for all: the [triplex], sir, is a good
tripping measure; [or] the bells of Saint [Bennet], sir, may put
you in mind; one, two, three.
Duke. You can fool no more money out of me at this
throw: if you will let your lady know I am here to speak
with her, and bring her along with you, it may awake my
bounty further.
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Clo. Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come again.
I go, sir; but I would not have you to think that my desire
of having is the sin of covetousness: but, as you say, sir, let
your bounty take a nap, I will awake it anon. [Exit.
Vio. Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.
[Enter] [Antonio] and Officers.
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Duke. That face of his I do remember well;
Yet, when I saw it last, it was besmear'd
As black as Vulcan in the smoke of war:
A bawbling vessel was he captain of,
For shallow draught and bulk unprizable;
With which such scathful grapple did he make
With the most noble bottom of our fleet,
That very envy and the tongue of loss
Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?
First Off. Orsino, this is that Antonio
That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;
And this is he that did the Tiger board,
When your young nephew Titus lost his leg:
Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state,
In private brabble did we apprehend him.
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Vio. He [did] me kindness, sir, drew on my side;
But in conclusion put strange speech upon me:
I know not what 'twas but distraction.
Duke. Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!
What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,
Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,
Hast made thine enemies?
Ant. [Orsino, noble sir],
Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me:
Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
Though I confess, on base and ground enough,
Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:
That most [ingrateful] boy there by your side,
From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth
Did I redeem; a [wreck] past hope he was:
His life I gave him and did thereto add
My love, without retention or restraint,
All [his in] dedication; for his sake
Did I expose myself, pure [for] his love,
Into the danger of this adverse town;
Drew to defend him when he was beset:
Where being apprehended, his false cunning,
Not meaning to partake with me in danger,
Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,
And grew a twenty years removed thing
While one would wink; denied [me] mine own purse,
Which I had recommended to his use
Not half an hour before.
Vio. How can this be?
Duke. When came [he] to this town?
Ant. Today, my lord; and for three months before,
No [interim], not a minute's vacancy,
Both day and night did we keep company.
[Enter] [Olivia] and Attendants.
Duke. Here comes the countess: now heaven walks on earth.
But for thee, fellow; fellow, thy words are madness:
Three months this youth hath tended upon me;
But more of that anon. Take him aside.
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Oli. What would my lord, but that he may not have,
Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?
Cesario, you [do not] keep promise with me.
Vio. Madam!
Duke. Gracious [Olivia],—
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Oli. What do you say, Cesario? Good my [lord],—
Vio. My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.
Oli. If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
It is as [fat] and fulsome to mine ear
As howling after music.
Duke. [Still] so cruel?
Oli. Still [so constant, lord].
Duke. What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,
To whom ingrate and unauspicious altars
My soul the faithfull'st offerings [hath] breathed out
That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?
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Oli. Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.
Duke. Why should I not, had I the heart to [do it],
Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,
Kill what I love?—a savage jealousy
That sometime savours nobly. But hear [me] this:
Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,
And that I partly know the instrument
That screws me from my true place in your favour,
Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still;
But this your minion, whom I know you love,
And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,
Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,
Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.
Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:
I 'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
To spite a raven's heart within a dove.
Vio. And I, most jocund, apt and willingly,
To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.
Oli. Where goes Cesario?
Vio. After him I love
More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.
If I do feign, you witnesses above
Punish my life for tainting of my love!
Oli. [Ay] me, detested! how am I beguiled!
Vio. Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?
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Oli. Hast thou forgot thyself? is it so long?
Call forth the holy [father.]
Duke. Come, away!
Oli. Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.
Duke. Husband!
Oli. Ay, husband: can he that deny?
Duke. Her husband, sirrah!
Vio. No, my lord, not I.
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Oli. Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
That makes thee strangle thy propriety:
Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;
Be [that thou] know'st thou art, and then thou art
As great as that thou fear'st.
O, welcome, father!
Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,
Here to unfold, though lately we intended
To keep in darkness what occasion now
Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know
Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.
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Priest. A contract [of eternal] bond of love,
Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,
Attested by the holy close of lips,
Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;
And all the ceremony of this compact
Seal'd in my function, by my testimony:
Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave
I have travell'd but two hours.
Duke. O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
When time hath sow'd a grizzle [on thy case]?
Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,
That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?
Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet
Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
Vio. My lord, I do [protest]—
Oli. O, do not swear!
[Hold] little faith, though thou hast too much fear.
Sir And. For the love of God, a surgeon! [Send] one
presently to Sir Toby.
Oli. What's the matter?
Sir And. [He has] broke my head across and [has given]
Sir Toby a bloody coxcomb too: for the love of God, your
help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home.
