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Excerpt from Shakespeare Select Plays: Twelfth Night, or What You Will
His rebuke to the knight, and his sottish revellers, is sensible and spirited; and when we take into consideration the un protected condition of his mistress, and the strict regard with which her state of real or dissembled mourning would draw the eyes of the world upon her house-affairs, Mal volio might feel the honour of the family in some sort in his keeping as it appears not that Olivia had any more brothers, or kinsmen, to look to it - for Sir Toby had dropped all such nice respects at the buttery hatch. That Malvolio was meant to be represented as possessing estimable qualities, the ex pression of the Duke in his anxiety to have him reconciled, almost infers. Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace. Even in his abused state of chains and darkness, a sort of greatness never seems to desert him. He argues highly and well with the supposed Sir Topas, and philosophises gallantly upon his straw. There must have been some shadow of worth about the man; he must have been something more than a mere vapour - a thing of straw, or Jack in office-before Fabian and Maria could have ventured to send him upon a courting-errand to Olivia. There was some consonancy (as he would say) in the undertaking, or the jest would have been too bold even for that house of misrule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
