DRAMATIS PERSONE ORSINO, Duke of Illyria. SEBASTIAN, brother to Viola. ANTONIO, a sea captain, friend to Sebastian. A Sea Captain, friend to Viola. VALENTINE, CURIO, gentlemen attending on the Duke. Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants. SCENE-A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it. TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL ACT I. SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If music be the food of love, play on; The appetite may sicken, and so die. O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, 5 10 But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy Cur. Duke. Will you go hunt, my lord? Cur. The hart. What, Curio? Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, Enter VALENTINE. 15 20 How now! what news from her? Val. So please my lord, I might not be admitted; But from her handmaid do return this answer 25 The element itself, till seven years' heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view; But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk And water once a day her chamber round 30 A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her sad remembrance. Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother, These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd Her sweet perfections with one self king! 40 [Exeunt. SCENE II. The sea-coast. Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors. Vio. What country, friends, is this? Vio. And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors? 5 Cap. It is perchance that you yourself were saved. Vio. O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. Cap. True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When you and those poor number saved with you 10 Courage and hope both teaching him the practice, Vio. For saying so, there's gold: 15 Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, 20 The like of him. Know'st thou this country? Vio. Who governs here? Cap. A noble Duke, in nature as in name. 25 Vio. Orsino! I have heard my father name him : He was a bachelor then. Cap. And so is now, or was so very late; For but a month ago I went from hence, And then 'twas fresh in murmur -as, you know, What great ones do the less will prattle of 30 35 Cap. A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her In the protection of his son, her brother, Who shortly also died: for whose dear love, They say, she hath abjured the company And sight of men. Vio. O that I served that lady, And might not be delivered to the world, Cap. 40 That were hard to compass; 45 Because she will admit no kind of suit, |