OLIVIA Open't, and read it.
Clown Look then to be well edified when the fool delivers
the madman.
[Reads]
'By the Lord, madam,'--
OLIVIA How now! art thou mad?
Clown No, madam, I do but read madness: an your ladyship
will have it as it ought to be, you must allow Vox.
OLIVIA Prithee, read i' thy right wits.
Clown So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to
read thus: therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.
OLIVIA Read it you, sirrah.
[To FABIAN]
FABIAN [Reads] 'By the Lord, madam, you wrong me, and the
world shall know it: though you have put me into
darkness and given your drunken cousin rule over
me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as
your ladyship. I have your own letter that induced
me to the semblance I put on; with the which I doubt
not but to do myself much right, or you much shame.
Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little
unthought of and speak out of my injury.
THE MADLY-USED MALVOLIO.'
OLIVIA Did he write this?
Clown Ay, madam.
DUKE ORSINO This savours not much of distraction.
OLIVIA See him deliver'd, Fabian; bring him hither.
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