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,