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Jove, I thank thee! I will smile. I will do everything that
thou wilt have me.
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Dear God, thank you! I’ll do everything she wants me to do.
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Exit
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MALVOLIO exits.
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FABIAN
165I will not give my part of this sport for a pension of
thousands to be paid from the Sophy.
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FABIAN I wouldn’t have missed this even for a pension of thousands of pounds, to be paid by the shah of Persia.
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SIR TOBY BELCH I could marry this wench for this device.
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SIR TOBY BELCH I could marry that Maria for thinking this up.
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SIR ANDREW So could I too.
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SIR ANDREW So could I.
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SIR TOBY BELCH And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.
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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
170Nor I neither.
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SIR ANDREW Neither would I.
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Enter MARIA
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MARIA enters.
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FABIAN Here comes my noble gull-catcher.
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FABIAN Here she comes, the brilliant fool-catcher.
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SIR TOBY BELCH Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?
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SIR TOBY BELCH May I kiss your feet?
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SIR ANDREW Or o' mine either?
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SIR ANDREW And I too?
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SIR TOBY BELCH Shall I play my freedom at tray-trip, and become thy
bondslave?
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SIR TOBY BELCH Shall I be your slave?
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SIR ANDREW I' faith, or I either?
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SIR ANDREW Me too.
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SIR TOBY BELCH Why, thou hast put him in such a dream that when the
image of it leaves him he must run mad.
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SIR TOBY BELCH You’ve made him so delusional he’ll go crazy when he learns the truth.
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