Today’s Totally Random Lines
My lady’s a Cataian, we are politicians, Malvolio’s a Peg-a-Ramsey, and ‘Three merry men be we.’
Sir Toby Welch
Twelfth Night Act II Scene iii, Line 73
Cataian is Chinaman, politicians are schemers, and Peg-a-Ramsey I have no idea what that is.
Okay then, Sir Toby Welch, Sir Andrew Aguecheek,
and Feste are up drinking, carousing and making a lot of noise. Maria, the servant woman
of Olivia (this scene is taking place in Olivia’s house where Sirs Toby and
Andrew are guests) comes in to tell them to quiet down.
What a caterwauling do you keep here! If my lady have not called up her steward Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me.
To which Sir Toby replies by calling her a Chinaman, themselves schemers, Malvolio a Peg-a-Ramsey (whatever that is), and declaring himself, Sir Andrew, and Feste ‘three merry men’.
Basically, Sir Toby is saying “Turn down for what?”
Ahhhhh! Turn down for what!!
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