master

Anne Page, would I might never stir, and ’tis ä post- Mrs Page. Why went you not with master doctor,
master's boy.

maid?
Page. Upon my life then you took the wrong. Fent. You do amaze her: hear the truth of it!
Slen. What need you tell me that? I think so, when You would have married her most shamefully,
I took a boy for a girl. If I had been married to him, Where there was no proportion held in love.
for all he was in woman's apparel, I would not have The truth is, She and I, long since contracted,
had him.

Are now so sure, that nothing can dissolve us.'
Page. Why, this is your own folly. Did not I tell you, The offence is holy, that she hath committed:
how

you should know my daughter by her garments? And this deceit loses the name of craft, Slen. I went to her in white, and cry'd mum, and she Of disobedience, or unduteons title; cry'd budget, as Anne and I had appointed ; and yet it Since therein she doth evitate and shun was not Anne, but a postmaster's boy.

A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Eva. Jeshu! Master Slender, cannot you see but Which forced marriage would have brought upon her. marry boys?

Ford. Stand not amazed; here is no remedy; Page. O, I am vexed at heart : what shall I do? In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state; Mrs Page. Good George, be not angry: I knew of Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. your purpose; turned my daughter into green; and, Fal. I am glad, though you have ta’en a special stand indeed, she is now with the doctor at the deanery, and to strike at me, that your arrow hath glanced. there married.

Page. Well, what remedy? Fenton, heaven give thee Enter Caius.

joy!
Caius. Vere is mistress Page? By gar, I am cozened; What cannot be eschew'd, must be embrac'd.
I ha' married un garçon, a boy; un paisan, by Fal. When night-dogs run, all sorts of deer are 1
gar, a boy; it is not Anne Page: by gar, I am cozened. chas'd.
Mrs Page. Why, did you take her in green? Eva. I will dance and eat plums at your wedding.
Caius. Ay, be gar, and 'tis a boy: be gar, I'll raise Mrs Page. Well, I will muse no further :- Master
all Windsor.

[Exit Caius. Fenton,
Ford. This is strange! Who hath got the right Anne? Heaven give you many, many merry days !~
Page. My heart misgives me. Here comes master Good husband, let us every one go home,
Fenton.

And laugh this sport o'er by a country fire;
Enter Fenton and Axxe Page.

Sir John and all !
How now, master Fenton ?

Ford. Let it be so !-Sir John,
Anne. Pardon, good father! good my mother, pardon! To master Brook you yet shall hold your word;

Page. Now, mistress ? how chance you went not with For he, to-night, shall lie with mistress Ford.
master Slender?

[Exeunt.

TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR WHAT YOU WILL.

,

servants to

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Per son $ of the Bra m a.
Orsino, duke of Illyria.

Malvolio, steward to Olivia.
SEBastian, a young gentleman, brother to Viola.

Clown;}
Antonio, a sea-captain, friend to Sebastian.

Olivia.
A Sea-captain, friend to Viola.

OLIVIA, arich countess.
ValentINE,

Viola, in love with the duke.
CUKIO
} gentlemen attending on the duke.

Maria, Olivia's woman.
Sir Toer Belch, uncle of Olivia.

Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and
Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHEEK.

other Attendants. SCENE,-a city in Illyria; and the sea-coast near it.

А ст І.
SCENE I. - An apartment in the Duke's palace.
Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords ; Musicians attend-

ing:
Duke. If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.
That strain again ; - it had a dying fall:
o, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing, and giving odour.-Enough; no more;
"Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thon!
That, nothwithstanding thy capacity

Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soever,
Bilt falls into abatement and low price,
Even in a minute! so full of sliapes is fancy,
That it alone is high-fantastical.

Cur. Will you go hunt, my lord ?
Duke. What, Curio?
Cur. The hart.
Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have :
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought, she purged the air of pestilence;
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;
And my desires, like fell and cruel honnds,
E'er since pursue me.

- Ilow now? what news froni her?

loce else.

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Anne

beea op he

Enter VALENTINE.

