Page 524 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

SIR ANDREW

And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria.

SIR TOBY
Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before
’em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall’s picture? Why dost thou
[120] not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very

walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-
pace. What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by
the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was [125] formed under the star of a
galliard.

SIR ANDREW
Ay, ’tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a damned coloured stock. Shall

we set about some revels?

SIR TOBY
What shall we do else? were we not born under [130] Taurus?

SIR ANDREW
Taurus? That’s sides and heart.

SIR TOBY
No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee caper. Ha, higher! Ha, ha,
excellent!

Exeunt.

Scene IV IT

The Palace

Enter Valentine, and Viola in man’s attire.

VALENTINE
If the Duke continue these favours towards you, Cesario, you are like to be

much advanced: he hath known you but three days, and already you are no
stranger.