Enter Clown and FABIAN
	FABIAN
5.1.1	Now, as thou lovest me, let me see his letter.	his i.e., Malvolio's
	Clown
	Good Master Fabian, grant me another	another request a counterpart to the request
	request.	you're making of me
	FABIAN
	Any thing.
	Clown
5.1.5	Do not desire to see this letter.
	FABIAN
	This is, to give a dog, and in recompense
	desire my dog again.	to give a dog . . . desire my dog again >>>
	Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and Lords
	DUKE ORSINO
	Belong you to the Lady Olivia, friends?
	Clown
	Ay, sir; we are some of her trappings.
	DUKE ORSINO
5.1.10	I know thee well; how dost thou, my good
	fellow?
	Clown
	Truly, sir, the better for my foes and the	for because of
	worse for my friends.
	DUKE ORSINO
	Just the contrary: the better for thy friends.
	Clown
5.1.15	No, sir, the worse.
	DUKE ORSINO
	How can that be?
	Clown
	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
5.1.20	myself, and by my friends, I am abused; so that,	abused i.e., falsely flattered
	conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives	conclusions . . . affirmatives >>>
	make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse
	for my friends and the better for my foes.
	DUKE ORSINO
	Why, this is excellent.	this i.e., the Clown's foolery, his word play
	Clown
5.1.25	By my troth, sir, no; though it please you to be
	one of my friends.
	DUKE ORSINO
	Thou shalt not be the worse for me; there's	there's gold Duke Orsino gives the Clown a coin.
	gold.
	Clown
	But that it would be double-dealing, sir, I would
5.1.30	you could make it another.
	DUKE ORSINO
	O, you give me ill counsel.	ill counsel evil advice (The Duke is picking up on the
		Clown's begging joke that giving another coin would
	Clown	be double-dealing.)
	Put your grace in your pocket, sir, for this once,	grace virtue, also generosity
	and let your flesh and blood obey it.	flesh and blood i.e., human weakness | it i.e., the "ill
		counsel"
	DUKE ORSINO
	Well, I will be so much a sinner, to be a
5.1.35	double-dealer. There's another.
	Clown
	Primo, secundo, tertio, is a good play; and the	Primo, secundo, tertio one, two, three (Latin), also,
	old saying is, the third pays for all. The triplex,	perhaps, a lucky roll of the dice
	sir, is a good tripping measure, or the bells of	the third pays for all (It still is an "old saying," in
	Saint Bennet, sir, may put you in mind—one,	another form: "the third time's the charm.")
5.1.40	two, three.	triplex triple time in music | tripping dancing
		Saint Bennet a church across the Thames from the
	DUKE ORSINO	Globe theater
	You can fool no more money out of me at this	fool cheat, also charm with your foolery
	throw. If you will let your lady know I am here	at this throw at this time, also in this way
	to speak with her, and bring her along with you,
	it may awake my bounty further.
	Clown
5.1.45	Marry, sir, lullaby to your bounty till I come
	again. I go, sir; but I would not have you to think	I would not . . . the sin of covetousness (The Clown is
	that my desire of having is the sin of covetousness;	more interested in the art of begging than the actual
	but, as you say, sir, let your bounty take a nap, I	money.)
	will awake it anon.	anon in a little while
	Exit Clown
	Enter ANTONIO and Officers
	VIOLA
5.1.50	Here comes the man, sir, that did rescue me.
	DUKE ORSINO
	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.	Vulcan (He was the smith of the gods, and had a face
	A baubling vessel was he captain of,	blackened with smoke.) | baubling toy-like
5.1.55	For shallow draught and bulk unprizable,	For . . . unprizable not worth taking as a prize
	With which such scathful grapple did he make	because of its flat bottom and small size
	With the most noble bottom of our fleet,	scathful grapple damaging battle | bottom ship
	That very envy, and the tongue of loss	envy enmity | tongue of loss the talk of the losers of
	Cried fame and honour on him. What's the matter?	the battle | matter charge (against Antonio)
	First Officer
5.1.60	Orsino, this is that Antonio
	That took the Phoenix and her fraught from Candy;	fraught freight | from Candy on her return from Crete
	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,	desperate of with reckless disregard for
5.1.65	In private brabble did we apprehend him.	shame and state >>> | brabble brawl
	VIOLA
	He did me kindness, sir, drew on my side;	drew on my side drew his sword in defense of me
	But in conclusion put strange speech upon me.	put strange speech upon me said strange things to me
	I know not what 'twas but distraction.	'twas it (i.e., the "strange speech") was
		distraction madness
	DUKE ORSINO
	Notable pirate! thou salt-water thief!
