Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending

If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again! it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou,
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy
That it alone is high fantastical.

Will you go hunt, my lord?

What, Curio?

The hart.

Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.

Enter VALENTINEHow now! what news from her?

So please my lord, I might not be admitted;
But from her handmaid do return this answer:
The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this to season
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.

O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd
Her sweet perfections with one self king!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.

Exeunt

第一幕

    第一场 公爵府中一室

    公爵、丘里奥、众臣同上；乐工随侍。

    公爵 假如音乐是爱情的食粮， 那么奏下去吧；尽量地奏下去，好让爱情因过
饱噎塞而死。又奏起这个调子来了！它有一种渐渐消沉下去的节奏。啊！它经过我
的耳畔，就像微风吹拂一丛紫罗兰，发出轻柔的声音，一面把花香偷走，一面又把
花香分送。够了！别再奏下去了！它现在已经不像原来那样甜蜜了。爱情的精灵呀！
你是多么敏感而活泼；虽然你有海—样的容量，可是无论怎样高贵超越的事物，一
进了你的范围，便会在顷刻间失去了它的价值。爱情是这样充满了意象，在一切事
物中是最富于幻想的。

    丘里奥 殿下，您要不要去打猎？

    公爵 什么，丘里奥？

    丘里奥 去打鹿。

    公爵 啊， 一点不错，我的心就像是一头鹿。唉！当我第一眼瞧见奥丽维娅的
时候，我觉得好像空气给她澄清了。那时我就变成了一头鹿；从此我的情欲像凶暴
残酷的猎犬一样，永远追逐着我。

    凡伦丁上。

    公爵 怎样！她那边有什么消息？

    凡伦丁 启禀殿下， 他们不让我进去，只从她的侍女嘴里传来了这一个答复：
除非再过七个寒暑，就是青天也不能窥见她的全貌；她要像一个尼姑一样，蒙着面
幕而行，每天用辛酸的眼泪浇洒她的卧室：这一切都是为着纪念对于一个死去的哥
哥的爱，她要把对哥哥的爱永远活生生地保留在她悲伤的记忆里。

    公爵 唉！ 她有这么一颗优美的心，对于她的哥哥也会挚爱到这等地步。假如
爱神那枝有力的金箭把她心里一切其他的感情一齐射死；假如只有一个唯一的君王
占据着她的心肝头脑——这些尊严的御座，这些珍美的财宝——那时她将要怎样恋
爱着啊！给我引道到芬芳的花丛；相思在花荫下格外情浓。（同下。）

Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors

What country, friends, is this?

This is Illyria, lady.

And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?

It is perchance that you yourself were saved.

O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.

True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see.

For saying so, there's gold:
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?

Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.

Who governs here?

A noble duke, in nature as in name.

What is the name?

Orsino.

Orsino! I have heard my father name him:
He was a bachelor then.

And so is now, or was so very late;
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of,--
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.

What's she?

A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.

O that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is!

That were hard to compass;
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
No, not the duke's.

There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
For such disguise as haply shall become
The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:
Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:
It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing
And speak to him in many sorts of music
That will allow me very worth his service.
What else may hap to time I will commit;
Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.

Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:
When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.

I thank thee: lead me on.

Exeunt

第二场 海 滨

    薇奥拉、船长及水手等上。

    薇奥拉 朋友们，这儿是什么国土？

    船长 这儿是伊利里亚，姑娘。

    薇奥拉 我在伊利里亚干什么呢？ 我的哥哥已经到极乐世界里去了。也许他侥
幸没有淹死。水手们，你们以为怎样？


船长 您也是侥幸才保全了性命的。

    薇奥拉 唉，我的可怜的哥哥！但愿他也侥幸无恙！

    船长 不错， 姑娘，您可以用侥幸的希望来宽慰您自己。我告诉您，我们的船
撞破了之后，您和那几个跟您一同脱险的人紧攀着我们那只给风涛所颠摇的小船，
那时我瞧见您的哥哥很有急智地把他自己捆在一根浮在海面的桅樯上，勇敢和希望
教给了他这个计策；我见他像阿里翁①骑在海豚背上似的浮沉在波浪之间，直到我
的眼睛望不见他。

    薇奥拉 你的话使我很高兴， 请收下这点钱，聊表谢意。由于我自己脱险，使
我抱着他也能够同样脱险的希望；你的话更把我的希望证实了几分。你知道这国土
吗？

    船长 是的， 姑娘，很熟悉；因为我就是在离这儿不到三小时旅程的地方生长
的。

    薇奥拉 谁统治着这地方？

    船长 一位名实相符的高贵的公爵。

    薇奥拉 他叫什么名字？

    船长 奥西诺。

    薇奥拉 奥西诺！我曾经听见我父亲说起过他；那时他还没有娶亲。

    船长 现在他还是这样， 至少在最近我还不曾听见他娶亲的消息；因为只一个
月之前我从这儿出发，那时刚刚有一种新鲜的风传——您知道大人物的一举一动，
都会被一般人纷纷议论着的——说他在向美貌的奥丽维娅求爱。

    薇奥拉 她是谁呀？

    船长 她是一位品德高尚的姑娘； 她的父亲是位伯爵，约莫在一年前死去，把
她交给他的儿子，她的哥哥照顾，可是他不久又死了。他们说为了对于她哥哥的深
切的友爱，她已经发誓不再跟男人们在一起或是见他们的面。

    薇奥拉 唉！ 要是我能够侍候这位小姐，就可以不用在时机没有成熟之前泄露
我的身分了。

    船长 那很难办到， 因为她不肯接纳无论哪一种请求，就是公爵的请求她也是
拒绝的。

    薇奥拉 船长， 你瞧上去是个好人；虽然造物常常用一层美丽的墙来围蔽住内
中的污秽，但是我可以相信你的心地跟你的外表一样好。请你替我保守秘密，不要
把我的真相泄露出去，我以后会重谢你的；你得帮助我假扮起来，好让我达到我的
目的。我要去侍候这位公爵，你可以把我送给他作为一个净了身的传童；也许你会
得到些好处的，因为我会唱歌，用各种的音乐向他说话，使他重用我。

    以后有什么事以后再说；

    我会使计谋，你只须静默。

    船长 我便当哑巴，你去做近侍；

    倘多话挖去我的眼珠子。

    薇奥拉 谢谢你；领着我去吧。（同下。）

Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and MARIA

What a plague means my niece, to take the death of
her brother thus? I am sure care's an enemy to life.

By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'
nights: your cousin, my lady, takes great
exceptions to your ill hours.

Why, let her except, before excepted.

Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest
limits of order.

Confine! I'll confine myself no finer than I am:
these clothes are good enough to drink in; and so be
these boots too: an they be not, let them hang
themselves in their own straps.

That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard
my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish
knight that you brought in one night here to be her wooer.

Who, Sir Andrew Aguecheek?

Ay, he.

He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria.

What's that to the purpose?

Why, he has three thousand ducats a year.

Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats:
he's a very fool and a prodigal.

Fie, that you'll say so! he plays o' the
viol-de-gamboys, and speaks three or four languages
word for word without book, and hath all the good
gifts of nature.

He hath indeed, almost natural: for besides that
he's a fool, he's a great quarreller: and but that
he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he
hath in quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent
he would quickly have the gift of a grave.

By this hand, they are scoundrels and subtractors
that say so of him. Who are they?

They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly in your company.

With drinking healths to my niece: I'll drink to
her as long as there is a passage in my throat and
drink in Illyria: he's a coward and a coystrill
that will not drink to my niece till his brains turn
o' the toe like a parish-top. What, wench!
Castiliano vulgo! for here comes Sir Andrew Agueface.

Enter SIR ANDREW

Sir Toby Belch! how now, Sir Toby Belch!

Sweet Sir Andrew!

Bless you, fair shrew.

And you too, sir.

Accost, Sir Andrew, accost.

What's that?

My niece's chambermaid.

Good Mistress Accost, I desire better acquaintance.

My name is Mary, sir.

Good Mistress Mary Accost,--

You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board
her, woo her, assail her.

By my troth, I would not undertake her in this
company. Is that the meaning of 'accost'?

Fare you well, gentlemen.

An thou let part so, Sir Andrew, would thou mightst
never draw sword again.

An you part so, mistress, I would I might never
draw sword again. Fair lady, do you think you have
fools in hand?

Sir, I have not you by the hand.

Marry, but you shall have; and here's my hand.

Now, sir, 'thought is free:' I pray you, bring
your hand to the buttery-bar and let it drink.

Wherefore, sweet-heart? what's your metaphor?

It's dry, sir.

Why, I think so: I am not such an ass but I can
keep my hand dry. But what's your jest?

A dry jest, sir.

Are you full of them?

Ay, sir, I have them at my fingers' ends: marry,
now I let go your hand, I am barren.

Exit

O knight thou lackest a cup of canary: when did I
see thee so put down?

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.

No question.

An I thought that, I'ld forswear it. I'll ride home
to-morrow, Sir Toby.

Pourquoi, my dear knight?

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: O, had I but
followed the arts!

Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair.

Why, would that have mended my hair?

Past question; for thou seest it will not curl by nature.

But it becomes me well enough, does't not?

Excellent; it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I
hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs
and spin it off.

Faith, I'll home to-morrow, Sir Toby: your niece
will not be seen; or if she be, it's four to one
she'll none of me: the count himself here hard by woos her.

She'll none o' the count: she'll not match above
her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; I
have heard her swear't. Tut, there's life in't,
man.

I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the
strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques
and revels sometimes altogether.

Art thou good at these kickshawses, knight?

As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, under the
degree of my betters; and yet I will not compare
with an old man.

What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?

Faith, I can cut a caper.

And I can cut the mutton to't.

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

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 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 formed under the star of a galliard.

Ay, 'tis strong, and it does indifferent well in a
flame-coloured stock. Shall we set about some revels?

What shall we do else? were we not born under Taurus?

Taurus! That's sides and heart.

No, sir; it is legs and thighs. Let me see the
caper; ha! higher: ha, ha! excellent!

