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Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

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Act 2, Scene 5, Page 9

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Jove, I thank thee! I will smile. I will do everything that thou wilt have me.
Dear God, thank you! I’ll do everything she wants me to do.
Exit
MALVOLIO exits.

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FABIAN
I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.
FABIAN
I wouldn’t have missed this even for a pension of thousands of pounds, to be paid by the shah of Persia.

SIR TOBY BELCH
I could marry this wench for this device.
SIR TOBY BELCH
I could marry that Maria for thinking this up.

SIR ANDREW
So could I too.
SIR ANDREW
So could I.

SIR TOBY BELCH
And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.
SIR TOBY BELCH
And I wouldn’t ask for any dowry except for her to play another trick like this one.

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SIR ANDREW
Nor I neither.
SIR ANDREW
Neither would I.
Enter MARIA
MARIA enters.

FABIAN
Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
FABIAN
Here she comes, the brilliant fool-catcher.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?
SIR TOBY BELCH
May I kiss your feet?

SIR ANDREW
Or o' mine either?
SIR ANDREW
And I too?

SIR TOBY BELCH
Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy bondslave?
SIR TOBY BELCH
Shall I be your slave?

SIR ANDREW
I' faith, or I either?
SIR ANDREW
Me too.

SIR TOBY BELCH
Why, thou hast put him in such a dream that when the image of it leaves him he must run mad.
SIR TOBY BELCH
You’ve made him so delusional he’ll go crazy when he learns the truth.

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