5.1.70	What foolish boldness brought thee to their mercies,	to their mercies under the control of those
	Whom thou, in terms so bloody and so dear,	in terms in a manner | dear costly (to your enemies)
	Hast made thine enemies?
	ANTONIO
	Orsino, noble sir,
	Be pleased that I shake off these names you give me.
	Antonio never yet was thief or pirate,
5.1.75	Though I confess, on base and ground enough,	base and ground basis and grounds
	Orsino's enemy. A witchcraft drew me hither:	witchcraft i.e., Sebastian's bewitching appearance
	That most ingrateful boy there by your side	boy there by your side (Antonio looks at "Cesario"
	From the rude sea's enraged and foamy mouth	and thinks he sees Sebastian.)
	Did I redeem; a wreck past hope he was:
5.1.80	His life I gave him and did thereto add
	My love, without retention or restraint,	without retention or restraint without holding
	All his in dedication. For his sake	anything back | All his in dedication all (my love
	Did I expose myself (pure for his love)	was) dedicated to him | pure purely
	Into the danger of this adverse town;	Into to | adverse hostile
5.1.85	Drew to defend him when he was beset;	beset under attack
	Where being apprehended, his false cunning,	Where being apprehended at which time, when I was
	(Not meaning to partake with me in danger)	arrested | Not . . . danger not wanting to share my
	Taught him to face me out of his acquaintance,	danger | face me out of his acquaintance hypo-
	And grew a twenty years removed thing	critically pretend that he didn't know me
5.1.90	While one would wink; denied me mine own purse,	While one would wink in the blink of an eye
	Which I had recommended to his use	denied . . . purse i.e., denied that my money was mine
	Not half an hour before.	recommended generously offered and freely given
	VIOLA
	How can this be?
	DUKE ORSINO
	When came he to this town?
	ANTONIO
	To-day, my lord; and for three months before,
5.1.95	No interim, not a minute's vacancy,	No without a | vacancy gap, interval
	Both day and night did we keep company.
	Enter OLIVIA and Attendants
	DUKE ORSINO
	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,
5.1.100	But more of that anon. Take him aside.
	OLIVIA
	What would my lord, but that he may not have,	What . . . not have What does my lord (i.e., Orsino)
	Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable?	want, except for that which he may not have (i.e., my
	Cesario, you do not keep promise with me.	love) | seem serviceable be of assistance
	VIOLA
	Madam!
	DUKE ORSINO
5.1.105	Gracious Olivia—
	OLIVIA
	What do you say, Cesario? Good my lord—
	VIOLA
	My lord would speak; my duty hushes me.
	OLIVIA
	If it be aught to the old tune, my lord,
	It is as fat and fulsome to mine ear	fat and fulsome gross and distasteful
5.1.110	As howling after music.	As howling after music >>>
	DUKE ORSINO
	Still so cruel?
	OLIVIA
	Still so constant, lord.
	DUKE ORSINO
	What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady,	uncivil rude, lacking in feeling for others
	To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars	ingrate ungrateful
	My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out	unauspicious unwelcoming, unrewarding
5.1.115	That e'er devotion tender'd! What shall I do?	e'er ever | tender'd offered
	OLIVIA
	Even what it please my lord, that shall become him.	become him be becoming to him (Orsino has already
		shown some unbecoming behavior by throwing
	DUKE ORSINO	insults at Olivia, whom he professes to love.)
