Page 533 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one [125] draught above heat
makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him.

OLIVIA
Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o’ my coz: for he’s in the third
degree of drink; he’s drowned. Go look after him. [130]

CLOWN
He is but mad yet, madonna, and the fool shall look to the madman.

(Exit.)

Enter Malvolio.

MALVOLIO
Madam, yond young fellow swears he will speak with you. I told him you
were sick; he takes on him to understand so much, and therefore comes to
[135] speak with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a

foreknowledge of that too, and therefore comes to speak with you. What is to
be said to him, lady? He’s fortified against any denial.

OLIVIA
Tell him, he shall not speak with me. [140]

MALVOLIO
Has been told so: and he says he’ll stand at your door like a sheriff’s post,
and be the supporter to a bench, but he’ll speak with you.

OLIVIA

What kind o’ man is he?

MALVOLIO

Why, of mankind. [145]

OLIVIA
What manner of man?

MALVOLIO