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| <H3>SCENE II. The sea-coast.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>What country, friends, is this?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>This is Illyria, lady.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>And what should I do in Illyria?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>My brother he is in Elysium.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>It is perchance that you yourself were saved.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Assure yourself, after our ship did split,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>When you and those poor number saved with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Most provident in peril, bind himself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>So long as I could see.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>For saying so, there's gold:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Whereto thy speech serves for authority,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>The like of him. Know'st thou this country?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Not three hours' travel from this very place.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>Who governs here?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=25>A noble duke, in nature as in name.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=26>What is the name?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>Orsino.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Orsino! I have heard my father name him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>He was a bachelor then.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>And so is now, or was so very late;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>For but a month ago I went from hence,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>And then 'twas fresh in murmur,--as, you know,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>What great ones do the less will prattle of,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=35>What's she?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=36>A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>In the protection of his son, her brother,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Who shortly also died: for whose dear love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>They say, she hath abjured the company</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>And sight of men.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42> O that I served that lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>And might not be delivered to the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>What my estate is!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>That were hard to compass;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Because she will admit no kind of suit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>No, not the duke's.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=49>There is a fair behavior in thee, captain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And though that nature with a beauteous wall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>I will believe thou hast a mind that suits</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>With this thy fair and outward character.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>I prithee, and I'll pay thee bounteously,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Conceal me what I am, and be my aid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>For such disguise as haply shall become</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>The form of my intent. I'll serve this duke:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Thou shall present me as an eunuch to him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>It may be worth thy pains; for I can sing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>And speak to him in many sorts of music</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>That will allow me very worth his service.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>What else may hap to time I will commit;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>Only shape thou thy silence to my wit.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>Captain</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not see.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=66>I thank thee: lead me on.</A><br> | |
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