	Why should I not (had I the heart to do it)
	Like to the Egyptian thief at point of death,	Egyptian thief >>>
	Kill what I love? (a savage jealousy	what I love i.e., "Cesario"
5.1.120	That sometimes savours nobly), but hear me this:	savours nobly has a flavor of nobility
	Since you to non-regardance cast my faith,	non-regardance neglect | cast discard
	And that I partly know the instrument	faith constant love | partly know i.e., can guess
	That screws me from my true place in your favour,	screws pries, forces
	Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still.	marble-breasted i.e., stony-hearted
5.1.125	But this your minion, whom I know you love,	this i.e., "Cesario" | minion darling, favorite
	And whom, by heaven I swear, I tender dearly,	tender dearly deeply care for
	Him will I tear out of that cruel eye,	that cruel eye i.e., Olivia's sight and concern
	Where he sits crowned in his master's spite.	in his master's spite to the mortification of his
	Come, boy, with me; my thoughts are ripe in mischief:	master (i.e., Orsino)
5.1.130	I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love,
	To spite a raven's heart within a dove.	a raven's heart within a dove i.e., the black heart
		of the beautiful white Olivia
	VIOLA
	And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly,	jocund cheerfully | apt readily
	To do you rest, a thousand deaths would die.	To do you rest to give you peace and satisfaction
	OLIVIA
	Where goes Cesario?
	VIOLA
	After him I love
5.1.135	More than I love these eyes, more than my life,
	More, by all mores, than e'er I shall love wife.	by all mores i.e, beyond all comparison
	If I do feign, you witnesses above	feign lie, pretend
	Punish my life for tainting of my love!	Punish my life for tainting of my love put me to
		death for dishonoring my love
	OLIVIA
	Ay me, detested! how am I beguiled!	detested renounced | beguiled fooled, conned
		(Olivia thinks that "Cesario" is denying his vows to
	VIOLA	her, but it was Sebastian who made those vows.)
5.1.140	Who does beguile you? who does do you wrong?
	OLIVIA
	Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?
	Call forth the holy father.	Call . . . father (An attendant leaves and soon returns
		with the priest who witnessed the betrothal.)
	DUKE ORSINO
	Come, away!
	OLIVIA
	Whither, my lord? Cesario, husband, stay.
	DUKE ORSINO
	Husband!
	OLIVIA
	Ay, husband. Can he that deny?
	DUKE ORSINO
5.1.145	Her husband, sirrah!	sirrah (A contemptuous form of address.)
	VIOLA
	No, my lord, not I.
	OLIVIA
	Alas, it is the baseness of thy fear
	That makes thee strangle thy propriety.	strangle smother, cover up | thy propriety your true
	Fear not, Cesario; take thy fortunes up;	identity (as my betrothed husband)
	Be that thou know'st thou art, and then thou art	take thy fortunes up lay claim to what good fortune
5.1.150	As great as that thou fear'st.	has given you | As great as that thou fear'st >>>
	Enter Priest
	O, welcome, father!
	Father, I charge thee, by thy reverence,
	Here to unfold, though lately we intended	unfold reveal, explain
	To keep in darkness what occasion now	occasion the necessities of the present occasion
	Reveals before 'tis ripe, what thou dost know
5.1.155	Hath newly pass'd between this youth and me.	newly very recently
	Priest
	A contract of eternal bond of love,
	Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands,	joinder joining
	Attested by the holy close of lips,	close coming together
	Strengthen'd by interchangement of your rings;
5.1.160	And all the ceremony of this compact
	Seal'd in my function, by my testimony;	Seal'd ratified | in my function in my official capacity
	Since when, my watch hath told me, toward my grave
	I have travell'd but two hours.
	DUKE ORSINO
	O thou dissembling cub! what wilt thou be
5.1.165	When time hath sow'd a grizzle on thy case?	sow'd planted | grizzle a salt-and-pepper growth of
	Or will not else thy craft so quickly grow,	hair | case skin, pelt | craft craftiness
	That thine own trip shall be thine overthrow?	thine own trip shall be thine overthrow your own
	Farewell, and take her; but direct thy feet	tricks (or traps) will trick (or trap) you
	Where thou and I henceforth may never meet.
