Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase; First told me thou wast mad: then cam'st in smiling, Of thine own cause. Fab. Good madam, hear me speak; And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come, Which I have wondered at. In hope it shall not, 1 Inferior. 3 Practice is a deceit, an insidious stratagem. 2 Fool. 4 Importunacy. Oli. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled' thee! Clo. Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. I was one, sir, in this interlude; one Sir Topas, sir; but that's all one:-By the Lord, fool, I am not mad.But do you remember? Madam, why laugh you at such a barren rascal? An you smile not, he's gagged: And thus the whirligig of Time brings in his revenges. Mal. I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you. [Exit. Oli. He hath been most notoriously abused. He hath not told us of the captain yet; When that is known, and golden time convents,2 Of our dear souls.-Mean time, sweet sister, [Exeunt. SONG. Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy, A foolish thing was but a toy, For the rain it raineth every day But when I came to man's estate, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, For the rain it raineth every day. But when I came, alas! to wive, 1 Cheated. 2 i. e. Shall serve, agree, be convenient. TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL. [ACT V. But when I came unto my bed, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, A great while ago the world begun, But that's all one, our play is done, [Exit. THIS play is in the graver part elegant and easy, and in some of the lighter scenes exquisitely humorous. Ague-cheek is drawn with great propriety, but his character is, in a great measure, that of natural fatuity, and is therefore not the proper prey of a satirist. The soliloquy of Malvolio is truly comic; he is betrayed to ridicule merely by his pride. The marriage of Olivia, and the succeeding perplexity, though well enough contrived to divert on the stage, wants credibility, and fails to produce the proper instruction required in the drama, as it exhibits no just picture of life. JOHNSON. |