No Fear Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
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Act 2, Scene 3, Page 4
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SIR ANDREW
'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me
“knave.” Begin, Fool. It begins “Hold thy peace.”
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SIR ANDREW
It won’t be the first time someone was forced to call me that. You start, Fool. It starts, “Shut up.”
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FOOL
I shall never begin if I hold my peace.
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FOOL
I’ll never be able to start if I shut up.
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SIR ANDREW
Good, i' faith. Come, begin.
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SIR ANDREW
That’s true. But come on, start.
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Enter MARIA
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MARIA enters. |
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MARIA
What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not
called up her steward Malvolio and bid him turn you out of
doors, never trust me.
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MARIA
You’re making a terrible racket out here! Lady Olivia told her servant Malvolio to kick you out of the house. I swear it’s true.
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SIR TOBY BELCH
My lady’s a Cataian. We are politicians, Malvolio’s a Peg-
a-Ramsey, and (sings) Three merry men be we.—Am not I
consanguineous? Am I not of her blood? Tillyvally!
“Lady”! (sings) There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!
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SIR TOBY BELCH
Lady Olivia can go to China for all I care. We’re very smart guys, and Malvolio’s Little Bo Peep. (he sings) We’re just having some fun.—Aren’t I her relative, after all? Aren’t we related? Fiddle-dee-dee, “Lady!” (singing) There lived a man in Babylon, lady, lady!
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FOOL
Beshrew me, the knight’s in admirable fooling.
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FOOL
Gosh, the knight’s very good at acting like a fool.
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SIR ANDREW
Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do I too.
He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural.
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SIR ANDREW
Yes, he’s good at it when he’s in the mood, and so am I. He’s practiced more, but it comes more naturally to me.
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SIR TOBY BELCH
(sings) O' the twelfth day of December—
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SIR TOBY BELCH
(he sings) On the twelfth day of December—
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MARIA
For the love o' God, peace!
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MARIA
For God’s sake, shut up!
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Enter MALVOLIO
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MALVOLIO enters. |