	VIOLA
5.1.170	My lord, I do protest—	protest promise, swear
	OLIVIA
	O, do not swear!
	Hold little faith, though thou hast too much fear.	Hold little keep a little (Olivia wants Cesario to not
		swear his faith to Orsino, so that he may keep a little
	Enter SIR ANDREW	of the faith he swore to her in their betrothal.)
	SIR ANDREW
	For the love of God, a surgeon! Send one presently	presently immediately
	to Sir Toby.
	OLIVIA
	What's the matter?
	SIR ANDREW
5.1.175	H'as broke my head across and has given Sir	H'as broke my head across he has given me a scalp
	Toby a bloody coxcomb too. For the love of	wound | coxcomb head (But "coxcomb" is also the
	God, your help! I had rather than forty pound	name of the fool's cap that looks like a rooster's
	I were at home.	comb.) | I . . . home I would rather be at home than
		have forty pounds (quite a lot of money)
	OLIVIA
	Who has done this, Sir Andrew?
	SIR ANDREW
5.1.180	The count's gentleman, one Cesario. We took
	him for a coward, but he's the very devil
	incardinate.	incardinate (There's no such word. Sir Andrew
		probably means "incarnate," but "incardinate" also
	DUKE ORSINO	suggests "incarnadine," blood-red.)
	My gentleman, Cesario?
	SIR ANDREW
	'Od's lifelings, here he is! You broke my head for	'Od's lifelings by God's little lives (A senseless oath.)
5.1.185	nothing; and that that I did, I was set on to do't	for nothing for no reason | set on goaded (Note Sir
	by Sir Toby.	Andrew's contradiction: he didn't do anything and
		what he did do was Sir Toby's fault.)
	VIOLA
	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.	bespake you fair spoke courteously to you
	SIR ANDREW
5.1.190	If a bloody coxcomb be a hurt, you have hurt me.
	I think you set nothing by a bloody coxcomb.	set nothing by don't care about (Sir Andrew is in full
		pout mode.)
	Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and Clown
	Here comes Sir Toby halting—you shall hear more.	halting limping | more i.e., more about all the
	But if he had not been in drink, he would have	horrible things you did | in drink drunk
	tickled you othergates than he did.	tickled you othergates than he did touched you (with
		his sword) otherwise than he did (Sir Toby didn't hurt
	DUKE ORSINO	Sebastian at all.)
5.1.195	How now, gentleman! how is't with you?
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	That's all one. H'as hurt me, and there's the end	That's all one it doesn't matter | H'as he has
	on't. Sot, didst see Dick surgeon, sot?	there's the end on't that's all there is to it
		Sot fool (But it's ironic that the drunken Sir Toby uses
	Clown	a word which also means "drunkard.")
	O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone; his eyes
	were set at eight i' the morning.	were set went dark (Compare to "The sun has set.")
	SIR TOBY BELCH
5.1.200	Then he's a rogue, and a passy-measures pavin.	a passy-measures pavin >>>
	I hate a drunken rogue.
	OLIVIA
	Away with him! Who hath made this havoc
	with them?
	SIR ANDREW
	I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dressed	help you i.e., help you to walk | dressed bandaged
5.1.205	together.
	SIR TOBY BELCH
	Will you help?—an ass-head and a coxcomb	coxcomb fool
	and a knave, a thin-faced knave, a gull!	gull dupe, sucker
	OLIVIA
	Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.
	Exeunt Clown, FABIAN, SIR TOBY BELCH,
	and SIR ANDREW
	Enter SEBASTIAN
	SEBASTIAN
	I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman,
5.1.210	But, had it been the brother of my blood,	brother of my blood biological brother
	I must have done no less with wit and safety.	with wit and safety with wisdom and caution (In
	You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that	other words, he acted in self-defense.)
	I do perceive it hath offended you:	throw a strange regard upon me look at me as
	Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows	though I were a stranger | for the vows for the sake of
5.1.215	We made each other but so late ago.	the vows | but so late ago only recently
	DUKE ORSINO
	One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,	habit manner of dress, as in "nun's habit"
	A natural perspective, that is and is not!	natural perspective optical illusion produced by
		nature (Like water on the road on a hot summer's day.)
