Act 3, Scene 1

Question 1

Vio:

Art thou a churchman?

Answer 1

No such matter, sir: I do live by the church ; for I do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.

Question 2

Vio:

…the church stands by thy tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church.

Answer 2

You have said, sir. To see this age! A sentence is a cheveril glove to a good wit: how quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!

Question 3

Vio:

…nicely with words may quickly make them wanton.

Answer 3

I would, therefore, my sister had had no name sir.

Question 4

Vio:

Why, man?

Answer 4

Why, sir, her name’s a word; and to dally with that word might make my sister wanton. But indeed words are very rascals since bonds disgraced them.

Question 5

Vio:

Thy reason, man?

Answer 5

Troth, sir, I can yield you have non without words; and words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.

Question 6

Vio:

I warrant thou art a merry fellow and carest for nothing.

Answer 6

Not so, sir, I do care for something; but in my conscience sir, I do not care for you: if that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible.

Question 7

Vio:

Art not thou Lady Olivia’s fool?

Answer 7

No, indeed, sir, the Lady Olivia has no folly: she will keep no fool sir, till she be married; and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings; the husbands the bigger: I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words.

Question 8

Vio:

I saw thee late at Count Orsino’s.

Answer 8

Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines everywhere. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as off with your master as with my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there.

Question 9

Vio:

Nay, an thou pass upon me… Hold there’s expenses for thee.

Answer 9

Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard!

Question 10

Vio:

Is thy lady within’?

Answer 10

Would not a pair of these have bred, sir?

Question 11

Vio:

Yes being kept together and put to use.

Answer 11

I would play Lord Pandarus of Phrygia, sir, to bring Cressida to this Troilus.

Question 12

Vio:

… Sir, ‘this well begged.

Answer 12

This matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar: Cressida was a beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will construe them whence you come; who you are and what you would are out of my welkin, I might say “element” but the word is over-worn.

Question 13

Vio:

Dost thou live by the tabour?

Answer 13

No sir, I live by the church.