Oli. Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
Sir And. The count's gentleman, one Cesario: we took
him for a coward, but he's the very devil [incardinate].
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Duke. My gentleman, Cesario?
Sir And. 'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my
head for nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't
by Sir Toby.
Vio. Why do you speak to me? I never hurt you:
You drew your sword upon me without cause;
But I bespake you fair, and hurt you not.
Sir And. If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have
hurt me: I think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.
[Enter Sir Toby] and Clown.
Here comes Sir Toby halting; you shall hear more: but if
he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you [othergates]
than he did.
Duke. How now, gentleman! how is't with you?
Sir To. That's all one: [has] hurt me, and there's [the]
end on't. Sot, [didst] see Dick surgeon, sot?
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Clo. O, he's drunk, [Sir Toby], an hour agone; his eyes
were [set at] eight i' the morning.
Sir To. Then he's a [rogue], and a passy measures panyn:
I hate a drunken rogue.
Oli. Away with him! Who hath made this havoc with
them?
Sir And. I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be
dressed together.
Sir To. Will you [help? an ass-head] and a coxcomb
and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!
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Oli. Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.
[[Exeunt] Clown, Fabian, Sir Toby, and Sir Andrew.
[Enter] Sebastian.
Seb. I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your [kinsman];
But, had it been the brother of my blood,
I must have done no less with wit and [safety].
[You throw a strange] regard [upon] me, [and by that]
I do perceive it hath offended you:
Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows
We made each other but so late ago.
Duke. One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,
A [natural] perspective, that is and is not!
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Seb. Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,
Since I have lost thee!
Ant. Sebastian are you?
Seb. [Fear'st thou] that, Antonio?
Ant. How have you made division of yourself?
An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
Oli. Most wonderful!
Seb. Do I stand there? I never had a brother;
Nor can there be [that] deity in my nature,
Of here and every where. I had a sister,
Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.
Of charity, what kin are you to [me]?
What countryman? what name? what parentage?
Vio. Of [Messaline]: Sebastian was my father;
Such a Sebastian was my brother too,
So went he suited to his watery tomb:
If spirits can assume both form and suit
You come to fright us.
Seb. A spirit I am indeed;
But am in that dimension grossly clad
Which from the womb I did participate.
Were you a woman, as the rest [goes] even,
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
[And] say 'Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!'
Vio. My father had a mole upon his brow.
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Seb. And so had mine.
Vio. And died that day when Viola from her birth
Had number'd thirteen years.
Seb. O, that record is lively in my soul!
He finished indeed his mortal act
That day that made my sister thirteen years.
Vio. If nothing lets to make us happy both
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Do not embrace me till each circumstance
Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump
That I am Viola: which to confirm,
I'll bring you to a [captain] in this town,
Where lie my [maiden] weeds; [by whose] gentle help
I was [preserved] to serve this noble [count].
All the [occurrence] of my fortune since
[Hath] been between this lady and this lord.
Seb. [[To Olivia]] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:
But nature to her bias [drew] in that.
You would have been contracted to a maid;
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,
You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.
Duke. Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.
If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy [wreck].
[To Viola] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never [shouldst] love woman like to me.
Vio. And all those sayings will I over-swear;
And all those swearings keep as true in soul
As doth that orbed continent the [fire]
That severs day from night.
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
Hath my maid's garments: he upon some action
Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,
A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.
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Oli. He shall enlarge him: fetch Malvolio hither:
And yet, alas, now I remember me,
They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.
[Re-enter] Clown with a letter, [and Fabian].
[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: [has] here writ a
letter to you; I should have given 't you to-day morning,
but as a madman's epistles are no gospels, so it skills not
much when they are delivered.
Oli. [Open 't], and read it.
Clo. Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers
the madman. [Reads] By the Lord, madam,—
Oli. How now! [art thou] mad?
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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.
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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?
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Clo. Ay, madam.
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.
[To Viola] Your master quits you; 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].
Oli. A sister! you are she.
[Re-enter Fabian, with Malvolio.]
Duke. Is this the madman?
Oli. Ay, my lord, this same.
How now, [Malvolio]!
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Mal. Madam, [you have] done me wrong,
Notorious wrong.
Oli. Have I, Malvolio? no.
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;
Or say 'tis not your [seal, not] 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 geek [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] [camest in] smiling,
And in such forms which here were [presupposed]
Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, 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 conceived [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 [pass'd].
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 gagged:' and thus the [whirligig] of
time brings in his revenges.
Mal. I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. [[Exit.]
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Oli. He hath been most notoriously abused.
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] all, except Clown.
Clo. [Sings]
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[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, &c.