	SEBASTIAN
	Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
	How have the hours rack'd and tortured me,
5.1.220	Since I have lost thee!
	ANTONIO
	Sebastian are you?
	SEBASTIAN
	Fear'st thou that, Antonio?	Fear'st thou that do you doubt that?
	ANTONIO
	How have you made division of yourself?
	An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
	Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
	OLIVIA
5.1.225	Most wonderful!	wonderful amazing
	SEBASTIAN [Seeing "Cesario"]
	Do I stand there? I never had a brother;	there i.e., where Viola is standing
	Nor can there be that deity in my nature,	deity . . . every where divine ability to be
	Of here and every where. I had a sister,	omnipresent
	Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.	blind insensitive, remorseless
5.1.230	Of charity, what kin are you to me?	Of charity please, kindly (tell me)
	What countryman? what name? what parentage?
	VIOLA
	Of Messaline; Sebastian was my father;
	Such a Sebastian was my brother too,	Such a Sebastian i.e., such a Sebastian as you are
	So went he suited to his watery tomb:	suited dressed (as you are)
5.1.235	If spirits can assume both form and suit	spirits ghosts | form and suit human form and clothes
	You come to fright us.
	SEBASTIAN
	A spirit I am indeed,	spirit soul
	But am in that dimension grossly clad	But . . . participate but I am wearing the same earthly
	Which from the womb I did participate.	form which I've had since birth
	Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,	as the rest goes even since the rest (of your character-
5.1.240	I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,	istics) agree (with the idea that you are my sister)
	And say "Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!"
	VIOLA
	My father had a mole upon his brow.
	SEBASTIAN
	And so had mine.
	VIOLA
	And died that day when Viola from her birth
5.1.245	Had number'd thirteen years.
	SEBASTIAN
	O, that record is lively in my soul!	record memory | lively vivid
	He finished indeed his mortal act	mortal act life on earth
	That day that made my sister thirteen years.
	VIOLA
	If nothing lets to make us happy both	If nothing lets to make us happy both if nothing else
5.1.250	But this my masculine usurp'd attire,	prevents us from both being happy
	Do not embrace me till each circumstance	usurp'd i.e., deceptive
	Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump	cohere and jump fit together and point directly to
	That I am Viola—which to confirm,	the conclusion that
	I'll bring you to a captain in this town,
5.1.255	Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help	Where at whose house | weeds clothes
	I was preserved to serve this noble count.
	All the occurrence of my fortune since	All . . . lord i.e., the only thing I've done since then
	Hath been between this lady and this lord.	is serve as a messenger between Orsino and Olivia
	SEBASTIAN [To OLIVIA]
	So comes it, lady, you have been mistook:
5.1.260	But nature to her bias drew in that.	nature . . . that i.e., in your affection for Cesario you
	You would have been contracted to a maid,	were drawn on by your natural inclination (for some-
	Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,	one like me) | maid young woman
	You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.	maid virgin (i.e., Sebastian)
	DUKE ORSINO
	Be not amazed; right noble is his blood.	amazed astounded and fearful
5.1.265	If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,	glass mirror (Sebastian is the mirror of Viola and
	I shall have share in this most happy wrack.	vice-versa.) | wrack goods salvaged from a wrecked
		ship
	To VIOLA
	Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
	Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.	like to me i.e., as much as you love me
	VIOLA
	And all those sayings will I over swear;	over swear swear again
5.1.270	And those swearings keep as true in soul
	As doth that orbed continent the fire	orbed continent sphere (of the sun) >>>
	That severs day from night.