Vio. There is a fair behaviour in thee, Captain ; lal. So please my lord, I might not be admitted, And though that nature with a beauteous wall But from her handmaid do return this answer:

Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee The element itself, till seven years heat,

I will believe, thou hast a mind that suits Shall not behold her face at ample view;

With this thy fair and outward character. But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,

I pray thee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,
And water once a-day her chamber round

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid
With eye-oileuding brine: all this, to season For such disguise as, haply, shall become
A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh, The form of my intent. i'll serve this duke;
And lasting, in her sad remembrance.

Thou shalt present me as an eunuch to him,
Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame, It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing,
To pay this debt of love but to a brother,

And speak to him in many sorts of music,
How will she love, when the rich golden shaft That will allow me very worth his service,
Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else

What else may hap, to time I will commit;
That live in her! when liver, brain, and heart, Only shape thon thy silence to my wit.
These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd Cap. Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:
(ller sweet perfections) with one self-king!

When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see!
Away before me to sweet beds of flowers !

Vio. I thank thee. Lead me on!

(Exeunt. Love-thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers.

[Exeunt. SCENE III. A room in Olivia's house.
SCENE II. The Sea-coast.

Enter Sir Toey Berch, and Mana.
Enter Viola, Captain, and Sailors. Sir To. What a plague means my niece, to take the
l'io. What couutry, friends, is this?

death of her brother thus? I am sure, care's an enemy
Cap. Illyria, lady.

to life.
Vio. And what should I do in Hlyria?

Mar. By my troth, sir Toby, you must come in ear-
My brother he is in Elysium.
Perchance he is not drown'd.-What think you, sailors ? ceptions to your ill hours.

lier o’nights; your cousin, my lady, takes great ex-
Cap. It is perchance, that yon yourself were saved. Sir To. Why, let her except before excepted.
Vio. O my poor brother! and so, perchance, may

Mar. Ay, but you must confine yourself within the
he be.

modest limits of order.
Cap. True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance, Sir. To. Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,

am : these clothes are good enough to drink in, and so
When you, and that poor number saved with you,

be these boots too; an they be not, let them hang
Hung an our driving boat, I saw your brother, themselves in their own straps.
Most provident in peril, bind himself

Mar. That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I
(Courage and hope both teaching him the practice)

heard my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea ;

knight that you brought in one night here to be her
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves,

Sir. To. Who? Sir Andrew Ague-cheek?
So long as I could see.

Mar. Ay, he.
l'io. For saying so, there's gold:

Sir To. He's as talla man as any's in Illyria.
Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,

Mar. What's that to the purpose?
Whereto thy speechserves for authority,

Sir. To. Why, he has three thousand ducats a-year.
The like of him. Know'st thou this country?

Mar. Ay; but he'll have but a vear in all these du-
Can. Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born

cats; he's a very fool, and a prodigal.
Not three hours travel from this very place.

Sir. To. Fye, that you'll say so! he plays o' the Vio. Who governs here?

viol-de-gambo, and speaks three or four languages, Cap. A noble duke, in nature,

word for word, without book, and hath all the good As in his name.

gifts of vature. l'io. What is his name?

Mar. He hath, indeed, - almost natural: for, besides Cap. Orsino.

that he's a fool, he's a great quarreller; and, but that Vio. Orsino! I have heard my father name him:

he hath the gift of a coward to allay the gust he hath in He was a bachelor then.

quarrelling, 'tis thought among the prudent, he would Cap. And so is now,

quickly have the gift of a grave. Or was so very late : for but a month

Sir To. By this hand, they are scoundrels, and subAgo I went from lience; and then 'twas fresh

stractors, that say so of him. Who are they? In murmur, (as, you know, what great oues do,

Mar. They that add, moreover, he's drunk nightly The less will prattle of,) that he did seek

in your company. The love of fair Olivia.

Sir To. With drinking healthis to my niece; I'll drink Vio. What's she?

to her, as long as there is a passage in my throat, and Cap. A virtuous maid, the danghter of a count,

drink in Illyria. He's a coward, and a coystril, that That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her will not drink to my niece, till his brains turn o' the In the protection of his son, her brother,

toe like a parish top. What, wench? Castiliano Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,

vulgo ; for here comes Sir Andrew Ague-face.
They say, she hath abjured the company

Enter Sir ANDREW AGUE-CHIEEK.
And sight of men.
Vio. O, that I served that lady:

Sir And. Sir Toby Belch! how now, sir Toby Belch?
And might not be delivered to the world,

Sir To. Sweet sir Andrew !
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,

Sir And. Bless you, fair shrew !
What my estate is.