'Gainst [knaves and thieves] men shut their gate,
For the rain, &c.
But when I came, alas! to wive,
With hey, ho, &c.
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain, &c.
But when I came unto my [beds],
With hey, ho, &c.
With [toss-pots] [still had] [drunken] heads,
For the rain, &c.
A great while ago the world [begun],
[With hey, ho], &c.
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day. [[Exit].
LINENOTES:
[Before Olivia's house] Capell. The street. Pope.
[1] [his] F1. this F2 F3 F4.
[6] [Lords.] Attendants. Capell.
[18] [that, conclusions ... kisses] that, conclusion to be asked, is Theobald (Warburton). the conclusion to be asked is Hanmer. that conclusions follow as kisses Heath conj. See note [(xiv)].
[20] [for my friends] of my friends F3 F4.
[33] [triplex] triplet Collier (Collier MS.).
[34] [or] as Mason conj.
[Bennet] Bennet's Anon. conj.
[44] [Scene II.] Pope.
[Enter A....] Ff (after line 43).
[60] [did] shew'd Capell (corrected in MS.).
[66] [Orsino, noble sir] Noble sir, Orsino Hanmer.
[71] [ingrateful] ungrateful F4.
[73] [wreck] Pope. wracke F1 F2. wrack F3 F4.
[76] [his] F1. this F2 F3 F4.
in] is F3 F4.
[77] [for] of F3 F4.
[84] [me] be F3 F4.
[87] [he] you Hanmer.
[89] [interim] intrim F1.
[91] [Scene III.] Pope.
[Enter O....] Ff. Dyce, after line 94.
[97] [do not] don't Hanmer.
[99] [Olivia,—] Theobald. Olivia. Ff.
[100] [lord,—] Pope. lord. Ff.
[103] [fat] flat Hanmer (Warburton).
[104] [Still] Still, still Capell.
[105] [so constant, lord] lord, so constant Hanmer.
[108] [hath] Capell. have Ff. has Pope.
[111] [do it] do't Pope.
[114] [me] om. Pope.
[133] [Ay] F4. Aye F1 F2 F3. Ah Hanmer.
[136] [Exit an Attendant.] Capell.
[To Viola. Theobald.
[144] [that thou] thou F3 F4.
[Enter Priest.] Ff. Re-enter Attendant, with Priest. Capell.
[150] [of eternal] and eternal Collier (Malone conj. withdrawn).
[159] [on thy case] on thy face Madden conj. upon thee Keightley conj. See note [(xv)].
[164] [protest—] Rowe. protest Ff.
[165] [Hold] F1. How F2 F3 F4.
[Enter Sir A.] Ff. Enter Sir A. with his head broke. Rowe.
[Send] F1 F2. and F3 F4. and send Rowe (ed. 2).
[169] [He has] H'as Ff.
[has given] F1 F2. given F3 F4. h'as given Capell.
[174] [incardinate] incarnate Rowe.
[183] [Enter Sir Toby....] Enter Toby.... Ff (after line 181). Enter Sir T. drunk, led by the Clown. Capell.
[185, 186] [othergates] other gates Ff.
[188] [has] Ff. h'as Rowe (ed. 1). ha's Id. (ed. 2). he has Pope.
[188, 189] [the end] th'end F1 F2. an end F3 F4.
[189] [didst] didst thou F3 F4.
[190] [Sir Toby] F1. sir above F2 F3 F4. Sir Toby, above Theobald.
[191] [set at] F1 F2. at F3 F4.
[192] [rogue, and a passy measures panyn:] F1. Rogue after a passy measures Pavin: F2 F3 F4. rogue, and a past-measure painim. Pope. rogue, and a passy-measure pavin: Steevens. rogue:—and after a passy-measure or a pavin, Rann. rogue. After a passy-measure, or a pavin, Reed (Tyrwhitt conj.). rogue and a pazzomezzo paynim Becket conj. rogue and a passy measures paynim: Grant White. rogue. After a passing measure and a pavin Anon. conj. (Gent. Mag.).
[198, 199] [ help? an ass-head ... gull!] Malone. help an ass-head ... gull? Ff.
[200] [Exeunt...] Dyce and Staunton. Exe. Clo. To. & And. Rowe. Exeunt Clown and some Attendants, with Sir T. and Sir A. Capell.
[201] [Scene V.] Pope.
[kinsman] uncle Rowe (ed. 2).
[203] [All stand in amaze.] Theobald.
[204] [You throw a strange] You throw A strange S. Walker conj.
[upon] on Pope.
upon me, and by that] on me, by that Lettsom conj.
[and by that] by which Pope. and By that Capell.
