Scene
5: Twelfth Night
SIR TOBY
O knight, thou lackest a cup of canary. When
did I see thee so put down?
SIR ANDREW
Never in your life, I think, unless you see
canary put me down. Methinks sometimes I have no
more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has;
but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does
harm to my wit.
SIR TOBY
No question.
SIR ANDREW
An I thought that, I'd forswear it. I'll ride
home tomorrow, Sir Toby.
SIR TOBY
Pourquoi, my dear knight?
SIR ANDREW
What is "Pourquoi"? Do, or not do? I would
I had bestowed that time in the tongues that I have
in fencing, dancing, and bear-baiting. I am a fellow o' th'
strangest mind i' th' world. I delight in masques and
revels sometimes altogether. O, had I but
followed the arts!
SIR TOBY
Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?
SIR ANDREW
As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be,
under the degree of my betters; and yet I will not
compare with an old man.
SIR TOBY
What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?
SIR ANDREW
Faith, I can cut a caper.
SIR TOBY
And I can cut the mutton to 't.
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? Why dost thou 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 cinquepace. What dost thou mean?
Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think by the
excellent constitution of thy leg it was formed under
the star of a galliard.
SIR ANDREW
Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well
in a divers-coloured stock. Shall we set about some
revels?
SIR TOBY
What shall we do else? Were we not born under
Taurus?
SIR ANDREW
Taurus? That's sides and heart.
SIR TOBY
No, sir, it is legs and thighs: let me see thee
caper.
Sir Andrew capers.
Ha, higher! Ha ha, excellent.
Exit Sir Toby and Sir Andrew as Longaville, Ferdinand and Biron
enter.
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