Mar. And you too, sir!
Cap. That were hard to compass;

Sir To. Accost, sir Andrew, accost!
Because she will admit no kind of suit,

Sir And. What's that?
No, not the duke's.

Bir To. My niece's chamber-maid.

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ide

Woer.

Sir And. Good mistress Accost, I desire better ac- thou not go to church in a galliard, and come home in a quaintance.

coranto? My very walk should be a jig! I would not so Mar. My name is Mary, sir.

much as make water, but in a sink-a-pace. What dost Sir. And. Good mistress Mary Accost, –

thou mean? is it a world to hide virtues in? I did think, Sir To. You mistake, knight: accost is, front her, by the excellent constitution of thy leg, it was formed board her, woo her, assail her.

under the star of'a galliard. Sir And. By my troth, I would not undertake her in Sir And. Ay, 'lis strong, and it does indifferent well this company. Is that the meaning of accost?

in a flame-coloured siock. Shall we set about some Mar. l'are you well, gentlemen.

revels?
Sır To. Authou let part so, sir Andrew, 'would thou Sir To. What shall we do else? were we not born
might'st never draw sword again.

der Taurus?
Sir And. An you part so, mistress, I would I might Sir And. Taurus ? that's sides and heart.
never draw sword again, l'air lady, do you

think you Sir To. No, sir; it is legs and thiglis. Let me see thee have fools in hand ?

caper: ha! higher: ha, ha!

excellent! [T.xeunt.
Mar. Sir, I have not you by the hand.
Sir And. Marry, but you shall have: and here's my SCENE IV. A room in the Duke's palace.
baed.

Enter VALENTINE, and Viola in man's attire,
Mar. Now, sir, thonght is free: I pray you, bring Val. If the duke continue these favours towards you,
your hand to the buttery-bar, aud let it drink. Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath
Sir And. Wherefore, sweet heart? what's your me- known you but three days, and already you are no
Mar. It's dry, sir.

taphor? stranger,
Sir And. Why, I think so; I am not such an ass, but l'io. You either fear his humour, or my negligence,
I can keep my hanż dry. But what's your jest? that

you call in question the continuance of his lore. Mar. A dry jest, sir.

Is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
Sir And. Are you full of them?

Val. No, believe me.
Mar. Ay, sir; Thave them at my fingers ends: mar-

Enter Duke, Curio, and attendants.
ry, now I let go your hand, I am barren. (Exit Maria. Vio. Ithank you. Here comes the count.
Sir To. O knight, thou lack'st a cup of canary! When Duke. Who saw Cesario, ho?
did I see thee so put down?

Vio. On your attendance, my lord; here.
Sir And. Never in your life, I think; unless you see Duhe. Stand you awhile aloof. — Cesario,
canary put me down. Methiks, sometimes I have no Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd
more wit than a Christian, or an ordinary man has: but To thee the book even of my secret soul:
I am a great eater of' beel, and, I believe, that does Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
harni tony wit.

Be rot deny'd access, stand at her doors,
Sir To. No question.

And tell them, there thy fixed foot sliall grow,
Sir And. An I thought that, I'd forswear it. I'll Till thou have audience.
ride home to-mori ow, sir Toby.

Vio. Sure, my noble lord,
Sir To. Pourquoy, my dear knight!

If she beso abandon'd to her sorrow,
Sir And. What is pourquoy? do or not do? I would As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
I had bestowed that time in the tongues, that I have in Duke. Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
fencing, dancing, and bear-baitiug. O, had I butfol- Rather than make uprofited return !
lowed the arts !

Vio. Say, I do speak with her, my lord; what then?
Sir To. Then hadst thou had an excellent head of Duke. 0, then untold the passion of my love,
hair.

Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
Sir And. Why, would that have mended my hair? It shall become thee well to act my woes;
Sir To. Past question; for thou seest, it will not curl She will attend it better in thy youth,
by nature.

Thanin anuncio of more grave aspéct.
Sir And. But it becomes me well enough, does't not? Vio. I think not so, my lord.
Sir To. Excellent: it hangs like flax on a distaff; and Duke. Dear lad, believe it!
I hope to see a housewife take thee between her legs, For they shall yet beliethy happy years,
and spin it off.