	DUKE ORSINO
	Give me thy hand,	Give me thy hand i.e., marry me
	And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.	weeds clothes
	VIOLA
	The captain that did bring me first on shore
5.1.275	Hath my maid's garments. He upon some action
	Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit,	in durance imprisoned
	A gentleman, and follower of my lady's.	at Malvolio's suit because of a lawsuit brought by
		Malvolio
	OLIVIA
	He shall enlarge him; fetch Malvolio hither.	enlarge release
	And yet, alas, now I remember me,	remember me recall
5.1.280	They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.	much distract mentally confused
	Re-enter Clown with a letter, and FABIAN
	A most extracting frenzy of mine own	extracting frenzy of mine own madness that took me
	From my remembrance clearly banish'd his.	away from myself (Olivia's frenzy was her pursuit of
	How does he, sirrah?	"Cesario.") | From . . . his i.e., made me forget
		Malvolio's problems
	Clown
	Truly, madam, he holds Belzebub at the stave's end	holds Belzebub at the stave's end staves off the devil
5.1.285	as well as a man in his case may do. H'as here writ a	H'as here writ a letter he has written a letter which I
	letter to you; I should have given't you to-day	have here | given't you given it to you
	morning, but as a madman's epistles are no gospels,	today morning this morning
	so it skills not much when they are delivered.	a madman's . . . gospels a madman's letters aren't
		gospel truth | it skills not much doesn't matter much
	OLIVIA
	Open't, and read it.
	Clown
5.1.290	Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers	delivers speaks the words of
	the madman.
	Reads madly
	"By the Lord, madam"—
	OLIVIA
	How now! art thou mad?
	Clown
	No, madam, I do but read madness. An your lady-
5.1.295	ship will have it as it ought to be, you must allow
	Vox.	Vox voice (Latin); a dramatic reading
	OLIVIA
	Prithee, read i' thy right wits.
	Clown
	So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is
	to read thus; therefore perpend, my princess,	perpend listen, pay attention
5.1.300	and give ear.
	OLIVIA [To FABIAN]
	Read it you, sirrah.	(Apparently Olivia tires of the Clown's joke about
		how the letter should be read.)
	FABIAN [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	your drunken cousin i.e., Sir Toby ("Cousin" had a
5.1.305	me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as	broader meaning than it does now.)
	your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced
	me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt	the which i.e., the letter (which will prove his case)
	not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.
	Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little	my duty i.e., my duty, as your steward, to be
5.1.310	unthought of and speak out of my injury.	polite and deferential
	The Madly-Used Malvolio."
	OLIVIA
	Did he write this?
	Clown
	Ay, madam.
	DUKE ORSINO
	This savours not much of distraction.	distraction madness
	OLIVIA
5.1.315	See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither.	deliver'd released
	Exit FABIAN
	My lord so please you, these things further thought on,	these things further thought on i.e., taking into con-
	To think me as well a sister as a wife,	sideration what we have just seen and heard
	One day shall crown the alliance on't, so please you,	To . . . sister to think as well of me as a sister-in-law
	Here at my house and at my proper cost.	One . . . on't i.e., On one day we'll have the two
		weddings that will make me your sister-in-law.
	DUKE ORSINO	my proper cost my own expense
5.1.320	Madam, I am most apt to embrace your offer.	apt ready and willing
	To VIOLA
	Your master quits you; and for your service done him,	quits you frees you from service
	So much against the mettle of your sex,	mettle essential nature
	So far beneath your soft and tender breeding,	breeding upbringing, family status (Viola wasn't raised
	And since you call'd me master for so long,	to be a servant.)
5.1.325	Here is my hand—you shall from this time be
	Your master's mistress.	mistress female master
	OLIVIA
	A sister! you are she.
	Re-enter FABIAN, with MALVOLIO
	DUKE ORSINO
	Is this the madman?
	OLIVIA
	Ay, my lord, this same.
	How now, Malvolio?
	MALVOLIO
	Madam, you have done me wrong,
	Notorious wrong.	Notorious obvious
	OLIVIA
	Have I, Malvolio? No.
