Scene
SCENE, the street.
Enter Sebastian and Clown.
Clown.
Will you make me believe that I am not
sent for you?
Seb.
Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow.
Let me be clear of thee.
Clo.
Well held out, i'faith: no, I do not know
you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid
you come speak with her; nor your name is not
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master Cesario, nor this is not my nose, neither; nothing
that is so, is so.
Seb.
I pry'thee, vent thy folly somewhere else;
thou know'st not me.
Clo.
Vent my folly! he has heard that word of
some great man, and now applies it to a fool.
Vent my folly! I pr'ythee now, ungird thy strangeness,
and tell me what I shall vent to my lady; shall
I vent to her that thou art coming?
Seb.
I pr'ythee, foolish geck, depart from me;
there's money for thee. If you tarry longer, I shall
give worse payment.
Clo.
These wise men that give fools money, get
themselves a good report,† note after fourteen years purchase.
Enter Sir Andrew, Sir Toby, and Fabian.
Sir And.
Now, Sir, have I met you again? there's
for you.
[Striking Sebastian.
Seb.
Why, there's for thee, and there, and there:
are all the people mad?
[Beating Sir Andrew.
Sir To.
Hold, Sir, or I'll throw your dagger o'er
the house.
Clo.
This will I tell my lady straight: I would
not be in some of your coats, for two pence.
[Exit Clown.
Sir To.
Come on, Sir, hold.
[Holding Sebastian.
Sir And.
Nay let him alone, I'll go another way
to work with him; I'll have an action of battery
against him, if there's any law in Illyria; tho' I
struck him first, yet it's no matter for that?
Seb.
Let go thy hand.
Sir To.
Come, Sir, I will not let you go. Come,
my young soldier, put up your iron; you are well
flesh'd: come on.
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Seb.
I will be free from thee. What wouldst thou
now? if thou dar'st tempt me further, draw thy
sword.
Sir To.
What, what? nay then I must have an
ounce or two of this malapert blood from you.* note
[They draw and fight.
John Bell [1774], Bell's Edition of Shakespeare's Plays, As they are now performed at the Theatres Royal in London; Regulated from the Prompt Books of each House By Permission; with Notes Critical and Illustrative; By the Authors of the Dramatic Censor (Printed for John Bell... and C. Etherington [etc.], York) [word count] [S10401].
