Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA

	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.1	What a plague means my niece, to take the
	death of her brother thus? I am sure care's
	an enemy to life.
	MARIA
	By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in
1.3.5	earlier a' nights: Your cousin, my lady, takes	a' of | cousin kinswoman
	great exceptions to your ill hours.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Why, let her except, before excepted.	except, before excepted >>>
	MARIA
	Ay, but you must confine yourself within
	the modest limits of order.	modest moderate | order orderly conduct
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.10	Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I	I'll confine myself no finer >>>
	am: these clothes are good enough to drink in;
	and so be these boots too: and they be not, let	and if
	them hang themselves in their own straps.
	MARIA
	That quaffing and drinking will undo you:
1.3.15	I heard my lady talk of it yesterday; and of
	a foolish knight that you brought in one night
	here to be her wooer.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?	Aguecheek >>>
	MARIA
	Ay, he.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.20	He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.	tall valiant, as in "standing tall"
	MARIA
	What's that to the purpose?	that i.e., Aguecheek's height (Maria is being
		sarcastic.)
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.
	MARIA
	Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these
	ducats. He's a very fool and a prodigal.	he'll have but a year in all these ducats he'll
		spend all of his money in a year
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.25	Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the
	viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four	viol-de-gamboys viola da gamba (Literally,
	languages word for word without book, and	"leg-viol.") | without book from memory
	hath all the good gifts of nature.	good gifts of nature natural abilities
	MARIA
	He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that	natural idiotic, retarded
1.3.30	he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that he
	hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath	allay the gust decrease the gusto
	in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent he
	would quickly have the gift of a grave.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	By this hand, they are scoundrels and substractors	substractors (Sir Toby probably means
1.3.35	that say so of him. Who are they?	"detractors.")
	MARIA
	They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly	They that add >>>
	in your company.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
	her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
1.3.40	drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill that	coystrill knave, punk
	will not drink to my niece till his brains turn o'	turn o' the toe spin | parish-top >>>
	the toe like a parish-top. What, wench! Castiliano	Castiliano vulgo! ?, maybe "Talk nice to him!"
	vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.	Agueface (Toby's mistake for, or mockery of,
		"Aguecheek.")
	Enter SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK
	SIR ANDREW
	Sir Toby Belch! How now, Sir Toby
1.3.45	Belch?
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Sweet Sir Andrew!
	SIR ANDREW
	Bless you, fair shrew.	shrew >>>
	MARIA
	And you too, sir.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.
	SIR ANDREW
1.3.50	What's that?
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	My niece's chambermaid.	chambermaid lady in waiting, companion
	SIR ANDREW
	Good Mistress Accost, I desire better
	acquaintance.
	MARIA
	My name is Mary, sir.
	SIR ANDREW
1.3.55	Good Mistress Mary Accost,—
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	You mistake, knight; "accost" is front
	her, board her, woo her, assail her.
	SIR ANDREW
	By my troth, I would not undertake her in
	this company. Is that the meaning of "accost"?
	MARIA
1.3.60	Fare you well, gentlemen.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would	An thou let part so if you let her just leave
	thou mightst never draw sword again.	thou mightst never draw sword again.
		i.e., you can't claim to be a real man
	SIR ANDREW
	An you part so, mistress, I would I might
	never draw sword again. Fair lady,
1.3.65	do you think you have fools in hand?
	MARIA
	Sir, I have not you by th' hand.
	SIR ANDREW
	Marry, but you shall have—and here's
	my hand.
	MARIA
	Now, sir, "thought is free": I pray you, bring	"thought is free" i.e., everyone is entitled to her
1.3.70	your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.	own opinion >>> | buttery where the butts (casks)
		of wine are kept >>>
	SIR ANDREW
	Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your
	metaphor?
	MARIA
	It's dry, sir.	dry thirsty (And a dry hand signifies impotence.)
	SIR ANDREW
	Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but
1.3.75	I can keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?	I can keep my hand dry i.e., I know to come in out
		of the rain.
	MARIA
	A dry jest, sir.	dry jest subtly ironic witticism (as in "dry wit")
		and/or stupid butt of a witticism (as in
	SIR ANDREW	"you are a joke")
	Are you full of them?