Exeunt

第三场 奥丽维娅宅中一室

    托比·培尔契爵士及玛利娅上。

    托比 我的侄女见什么鬼把她哥哥的死看得那么重？悲哀是要损寿的呢。

    玛利娅 真的， 托比老爷，您晚上得早点儿回来；您那侄小姐很反对您深夜不
归呢。

    托比 哼，让她去今天反对、明天反对，尽管反对下去吧。

    玛利娅 哦，但是您总得有个分寸，不要太失身分才是。

    托比 身分！ 我这身衣服难道不合身分吗？穿了这种衣服去喝酒，也很有身分
的了；还有这双靴子，要是它们不合身分，就叫它们在靴带上吊死了吧。

    玛利娅 您这样酗酒会作践了您自己的， 我昨天听见小姐说起过；她还说起您
有一晚带到这儿来向她求婚的那个傻骑士。

    托比 谁？安德鲁·艾古契克爵士吗？

    玛利娅 呢，就是他。

    托比 他在伊利里亚也算是一表人才了。

    玛利娅 那又有什么相干？

    托比 哼，他一年有三千块钱收入呢。

    玛利娅 哦， 可是一年之内就把这些钱全花光了。他是个大傻瓜，而且是个浪
子。

    托比 呸！ 你说出这种话来！他会拉低音提琴；他会不看书本讲三四国文字，
一个字都不模糊；他有很好的天分。

    玛利娅 是的， 傻子都是得天独厚的；因为他除了是个傻瓜之外，又是一个惯
会惹是招非的家伙；要是他没有懦夫的天分来缓和一下他那喜欢吵架的脾气，有见
识的人都以为他就会有棺材睡的。

    托比 我举手发誓， 这样说他的人，都是一批坏蛋，信口雌黄的东西。他们是
谁啊？

    玛利娅 他们又说您每夜跟他在一块儿喝酒。

    托比 我们都喝酒祝我的侄女健康呢。只要我的喉咙里有食道，伊利里亚有酒，
我便要为她举杯祝饮。谁要是不愿为我的侄女举杯祝饮，喝到像拙陀螺似的天旋地
转，他就是个不中用的汉子，是个卑鄙小人。嘿，丫头！放正经些！安德鲁·艾古
契克爵士来啦。

    安德鲁·艾古契克爵士上。

    安德鲁 托比·培尔契爵士！您好，托比·培尔契爵士！

    托比 亲爱的安德鲁爵士！

    安德鲁 您好，美貌的小泼妇！

    玛利娅 您好，大人。

    托比 寒暄几句，安德鲁爵士，寒暄几句。

    安德鲁 您说什么？

    托比 这是舍侄女的丫环。

    安德鲁 好寒萱姊姊，我希望咱们多多结识。

    玛利娅 我的名字是玛丽，大人。

    安德鲁 好玛丽·寒萱姊姊，——

    托比 你弄错了， 骑士；“寒暄几句”就是跑上去向她应酬一下，招呼一下，
客套一下，来一下的意思。

    安德鲁 嗳哟，当着这些人我可不能跟她打交道。“寒暄”就是这个意思吗？

    玛利娅 再见，先生们。

    托比 要是你让她这样走了，安德鲁爵士，你以后再不用充汉子了。

    安德鲁 要是你这样走了， 姑娘，我以后再不用充汉子了。好小姐，你以为你
手边是些傻瓜吗？

    玛利娅 大人，可是我还不曾跟您握手呢。

    安德鲁 那很好办，让我们握手。

    玛利娅 好了， 大人，思想是无拘无束的。请您把这只手带到卖酒的柜台那里
去，让它喝两盅吧。

    安德鲁 这怎么讲，好人儿？你在打什么比方？

    玛利娅 我是说它怪没劲的。

    安德鲁 是啊， 我也这样想。不管人家怎么说我蠢，应该好好保养两手的道理
我还懂得。可是你说的是什么笑话？

    玛利娅 没劲的笑话。

    安德鲁 你一肚子都是这种笑话吗？

    玛利娅 不错， 大人，满手里抓的也都是。得，现在我放开您的手了，我的笑
料也都吹了。（下。）

    托比 骑士啊！你应该喝杯酒儿。几时我见你这样给人愚弄过？

    安德鲁 我想你从来没有见过； 除非你见我给酒弄昏了头。有时我觉得我跟一
般基督徒和平常人一样笨；可是我是个吃牛肉的老饕，我相信那对于我的聪明很有
妨害。

    托比 一定一定。

    安德鲁 要是我真那样想的话， 以后我得戒了。托比爵士，明天我要骑马回家
去了。

    托比 Pourquoi②，我的亲爱的骑士？

    安德鲁 什么叫Pourquoi？ 好还是不好？我理该把我花在击剑、跳舞和耍熊上
面的工夫学几种外国话的。唉！要是我读了文学多么好！

    托比 要是你花些工夫在你的鬈发钳③上头，你就可以有一头很好的头发了。

    安德鲁 怎么，那跟我的头发有什么关系？

    托比 很明白，因为你瞧你的头发不用些工夫上去是不会鬈曲起来的。

    安德鲁 可是我的头发不也已经够好看了吗？

    托比 好得很， 它披下来的样子就像纺杆上的麻线一样，我希望有哪位奶奶把
你夹在大腿里纺它一纺。

    安德鲁 真的， 我明天要回家去了，托比爵士。你侄女不肯接见我；即使接见
我，多半她也不会要我。这儿的公爵也向她求婚呢。

    托比 她不要什么公爵不公爵； 她不愿嫁给比她身分高、地位高、年龄高、智
慧高的人，我听见她这样发过誓。嘿，老兄，还有希望呢。

    安德鲁 我再耽搁一个月。 我是世上心思最古怪的人；我有时老是喜欢喝酒跳
舞。

    托比 这种玩意儿你很擅胜场的吗，骑士？

    安德鲁 可以比得过伊利里亚无论哪个不比我高明的人；可是我不愿跟老手比。

    托比 你跳舞的本领怎样？

    安德鲁 不骗你，我会旱地拔葱。

    托比 我会葱炒羊肉。

    安德鲁 讲到我的倒跳的本事，简直可以比得上伊利里亚的无论什么人。

    托比 为什么你要把这种本领藏匿起来呢？ 为什么这种天才要复上一块幕布？
难道它们也会沾上灰尘，像大姑娘的画像一样吗？为什么不跳着“加里阿”到教堂
里去，跳着“科兰多”一路回家？假如是我的话，我要走步路也是“捷格”舞，撒
泡尿也是五步舞呢。你是什么意思？这世界上是应该把才能隐藏起来的吗？照你那
双出色的好腿看来，我想它们是在一个跳舞的星光底下生下来的。

    安德鲁 哦， 我这双腿很有气力，穿了火黄色的袜子倒也十分漂亮。我们喝酒
去吧？

    托比 除了喝酒，咱们还有什么事好做？咱们的命宫不是金牛星吗？

    安德鲁 金牛星！金牛星管的是腰和心。

    托比 不，老兄，是腿和股。跳个舞给我看。哈哈！跳得高些！哈哈！好极了！
（同下。）

Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attire

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.

You either fear his humour or my negligence, that
you call in question the continuance of his love:
is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?

No, believe me.

I thank you. Here comes the count.

Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants

Who saw Cesario, ho?

On your attendance, my lord; here.

Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,
Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd
To thee the book even of my secret soul:
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.

Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.

Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds
Rather than make unprofited return.

Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?

O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio's of more grave aspect.

I think not so, my lord.

Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana's lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe
Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman's part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. Some four or five attend him;
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.

I'll do my best
To woo your lady:

Asideyet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.

Exeunt

第四场 公爵府中一室

    凡伦丁及薇奥拉男装上。

    凡伦丁 要是公爵继续这样宠幸你， 西萨里奥，你多半就要高升起来了；他认
识你还只有三天，你就跟他这样熟了。

    薇奥拉 看来你不是怕他的心性捉摸不定， 就是怕我会玩忽职守，所以你才怀
疑他会不会继续这样宠幸我。先生，他待人是不是有始无终的？

    凡伦丁 不，相信我。

    薇奥拉 谢谢你。公爵来了。

    公爵，丘里奥及侍从等上。

    公爵 喂！有谁看见西萨里奥吗？

    薇奥拉 在这儿，殿下，听候您的吩咐。

    公爵 你们暂时走开些。 西萨里奥，你已经知道了一切，我已经把我秘密的内
心中的书册向你展示过了；因此，好孩子，到她那边去，别让他们把你摈之门外，
站在她的门口，对他们说，你要站到脚底下生了根，直等她把你延见为止。

    薇奥拉 殿下， 要是她真像人家所说的那样沉浸在悲哀里，她一定不会允许我
进去的。

    公爵 你可以跟他们吵闹， 不用顾虑一切礼貌的界限，但一定不要毫无结果而
归。

    薇奥拉 假定我能够和她见面谈话了，殿下，那么又怎样呢？

    公爵 噢！ 那么就向她宣布我的恋爱的热情，把我的一片挚诚说给她听，让她
吃惊。你表演起我的伤心来一定很出色，你这样的青年一定比那些面孔板板的使者
们更能引起她的注意。

    薇奥拉 我想不见得吧，殿下。

    公爵 好孩子， 相信我的话；因为像你这样的妙龄，还不能算是个成人：狄安
娜的嘴唇也不比你的更柔滑而红润；你的娇细的喉咙像处女一样尖锐而清朗；在各
方面你都像个女人。我知道你的性格很容易对付这件事情。四五个人陪着他去；要
是你们愿意，就全去也好；因为我欢喜孤寂。你倘能成功，那么你主人的财产你也
可以有份。

    薇奥拉 我愿意尽力去向您的爱人求婚。（旁白）

    唉，怨只怨多阻碍的前程！

    但我一定要做他的夫人。（各下。）

Enter MARIA and Clown

Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will
not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter in
way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy absence.

Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this
world needs to fear no colours.

Make that good.

He shall see none to fear.

A good lenten answer: I can tell thee where that
saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.'

Where, good Mistress Mary?

In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in your foolery.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those
that are fools, let them use their talents.

Yet you will be hanged for being so long absent; or,
to be turned away, is not that as good as a hanging to you?

Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; and,
for turning away, let summer bear it out.

You are resolute, then?

Not so, neither; but I am resolved on two points.

That if one break, the other will hold; or, if both
break, your gaskins fall.

Apt, in good faith; very apt. Well, go thy way; if
Sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as witty a
piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.

Peace, you rogue, no more o' that. Here comes my
lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best.

Exit

Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling!
Those wits, that think they have thee, do very oft
prove fools; and I, that am sure I lack thee, may
pass for a wise man: for what says Quinapalus?
'Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.'

Enter OLIVIA with MALVOLIOGod bless thee, lady!

Take the fool away.

Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady.

Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you:
besides, you grow dishonest.

Two faults, madonna, that drink and good counsel
will amend: for give the dry fool drink, then is
the fool not dry: bid the dishonest man mend
himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if
he cannot, let the botcher mend him. Any thing
that's mended is but patched: virtue that
transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that
amends is but patched with virtue. If that this
simple syllogism will serve, so; if it will not,
what remedy? As there is no true cuckold but
calamity, so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take
away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her away.

Sir, I bade them take away you.

Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus non
facit monachum; that's as much to say as I wear not
motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to
prove you a fool.

Can you do it?

Dexterously, good madonna.

Make your proof.

I must catechise you for it, madonna: good my mouse
of virtue, answer me.

Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your proof.

Good madonna, why mournest thou?

Good fool, for my brother's death.

I think his soul is in hell, madonna.

I know his soul is in heaven, fool.

The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother's
soul being in heaven. Take away the fool, gentlemen.

What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he not mend?

Yes, and shall do till the pangs of death shake him:
infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the
better fool.

God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the
better increasing your folly! Sir Toby will be
sworn that I am no fox; but he will not pass his
word for two pence that you are no fool.

How say you to that, Malvolio?

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a
barren rascal: I saw him put down the other day
with an ordinary fool that has no more brain
than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard
already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to
him, he is gagged. I protest, I take these wise men,
that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better
than the fools' zanies.

Oh, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste
with a distempered appetite. To be generous,
guiltless and of free disposition, is to take those
things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets:
there is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do
nothing but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet
man, though he do nothing but reprove.

Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou
speakest well of fools!

Re-enter MARIA

Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman much
desires to speak with you.

From the Count Orsino, is it?

I know not, madam: 'tis a fair young man, and well attended.

Who of my people hold him in delay?

Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman.

Fetch him off, I pray you; he speaks nothing but
madman: fie on him!

Exit MARIAGo you, Malvolio: if it be a suit from the count, I
am sick, or not at home; what you will, to dismiss it.

Exit MALVOLIONow you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and
people dislike it.

Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldest
son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with
brains! for,--here he comes,--one of thy kin has a
most weak pia mater.

