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MALVOLIO.
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'Some achieve greatness,'--
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OLIVIA.
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What say'st thou?
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MALVOLIO.
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'And some have greatness thrust upon them.'
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OLIVIA.
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Heaven restore thee!
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MALVOLIO.
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'Remember who commended thy yellow stockings;'--
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OLIVIA.
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Thy yellow stockings?
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MALVOLIO.
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'And wished to see thee cross-gartered.'
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OLIVIA.
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Cross-gartered?
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MALVOLIO.
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'Go to: thou an made, if thou desirest to be so:'--
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OLIVIA.
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Am I made?
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MALVOLIO.
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'If not, let me see thee a servant still.'
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OLIVIA.
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Why, this is very midsummer madness.
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[Enter Servant.]
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SERVANT.
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Madam, the young gentleman of the Count Orsino's is
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returned; I could hardly entreat him back; he attends your
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ladyship's pleasure.
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OLIVIA.
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I'll come to him.
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[Exit Servant.]
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Good Maria, let this fellow be looked to. Where's my cousin Toby?
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Let some of my people have a special care of him; I would not
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have him miscarry for the half of my dowry.
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[Exeunt OLIVIA and MARIA.]
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MALVOLIO.
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O, ho! do you come near me now? No worse man than Sir
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Toby to look to me? This concurs directly with the letter: she
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sends him on purpose, that I may appear stubborn to him; for she
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incites me to that in the letter. 'Cast thy humble slough,' says
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she;--'be opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants,--let thy
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tongue tang with arguments of state,--put thyself into the trick
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of singularity;--and consequently, sets down the manner how; as,
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a sad face, a reverend carriage, a slow tongue, in the habit of
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some sir of note, and so forth. I have limed her; but it is
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Jove's doing, and Jove make me thankful! And, when she went away
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now, 'Let this fellow be looked to;' Fellow! not Malvolio, nor
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after my degree, but fellow. Why, everything adheres together;
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that no dram of a scruple, no scruple of a scruple, no obstacle,
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no incredulous or unsafe circumstance,--What can be said?
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Nothing, that can be, can come between me and the full prospect
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of my hopes. Well, Jove, not I, is the doer of this, and he is to
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be thanked.
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[Re-enter MARIA, with SIR TOBY BELCH and FABIAN.]
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SIR TOBY.
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Which way is he, in the name of sanctity? If all the
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devils of hell be drawn in little, and Legion himself possessed
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him, yet I'll speak to him.
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FABIAN.
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Here he is, here he is:--How is't with you, sir? how is't with
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you, man?
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MALVOLIO.
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Go off; I discard you; let me enjoy my private; go off.
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MARIA.
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Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him! did not I tell
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you?--Sir Toby, my lady prays you to have a care of him.
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MALVOLIO.
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Ah, ha! does she so?
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SIR TOBY.
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Go to, go to; peace, peace, we must deal gently with him;
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let me alone. How do you, Malvolio? how is't with you? What, man!
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defy the devil: consider, he's an enemy to mankind.
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MALVOLIO.
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