That say, thou art a man: Diana's lip
Sir And. 'Faith, I'll home to-morrow, sir Toby: Is not more smooth, and rubious; thy small pipe
your niece will not be seen; or, if she be, it's four to Is as the maiden's organ, shrill, and sound,
one she'll none of me: the count himself, here hard And all is semblative a woman's part.
by, wooes her.

I know, thy constellation is right apt Sir To. She'll none o' the count; she'll not match For this aflair. – Some four, or five, attend him; above her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit; 1 All, if you will; for I myself am best, have heard her swearit. Tut, there's life in't, man. When least in company. - Prosper well in this, Sir And. I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord, the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in masques To call his fortunesthine. and revels sometimes altogether.

Vio. I'll do my best,
Sir To. Artthon good at these kickshaws, knight? To woo your lady: yet, (4 side.] a barful strife!
Sir And. As any man in Illyria, whatsoever he be, Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wise. [Exeunt.
under the degree of my betters; and yet I will not
compare with an old man.

SCENE V.- Aroom in Olivia's house.
Sir To. What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight?

Enter Maria, and Clown.
Sir And. 'Faith, I can cut a caper.

Mar. Nay, either tell me, where thou hast been, or I
Sir To. And I can cut the mutton to't.

will not open my lips, so wide as a bristle may enter, in Sir And. And, I think, I have the back-trick, sim- way of thy excuse: my lady will hang thee for thy abply as strong as any man in Illyria. Sir To. Wherefore are these things hid? wherefore clo. Let her hang me! he, that is well hanged in this have these gifts a curtain before them? are they like world, needs to fear no colours. to take dust, like mistress Mall's picture? why dost Mar. Make that good!

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a

Clo, He shall see none to fear.

Oli. How say you to that, Malvolio? Mar. A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where Mal. I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a that saying was born, of I fear no colours.

barren rascal; I saw him put down the other day with Clo. Where, good mistress Mary?

an ordinary fool, that has no more brain, than a stone. Mar. In the wars; and that may you be bold to say in Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless your foolery.

you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. Clo. Well, God give them wisdom, that have it; and i protest, I take these wise men, that crow so at these those that are fools, let them use their talents. set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

Mar. Yet you will be hanged, for being so long ab- Oli. O, you are sick of self-love, Malvolio, and taste sent : or, to be turned away, not that as good as a with a distempered appetite. To be generous, guilthanging to you?

less, and of free disposition, is to take those things Clo. Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage; for bird-bolts, that you deem cannon-bullets: there and for turning away, let summer bear it out. is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing Mar. You are resolute then?

but rail; nor no railing in a known discreet man, Clo. Not so neither; but I am resolved on two points. though he do nothing but reprove. Mar. That, if one break, the other will hold; or, if Clo, Now Mercury endue thee with leasing, for thou both break, your gaskins fall.

speakest well of fools! Clo. Apt, in good faith; very apt! Well, go thy

Re-enter MARIA. way; if sir Toby would leave drinking, thou wert as Mar. Madam, there is at the gate a young gentleman, witty a piece of Eve's flesh as any in Illyria.

much desires to speak with you. Mar. Peace, you rogue, no more o’that; here comes Oli, From the count Orsino, is it? my lady: make your excuse wisely, you were best. Mar. I know not, madam; 'tis a fair young man, and

[Exit. wellattended. Enter Olivia and MALFOLIO.

Oli. Who of my people hold him in delay? Clo. Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling! Mar. Sir Toby, madam, your kinsman. Those wits, that think they have thee,do very oft prove Oli. Fetch him ofl, I pray you; he speaks nothing but fools; and I, that am sure lack thee, may pass for a madman : fye on him! (Exit Maria.] Go yon, Malwise man: for what says Quinapnlus? Better a witty volio: ifit be a suit from the count, I am sick, or not fool, than a foolish wit. God bless thee, lady! at home; what you will, to dismiss it. (Exit MalvoOli, Take the fool away!

lio.] Now you see, sir, how your fooling grows old, and Clo. Do you not hear, fellows? Take away the lady! people dislike it. Oli. Go to, you're a dry fool; I'll no more of you: Clo. Thou hast spoke for us, madonna, as if thy eldbesides, you grow dishonest.

