The+Fool

__Biography:__

The Fool, also known as Feste, who is the court jester of Olivia's and Orsino's home. The Fool is not known for his intelligence. He moves between Olivia's and Orsino's households and usually causes a lot of trouble. The Fool makes a living by telling jokes, singing songs, and contributing good advice. In spite of his foolishness, the Fool seems to be the wisest character in the play. He is the one who explains how it feels to be drunk to Olivia. He has an excellent voice and likes to sing to people such as Sir Toby and Sir Andrew and is also friends with them both. The Fool works for Olivia, and the Fool does not get along well with Malvolio, which is not a surprise because nobody gets along with Malvolio. The fool also works for sir Orsino, but in Illyria citizens are only supposed to work for one person at a time. He should have died, but he had out witted Olivia and Olivia began to realize that the fool was much smarter than what people really thought of him. The fool doesn't see himself as an actual, so much as someone who plays with words. He tells this to Viola when she asks if he works for Olivia as the jester. While Malvolio thinks he is possessed by the devil, the Fool dressed up as a priest, and called himself tobus, and tried to think Malvolio was getting an exorcism.

__Quotations:__

"Let's have a catch." "Would you have a love song or a song of good life?"  "The more fool, madonna, to mourn for your brother’s soul being in heaven."

 " Let her hang me. He that is well hanged in this world needs to fear no colors."  " Like a drowned man, a fool and a madman. One draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him"

 "Art any more than a steward?"


 * "I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student, but to be said an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter. ||

 "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."

 "No, indeed, sir; the Lady Olivia has no folly. She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married, and fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings; the husband’s the bigger: I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words."

 "Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun. It shines everywhere. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my mistress: I think I saw your wisdom there. "

 "The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a beggar. Cressida was a beggar. My lady is within, sir. I will construe to them whence you come. Who you are and what you would are out of my welkin, I might say “element,” but the word is overworn."

 "Well held out, i' faith. No, I do not know you, nor I am not sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her, nor your name is not Master Cesario, nor this is not my nose neither. Nothing that is so is so."

 "Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage, and, for turning away, let summer bear it out."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "This will I tell my lady straight. I would not be in some of your coats for two pence."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in ’t, and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good student, but to be said an honest man and a good housekeeper goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">" <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in your wits than a fool."

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "Not so, sir, I do care for something. But in my conscience, sir, I do not care for you. If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible." **

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> "Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog."


 * <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//Fool's Songs//

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //1.//

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">" //O mistress mine, where are you roaming?// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //O, stay and hear! Your true love’s coming,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //That can sing both high and low:// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Trip no further, pretty sweeting.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Journeys end in lovers meeting,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Every wise man’s son doth know.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //What is love? 'Tis not hereafter.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Present mirth hath present laughter.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //What’s to come is still unsure.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //In delay there lies no plenty.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty.// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Youth’s a stuff will not endure.//<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">" <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 2. //I am gone, sir,// //And anon, sir,// //I’ll be with you again,// //In a trice,// //Like to the old Vice,// //Your need to sustain,// //Who, with dagger of lath// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //In his rage and his wrath,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Cries “Aha,” to the devil,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Like a mad lad,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //“Pare thy nails, dad,// <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> //Adieu, goodman devil.”//

<span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> // "Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me, now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass. So that by my foes, sir I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends, I am abused. So that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then the worse for my friends and the better for my foes." <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> When that I was and a little tiny boy, <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A foolish thing was but a toy, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> For the rain it raineth every day. // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But when I came to man’s estate, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 'Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> For the rain it raineth every day. // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But when I came, alas! to wive, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> By swaggering could I never thrive, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> For the rain it raineth every day. // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But when I came unto my beds, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With toss-pots still had drunken heads, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> For the rain it raineth every day. // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> A great while ago the world begun, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> But that’s all one, our play is done, // <span style="font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">//<span style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> And we’ll strive to please you every day. ||