[209] [natural] nat'ral Pope.
[213] [Fear'st thou] Ff. Fear'd thou Rowe (ed. 2). Fear'd you Pope.
[219] [that] F1. a F2 F3 F4.
[222] [To Viola.] Rowe.
[224] [Messaline] Metelin Hanmer.
[231] [goes] F1. goe F2. go F3 F4.
[233] [And] As Capell (corrected in MS.).
[246] [captain] captain's Grant White (Collier MS.).
[247] [maiden] maids Theobald.
[by whose] he, by whose Staunton conj.
[248] [preserved] preferr'd Theobald.
[count] Duke Rowe.
[249] [occurrence] occurrents Hanmer.
[250] [Hath] Have Hanmer.
[251] [To Olivia.] Rowe.
[252] [drew] true Collier MS.
[258] [wreck] Rowe. wracke F1 F2. wrack F3 F4.
[260] [shouldst] shoulst F2.
[263, 264] [fire ... severs] fires ... sever Singer.
[272] [Re-enter....] Enter.... Ff.
[and Fabian.] om. Capell.
[273] [Scene VI.] Pope.
[extracting] F1. exacting F2 F3 F4. distracting Hanmer.
[274] [banish'd] banisht F1. banish F2 F3 F4.
[277] [has] h'as Rowe. he has Malone.
[281] [Open 't] Open it Malone.
[283] [Reads] Rowe.
[284] [art thou] art Pope.
[285] [an] Pope. and Ff.
[286] [Vox] for't Heath conj. oaths Mason conj.
[287] [read] read it F3 F4.
[right wits] wits right Johnson conj.
[290] [To Fabian.] Rowe.
[291] [Reads] Ff.
[293] [cousin] uncle Rowe (ed. 2).
[the benefit] benefit Rowe, F3 F4.
[302] [Exit Fabian.] Capell.
[305] [on't, so] an't so Heath conj. and, so Collier (Collier MS.).
[308] [To Viola] Rowe.
[309] [mettle] Ff. metal Rowe.
[313] [mistress.] Oli. A ... she] mistress, and his sister she Hanmer.
[Re-enter F. with M.] Capell. Enter M. Ff. Enter M. with straw about him, as from prison. Collier MS.
[314] [Scene VII.] Pope.
[315] [you have] you've S. Walker conj.
[320] [seal, not] seal, nor F4.
[330] [and gull] F1. or gull F2 F3 F4.
[336] [then] thou Rann.
[camest in] cam'st thou Theobald.
[337] [presupposed] preimpos'd Collier (Collier MS.).
[342] [hear] here F2.
[346] [confess, myself] Theobald. confess myself, Ff.
[Toby] Sir Toby Theobald.
[349] [against] in Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.).
[355, 356] S. Walker would end line 355 at [fool].
[356] [fool] Foole F1 F2 F3. Fool F4. soul Collier (Collier MS.). tool Anon. conj.
[thee!] Capell. thee? Ff.
[358] [thrown] thrust Theobald.
[360, 361] [remember? 'Madam, why] Malone (Tyrwhitt conj.). remember, Madam, why Ff. remember, Madam,—'why Theobald.
[362] [an] Pope. and Ff.
[whirligig] Capell. whirlegigge F1. whirle-gigge F2 F3. whirl-gigg F4.
[364] [Exit.] Rowe.
[368] [convents] consents Steevens conj. convenes Anon. MS. apud Halliwell.
[370] [Meantime] In the mean time Hanmer.
[374] [Exeunt...] Dyce and Staunton. Exeunt. Ff.
[375-394] [Farmer] would omit as spurious.
[375] [and] an Theobald.
[tiny] Rowe (ed. 2). tine Ff.
[381] [knaves and thieves] knave and thief Steevens (Farmer conj.).
[387-389] [beds ... heads] Ff. bed ... head Hanmer.
[389] [toss-pots] tospottes F1.
[still had] I had Hanmer. still I had Collier.
[drunken] broken Anon. conj.
[391] [begun] Rowe. begon F1 F2. be gon F3. be gone F4.
[392] [With hey, ho] F2 F3 F4. hey, ho F1.
[394] [Exit.] Rowe. om. Ff.
NOTES.
In our enumeration of the Dramatis Personæ we have omitted what Johnson calls 'the cant of the modern stage,' i.e. the unnecessary descriptions given by Rowe.
I. I. 26. Mr Knight reads 'years' heat,' but follows Malone in interpreting 'heat' as a participle. It is more probably a substantive.
