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Enter SEBASTIAN and FOOL
SEBASTIAN and the FOOL enter.
 FOOL
  Will you make me believe that I am not sent for you?
FOOL
Are you trying to tell me that I wasn't sent to get you?
 SEBASTIAN
  Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow. Let me be clear of
  thee.
SEBASTIAN
Oh, who cares, you're acting like a fool. Leave me alone.
 FOOL
  Well held out, i' faith. No, I do not know you, nor I am not
5 sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her, nor
  your name is not Master Cesario, nor this is not my nose
  neither. Nothing that is so is so.
FOOL
Good for you, holding out on me like this! No, I don't know you, and my lady didn't send me to get you, and I'm not supposed to tell you to come speak with her, and your name is not Master Cesario, and this is not my nose, either. Nothing is what it is.
 SEBASTIAN
  I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else. Thou know'st not
  me.
SEBASTIAN
Oh please, go somewhere else to blab your nonsense. You don't know me.
 FOOL
10 Vent my folly? He has heard that word of some great man
  and now applies it to a fool. Vent my folly! I am afraid this
  great lubber, the world, will prove a cockney. I prithee now,
  ungird thy strangeness and tell me what I shall vent to my
  lady. Shall I vent to her that thou art coming?
FOOL
Blab my nonsense? He must've heard that phrase describing some great man and now he's using it on a jester. Blab my nonsense! What an idiotic place this world is. Now please stop being so strange and tell me what exactly I should blab to my lady. Should I blab to her that you're coming?
 SEBASTIAN
15 I prithee, foolish Greek, depart from me. There's money for
  thee. (giving money) If you tarry longer, I shall give worse
  payment.
SEBASTIAN
Please, fool, go away. Here's money for you. (giving him money) If you stay any longer, I'll give you something worse.
 FOOL
  By my troth, thou hast an open hand. These wise men that
  give fools money get themselves a good report—after
20 fourteen years' purchase.
FOOL
Well, well. You're a generous man. Wise men who give fools money might get a good reputation—if they keep up regular payments for fourteen years.

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