Viola

Viola
On your attendance, my lord, here.
Orsino, to Curio and Attendants
Stand you awhile aloof.—Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
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,
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Olivia
Tell me your mind.
Viola
I am a messenger.
Olivia
Sure you have some hideous matter to deliver
when the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office.

I see you what you are. You are too proud.
But if you were the devil you are fair.

Viola
It alone concerns your ear.
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Viola
Save thee, friend, and thy music. Dost thou live
by thy tabor?
Fool
No, sir, I live by the church.
Viola
Art thou a churchman?
Fool
No such matter, sir. I do live by the church, for I
do live at my house, and my house doth stand by the church.
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Viola
Hold, there’s expenses for thee.
 Giving a coin.
Fool
Now Jove, in his next commodity of hair, send
thee a beard!
Viola
By my troth I’ll tell thee, I am almost sick for
one,  aside  though I would not have it grow on my
chin.—Is thy lady within?
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Olivia
Stay. I prithee, tell me what thou think’st of me.
Viola
That you do think you are not what you are.
Olivia
If I think so, I think the same of you.
Viola
Then think you right. I am not what I am.
Olivia
I would you were as I would have you be.
Viola
Would it be better,
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Antonio, to Viola
I must entreat of you some of that money.
Viola
What money, sir?
For the fair kindness you have showed me here,
And part being prompted by your present trouble,
Out of my lean and low ability
I’ll lend you something. My having is not much.
I’ll make division of my present with you.
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