Speaker: Malvolio
Person Spoken to: Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, Maria
My masters, are you mad? or what are you? Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night? Do ye make an alehouse of my lady's house, that ye squeak out your coziers' catches without any mitigation or remorse of voice? Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?
What is going on when this passage is spoken?: Malvolio is yelling at Sir Toby, Sir Andrew, and Maria for being drunk and singing and making a ruckus. It's late at night and Malvolio wants to give them a hard time.
Comment: This is one of the examples of the on-going conflict and comedy that arises from these characters in Twelfth Night.
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