	MARIA
	Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends.	have . . . at my fingers' ends have at the ready
	Marry, now I let go your hand, I am barren.	barren incapable of producing (any more jests)
	Exit MARIA
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.80	O knight thou lackest a cup of canary.	canary sweet wine from the Canary Islands
	When did I see thee so put down?	put down mocked, defeated in a battle of wits
	SIR ANDREW
	Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary
	put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no more	put me down make me drunk and stupid
	wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I	Christian i.e., average Joe
1.3.85	am a great eater of beef and I believe that does
	harm to my wit.	beef . . . does harm to my wit A common idea of
		the time, echoed in the modern insult, "meathead."
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	No question.
	SIR ANDREW
	An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll	An if | I'ld forswear I would give up | it i.e., eating
	ride home to-morrow, Sir Toby.	beef (Sir Andrew doesn't really think that eating
		beef makes him stupid.)
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.90	Pourquoi, my dear knight?	Pourquoi Why? (French)
	SIR ANDREW
	What is "Pourquoi"? do or not do?
	I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues	bestowed given | the tongues foreign languages
	that I have in fencing, dancing and bear-baiting.	bear-baiting >>>
	O, had I but followed the arts!
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.95	Then hadst thou had an excellent head of
	hair.
	SIR ANDREW
	Why, would that have mended my hair?	mended improved
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Past question; for thou seest it will not
	curl by nature.	it will not curl by nature >>>
	SIR ANDREW
1.3.100	But it becomes me well enough, does't
	not?
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff;	flax on a distaff >>>
	and I hope to see a huswife take thee	huswife housewife; also hussy, whore
	between her legs and spin it off.	spin it off Loss of hair was a sign of infection
		with a sexually transmitted disease.
	SIR ANDREW
1.3.105	Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby.
	Your niece will not be seen; or if she be,
	it's four to one she'll none of me: the count
	himself here hard by woos her.	the count himself i.e., Orsino | here hard by nearby
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above	not match above her degree not marry her superior
1.3.110	her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I	estate fortune, social position
	have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't, man.	there's life in't i.e.,there's still hope that you can
		win her
	SIR ANDREW
	I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o'
	the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in
	masques and revels sometimes altogether.	masques masquerades | revels partying
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.115	Art thou good at these kickshawses,	kickshawses trifles, elegant amusements
	knight?
	SIR ANDREW
	As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under
	the degree of my betters; and yet I will not	under the degree of my betters except for those who
	compare with an old man.	are better | old man i.e., more experienced man >>>
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.120	What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?	galliard a fast dance with a lot of tricky steps,
		including capers
	SIR ANDREW
	Faith, I can cut a caper.	cut a caper make a lively leap
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	And I can cut the mutton to't.	to't to go with it (Capers were and are used in
		condiments. Also, "mutton" can mean "whore.")
	SIR ANDREW
	And I think I have the back-trick simply	back-trick backward step or kick in the galliard
	as strong as any man in Illyria.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.125	Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore have
	these gifts a curtain before 'em? are they like to
	take dust, like Mistress Mall's picture? why dost	take dust gather dust | Mistress Mall's picture ?,
	thou not go to church in a galliard and come home in	maybe a painting with a protective curtain
	a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not	coranto a running dance
1.3.130	so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What	make water pee | sink-a-pace dance like the galliard
	dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in?
	I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy
	leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.	star of astrological sign favorable to
	SIR ANDREW
	Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well	indifferent moderately (Sir Andrew is proudly
1.3.135	in a dun-color'd stock. Shall we set about	modest.) | dun grayish-brownish | stock stocking
	some revels?
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	What shall we do else? were we not born
	under Taurus?	Taurus the second sign of the Zodiac
	SIR ANDREW
	Taurus! That's sides and heart.	sides and heart (Sir Andrew is wrong.
		Leo governs sides and heart.)
	SIR TOBY BELCH
1.3.140	No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee	legs and thighs (Sir Toby is right, but Taurus is
1.3.141	caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!	more commonly associated with neck and throat,
		appropriate for drinkers.)
	Exeunt

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