Enter SIR TOBY BELCH

By mine honour, half drunk. What is he at the gate, cousin?

A gentleman.

A gentleman! what gentleman?

'Tis a gentle man here--a plague o' these
pickle-herring! How now, sot!

Good Sir Toby!

Cousin, cousin, how have you come so early by this lethargy?

Lechery! I defy lechery. There's one at the gate.

Ay, marry, what is he?

Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: give
me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.

Exit

What's a drunken man like, fool?

Like a drowned man, a fool and a mad man: one
draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads
him; and a third drowns him.

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.

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

Exit
Re-enter 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 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.

Tell him he shall not speak with me.

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.

What kind o' man is he?

Why, of mankind.

What manner of man?

Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you or no.

Of what personage and years is he?

Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for
a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peascod, or a
cooling when 'tis almost an apple: 'tis with him
in standing water, between boy and man. He is very
well-favoured and he speaks very shrewishly; one
would think his mother's milk were scarce out of him.

Let him approach: call in my gentlewoman.

Gentlewoman, my lady calls.

Exit
Re-enter MARIA

Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face.
We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.

Enter VIOLA, and Attendants

The honourable lady of the house, which is she?

Speak to me; I shall answer for her.
Your will?

Most radiant, exquisite and unmatchable beauty,--I
pray you, tell me if this be the lady of the house,
for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast away
my speech, for besides that it is excellently well
penned, I have taken great pains to con it. Good
beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very
comptible, even to the least sinister usage.

Whence came you, sir?

I can say little more than I have studied, and that
question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give me
modest assurance if you be the lady of the house,
that I may proceed in my speech.

Are you a comedian?

No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very fangs
of malice I swear, I am not that I play. Are you
the lady of the house?

If I do not usurp myself, I am.

Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp
yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours
to reserve. But this is from my commission: I will
on with my speech in your praise, and then show you
the heart of my message.

Come to what is important in't: I forgive you the praise.

Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis poetical.

It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you,
keep it in. I heard you were saucy at my gates,
and allowed your approach rather to wonder at you
than to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if
you have reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of
moon with me to make one in so skipping a dialogue.

Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way.

No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little
longer. Some mollification for your giant, sweet
lady. Tell me your mind: I am a messenger.

Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, when
the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.

It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture of
war, no taxation of homage: I hold the olive in my
hand; my words are as fun of peace as matter.

Yet you began rudely. What are you? what would you?

The rudeness that hath appeared in me have I
learned from my entertainment. What I am, and what I
would, are as secret as maidenhead; to your ears,
divinity, to any other's, profanation.

Give us the place alone: we will hear this divinity.

Exeunt MARIA and AttendantsNow, sir, what is your text?

Most sweet lady,--

A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said of it.
Where lies your text?

In Orsino's bosom.

In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom?

To answer by the method, in the first of his heart.

O, I have read it: it is heresy. Have you no more to say?

Good madam, let me see your face.

Have you any commission from your lord to negotiate
with my face? You are now out of your text: but
we will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
Look you, sir, such a one I was this present: is't
not well done?

Unveiling

Excellently done, if God did all.

'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and weather.

'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on:
Lady, you are the cruell'st she alive,
If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.

O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give
out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be
inventoried, and every particle and utensil
labelled to my will: as, item, two lips,
indifferent red; item, two grey eyes, with lids to
them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were
you sent hither to praise me?

I see you what you are, you are too proud;
But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
My lord and master loves you: O, such love
Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd
The nonpareil of beauty!

How does he love me?

With adorations, fertile tears,
With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.

Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him:
Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth;
In voices well divulged, free, learn'd and valiant;
And in dimension and the shape of nature
A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;
He might have took his answer long ago.

If I did love you in my master's flame,
With such a suffering, such a deadly life,
In your denial I would find no sense;
I would not understand it.

Why, what would you?

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Halloo your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, You should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me!

You might do much.
What is your parentage?

Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.

Get you to your lord;
I cannot love him: let him send no more;
Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:
I thank you for your pains: spend this for me.

I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse:
My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
Love make his heart of flint that you shall love;
And let your fervor, like my master's, be
Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty.

Exit

'What is your parentage?'
'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well:
I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art;
Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions and spirit,
Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast:
soft, soft!
Unless the master were the man. How now!
Even so quickly may one catch the plague?
Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
With an invisible and subtle stealth
To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.
What ho, Malvolio!

Re-enter MALVOLIO

Here, madam, at your service.

Run after that same peevish messenger,
The county's man: he left this ring behind him,
Would I or not: tell him I'll none of it.
Desire him not to flatter with his lord,
Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him:
If that the youth will come this way to-morrow,
I'll give him reasons for't: hie thee, Malvolio.

Madam, I will.

Exit

I do I know not what, and fear to find
Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
Fate, show thy force: ourselves we do not owe;
What is decreed must be, and be this so.

Exit

第五场 奥丽维娅宅中一室

    玛利娅及小丑上。

    玛利娅 不， 你要是不告诉我你到哪里去来，我便把我的嘴唇抿得紧紧的，连
一根毛发也钻不进去，不替你说句好话。小姐因为你不在，要吊死你呢。

    小丑 让她吊死我吧；好好地吊死的人，在这世上可以不怕敌人。

    玛利娅 把你的话解释解释。

    小丑 因为他看不见敌人了。

    玛利娅 好一句无聊的回答。让我告诉你“不怕敌人”这句话夜是怎么来的吧。

    小丑 怎么来的，玛利娅姑娘？

    玛利娅 是从打仗里来的；下回你再撒赖的时候，就可以放开胆子这样说。

    小丑 好吧，上帝给聪明与聪明人；至于傻子们呢，那只好靠他们的本事了。

    玛利娅 可是你这么久在外边鬼混，小姐一定要把你吊死的，否则把你赶出去，
那不是跟把你吊死一样好吗？

    小丑 好好地吊死常常可以防止坏的婚姻； 至于赶出去，那在夏天倒还没甚要
紧。

    玛利娅 那么你已经下了决心了吗？

    小丑 不，没有；可是我决定了两端。

    玛利娅 假如一端断了，一端还连着；假如两端都断了，你的裤子也落下来了。

    小丑 妙， 真的很妙。好，去你的吧；要是托比老爷戒了酒，你在伊利里亚的
雌儿中间也好算是个门当户对的调皮角色了。

    玛利娅 闭嘴，你这坏蛋，别胡说了。小姐来啦，你还是好好地想出个推托来。
（下。）

    小丑 才情呀， 请你帮我好好地装一下傻瓜！那些自负才情的人，实际上往往
是些傻瓜；我知道我自己没有才情，因此也许可以算做聪明人。昆那拍勒斯④怎么
说的？“与其做愚蠢的智人，不如做聪明的愚人。”

    奥丽维娅偕马伏里奥上。

    小丑 上帝祝福你，小姐！

    奥丽维娅 把这傻子撵出去！

    小丑 喂，你们不听见吗？把这位小姐撵出去。

    奥丽维娅 算了吧！ 你是个干燥无味的傻子，我不要再看见你了；而且你已经
变得不老实起来了。

    小丑 我的小姐， 这两个毛病用酒和忠告都可以治好。只要给干燥无味的傻子
一点酒喝，他就不干燥了。只要劝不老实的人洗心革面，弥补他从前的过失：假如
他能够弥补的话，他就不再不老实了；假如他不能弥补，那么叫裁缝把他补一补也
就得了。弥补者，弥而补之也：道德的失足无非补上了一块罪恶；罪恶悔改之后，
也无非补上了一块道德。假如这种简单的论理可以通得过去，很好；假如通不过去，
还有什么办法？当忘八是一件倒霉的事，美人好比鲜花，这都是无可怀疑的。小姐
吩咐把傻子撵出去；因此我再说一句，把她撵出去吧。

    奥丽维娅 尊驾，我吩咐他们把你撵出去呢。

    小丑 这就是大错而特错了！ 小姐，“戴了和尚帽，不定是和尚”；那就好比
是说，我身上虽然穿着愚人的彩衣，可是我并不一定连头脑里也穿着它呀。我的好
小姐，准许我证明您是个傻子。

    奥丽维娅 你能吗？

    小丑 再便当也没有了，我的好小姐。

    奥丽维娅 那么证明一下看。

    小丑 小姐，我必须把您盘问；我的贤淑的小乖乖，回答我。

    奥丽维娅 好吧，先生，为了没有别的消遣，我就等候着你的证明吧。

    小丑 我的好小姐，你为什么悲伤？

    奥丽维娅 好傻子，为了我哥哥的死。

    小丑 小姐，我想他的灵魂是在地狱里。

    奥丽维娅 傻子，我知道他的灵魂是在天上。

    小丑 这就越显得你的傻了， 我的小姐；你哥哥的灵魂既然在天上，为什么要
悲伤呢？列位，把这傻子撵出去。

    奥丽维娅 马伏里奥，你以为这傻子怎样？是不是更有趣了？

    马伏里奥 是的， 而且会变得越来越有趣，一直到死。老弱会使聪明减退，可
是对于傻子却能使他变得格外傻起来。

    小丑 大爷， 上帝保佑您快快老弱起来，好让您格外傻得厉害！托比老爷可以
发誓说我不是狐狸，可是他不愿跟人家打赌两便士说您不是个傻子。

    奥丽维娅 你怎么说，马伏里奥？

    马伏里奥 我不懂您小姐怎么会喜欢这种没有头脑的混账东西。 前天我看见他
给一个像石头一样冥顽不灵的下等的傻子算计了去。您瞧，他已经毫无招架之功了；
要是您不笑笑给他一点题目，他便要无话可说。我说，听见这种傻子的话也会那么
高兴的聪明人们，都不过是些傻子们的应声虫罢了。

    奥丽维娅 啊！ 你是太自命不凡了，马伏里奥；你缺少一副健全的胃口。你认
为是炮弹的，在宽容慷慨、气度汪洋的人看来，不过是鸟箭。傻子有特许放肆的权
利，虽然他满口骂人，人家不会见怪于他；君子出言必有分量，虽然他老是指摘人
家的错处，也不能算为谩骂。

    小丑 麦鸠利赏给你说谎的本领吧，因为你给傻子说了好话！

    玛利娅重上。

    玛利娅 小姐，门口有一位年轻的先生很想见您说话。

    奥丽维娅 从奥西诺公爵那儿来的吧？

    玛利娅 我不知道，小姐；他是一位漂亮的青年，随从很盛。

    奥丽维娅 我家里有谁在跟他周旋呢？

    玛利娅 是令亲托比老爷，小姐。

    奥丽维娅 你去叫他走开； 他满口都是些疯话。不害羞的！（玛利娅下）马伏
里奥，你给我去；假若是公爵差来的，说我病了，或是不在家，随你怎样说，把他
打发走。（马伏里奥下）你瞧，先生，你的打诨已经陈腐起来，人家不喜欢了。

