Page 608 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

MALVOLIO

Fool! [75]

CLOWN
Alas, why is she so?

MALVOLIO
Fool, I say!

CLOWN
She loves another− Who calls, ha?

MALVOLIO
Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle,

and pen, ink, and [80] paper: as I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful
to thee for’t.

CLOWN
Master Malvolio?

MALVOLIO
Ay, good fool.

CLOWN
Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits? [85]

MALVOLIO
Fool, there was never man so notoriously abused: I am as well in my wits,
fool, as thou art.

CLOWN

But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a
fool.

MALVOLIO
They have here propertied me: keep me in [90] darkness, send ministers to
me, asses, and do all they can to face me out of my wits.