第21章 OLIVIA'S garden(2)

Enter SIR ANDREW FABIAN.More matter for a May morning.AGUECHEEK.Here's the challenge; read it.I warrant there's vinegar and pepper in't.FABIAN.Is't so saucy? AGUECHEEK.Ay, is't, I warrant him; do but read.SIR TOBY.Give me.[Reads] 'Youth, whatsoever thou art, thou art but a scurvy fellow.' FABIAN.Good and valiant.SIR TOBY.[Reads] 'Wonder not, nor admire not in thy mind, why I do call thee so, for I will show thee no reason for't.' FABIAN.A good note; that keeps you from the blow of the law.SIR TOBY.[Reads] 'Thou com'st to the Lady Olivia, and in my sight she uses thee kindly; but thou liest in thy throat; that is not the matter I challenge thee for.' FABIAN.Very brief, and to exceeding good sense- less.SIR TOBY.[Reads] 'I will waylay thee goinghome; where if it be thy chance to kill me'- FABIAN.Good.SIR TOBY.'Thou kill'st me like a rogue and a villain.' FABIAN.Still you keep o' th' windy side of the law.Good! SIR TOBY.[Reads] 'Fare thee well; and God have mercy upon one of our souls! He may have mercy upon mine; but my hope is better, and so look to thyself.Thy friend, as thou usest him, and thy sworn enemy, ANDREW AGUECHEEK.'

If this letter move him not, his legs cannot.I'll give't him.MARIA.You may have very fit occasion for't; he is now in some commerce with my lady, and will by and by depart.SIR TOBY.Go, Sir Andrew; scout me for him at the corner of the orchard, like a bum-baily; so soon as ever thou seest him, draw; and as thou draw'st, swear horrible; for it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twang'd off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earn'd him.Away.AGUECHEEK.Nay, let me alone for swearing.Exit SIR TOBY.Now will not I deliver his letter; for the behaviour of the young gentleman gives him out to be of good capacity and breeding; his employment between his lord and my niece confirms no less.Therefore this letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror in the youth: he will find it comes from a clodpole.But, sir, I will deliver his challenge by word of mouth, set upon Aguecheek notable report of valour, and drive the gentleman- as know his youth will aptly receive it- into a most hideous opinion of his rage, skill, fury, and impetuosity.This will so fright them both that they will kill one another by the look, like cockatrices.

Re-enter OLIVIA.With VIOLA

FABIAN.Here he comes with your niece; give them way till he take leave, and presently after him.SIR TOBY.I will meditate the while upon some horrid message for a challenge.Exeunt SIR TOBY, FABIAN, and MARIA OLIVIA.I have said too much unto a heart of stone, And laid mine honour too unchary out; There's something in me that reproves my fault; But such a headstrong potent fault it is That it but mocks reproof.VIOLA.With the same haviour that your passion bears Goes on my master's griefs.OLIVIA.Here, wear this jewel for me; 'tis my picture.Refuse it not; it hath no tongue to vex you.And I beseech you come again to-morrow.What shall you ask of me that I'll deny, That honour sav'd mayupon asking give? VIOLA.Nothing but this- your true love for my master.OLIVIA.How with mine honour may I give him that Which I have given to you? VIOLA.I will acquit you.OLIVIA.Well, come again to-morrow.Fare thee well; A fiend like thee might bear my soul to hell.ExitRe-enter SIR TOBY and SIR FABIAN