    小丑 我的小姐， 你帮我说话就像你的大儿子也会是个傻子一般；愿上帝在他
的头颅里塞满脑子吧！瞧你的那位有一副最不中用的头脑的令亲来了。

    托比·培尔契爵士上。

    奥丽维娅 哎哟，又已经半醉了。叔叔，门口是谁？

    托比 一个绅士。

    奥丽维娅 一个绅士！什么绅士？

    托比 有一个绅士在这儿——这种该死的咸鱼！怎样，蠢货！

    小丑 好托比爷爷！

    奥丽维娅 叔叔，叔叔，你怎么这么早就昏天黑地了？

    托比 声天色地！我打倒声天色地！有一个人在门口。

    小丑 是呀，他是谁呢？

    托比 让他是魔鬼也好， 我不管；我说，我心里耿耿三尺有神明。好，都是一
样。（下。）

    奥丽维娅 傻子，醉汉像个什么东西？

    小丑 像个溺死鬼，像个傻瓜，又像个疯子。多喝了一口就会把他变成个傻瓜；
再喝一口就发了疯；喝了第三口就把他溺死了。

    奥丽维娅 你去找个验尸的来吧， 让他来验验我的叔叔；因为他已经喝酒喝到
了第三个阶段，他已经溺死了。瞧瞧他去。

    小丑 他还不过是发疯呢，我的小姐；傻子该去照顾疯子。（下。）

    马伏里奥重上。

    马伏里奥 小姐，那个少年发誓说要见您说话。我对他说您有病；他说他知道，
因此要来见您说话。我对他说您睡了；他似乎也早已知道了，因此要来见您说话。
还有什么话好对他说呢，小姐？什么拒绝都挡他不了。

    奥丽维娅 对他说我不要见他说话。

    马伏里奥 这也已经对他说过了； 他说，他要像州官衙门前竖着的旗杆那样立
在您的门前不去，像凳子脚一样直挺挺地站着，非得见您说话不可。

    奥丽维娅 他是怎样一个人？

    马伏里奥 呃，就像一个人那么的。

    奥丽维娅 可是是什么样子的呢？

    马伏里奥 很无礼的样子；不管您愿不愿意，他一定要见您说话。

    奥丽维娅 他的相貌怎样？多大年纪？

    马伏里奥 说是个大人吧， 年纪还太轻；说是个孩子吧，又嫌大些：就像是一
颗没有成熟的豆荚，或是一只半生的苹果，又像大人又像小孩，所谓介乎两可之间。
他长得很漂亮，说话也很刁钻；看他的样子，似乎有些未脱乳臭。

    奥丽维娅 叫他进来。把我的侍女唤来。

    马伏里奥 姑娘，小姐叫着你呢。（下。）

    玛利娅重上。

    奥丽维娅 把我的面纱拿来； 来，罩住我的脸。我们要再听一次奥西诺来使的
说话。

    薇奥拉及侍从等上。

    薇奥拉 哪一位是这里府中的贵小姐？

    奥丽维娅 有什么话对我说吧；我可以代她答话。你来有什么见教？

    薇奥拉 最辉煌的、 卓越的、无双的美人！请您指示我这位是不是就是这里府
中的小姐，因为我没有见过她。我不大甘心浪掷我的言辞；因为它不但写得非常出
色，而且我费了好大的辛苦才把它背熟。两位美人，不要把我取笑；我是个非常敏
感的人，一点点轻侮都受不了的。

    奥丽维娅 你是从什么地方来的，先生？

    薇奥拉 除了我背熟了的以外， 我不能说别的话；您那问题是我所不曾预备作
答的。温柔的好人儿，好好儿地告诉我您是不是府里的小姐，好让我陈说我的来意。

    奥丽维娅 你是个唱戏的吗？

    薇奥拉 不， 我的深心的人儿；可是我敢当着最有恶意的敌人发誓，我并不是
我所扮演的角色。您是这府中的小姐吗？

    奥丽维娅 是的，要是我没有篡夺了我自己。

    薇奥拉 假如您就是她， 那么您的确是篡夺了您自己了；因为您有权力给与别
人的，您却没有权力把它藏匿起来。但是这种话跟我来此的使命无关；就要继续着
恭维您的言辞，然后告知您我的来意。

    奥丽维娅 把重要的话说出来；恭维免了吧。

    薇奥拉 唉！我好容易才把它背熟，而且它又是很有诗意的。

    奥丽维娅 那么多半是些鬼话， 请你留着不用说了吧。我听说你在我门口一味
挺撞；让你进来只是为要看看你究竟是个什么人，并不是要听你说话。要是你没有
发疯，那么去吧；要是你明白事理，那么说得简单一些：我现在没有那样心思去理
会一段没有意思的谈话。

    玛利娅 请你动身吧，先生；这儿便是你的路。

    薇奥拉 不， 好清道夫，我还要在这儿闲荡一会儿呢。亲爱的小姐，请您劝劝
您这位“彪形大汉”别那么神气活现。

    奥丽维娅 把你的尊意告诉我。

    薇奥拉 我是一个使者。

    奥丽维娅 你那种礼貌那么可怕， 你带来的信息一定是些坏事情。有什么话说
出来。

    薇奥拉 除了您之外不能让别人听见。 我不是来向您宣战，也不是来要求您臣
服；我手里握着橄榄枝，我的话里充满了和平，也充满了意义。

    奥丽维娅 可是你一开始就不讲礼。你是谁？你要的是什么？

    薇奥拉 我的不讲礼是我从你们对我的接待上学来的。 我是谁，我要些什么，
是个秘密；在您的耳中是神圣，别人听起来就是亵渎。

    奥丽维娅 你们都走开吧；我们要听一听这段神圣的话。（玛利娅及侍从等下）
现在，先生，请教你的经文？

    薇奥拉 最可爱的小姐——

    奥丽维娅 倒是一种叫人听了怪舒服的教理，可以大发议论呢。你的经文呢？

    薇奥拉 在奥西诺的心头。

    奥丽维娅 在他的心头！在他的心头的哪一章？

    薇奥拉 照目录上排起来，是他心头的第一章。

    奥丽维娅 噢！那我已经读过了，无非是些旁门左道。你没有别的话要说了吗？

    薇奥拉 好小姐，让我瞧瞧您的脸。

    奥丽维娅 贵主人有什么事要差你来跟我的脸接洽的吗？ 你现在岔开你的正文
了；可是我们不妨拉开幕儿，让你看看这幅图画。（揭除面幕）你瞧，先生，我就
是这个样子；它不是画得很好吗？

    薇奥拉 要是一切都出于上帝的手，那真是绝妙之笔。

    奥丽维娅 它的色彩很耐久，先生，受得起风霜的侵蚀。

    薇奥拉 那真是各种色彩精妙地调和而成的美貌； 那红红的白白的都是造化亲
自用他的可爱的巧手敷上去的。小姐，您是世上最忍心的女人，要是您甘心让这种
美埋没在坟墓里，不给世间留下一份副本。

    奥丽维娅 啊！ 先生，我不会那样狠心；我可以列下一张我的美貌的清单，一
一开陈清楚，把每一件细目都载在我的遗嘱上，例如：一款，浓淡适中的朱唇两片；
一款，灰色的倩眼一双，附眼睑；一款，玉颈一围，柔颐一个，等等。你是奉命到
这儿来恭维我的吗？

    薇奥拉 我明白您是个什么样的人了。 您太骄傲了；可是即使您是个魔鬼，您
是美貌的。我的主人爱着您；啊！这么一种爱情，即使您是人间的绝色，也应该酬
答他的。

    奥丽维娅 他怎样爱着我呢？

    薇奥拉 用崇拜，大量的眼泪，震响着爱情的呻吟，吞吐着烈火的叹息。

    奥丽维娅 你的主人知道我的意思， 我不能爱他；虽然我想他品格很高，知道
他很尊贵，很有身分，年轻而纯洁，有很好的名声，慷慨，博学，勇敢，长得又体
面；可是我总不能爱他，他老早就已经得到我的回音了。

    薇奥拉 要是我也像我主人一样热情地爱着您， 也是这样的受苦，这样了无生
趣地把生命拖延，我不会懂得您的拒绝是什么意思。

    奥丽维娅 啊，你预备怎样呢？

    薇奥拉 我要在您的门前用柳枝筑成一所小屋， 不时到府中访谒我的灵魂；我
要吟咏着被冷淡的忠诚的爱情的篇什，不顾夜多么深我要把它们高声歌唱，我要向
着回声的山崖呼喊您的名字，使饶舌的风都叫着“奥丽维娅”。啊！您在天地之间
将要得不到安静，除非您怜悯了我！

    奥丽维娅 你的口才倒是颇堪造就的。你的家世怎样？

    薇奥拉 超过于我目前的境遇，但我是个有身分的士人。

    奥丽维娅 回到你主人那里去； 我不能爱他，叫他不要再差人来了；除非或者
你再来见我，告诉我他对于我的答复觉得怎样。再会！多谢你的辛苦；这几个钱赏
给你。

    薇奥拉 我不是个要钱的信差， 小姐，留着您的钱吧；不曾得到报酬的，是我
的主人，不是我。但愿爱神使您所爱的人也是心如铁石，好让您的热情也跟我主人
的一样遭到轻蔑！再会，忍心的美人！（下。）

    奥丽维娅“你的家世怎样？“超过于我目前的境遇，但我是个有身分的士人。”
我可以发誓你一定是的；你的语调，你的脸，你的肢体、动作、精神，各方面都可
以证明你的高贵。——别这么性急。且慢！且慢！除非颠倒了主仆的名分。——什
么！这么快便染上那种病了？我觉得好像这个少年的美处在悄悄地蹑步进入我的眼
中。好，让它去吧。喂！马伏里奥！

    马伏里奥重上。

    马伏里奥 有，小姐，听候您的吩咐。

    奥丽维娅 去追上那个无礼的使者， 公爵差来的人，他不管我要不要，硬把这
戒指留下；对他说我不要，请他不要向他的主人献功，让他死不了心，我跟他没有
缘分。要是那少年明天还打这儿走过，我可以告诉他为什么。去吧，马伏里奥。

    马伏里奥 是，小姐。（下。）

    奥丽维娅 我的行事我自己全不懂，

    怎一下子便会把人看中？

    一切但凭着命运的吩咐，

    谁能够作得了自己的主！（下。）

Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN

Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?

By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over
me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps
distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your
leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad
recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.
ANTONIO: Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.

No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere
extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a
touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me
what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges
me in manners the rather to express myself. You
must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo. My father was that
Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard
of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,
would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;
for some hour before you took me from the breach of
the sea was my sister drowned.

Alas the day!

A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled
me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,
though I could not with such estimable wonder
overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly
publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but
call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt
water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.

Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.

O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.

If you will not murder me for my love, let me be
your servant.

If you will not undo what you have done, that is,
kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.
Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,
and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that
upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell
tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.

Exit

The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
Else would I very shortly see thee there.
But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.

