Sir Toby Belch Monologue from Twelfth Night

From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

male · comedic · 1:07 min

What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? (SIR ANDREW: Faith, I can cut a caper.) And I can cut the mutton to’t. (SIR ANDREW: And I think I have the back-trick simply as strong as any man in Illyria.) Wherefore are these things hid? Wherefore have these gifts a curtain before ’em? Are they like to take dust, like Mistress Mall’s picture? Why dost thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a coranto? My very walk should be a jig; I would not so much as make water but in a sink-a-pace. What dost thou mean? Is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed under the star of a galliard.

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