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Sweet sir Andrew
Toby belch
Bless you, fair shrew
Accost sir Andrew, accost.
Toby belch
What’s that?
My niece’s chambermaid
Toby belch
Good mistress accost, I desire better acquaintance.
My name is Mary, sir.
Maria
Good mistress Mary accost,-
You mistake, knight; accost is front her, board her, woo her, assail her.
Toby belch
By my troth, I would not undertake her in this company. Is that meaning of accost?
An thou let part so, sir Andrew, would thou mightst never draw sword again.
Toby belch
An you part so, mistress, I would I might never draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have fools in hand?
Sir, I have not you by the hand
Maria
Marry, but you shall have; and here’s my hand
Now sir, thought is free, I pray you, bring your hand to the buttery bar and let it drink
Maria
Wherefore, sweet heart? What’s your metaphor?
It’s dry, sir
Maria
Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can keep my hand dry. But what’s your jest?
A dry jest sir
Maria
Are you full of them?
I knight thou jackets a cup of canary: when did I see thee so put down
Toby belch
Never in your life, I think; unless you see canary put me down. Methinks sometimes j have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has: but I am a great waste of need and j believe that does harm to my wit
No question
Toby belch
An I thought that, I’ld forswear it. I’ll ride home tomorrow, sir Toby.
Porquoi, my dear knight?
Toby belch
What is porquoi? Do or do not do? I would I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have in fencing, dancing and bear baiting: o, had I but followed the arts.
Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.
Toby belch
Why, would that have mended my hair?
Past question; for thou sweat it will not curl by nature.
Toby belch
But it becomes me well enough, does’t not?
Excellent; it hangs like flax in a distaff; and j hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs and spin it off.
Toby belch
Faith, I’ll home tomorrow, sir Toby: your niece will not be seen; or if she be, it’s four to one shell none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.
… I have heard her swear’t. Tut, there’s life in’t, man.
Toby belch
I’ll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o’ the strangest mind I’ the world; I delight in masques and revels sometimes altogether.
Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?
Toby belch
As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare with an old man.
What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
Toby belch
Faith, I can cut a caper.
And I can cut the mutton to’t
Toby belch
And I think I have the back trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria.
… It was formed under the star of a galliard
Toby belch
Ay’ tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a flame colored stock. Shall we set about some revels?
What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?
Toby belch
Taurus! That sides and heart.
(Singing)…then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, youths a stuff will not endure
Clown
A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight
A contagious breath
Toby belch
Very sweet and contagious, I’ faith
…three souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that?
Tony belch
An you love me, let’s do’t: I am dog at a catch
By’r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.
Clown
Moser rain. Let out catch be, thou knave.
Hold thy piece, thou knave, knight? I shall be constrained in’t to call thee knave, knight.
Clown
Tis not the first time I have constrained one to call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins “hold thy piece”.
I shall never begin if I hold my piece.
Clown
Good, I’ faith. Come, begin.
Besides me, the knights in admirable fooling.
Clown
At, 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.
Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of Puritan.
Maria
O, if I thought that i’ld beat him like a dog.
What, for being a Puritan? Thy exquisite reason, dear knight?
Toby belch
I have no exquisite reason for’t, but I have reason good enough.