Exit

第二幕

    第一场 海 滨

    安东尼奥及西巴斯辛上。

    安东尼奥 您不愿住下去了吗？您也不愿让我陪着您去吗？

    西巴斯辛 请您原谅， 我不愿。我是个倒霉的人，我的晦气也许要连累了您，
所以我要请您离开我，好让我独自担承我的恶运；假如连累到您身上，那是太辜负
了您的好意了。

    安东尼奥 可是让我知道您的去向吧。

    西巴斯辛 不瞒您说， 先生，我不能告诉您；因为我所决定的航行不过是无目
的的漫游。可是我看您这样有礼，您一定不会强迫我说出我所保守的秘密来；因此
按礼该我来向您表白我自己。安东尼奥，您要知道我的名字是西巴斯辛，罗德利哥
是我的化名。我的父亲便是梅萨林的西巴斯辛，我知道您一定听见过他的名字。他
死后丢下我和一个妹妹，我们两人是在同一个时辰出世的；我多么希望上天也让我
们两人在同一个时辰死去！可是您，先生，却来改变我的命运，因为就在您把我从
海浪里打救起来之前不久，我的妹妹已经淹死了。

    安东尼奥 唉，可惜！

    西巴斯辛 先生， 虽然人家说她非常像我，许多人都说她是个美貌的姑娘；我
虽然不好意思相信这句话，但是至少可以大胆说一句，即使妒嫉她的人也不能不承
认她有一颗美好的心。她是已经给海水淹死的了，先生，虽然似乎我要用更多的泪
水来淹没对她的记忆。

    安东尼奥 先生，请您恕我招待不周。

    西巴斯辛 啊，好安东尼奥！我才是多多打扰了您哪！

    安东尼奥 要是您看在我的交情分上， 不愿叫我痛不欲生的话，请您允许我做
您的仆人吧。

    西巴斯辛 您已经打救了我的生命， 要是您不愿让我抱愧而死，那么请不要提
出那样的请求，免得您白白救了我一场。我立刻告辞了！我的心是怪软的，还不曾
脱去我母亲的性质，为了一点点理由，我的眼睛里就会露出我的弱点来。就要到奥
西诺公爵的宫廷里去；再会了。（下。）

    安东尼奥 一切神明护佑着你！ 我在奥西诺的宫廷里有许多敌人，否则我就会
马上到那边去会你——

    但无论如何我爱你太深，

    履险如夷我定要把你寻。（下。）

Enter VIOLA, MALVOLIO following

Were not you even now with the Countess Olivia?

Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since
arrived but hither.

She returns this ring to you, sir: you might have
saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.
She adds, moreover, that you should put your lord
into a desperate assurance she will none of him:
and one thing more, that you be never so hardy to
come again in his affairs, unless it be to report
your lord's taking of this. Receive it so.

She took the ring of me: I'll none of it.

Come, sir, you peevishly threw it to her; and her
will is, it should be so returned: if it be worth
stooping for, there it lies in your eye; if not, be
it his that finds it.

Exit

I left no ring with her: what means this lady?
Fortune forbid my outside have not charm'd her!
She made good view of me; indeed, so much,
That sure methought her eyes had lost her tongue,
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
She loves me, sure; the cunning of her passion
Invites me in this churlish messenger.
None of my lord's ring! why, he sent her none.
I am the man: if it be so, as 'tis,
Poor lady, she were better love a dream.
Disguise, I see, thou art a wickedness,
Wherein the pregnant enemy does much.
How easy is it for the proper-false
In women's waxen hearts to set their forms!
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we!
For such as we are made of, such we be.
How will this fadge? my master loves her dearly;
And I, poor monster, fond as much on him;
And she, mistaken, seems to dote on me.
What will become of this? As I am man,
My state is desperate for my master's love;
As I am woman,--now alas the day!--
What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe!
O time! thou must untangle this, not I;
It is too hard a knot for me to untie!

Exit
第二场 街 道

薇奥拉上，马伏里奥随上。

    马伏里奥 您不是刚从奥丽维娅伯爵小姐那儿来的吗？

    薇奥拉 是的，先生；因为我走得慢，所以现在还不过在这儿。

    马伏里奥 先生， 这戒指她还给您；您当初还不如自己拿走呢，免得我麻烦。
她又说您必须叫您家主人死了心，明白她不要跟他来往。还有，您不用再那么莽撞
地到这里来替他说话了，除非来回报一声您家主人已经对她的拒绝表示认可。好，
拿去吧。

    薇奥拉 她自己拿了我这戒指去的；我不要。

    马伏里奥 算了吧， 先生，您使性子把它丢给她；她的意思也要我把它照样丢
还给您。假如它是值得弯下身子拾起来的话，它就在您的眼前；不然的话，让什么
人看见就给什么人拿去吧。（下。）

    薇奥拉 我没有留下戒指呀； 这位小姐是什么意思？但愿她不要迷恋了我的外
貌才好！她把我打量得那么仔细；真的，我觉得她看得我那么出神，连自己讲的什
么话儿也顾不到了，那么没头没脑，颠颠倒倒的。一定的，她爱上我啦；情急智生，
才差这个无礼的使者来邀请我。不要我主人的戒指！嘿，他并没有把什么戒指送给
她呀！我才是她意中的人；真是这样的话——事实上确是这样——那么，可怜的小
姐，她真是做梦了！我现在才明白假扮的确不是一桩好事情，魔鬼会乘机大显他的
身手。一个又漂亮又靠不住的男人，多么容易占据了女人家柔弱的心！唉！这都是
我们生性脆弱的缘故，不是我们自身的错处；因为上天造下我们是哪样的人，我们
就是哪样的人。这种事情怎么了结呢？我的主人深深地爱着她；我呢，可怜的小鬼，
也是那样恋着他；她呢，认错了人，似乎在思念我。这怎么了呢？因为我是个男人，
我没有希望叫我的主人爱上我；因为我是个女人，唉！可怜的奥丽维娅也要白费无
数的叹息了！

    这纠纷要让时间来理清；

    叫我打开这结儿怎么成！（下。）

Enter SIR TOBY BELCH and SIR ANDREW

Approach, Sir Andrew: not to be abed after
midnight is to be up betimes; and 'diluculo
surgere,' thou know'st,--

Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up
late is to be up late.

A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.
To be up after midnight and to go to bed then, is
early: so that to go to bed after midnight is to go
to bed betimes. Does not our life consist of the
four elements?

Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists
of eating and drinking.

Thou'rt a scholar; let us therefore eat and drink.
Marian, I say! a stoup of wine!

Enter Clown

Here comes the fool, i' faith.

How now, my hearts! did you never see the picture
of 'we three'?

Welcome, ass. Now let's have a catch.

By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. I
had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg,
and so sweet a breath to sing, as the fool has. In
sooth, thou wast in very gracious fooling last
night, when thou spokest of Pigrogromitus, of the
Vapians passing the equinoctial of Queubus: 'twas
very good, i' faith. I sent thee sixpence for thy
leman: hadst it?

I did impeticos thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose
is no whipstock: my lady has a white hand, and the
Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses.

Excellent! why, this is the best fooling, when all
is done. Now, a song.

Come on; there is sixpence for you: let's have a song.

There's a testril of me too: if one knight give a--

Would you have a love-song, or a song of good life?

A love-song, a love-song.

Ay, ay: I care not for good life.

[Sings]
O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

Excellent good, i' faith.

Good, good.

[Sings]
What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight.

A contagious breath.

Very sweet and contagious, i' faith.

To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion.
But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? shall we
rouse the night-owl in a catch that will draw three
souls out of one weaver? shall we do that?

An you love me, let's do't: I am dog at a catch.

By'r lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.

Most certain. Let our catch be, 'Thou knave.'

'Hold thy peace, thou knave,' knight? I shall be
constrained in't to call thee knave, knight.

'Tis not the first time I have constrained one to
call me knave. Begin, fool: it begins 'Hold thy peace.'

I shall never begin if I hold my peace.

Good, i' faith. Come, begin.

Catch sung
Enter MARIA

What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady
have not called up her steward Malvolio and bid him
turn you out of doors, never trust me.

My lady's a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio's
a Peg-a-Ramsey, and 'Three merry men be we.' Am not
I consanguineous? am I not of her blood?
Tillyvally. Lady!

Sings'There dwelt a man in Babylon, lady, lady!'

Beshrew me, the knight's in admirable fooling.

Ay, he does well enough if he be disposed, and so do
I too: he does it with a better grace, but I do it
more natural.

[Sings] 'O, the twelfth day of December,'--

For the love o' God, peace!

Enter MALVOLIO

My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye
no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like
tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an
alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your
coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse
of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor
time in you?

We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!

Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade me
tell you, that, though she harbours you as her
kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If
you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you
are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please
you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid
you farewell.

'Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone.'

Nay, good Sir Toby.

'His eyes do show his days are almost done.'

Is't even so?

'But I will never die.'

Sir Toby, there you lie.

This is much credit to you.

'Shall I bid him go?'

'What an if you do?'

'Shall I bid him go, and spare not?'

'O no, no, no, no, you dare not.'

Out o' tune, sir: ye lie. Art any more than a
steward? Dost thou think, because thou art
virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?

Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i' the
mouth too.

Thou'rt i' the right. Go, sir, rub your chain with
crumbs. A stoup of wine, Maria!

Mistress Mary, if you prized my lady's favour at any
thing more than contempt, you would not give means
for this uncivil rule: she shall know of it, by this hand.

Exit

Go shake your ears.

'Twere as good a deed as to drink when a man's
a-hungry, to challenge him the field, and then to
break promise with him and make a fool of him.

Do't, knight: I'll write thee a challenge: or I'll
deliver thy indignation to him by word of mouth.

Sweet Sir Toby, be patient for tonight: since the
youth of the count's was today with thy lady, she is
much out of quiet. For Monsieur Malvolio, let me
alone with him: if I do not gull him into a
nayword, and make him a common recreation, do not
think I have wit enough to lie straight in my bed:
I know I can do it.

Possess us, possess us; tell us something of him.

Marry, sir, sometimes he is a kind of puritan.

O, if I thought that I'ld beat him like a dog!

What, for being a puritan? thy exquisite reason,
dear knight?

I have no exquisite reason for't, but I have reason
good enough.

The devil a puritan that he is, or any thing
constantly, but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass,
that cons state without book and utters it by great
swarths: the best persuaded of himself, so
crammed, as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is
his grounds of faith that all that look on him love
him; and on that vice in him will my revenge find
notable cause to work.

What wilt thou do?

I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of
love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape
of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure
of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find
himself most feelingly personated. I can write very
like my lady your niece: on a forgotten matter we
can hardly make distinction of our hands.

Excellent! I smell a device.

I have't in my nose too.

He shall think, by the letters that thou wilt drop,
that they come from my niece, and that she's in
love with him.

My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that colour.

And your horse now would make him an ass.

Ass, I doubt not.

O, 'twill be admirable!

Sport royal, I warrant you: I know my physic will
work with him. I will plant you two, and let the
fool make a third, where he shall find the letter:
observe his construction of it. For this night, to
bed, and dream on the event. Farewell.

Exit

Good night, Penthesilea.

Before me, she's a good wench.

She's a beagle, true-bred, and one that adores me:
what o' that?

I was adored once too.

Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for
more money.

If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way out.

Send for money, knight: if thou hast her not i'
the end, call me cut.

If I do not, never trust me, take it how you will.

Come, come, I'll go burn some sack; 'tis too late
to go to bed now: come, knight; come, knight.