	MALVOLIO
5.1.330	Lady, you have. Pray you, peruse that letter.	peruse read, examine
	[Showing the letter which Maria wrote
	and dropped for Malvolio to find]
	You must not now deny it is your hand;	hand handwriting
	Write from it, if you can, in hand or phrase;	from it differently | in hand or phrase in handwriting
	Or say 'tis not your seal, nor your invention,	or phraseology | invention composition
	You can say none of this. Well, grant it then
5.1.335	And tell me, in the modesty of honour,	in the modesty of honour with the sincerity proper to
	Why you have given me such clear lights of favour,	an honorable person | lights signs
	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;	lighter lesser
5.1.340	And, acting this in an obedient hope,
	Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,	suffer'd allowed
	Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
	And made the most notorious geck and gull	geck and gull fool and sucker
	That e'er invention play'd on? Tell me why!	invention cunning trickery
	OLIVIA
5.1.345	Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
	Though, I confess, much like the character;	much like the character i.e., it looks a lot like my
	But out of question 'tis Maria's hand.	handwriting | out of question beyond doubt
	And now I do bethink me, it was she	hand handwriting
	First told me thou wast mad. Then camest in smiling,
5.1.350	And in such forms which here were presupposed	in . . . letter in the forms (in clothing and manners)
	Upon thee in the letter. Prithee, be content:	suggested to you in the letter | content i.e., not so
	This practise hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;	upset | practise practical joke
	But when we know the grounds and authors of it,	shrewdly pass'd upon thee cruelly fooled you
	Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge	grounds and authors motivations and perpetrators
5.1.355	Of thine own cause.	cause case
	FABIAN
	Good madam, hear me speak,
	And let no quarrel nor no brawl to come	to come in the future
	Taint the condition of this present hour,	Taint cast a shadow over
	Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,	the condition of this present hour i.e., the surprised
	Most freely I confess, myself and Toby	joy of Orsino, Olivia, Viola, and Sebastian
5.1.360	Set this device against Malvolio here,	have wonder'd at been amazed by | device plot, trick
	Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts	Upon because of | stubborn arrogant | parts qualities
	We had conceived against him. Maria writ	or actions | conceived against him observed in him
	The letter at Sir Toby's great importance,	and resented | great importance urgent request >>>
	In recompense whereof he hath married her.
5.1.365	How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,	sportful jesting | it i.e., the practical joke played on
	May rather pluck on laughter than revenge,	Malvolio | follow'd carried out | pluck on incite
	If that the injuries be justly weigh'd
	That have on both sides pass'd.
	OLIVIA
	Alas, poor fool, how have they baffled thee!	baffled thee put you down
	Clown
5.1.370	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	interlude farce
	that's all one. "By the Lord, fool, I am not mad."	"By . . . mad." (See 4.2.106 ff.)
	But do you remember? "Madam, why laugh you	"Madam . . . gagged." (See 1.5.83 ff.)
5.1.375	at such a barren rascal? an you smile not, he's
	gagged." And thus the whirligig of time brings in his	whirligig spinning top
	revenges.
	MALVOLIO
	I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.
	Exit MALVOLIO
	OLIVIA
	He hath been most notoriously abused.	notoriously blatantly
	DUKE ORSINO
5.1.380	Pursue him and entreat him to a peace;
	He hath not told us of the captain yet.	the captain (Who has Viola's woman's clothes and
	When that is known and golden time convents,	who has been jailed because of a lawsuit filed by
	A solemn combination shall be made	Malvolio.) | convents suits
	Of our dear souls. Meantime, sweet sister,	solemn combination i.e., marriage
5.1.385	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
	Clown [Sings]
	When that I was and a little tiny boy,
5.1.390	With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
	A foolish thing was but a toy,	A foolish thing was but a toy i.e., mischief and
	For the rain it raineth every day.	mistakes weren't taken seriously
	But when I came to man's estate,
	With hey, ho, etc.
5.1.395	'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
	For the rain, etc.
	But when I came, alas! to wive,
	With hey, ho, etc.
	By swaggering could I never thrive,	swaggering bragging and bluffing
5.1.400	For the rain, etc.
	But when I came unto my beds,
	With hey, ho, etc.
	With toss-pots still had drunken heads,	toss-pots drunkards >>>
	For the rain, etc.
5.1.405	A great while ago the world begun,
	With hey, ho, etc.
	But that's all one, our play is done,
5.1.408	And we'll strive to please you every day.
	Exit

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