I. 3. 48. Sidney Walker supposed that as the first Folio has no stop after 'acquaintance' it was intended that the sentence should be regarded as incomplete, and he therefore would read 'acquaintance—'. The real reason of the omission of the stop in F1 is that the word occurs so near the end of the line that there was no room for its insertion. It is found in all the other Folios.
I. 5. 192. Mr Dyce conjectures that something more than the speaker's name has been omitted in the Folios before 'Tell me your mind.' Capell proposed to omit these words, on the ground that, in addition to other objections against them, they cause the speech to end metrically. We leave the text undisturbed, because we think that there is some corruption which Hanmer's plausible emendation does not remove.
I. 5. 237. Sidney Walker conjectures that 'a word or words are lost before adorations, involving the same metaphor as the rest of the two lines.' Perhaps the lost word may have been 'earthward' or 'earthly,' so that all the four elements 'of which our life consists' (II. 3. 9) would be represented in the symptoms of Orsino's passion.
II. 2. 30. Johnson would transpose lines 28 and 29, and retain the reading of the Folios 'if':
'For such as we are made, if such we be,
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we.'
II. 3. 33. The first Folio reads simply 'give a' without any stop at all, perhaps as before, because there was no room to insert it. More probably however a line has been omitted. The other Folios have 'give a—'. Mr Singer suggests that the hiatus may either have been intentional, or may have been filled up with the words 'another should.' Mr Collier's MS. corrector inserts a whole clause; reading, 'if one knight give a-way sixpence, so will I give another: go to.'
II. 3. 97, 99, 101, 102. These lines are printed in the Folios in Roman type, while all the other songs and snatches of songs in the scene are in italics. It is evident, however, that they are intended to be sung.
II. 4. 17. Warburton says, 'The Folio reads notions, which is right.' This is incorrect: all the Folios have 'motions.'
II. 5. 129. The first Folio here reads 'atcheeues,' but as it has 'atcheeue' in III. 4. 41, and 'atchieue' in V. 1. 357, it is plain that the first is a mere misprint. In many other passages, doubtless, the incorrect grammar found in the oldest editions is due to the printer, not to the author.
III. 4. 110. Mr Ritson suggested that 'Ay, Biddy, come with me,' is a fragment of an old song, and should be printed as such.
III. 4. 260. Mr Dyce and Mr Staunton make Scene V. to commence here in 'The street adjoining Olivia's garden.' The fourth scene is continued in the Folios, and, as in all other instances throughout the play, the beginning of each scene is accurately marked, we have thought it better to follow them in this. According to the Folios, Fabian and Viola leave the stage just as Sir Toby and Sir Andrew enter, and, not meeting them, may be supposed to return to the place appointed in lines 239, 240. Capell, contrary to the directions in the Folios, keeps Fabian and Viola on the stage. They are indeed all the while within sight of Sir Toby, as appears from lines 268, 269, but not necessarily visible to the audience. The comic effect would, no doubt, be heightened if Fabian were seen using all his efforts to prevent Viola from running away, but this is scarcely a sufficient reason for deserting our only authority.
IV. 1. 13. Mr Knight suggests that this may be intended to be spoken aside, as if the meaning were, 'I am afraid the world will prove this great lubber (Sebastian) a cockney.'
V. 1. 18. The meaning seems to be nothing more recondite than this: as in the syllogism it takes two premisses to make one conclusion, so it takes two people to make one kiss.
V. 1. 159. In Mr Foss's copy of the first Folio, Sir Frederic Madden says the reading is 'cafe' instead of 'case,' and this leads him to conjecture that 'face' is the true reading. But in Capell's copy the reading is plainly 'case,' and as there is abundant authority to prove that 'case' was a sportsman's term for the skin of an animal, we retain it.
THE WINTER'S TALE.
DRAMATIS PERSONÆ[10].
Leontes, king of Sicilia.
Mamillius[11], young prince of Sicilia.
Camillo, }
Antigonus, } Four Lords of Sicilia.
Cleomenes, }
Dion, }
Polixenes, king of Bohemia[12].
Florizel, prince of Bohemia[12].
Archidamus, a Lord of Bohemia[12].
Old Shepherd, reputed father of Perdita.
Clown, his son.
Autolycus, a rogue.
A Mariner[13].
A Gaoler[13].
Hermione, queen to Leontes.
Perdita, daughter to Leontes and Hermione.
Paulina, wife to Antigonus.
Emilia, a lady attending on Hermione[14].
Mopsa[13], }
Dorcas[13],} Shepherdesses.
Other Lords and Gentlemen, Ladies[13], Officers[13], and Servants,
Shepherds, and Shepherdesses.
Scene: Partly in Sicilia, and partly in Bohemia[15].