Exeunt

第三场 奥丽维娅宅中一室

    托比·培尔契爵士及安德鲁·艾古契克爵士上。

    托比 过来， 安德鲁爵士。深夜不睡即是起身得早；“起身早，身体好”，你
知道的——

    安德鲁 不，老实说，我不知道；我知道的是深夜不睡便是深夜不睡。

    托比 一个错误的结论； 我听见这种话就像看见一个空酒瓶那么头痛。深夜不
睡，过了半夜才睡，那就是到大清早才睡，岂不是睡得很早？我们的生命不是由四
大原素组成的吗？

    安德鲁 不错，他们是这样说；可是我以为我们的生命不过是吃吃喝喝而已。

    托比 你真有学问；那么让我们吃吃喝喝吧。玛利娅，喂！开一瓶酒来！

    小丑上。

    安德鲁 那个傻子来啦。

    小丑 啊，我的心肝们！咱们刚好凑成一幅《三个臭皮匠》。

    托比 欢迎，驴子！现在我们来一个轮唱歌吧。

    安德鲁 说老实话， 这傻子有一副很好的喉咙。我宁愿拿四十个先令去换他这
么一条腿和这么一副可爱的声音。真的，你昨夜打诨打的很好，说什么匹格罗格罗
密忒斯哪维比亚人越过了丘勃斯的赤道线哪，真是好得很。我送六便士给你的姘头，
收到了没有？

    小丑 你的恩典我已经放进了我的口袋； 因为马伏里奥的鼻子不是鞭柄，我的
小姐有一双玉手，她的跟班们不是开酒馆的。

    安德鲁 好极了！嗯，无论如何这要算是最好的打诨了。现在唱个歌吧。

    托比 来，给你六便士，唱个歌吧。

    安德鲁 我也有六便士给你呢；要是一个骑士大方起来——

    小丑 你们要我唱支爱情的歌呢，还是唱支劝人为善的歌？

    托比 唱个情歌，唱个情歌。

    安德鲁 是的，是的，劝人为善有什么意思。

    小丑（唱）

    你到哪儿去，啊我的姑娘？

    听呀，那边来了你的情郎，

嘴里吟着抑扬的曲调。

    不要再走了，美貌的亲亲；

    恋人的相遇终结了行程，

    每个聪明人全都知晓。

    安德鲁 真好极了！

    托比 好，好！

    小丑（唱）

    什么是爱情？它不在明天；

    欢笑嬉游莫放过了眼前，

    将来的事有谁能猜料？

    不要蹉跎了大好的年华；

    来吻着我吧，你双十娇娃，

转眼青春早化成衰老。

    安德鲁 凭良心说话，好一副流利的歌喉！

    托比 好一股恶臭的气息！

    安德鲁 真的，很甜蜜又很恶臭。

    托比 用鼻子听起来，那么恶臭也很动听。可是我们要不要让天空跳起舞来呢？
我们要不要唱一支轮唱歌，把夜枭吵醒；那曲调会叫一个织工听了三魂出窍？

    安德鲁 要是你爱我，让我们来一下吧；唱轮唱歌我挺拿手啦。

    小丑 对啦，大人，有许多狗也会唱得很好。

    安德鲁 不错不错。让我们唱《你这坏蛋》吧。

    小丑《闭住你的嘴，你这坏蛋》，是不是这一首，骑士？那么我可不得不叫你
做坏蛋啦，骑士。

    安德鲁 人家不得不叫我做坏蛋，这也不是第一次。你开头，傻子；第一句是，
“闭住你的嘴。”

    小丑 要是我闭住我的嘴，我就再也开不了头啦。

    安德鲁 说得好，真的。来，唱起来吧。（三人唱轮唱歌。）

    玛利娅上。

    玛利娅 你们在这里猫儿叫春似的闹些什么呀！ 要是小姐没有叫起她的管家马
伏里奥来把你们赶出门外去，再不用相信我的话好了。

    托比 小姐是个骗子； 我们都是大人物；马伏里奥是拉姆西的佩格姑娘；“我
们是三个快活的人”。我不是同宗吗？我不是她的一家人吗？胡说八道，姑娘！巴
比伦有一个人，姑娘，姑娘！”

    小丑 要命，这位老爷真会开玩笑。

    安德鲁 哦， 他高兴开起玩笑来，开得可是真好，我也一样；不过他的玩笑开
得富于风趣，而我的玩笑开得更为自然。

    托比

    啊！十二月十二——

    玛利娅 看在上帝的面上，别闹了吧！

    马伏里奥上。

    马伏里奥 我的爷爷们， 你们疯了吗，还是怎么啦？难道你们没有脑子，不懂
规矩，全无礼貌，在这种夜深时候还要像一群发酒疯的补锅匠似的乱吵？你们把小
姐的屋子当作一间酒馆，好让你们直着喉咙，唱那种鞋匠的歌儿吗？难道你们全不
想想这是什么地方，这儿住的是什么人，或者现在是什么时刻了吗？

    托比 老兄，我们的轮唱是严守时刻的。你去上吊吧！

    马伏里奥 托比老爷， 莫怪我说句不怕忌讳的话。小姐吩咐我告诉您说，她虽
然把您当个亲戚留住在这儿，可是她不能容忍您那种胡闹。要是您能够循规蹈矩，
我们这儿是十分欢迎您的；否则的话，要是您愿意向她告别，她一定会让您走。

    托比

    既然我非去不可，那么再会吧，亲亲！

    玛利娅 别这样，好托比老爷。

    小丑

    他的眼睛显示出他末日将要来临。

    马伏里奥 岂有此理！

    托比

    可是我决不会死亡。

    小丑 托比老爷，您在说谎。

    马伏里奥 真有体统！

    托比

    我要不要叫他滚蛋？

    小丑

    叫他滚蛋又怎样？

    托比

    要不要叫他滚蛋，毫无留贷？

    小丑

    啊！不，不，不，你没有这种胆量。

    托比 唱的不入调吗？先生，你说谎！你不过是一个管家，有什么可以神气的？
你以为你自己道德高尚，人家便不能喝酒取乐了吗？

    小丑 是啊，凭圣安起誓，生姜吃下嘴去也总是辣的。

    托比 你说得一点也不错。 ——去，朋友，用面包屑去擦你的项链吧。开一瓶
酒来，玛利娅！

    马伏里奥 玛利娅姑娘， 要是你没有把小姐的恩典看作一钱不值，你可不要帮
助他们作这种胡闹；我一定会去告诉她的。（下。）

    玛利娅 滚你的吧！

    安德鲁 向他挑战， 然后失约，愚弄他一下子，倒是个很好的办法，就像人肚
子饿了喝酒一样。

    托比 好，骑士，我给你写挑战书，或者代你去口头通知他你的愤怒。

    玛利娅 亲爱的托比老爷， 今夜请忍耐一下子吧；今天公爵那边来的少年会见
了小姐之后，她心里很烦。至于马伏里奥先生，我去对付他好了；要是我不把他愚
弄得给人当作笑柄，让大家取乐儿，我便是个连直挺挺躺在床上都不会的蠢东西。
我知道我一定能够。

    托比 告诉我们，告诉我们；告诉我们一些关于他的事情。

    玛利娅 好，老爷，有时候他有点儿像清教徒。

    安德鲁 啊！要是我早想到了这一点，我要把他像狗一样打一顿呢。

    托比 什么，为了像清教徒吗？你有什么绝妙的理由，亲爱的骑士？

    安德鲁 我没有什么绝妙的理由，可是我有相当的理由。

    玛利娅 他是个鬼清教徒， 反复无常、逢迎取巧是他的本领；一头装腔作势的
驴子，背熟了几句官话，便倒也似的倒了出来；自信非凡，以为自己真了不得，谁
看见他都会爱他；我可以凭着那个弱点堂堂正正地给他一顿教训。

    托比 你打算怎样？

    玛利娅 我要在他走过的路上丢了一封暧昧的情书， 里面活生生地描写着他的
胡须的颜色、他的腿的形状、他走路的姿势、他的眼睛、额角和脸上的表情；他一
见就会觉得是写的他自己。我会学您侄小姐的笔迹写字；在已经忘记了的信件上，
我们连自己的笔迹也很难辨认呢。

    托比 好极了，我嗅到了一个计策了。

    安德鲁 我鼻子里也闻到了呢。

    托比 他见了你丢下的这封信，便会以为是我的侄女写的，以为她爱上了他。

    玛利娅 我的意思正是这样。

    安德鲁 你的意思是要叫他变成一头驴子。

    玛利娅 驴子，那是毫无疑问的。

    安德鲁 啊！那好极了！

    玛利娅 出色的把戏， 你们瞧着好了；我知道我的药对他一定生效。我可以把
你们两人连那傻子安顿在他拾着那信的地方，瞧他怎样把它解释。今夜呢，大家上
床睡去，梦着那回事吧。再见。（下。）

    托比 晚安，好姑娘！

    安德鲁 我说，她是个好丫头。

    托比 她是头纯种的小猎犬，很爱我；怎样？

    安德鲁 我也曾经给人爱过呢。

    托比 我们去睡吧，骑士。你应该叫家里再寄些钱来。

    安德鲁 要是我不能得到你的侄女，我就大上其当了。

    托比 去要钱吧，骑士；要是你结果终不能得到她，你就叫我傻子。

    安德鲁 要是我不去要，就再不要相信我，随你怎么办。

    托比 来， 来，我去烫些酒来；现在去睡太晚了。来，骑士；来，骑士。（同
下。）

Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others

Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.
Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,
That old and antique song we heard last night:
Methought it did relieve my passion much,
More than light airs and recollected terms
Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:
Come, but one verse.

He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.

Who was it?

Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady
Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.

Seek him out, and play the tune the while.

Exit CURIO. Music playsCome hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are,
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?

It gives a very echo to the seat
Where Love is throned.

Thou dost speak masterly:
My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye
Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:
Hath it not, boy?

A little, by your favour.

What kind of woman is't?

Of your complexion.

She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?

About your years, my lord.

Too old by heaven: let still the woman take
An elder than herself: so wears she to him,
So sways she level in her husband's heart:
For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,
Than women's are.

I think it well, my lord.

Then let thy love be younger than thyself,
Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;
For women are as roses, whose fair flower
Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.

And so they are: alas, that they are so;
To die, even when they to perfection grow!

Re-enter CURIO and Clown

O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.
Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun
And the free maids that weave their thread with bones
Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,
And dallies with the innocence of love,
Like the old age.

Are you ready, sir?

Ay; prithee, sing.

MusicSONG.

Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid;
Fly away, fly away breath;
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,
O, prepare it!
My part of death, no one so true
Did share it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet
On my black coffin let there be strown;
Not a friend, not a friend greet
My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:
A thousand thousand sighs to save,
Lay me, O, where
Sad true lover never find my grave,
To weep there!

There's for thy pains.

No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.

I'll pay thy pleasure then.

Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.

Give me now leave to leave thee.

Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the
tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for
thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such
constancy put to sea, that their business might be
every thing and their intent every where; for that's
it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.

Exit

Let all the rest give place.

CURIO and Attendants retireOnce more, Cesario,
Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:
Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,
Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;
The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,
Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;
But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems
That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.

But if she cannot love you, sir?

I cannot be so answer'd.

Sooth, but you must.
Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,
Hath for your love a great a pang of heart
As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;
You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?

There is no woman's sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention
Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much: make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.

Ay, but I know--

What dost thou know?

Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.

And what's her history?

A blank, my lord. She never told her love,
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,
And with a green and yellow melancholy
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
We men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.

But died thy sister of her love, my boy?

I am all the daughters of my father's house,
And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.
Sir, shall I to this lady?

Ay, that's the theme.
To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,
My love can give no place, bide no denay.

