She returns this ring to you, sir. You might have saved me my pains, to have taken it away yourself.
Act 2. Scene iii
Excellent! I smell a device.
I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady your niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make distinction of our hands.
I have't in my nose too.
Act 2. Scene iv
What dost thou know?
Too well what love women to men may owe. In faith, they are as true of heart as we. My father had a daughter lov'd a man- as it might be, perhaps, were I a woman, I should your lordship.
On a street near to Olivia's house, Malvolio meets up with Viola (Cesario) and gives him the ring that Olivia has sent with him, and also rebukes him for having left it with Olivia. Viola (Cesario) didn't give Olivia a ring but plays along with Malvolio and pretends that she did give Olivia the ring. She tells Malvolio that Olivia took the ring and must now keep it, but instead, Malvolio throws the ring on to the ground and leaves.
Act 2. Scene v
Her C's, her U's, and her T's: why that?
By my life, this is my lady's hand: these by her very Cs, her U's, and her T's, and thus makes she her great P's. It is in contempt of question her hand.
In the middle of the night, Sir Toby and Sir Andrew were eating and drinking, as well as singing loudly with Feste, and Maria shows up and warns them that if they aren't quiet, Olivia will have Malvolio throw them out of the house. Malvolio enters and berates the group for treating his lady's house like an "ale-house", and then yells at Maria that is she respected her mistress she would reprimand these lowlifes. Maria gets tired of Malvolio and decides to play a prank on him, which was imitating Olivia's handwriting and write a love letter to drop in Malvolio's way, so in his arrogance, will assume the letter is from Olivia.
Orisino discusses love with Viola (Cesario) and notices that she is also in love and can tell. Viola (Cesario) doesn't deny it and admits to him that he is right. Orisino orders Viola (Cesario) to go to Olivia again, but she reminded him that Olivia has denied his advances and suggests that Orisino should accept that Olivia is not romantically interested in him. After saying that, their conversation on love continues.
In Olivia's garden, Sir Andrew, Sir Toby, Maria and another servant, Fabian, all prepared to play their joke on Malvolio and drops the letter in the garden path for him to see it. Malvolio approaches on the path talking to himself and then spots the letter. He mistakes Maria writing for Olivia's and while reading it, realizes that the letter was written out of love, and the writer wants him to know that. While Malvolio reads the letter out loud, Sir Toby and the others, all laugh at him from behind a bush.