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  1. Jun 2025
    1. ANDREW  0883 If I cannot recover your niece, I am a foul way 0884  out. TOBY  0885 Send for money, knight. If thou hast her not i’ 0886 185 th’ end, call me “Cut.” ANDREW  0887 If I do not, never trust me, take it how you 0888  will.

      Why is Sir Andrew desperate for money, considering his rank?

    2. MARIA  0867 My purpose is indeed a horse of that color. ANDREW  0868 And your horse now would make him an ass. MARIA  0869 Ass, I doubt not.

      Quick wit, smart pun that Maria was anticipating. Shows her smarts and more subtle strategy.

    3. The devil a puritan that he is, or anything 0847  constantly but a time-pleaser; an affectioned ass 0848  that cons state without book and utters it by great 0849  swaths; the best persuaded of himself, so crammed, 0850  as he thinks, with excellencies, that it is his grounds 0851 150 of faith that all that look on him love him. And on 0852  that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause 0853  to work.

      The reason Maria leads the prank and not the boys; she knows Malvolio better and can therefore execute it more methodically than the sirs could.

    4. She shall know of it, by 0824  this hand.He exits. MARIA  0825 Go shake your ears!

      Maria's breaking point. Now both her job and Toby- her possible ticket to freedom and out of servitude- are threatened, causing her to shed her normally good and obedient exterior and take revenge on Malvolio.

    5. My lady’s a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio’s 0778  a Peg-a-Ramsey, and ⌜Sings.⌝ Three merry men be 0779  we. Am not I consanguineous? Am I not of her 0780  blood?

      Disrespect of authority despite being the authority, along with disrespect of the lower class

    6. 0814 Out o’ tune, sir? You lie. Art any more than a 0815  steward? Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, 0816 115 there shall be no more cakes and ale?

      Disrespecting Malvolio simply because he's doing his job. Because Toby is higher than Malvolio, he thinks that gives the latter no right to do his job, and should just listen to him instead.

    7. My masters, are you mad? Or what are you? 0789  Have you no wit, manners, nor honesty but to 0790  gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do you 0791 90 make an ale-house of my lady’s house, that you 0792  squeak out your coziers’ catches without any mitigation 0793  or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of 0794  place, persons, nor time in you?p. 61 TOBY  0795 We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!

      Respect because of rank from Malvolio, contrasting with the disrespect despite and because of rank from Toby.

    8. I am dog at a 0763  catch. FOOL  0764 By ’r Lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well.

      Normal fool's wordplay is lost on the Sirs, while it works with the more educated and developed characters in the play.

    9. ANDREW  0755 A mellifluous voice, as I am true knight. TOBY  0756 55A contagious breath. ANDREW  0757 Very sweet and contagious, i’ faith. TOBY  0758 To hear by the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. 0759  But shall we make the welkin dance indeed? Shall 0760  we rouse the night owl in a catch that will draw 0761 60 three souls out of one weaver? Shall we do that?

      Confusion of the senses leading to confusion of the plot and character understanding / parallel to the main plot

    10. 0712 Faith, so they say, but I think it rather consists 0713  of eating and drinking. TOBY  0714 Thou ’rt a scholar. Let us therefore eat and 0715  drink.

      Instant character insight, right off the bat. Gives the audience a perspective on what the scene will be led by; in this case, drunken idiocy.