est son should be a fool: whose skull Jove cram with Clo. Two faults, madonna, that drink and good coun- brains, for here he comes, one of thy kin, has a most sel will amend; for give the dry fool drink, then is the weak pia mater. fool not dry; bid the dishonest man mend himself; if

Enter SIR TOBY Belch. he mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let Oli. By mine honour, half drank. What is he at the the botcher mend him. Any thing, that's mended, is gate, cousin? but patched : virtne, that transgresses, is but patched Sir. To. A gentleman: with sin; and sin, that amends, is but patched with Oli

. A gentleman? What gentleman? virtue. If that this simple syllogism will serve, so; if Sir To. 'Tis a gentleman here

A plague o' these it will not, what remedy? As there is no true cuckold pickle-herrings ! -- Hlow now, sot? but calamity, so beauty's a flower:— the lady bade Clo. Good sir Toby, take away the fool; therefore, I say again, take her Oli. Cousin, cousin, how have yon come so early by away!

this lethargy? oli. Sir, I bade them take away yon.

Sir To. Lecliery! I defy lechery! There's one at Clo. Misprision in the highest degree! - Lady, Cu- the gate. cullus non facit monachum; that's as much as to say, Oli. Ay, marry; what is he? I wear not inotley in my brain. Good madonna, give Sir To. Let him be the devil, an he will, I care not: me leave to prove you a fool!

give me faith, say I. Well, it's all one.
Oli. Can you do it?

Oli. What's a drunken man like, fool?
Clo. Dexterously, good madonna.

Clo. Like a drown'd man, a fool, and a madmau: one
Oli. Make your proof!

draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads Clo. I must catechize you forit, madonna; good my him; and a third drowns him. mouse of virtue, answer me!

Oli. Go thou and seek the coroner, and let him sit o' Oli. Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide my coz; for he's in the third degree of drink, he's

drown'd: go, look after him. Clo. Good madonna, why mourn'st thon?

Clo. He is but mad yet, madonna; and the fool shall Oli. Good fool, for my brother's death.

look to the madman.
Clo. I think, his soulis in hell, madonna.

Re-enter MALVOLJO.
Oli. I know his soulis in heaven, fool.

Mal. Madam,yond young fellow swears, he will speak Clo. The more fool you, madonna, to mourn for with you. I told him, you were sick; he takes on him to your brother's soul being in heaven. — Take away the understand so much, and therefore comes to speak with fool, gentlemen!

you : I told him you were asleep; he seems to have a Oli. What think you of this fool, Malvolio? doth he fore-knowledge of that too, and therefore comes to not mend?

speak with you. What is to be said to him, lady? he's Mal. Yes; and shall do, till the pangs of death shake fortified against any denial. him. Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make Oli. Tell him, he shall not speak with me. the better fuol.

Mal. He has been told so; and he says, he'll stand Clo. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity, for the at your door like a sherit's post, and be the supporter better encreasing your folly ! Sir Toby will be sworn, of a bench, but he'll speak with you. that I am no fox; but he will not pass his word for Oli. What kind of man is he? two-pence, that you are no fool.

Mal. Why, of man kind.

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(Exit Clown.

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Oli. What manner of man?

Vio. To answer by the method, in the first of his Mal. Of very ill inanner; he'll speak with you, will heart.

Oli, 0, I have read it; it is heresy. Haveyou no more Ok. Of what personage, and is he?

to say? Mal. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough Vio. Good madam, let me se face! for a boy; as a squash is before 'tis a peas-cod, or a Oli. Have you any commission from your lord to codling when 'tis almost an apple: ’tis with him e’en negociate with my face? you are now out of your text: standing water, between boy and man. Heis very well, but we will draw the curtain, and shew you the picture. favoured, and he speaks very shrewishly; one would Look you, sir, such a one as I was this present : is't not think, his mother's milk were scarve out of him. well done?

[Unveiling. Oli. Let him approach! Callin my gentlewoman! Vio. Excellently done, if God did all. Mal. Gentlewoman, my lady calls.

[Lxit. Oli. 'Tis in grain, sir; 'twill endure wind and Re-enter Maria.

weather. Oli

. Give me my veil: come, throw it o'er my face! Vio. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white We'll once more hear Orsino's embassy.

Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Enter VIOLA.

Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive,
rio. The honourable lady of the house, which is she? If you will lead these graces to the grave,
Oli

, Speak to me, I shall answer for her: Your will? And leave the world no copy.
Pio. Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable Oli. 0, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give
beauty, -I pray you, tell me, if this be the lady of the out diverse schedules of my beanty: it shall be inven-
house, for I never saw her: I would be loath to cast toried ; and, every particle,and utensil, labelled to my
away my speech; for, besides that it is excellently will: as, item, two lips indiflerent red; item, two grey
well penn'd, I have taken great pains to con it. Good eyes, withlids to them; item, one neck, one chio, and
beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, so forth. Were you sent hither to 'praise me?
even to the least sinister usage.

Vio. I see you what you are: you are too proud; Oli. Whence came you, sir?

But, if you were the devil, you are fair.
Vio. I can say little more than I have studied, and My lord and master loves you ; 0, such love
that question's out of my part. Good gentle one, give Could be but recompens'd, though you were crown'd
me modest :tssurance, if you be the lady of the house, The nonpareil of beauty!
that I may proceed in my speech.

Oli. How does he love me?
Oli. Are you a comedian?

Vio. With adorations, with fertile tears,
Vio. No, my profound heart: and yet, by the very With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
fangs of malice, I swear, I am not that I play. Are you Oli. Your lord does know my mind, I cannot love him:
the lady of the house?

Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble,
Oli. If I do not usurp myself, I am.

Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth,
Vio. Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp your- In voices well divulg'd, free, learn'd, and valiant,
self; for what is yours to bestow, is not yours to re- And, in dimension, and the shape of nature,
serve. But this is from my commission: I will on with A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him;
my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart He might have took his answer long ago.

Vio. If I did love you in my master's flame,
Oli. Come to what is important in't: I forgive you with such a suflering, such a deadly life,
the praise.

In your denial I would find no sense,
Vio. Alas, I took great pains to study it, and 'tis I would not understand it.
poetical!

Oli. Why, what would you?
Oli. It is the more like to be feigned ; I pray you, Vio. Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
keep it in! I heard you were saucy at my gates, and And call upon my soul within the house;
allowed your approach rather to wonder at you than Write loyal cantons of contemoed love,
to hear you. If you be not mad, be gone; if you have And sing them loud even in the dead of night,
reason, be brief: 'tis not that time of moon with me, Holla your name to the reverberate hills,
to make one in so skipping a dialogue.

And make the babbling gossip of the air
Mar. Will you hoist sail, sir? here lies your way. Cry out, Olivia! 0, you should not rest
Vio. No, good swabber; I am to hull here a little between the elements of air and earth,
longer.- Some mollification for your giant, sweet lady. But you should pity me!
Oli
. Tell me your mind!

Oli. You might do much. What is your parentage?
Vio. I am a messenger.

Vio. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well :
Oli. Sure, you have some hideous matter to deliver, I am a gentleman.
when the courtesy of it is so fearful. Speak your office ! Oli. Get you to your lord;

Vio. It alone concerns your ear. I bring no overture I cannot love him: let him send no more;
of war, no taxation of homage ; I hold the olive in my Unless, perchance, you come to me again,
hand; my words are as full of peace as matter. To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well:

Oli. Yet you began rudely. What are you? what I thank you for your pains; spend this for me!
would you?

Vio. I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse;
Vio. The rudeness, that hath appear'din me, have I My master, not myself, lacks recompense.
learn’d from my entertainment. What Iam, and what Love make his heart of flint, that you shall love;
I would, are as secret, as maidenhead: to your ears, And let your fervour, like my master's, be
divinity; to any others, profanation.

Plac'd in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty ! (Exit.
Oli. Give us the place alone: we will hear this divi- Oli. What is your parentage?
nity. (Exit Maria.] – Now, sir, what is your text? Above my fortunes, yet my state is well;
Vio. Most sweet lady,

I am a gentleman. -l'll be sworn thou art;
Oli. A comfortable doctrine, and much may be said Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit,
of it. Where lies your text?

Do give thee five-fold blazon:- Not too fast: -- soft Vio. In Orsino's bosom.

of my message.

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