Twelfth Night - Results found: 59
Speech of the clown or fool of the Play
Wit an’t be thy will put me in good fooling those wits that think they have thee do very often 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—
By Clown,
in Twelfth Night (TLN328-330),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 36
a Zesty old fellow of a speech of a Fool
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 is 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
By Malvolio,
in Twelfth Night (TLN375-380),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 36
Of Instructions to a Coward to seem brave
Write
it in a martial hand be cursed and brief
it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: – taunt him with the license of ink. If thou thou’st him some thrice it shall not be amiss, and as many lies as
will lie in thy sheet of paper.—
although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set them down: go, about it. Let there be gall enough in thy Ink –
By Sir Toby Belch,
in Twelfth Night (TLN1423-1428),
William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 38