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SEBASTIAN

What relish is in this? How runs the stream?
Or I am mad, or else this is a dream: [60]
Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;

If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!

OLIVIA

Nay, come, I prithee; would thou’dst be rul’d by me!

SEBASTIAN
Madam, I will.

OLIVIA
O, say so, and so be. [65]
Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Olivia’s House

Enter Maria and Clown.

MARIA
Nay, I prithee put on this gown, and this beard; make him believe thou art Sir
Topas the curate; do it quickly. I’ll call Sir Toby the whilst.
(Exit.)

CLOWN
Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in’t, and I would I were the first

that ever dissembled in [5] such a gown. I am not tall enough to become the
function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student; but to be said
an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a careful

man and a great scholar. The competitors enter. [10]

Enter Sir Toby (and Maria).

SIR TOBY