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Malvolio and the Eunuchs: Texts and Revels in Twelfth Night

John Astington, University of Toronto

… a good practise in it to make the steward beleeue his Lady widdowe was in Loue w^th him by counterfayting a lett^r

John Manningham

He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

1 Corinthians, 7, 32-3

Now she that is a widow indeed, and desolate, trusteth in God, and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day.

But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

1 Timothy, 5, 5-6

Fashionably enough, the central farcical scene of...

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