Exeunt

第四场 公爵府中一室

    公爵、薇奥拉、丘里奥及余人等上。

    公爵 给我奏些音乐。 早安，朋友们。好西萨里奥，我只要听我们昨晚听的那
支古曲；我觉得它比目前轻音乐中那种轻倩的乐调和警炼的字句更能慰解我的痴情。
来，只唱一节吧。

    丘里奥 启禀殿下，会唱这歌儿的人不在这儿。

    公爵 他是谁？

    丘里奥 是那个弄人费斯特， 殿下；他是奥丽维娅小姐的尊翁所宠幸的傻子。
他就在这儿左近。

    公爵 去找他来，现在先把那曲调奏起来吧。（丘里奥下。奏乐）过来，孩子。
要是你有一天和人恋爱了，请在甜蜜的痛苦中记着我；因为真心的恋人都像我一样，
在其他一切情感上都是轻浮易变，但他所爱的人儿的影像，却永远铭刻在他的心头。
你喜不喜欢这个曲调？

    薇奥拉 它传出了爱情的宝座上的回声。

    公爵 你说得很好。我相信你虽然这样年轻，你的眼睛一定曾经看中过什么人；
是不是，孩子？

    薇奥拉 略为有点，请您恕我。

    公爵 是个什么样子的女人呢？

    薇奥拉 相貌跟您差不多。

    公爵 那么她是不配被你爱的。什么年纪呢？

    薇奥拉 年纪也跟您差不多，殿下。

    公爵 啊， 那太老了！女人应当拣一个比她年纪大些的男人，这样她才跟他合
得拢来，不会失去她丈夫的欢心；因为，孩子，不论我们怎样自称自赞，我们的爱
情总比女人们流动不定些，富于希求，易于反复，更容易消失而生厌。

    薇奥拉 这一层我也想到，殿下。

    公爵 那么选一个比你年轻一点的姑娘做你的爱人吧， 否则你的爱情便不能常
青——

    女人正像是娇艳的蔷薇，

    花开才不久便转眼枯萎。

    薇奥拉 是啊，可叹她刹那的光荣，早枝头零落留不住东风！

    丘里奥偕小丑重上。

    公爵 啊， 朋友！来，把我们昨夜听的那支歌儿再唱一遍。好好听着，西萨里
奥。那是个古老而平凡的歌儿，是晒着太阳的纺线工人和织布工人以及无忧无虑的
制花边的女郎们常唱的；歌里的话儿都是些平常不过的真理，搬弄着纯朴的古代的
那种爱情的纯洁。

    小丑 您预备好了吗，殿下？

    公爵 好，请你唱吧。（奏乐。）

    小丑（唱）

    过来吧，过来吧，死神！

让我横陈在凄凉的柏棺⑤的中央；

    飞去吧，飞去吧，浮生！

我被害于一个狠心的美貌姑娘。

    为我罩上白色的殓衾铺满紫衫；

    没有一个真心的人为我而悲哀。

    莫让一朵花儿甜柔，

撒上了我那黑色的、黑色的棺材；

    没有一个朋友迓候

我尸身，不久我的骨骼将会散开。

    免得多情的人们千万次的感伤，

    请把我埋葬在无从凭吊的荒场。



    公爵 这是赏给你的辛苦钱。

    小丑 一点不辛苦，殿下；我以唱歌为乐呢。

    公爵 那么就算赏给你的快乐钱。

    小丑 不错，殿下，快乐总是要付出代价的。

    公爵 现在允许我不再见你吧。

    小丑 好， 忧愁之神保佑着你！但愿裁缝用闪缎给你裁一身衫子，因为你的心
就像猫眼石那样闪烁不定。我希望像这种没有恒心的人都航海去，好让他们过着五
湖四海，千变万化的生活；因为这样的人总会两手空空地回家。再会。（下。）

    公爵 大家都退开去。 （丘里奥及侍从等下）西萨里奥，你再给我到那位忍心
的女王那边去；对她说，我的爱情是超越世间的，泥污的土地不是我所看重的事物；
命运所赐给她的尊荣财富，你对她说，在我的眼中都像命运一样无常；吸引我的灵
魂的是她的天赋的灵奇，绝世的仙姿。

    薇奥拉 可是假如她不能爱您呢，殿下？

    公爵 我不能得到这样的回音。

    薇奥拉 可是您不能不得到这样的回音。 假如有一位姑娘——也许真有那么一
个人——也像您爱着奥丽维娅一样痛苦地爱着您；您不能爱她，您这样告诉她；那
么她岂不是必得以这样的答复为满足吗？

    公爵  女人的小小的身体一定受不住像爱情强加于我心中的那种激烈的搏跳；
女人的心没有这样广大，可以藏得下这许多；她们缺少含忍的能力。唉，她们的爱
就像一个人的口味一样，不是从脏腑里，而是从舌尖上感觉到的，过饱了便会食伤
呕吐；可是我的爱就像饥饿的大海，能够消化一切。不要把一个女人所能对我发生
的爱情跟我对于奥丽维娅的爱情相提并论吧。

    薇奥拉 哦，可是我知道——

    公爵 你知道什么？

    薇奥拉 我知道得很清楚女人对于男人会怀着怎样的爱情； 真的，她们是跟我
们一样真心的。我的父亲有一个女儿，她爱上了一个男人，正像假如我是个女人也
许会爱上了您殿下一样。

    公爵 她的历史怎样？

    薇奥拉 一片空白而已， 殿下。她从来不向人诉说她的爱情，让隐藏在内心中
的抑郁像蓓蕾中的蛀虫一样，侵蚀着她的绯红的脸颊；她因相思而憔悴，疾病和忧
愁折磨着她，像是墓碑上刻着的“忍耐”的化身，默坐着向悲哀微笑。这不是真的
爱情吗？我们男人也许更多话，更会发誓，可是我们所表示的，总多于我们所决心
实行的；不论我们怎样山盟海誓，我们的爱情总不过如此。

    公爵 但是你的姊姊有没有殉情而死，我的孩子？

    薇奥拉 我父亲的女儿只有我一个， 儿子也只有我一个——可她有没有殉情我
不知道。殿下，我要不要就去见这位小姐？

    公爵 对了，这是正事——

    快前去，送给她这颗珍珠；

    说我的爱情永不会认输。（各下。）

Enter SIR TOBY BELCH, SIR ANDREW, and FABIAN

Come thy ways, Signior Fabian.

Nay, I'll come: if I lose a scruple of this sport,
let me be boiled to death with melancholy.

Wouldst thou not be glad to have the niggardly
rascally sheep-biter come by some notable shame?

I would exult, man: you know, he brought me out o'
favour with my lady about a bear-baiting here.

To anger him we'll have the bear again; and we will
fool him black and blue: shall we not, Sir Andrew?

An we do not, it is pity of our lives.

Here comes the little villain.

Enter MARIAHow now, my metal of India!

Get ye all three into the box-tree: Malvolio's
coming down this walk: he has been yonder i' the
sun practising behavior to his own shadow this half
hour: observe him, for the love of mockery; for I
know this letter will make a contemplative idiot of
him. Close, in the name of jesting! Lie thou there,

Throws down a letterfor here comes the trout that must be caught with tickling.

Exit
Enter MALVOLIO

'Tis but fortune; all is fortune. Maria once told
me she did affect me: and I have heard herself come
thus near, that, should she fancy, it should be one
of my complexion. Besides, she uses me with a more
exalted respect than any one else that follows her.
What should I think on't?

Here's an overweening rogue!

O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock
of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!

'Slight, I could so beat the rogue!

Peace, I say.

To be Count Malvolio!

Ah, rogue!

Pistol him, pistol him.

Peace, peace!

There is example for't; the lady of the Strachy
married the yeoman of the wardrobe.

Fie on him, Jezebel!

O, peace! now he's deeply in: look how
imagination blows him.

Having been three months married to her, sitting in
my state,--

O, for a stone-bow, to hit him in the eye!

Calling my officers about me, in my branched velvet
gown; having come from a day-bed, where I have left
Olivia sleeping,--

Fire and brimstone!

O, peace, peace!

And then to have the humour of state; and after a
demure travel of regard, telling them I know my
place as I would they should do theirs, to for my
kinsman Toby,--

Bolts and shackles!

O peace, peace, peace! now, now.

Seven of my people, with an obedient start, make
out for him: I frown the while; and perchance wind
up watch, or play with my--some rich jewel. Toby
approaches; courtesies there to me,--

Shall this fellow live?

Though our silence be drawn from us with cars, yet peace.

I extend my hand to him thus, quenching my familiar
smile with an austere regard of control,--

And does not Toby take you a blow o' the lips then?

Saying, 'Cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on
your niece give me this prerogative of speech,'--

What, what?

'You must amend your drunkenness.'

Out, scab!

Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot.

'Besides, you waste the treasure of your time with
a foolish knight,'--

That's me, I warrant you.

'One Sir Andrew,'--

I knew 'twas I; for many do call me fool.

What employment have we here?

Taking up the letter

Now is the woodcock near the gin.

O, peace! and the spirit of humour intimate reading
aloud to him!

By my life, this is my lady's hand these be her
very C's, her U's and her T's and thus makes she her
great P's. It is, in contempt of question, her hand.

Her C's, her U's and her T's: why that?

[Reads] 'To the unknown beloved, this, and my good
wishes:'--her very phrases! By your leave, wax.
Soft! and the impressure her Lucrece, with which she
uses to seal: 'tis my lady. To whom should this be?

This wins him, liver and all.

[Reads]
Jove knows I love: But who?
Lips, do not move;
No man must know.
'No man must know.' What follows? the numbers
altered! 'No man must know:' if this should be
thee, Malvolio?

Marry, hang thee, brock!

[Reads]
I may command where I adore;
But silence, like a Lucrece knife,
With bloodless stroke my heart doth gore:
M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.

A fustian riddle!

Excellent wench, say I.

'M, O, A, I, doth sway my life.' Nay, but first, let
me see, let me see, let me see.

What dish o' poison has she dressed him!

And with what wing the staniel cheques at it!

'I may command where I adore.' Why, she may command
me: I serve her; she is my lady. Why, this is
evident to any formal capacity; there is no
obstruction in this: and the end,--what should
that alphabetical position portend? If I could make
that resemble something in me,--Softly! M, O, A,
I,--

O, ay, make up that: he is now at a cold scent.

Sowter will cry upon't for all this, though it be as
rank as a fox.

M,--Malvolio; M,--why, that begins my name.

Did not I say he would work it out? the cur is
excellent at faults.

M,--but then there is no consonancy in the sequel;
that suffers under probation A should follow but O does.

And O shall end, I hope.

Ay, or I'll cudgel him, and make him cry O!

And then I comes behind.

Ay, an you had any eye behind you, you might see
more detraction at your heels than fortunes before
you.

M, O, A, I; this simulation is not as the former: and
yet, to crush this a little, it would bow to me, for
every one of these letters are in my name. Soft!
here follows prose.

Reads'If this fall into thy hand, revolve. In my stars I
am above thee; but be not afraid of greatness: some
are born great, some achieve greatness, and some
have greatness thrust upon 'em. Thy Fates open
their hands; let thy blood and spirit embrace them;
and, to inure thyself to what thou art like to be,
cast thy humble slough and appear fresh. Be
opposite with a kinsman, surly with servants; let
thy tongue tang arguments of state; put thyself into
the trick of singularity: she thus advises thee
that sighs for thee. Remember who commended thy
yellow stockings, and wished to see thee ever
cross-gartered: I say, remember. Go to, thou art
made, if thou desirest to be so; if not, let me see
thee a steward still, the fellow of servants, and
not worthy to touch Fortune's fingers. Farewell.
She that would alter services with thee,
THE FORTUNATE-UNHAPPY.'
Daylight and champaign discovers not more: this is
open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors,
I will baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross
acquaintance, I will be point-devise the very man.
I do not now fool myself, to let imagination jade
me; for every reason excites to this, that my lady
loves me. She did commend my yellow stockings of
late, she did praise my leg being cross-gartered;
and in this she manifests herself to my love, and
with a kind of injunction drives me to these habits
of her liking. I thank my stars I am happy. I will
be strange, stout, in yellow stockings, and
cross-gartered, even with the swiftness of putting
on. Jove and my stars be praised! Here is yet a
postscript.

Reads'Thou canst not choose but know who I am. If thou
entertainest my love, let it appear in thy smiling;
thy smiles become thee well; therefore in my
presence still smile, dear my sweet, I prithee.'
Jove, I thank thee: I will smile; I will do
everything that thou wilt have me.

Exit

I will not give my part of this sport for a pension
of thousands to be paid from the Sophy.

I could marry this wench for this device.

So could I too.

And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest.

Nor I neither.

Here comes my noble gull-catcher.

Re-enter MARIA

Wilt thou set thy foot o' my neck?

Or o' mine either?

Shall I play my freedom at traytrip, and become thy
bond-slave?

I' faith, or I either?

Why, thou hast put him in such a dream, that when
the image of it leaves him he must run mad.

Nay, but say true; does it work upon him?

Like aqua-vitae with a midwife.

If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark
his first approach before my lady: he will come to
her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a colour she
abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests;
and he will smile upon her, which will now be so
unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a
melancholy as she is, that it cannot but turn him
into a notable contempt. If you will see it, follow
me.

To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent devil of wit!

I'll make one too.

Exeunt

第五场 奥丽维娅的花园

    托比·培尔契爵士、安德鲁·艾古契克爵士及费边上。

    托比 来吧，费边先生。

    费边 噢， 我就来；要是我把这场好戏略为错过了一点点儿，让我在懊恼里煎
死了吧。

    托比 让这个卑鄙龌龊的丑东西出一场丑，你高兴不高兴？

    费边 我才要快活死哩！您知道那次我因为耍熊，被他在小姐跟前说我坏话。

    托比 我们再把那头熊牵来激他发怒；我们要把他作弄得体无完肤。你说怎样，
安德鲁爵士？

    安德鲁 要是我们不那么做，那才是终身的憾事呢。

    托比 小坏东西来了。

    玛利娅上。

    托比 啊，我的小宝贝！

    玛利娅 你们三人都躲到黄杨树后面去。 马伏里奥正从这条道上走过来了；他
已经在那边太阳光底下对他自己的影子练习了半个钟头仪法。谁要是喜欢笑话，就
留心瞧着他吧；我知道这封信一定会叫他变成一个发痴的呆子的。凭着玩笑的名义，
躲起来吧！你躺在那边；（丢下一信）这条鲟鱼已经来了，你不去撩撩他的痒处是
捉不到手的。（下。）

    马伏里奥上。

    马伏里奥 不过是运气； 一切都是运气。玛利娅曾经对我说过小姐喜欢我；我
也曾经听见她自己说过那样的话，说要是她爱上了人的话，一定要选像我这种脾气
的人。而且，她待我比待其他的下人显得分外尊敬。这点我应该怎么解释呢？

    托比 瞧这个自命不凡的混蛋！

    费边 静些！ 他已经痴心妄想得变成一头出色的火鸡了；瞧他那种蓬起了羽毛
高视阔步的样子！

    安德鲁 他妈的，我可以把这混蛋痛打一顿！

    托比 别闹啦！

    马伏里奥 做了马伏里奥伯爵！

    托比 啊，混蛋！

    安德鲁 给他吃手熗！给他吃手熗！

    托比 别闹！别闹！

    马伏里奥 这种事情是有前例可援的；斯特拉契夫人也下嫁给家臣。

    安德鲁 该死，这畜生！

    费边 静些！现在他着了魔啦；瞧他越想越得意。

    马伏里奥 跟她结婚过了三个月，我坐在我的宝座上——

    托比 啊！我要弹一颗石子到他的眼睛里去！

    马伏里奥 身上披着绣花的丝绒袍子，召唤我的臣僚过来；那时我刚睡罢午觉，
撇下奥丽维娅酣睡未醒——

    托比 大火硫磺烧死他！

    费边 静些！静些！

    马伏里奥 那时我装出一副威严的神气， 先目光凛凛地向众人瞟视一周，对他
们表示我知道我的地位，他们也必须明白自己的身分；然后吩咐他们去请我的托比
老叔过来——

    托比 把他铐起来！

    费边 别闹！别闹！别闹！好啦！好啦！

    马伏里奥 我的七个仆人恭恭敬敬地前去找他。 我皱了皱眉头，或者给我的表
上了上弦，或者抚弄着我的——什么珠宝之类。托比来了，向我行了个礼——

    托比 这家伙可以让他活命吗？

    费边 哪怕有几辆马车要把我们的静默拉走，也不要闹吧！

    马伏里奥 我这样向他伸出手去， 用一副庄严的威势来抑住我的亲昵的笑容—
—

    托比 那时托比不就给了你一个嘴巴子吗？

    马伏里奥 说， “托比叔父，我已蒙令侄女不弃下嫁，请您准许我这样说话—
—”

    托比 什么？什么？

    马伏里奥“你必须把喝酒的习惯戒掉。”

    托比 他妈的，这狗东西！

    费边 嗳，别生气，否则我们的计策就要失败了。

    马伏里奥“而且，您还把您的宝贵的光阴跟一个傻瓜骑士在一块儿浪费——”

    安德鲁 说的是我，一定的啦。

    马伏里奥“那个安德鲁爵士——”

    安德鲁 我知道是我；因为许多人都管我叫傻瓜。

    马伏里奥（见信）这儿有些什么东西呢？

    费边 现在那蠢鸟走近陷阱旁边来了。

    托比 啊，静些！但愿能操纵人心意的神灵叫他高声朗读。

    马伏里奥（拾信）嗳哟，这是小姐的手笔！瞧这一钩一弯一横一直，那不正是
她的笔锋吗？没有问题，一定是她写的。

    安德鲁 她的一钩一弯一横一直，那是什么意思？

    马伏里奥（读）“给不知名的恋人，至诚的祝福。”完全是她的口气！对不住，
封蜡。且慢！这封口上的钤记不就是她一直用作封印的鲁克丽丝的肖像吗？一定是
我的小姐。可是那是写给谁的呢？

    费边 这叫他心窝儿里都痒起来了。

    马伏里奥

    知我者天，

    我爱为谁？

    慎莫多言，

    莫令人知。

    “莫令人知。”下面还写些什么？又换了句调了！“莫令人知”：说的也许是
你哩，马伏里奥！

    托比 嘿，该死，这獾子！

    马伏里奥

    我可以向我所爱的人发号施令；

但隐秘的衷情如鲁克丽丝之刀，

    杀人不见血地把我的深心剚刃：

我的命在M，O，A，I的手里飘摇。

    费边 无聊的谜语！

    托比 我说是个好丫头。

    马伏里奥“我的命在M，O，A，I的手里飘摇。”不，让我先想一想，让我想一
想，让我想一想。

    费边 她给他吃了一服多好的毒药！

    托比 瞧那头鹰儿多么饿急似的想一口吞下去！

    马伏里奥“我可以向我所爱的人发号施令。”哦，她可以命令我；我侍候着她，
她是我的小姐。这是无论哪个有一点点脑子的人都看得出来的；全然合得拢。可是
那结尾一句，那几个字母又是什么意思呢？能不能牵附到我的身上？——慢慢！M，
O，A，I——

    托比 哎，这应该想个法儿；他弄糊涂了。

    费边 即使像一头狐狸那样臊气冲天，这狗子也会闻出味来，汪汪地叫起来的。

    马伏里奥 M，马伏里奥；M，嘿，那正是我的名字的第一个字母哩。

    费边 我不是说他会想出来的吗？这狗的鼻子在没有味的地方也会闻出味来。

    马伏里奥 M——可是这次序不大对；这样一试，反而不成功了。跟着来的应该
是个A字，可是却是个O字。

    费边 我希望O字应该放在结尾的吧？

    托比 对了，否则我要揍他一顿，让他喊出个“O！”来。

    马伏里奥 A的背后又跟着个I。

    费边 哼， 要是你背后生眼睛⑥的话，你就知道你眼前并没有什么幸运，你的
背后却有倒霉的事跟着呢。

    马伏里奥 M， O，A，I；这隐语可跟前面所说的不很合辙；可是稍为把它颠倒
一下，也就可以适合我了，因为这几个字母都在我的名字里。且慢！这儿还有散文
呢。“要是这封信落到你手里，请你想一想。照我的命运而论，我是在你之上，可
是你不用惧怕富贵：有的人是生来的富贵，有的人是挣来的富贵，有的人是送上来
的富贵。你的好运已经向你伸出手来，赶快用你的全副精神抱住它。你应该练习一
下怎样才合乎你所将要做的那种人的身分，脱去你卑恭的旧习，放出一些活泼的神
气来。对亲戚不妨分庭抗礼，对仆人不妨摆摆架子；你嘴里要鼓唇弄舌地谈些国家
大事，装出一副矜持的样子。为你叹息的人儿这样吩咐着你。记着谁曾经赞美过你
的黄袜子，愿意看见你永远扎着十字交叉的袜带；我对你说，你记着吧。好，只要
你自己愿意，你就可以出头了；否则让我见你一生一世做个管家，与众仆为伍，不
值得抬举。再会！我是愿意跟你交换地位的，幸运的不幸者。”青天白日也没有这
么明白，平原旷野也没有这么显豁。我要摆起架子来，谈起国家大事来；我要叫托
比丧气，我要断绝那些鄙贱之交，我要一点不含糊地做起这么一个人来。我没有自
己哄骗自己，让想像把我愚弄；因为每一个理由都指点着说，我的小姐爱上了我了。
她最近称赞过我的黄袜子和我的十字交叉的袜带；她就是用这方法表示她爱我，用
一种命令的方法叫我打扮成她所喜欢的样式。谢谢我的命星，我好幸福！我要放出
高傲的神气来，穿了黄袜子，扎着十字交叉的袜带，立刻就去装束起来。赞美上帝
和我的命星！这儿还有附启：“你一定想得到我是谁。要是你接受我的爱情，请你
用微笑表示你的意思；你的微笑是很好看的。我的好人儿，请你当着我的面前永远
微笑着吧。”上帝，我谢谢你！我要微笑；我要作每一件你吩咐我作的事。（下。）

    费边 即使波斯王给我一笔几千块钱的恩俸，我也不愿错过这场玩意儿。

    托比 这丫头想得出这种主意，我简直可以娶了她。

    安德鲁 我也可以娶了她呢。

    托比 我不要她什么妆奁，只要再给我想出这么一个笑话来就行了。

    安德鲁 我也不要她什么妆奁。

    费边 我那位捉蠢鹅的好手来了。

    玛利娅重上。

    托比 你愿意把你的脚搁在我的头颈上吗？

    安德鲁 或者搁在我的头颈上？

    托比 要不要我把我的自由作孤注一掷，做你的奴隶？

    安德鲁 是的，要不要我也做你的奴隶？

    托比 你已经叫他大做其梦，要是那种幻象一离开了他，他一定会发疯的。

    玛利娅 可是您老实对我说，他中计了吗？

    托比 就像收生婆喝了烧酒一样。

    玛利娅 要是你们要看看这场把戏会闹出些什么结果来， 请看好他怎样到小姐
跟前去：他会穿起了黄袜子，那正是她所讨厌的颜色；还要扎着十字交叉的袜带，
那正是她所厌恶的式样；他还要向她微笑，照她现在那样悒郁的心境，她一定会不
高兴，管保叫他大受一场没趣。假如你们要看的话，跟我来吧。

    托比 好，就是到地狱门口也行，你这好机灵鬼！

    安德鲁 我也要去。（同下。）