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| <H3>SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter DUKE ORSINO, VIOLA, CURIO, and others</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Give me some music. Now, good morrow, friends.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>That old and antique song we heard last night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Methought it did relieve my passion much,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>More than light airs and recollected terms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Of these most brisk and giddy-paced times:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>Come, but one verse.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>He is not here, so please your lordship that should sing it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Who was it?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>CURIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Feste, the jester, my lord; a fool that the lady</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Olivia's father took much delight in. He is about the house.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>Seek him out, and play the tune the while.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit CURIO. Music plays</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=13>Come hither, boy: if ever thou shalt love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>In the sweet pangs of it remember me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>For such as I am all true lovers are,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>Unstaid and skittish in all motions else,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Save in the constant image of the creature</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>That is beloved. How dost thou like this tune?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>It gives a very echo to the seat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>Where Love is throned.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>Thou dost speak masterly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>My life upon't, young though thou art, thine eye</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>Hath stay'd upon some favour that it loves:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Hath it not, boy?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=25> A little, by your favour.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=26>What kind of woman is't?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>Of your complexion.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>She is not worth thee, then. What years, i' faith?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=29>About your years, my lord.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Too old by heaven: let still the woman take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>An elder than herself: so wears she to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>So sways she level in her husband's heart:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Than women's are.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37> I think it well, my lord.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>Then let thy love be younger than thyself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Or thy affection cannot hold the bent;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>For women are as roses, whose fair flower</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>And so they are: alas, that they are so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>To die, even when they to perfection grow!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter CURIO and Clown</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=44>O, fellow, come, the song we had last night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Mark it, Cesario, it is old and plain;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>The spinsters and the knitters in the sun</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>And the free maids that weave their thread with bones</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>And dallies with the innocence of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Like the old age.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=51>Are you ready, sir?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=52>Ay; prithee, sing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=53>SONG.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=54>Come away, come away, death,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>And in sad cypress let me be laid;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>Fly away, fly away breath;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>I am slain by a fair cruel maid.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>O, prepare it!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>My part of death, no one so true</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>Did share it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>Not a flower, not a flower sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>On my black coffin let there be strown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>Not a friend, not a friend greet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>A thousand thousand sighs to save,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Lay me, O, where</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>Sad true lover never find my grave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>To weep there!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>There's for thy pains.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=71>No pains, sir: I take pleasure in singing, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=72>I'll pay thy pleasure then.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=73>Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time or another.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=74>Give me now leave to leave thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=75>Now, the melancholy god protect thee; and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>constancy put to sea, that their business might be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>every thing and their intent every where; for that's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Let all the rest give place.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>CURIO and Attendants retire</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=82>Once more, Cesario,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Get thee to yond same sovereign cruelty:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>Tell her, my love, more noble than the world,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>Prizes not quantity of dirty lands;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>The parts that fortune hath bestow'd upon her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>Tell her, I hold as giddily as fortune;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>But 'tis that miracle and queen of gems</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>That nature pranks her in attracts my soul.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=90>But if she cannot love you, sir?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=91>I cannot be so answer'd.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=92>Sooth, but you must.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>Say that some lady, as perhaps there is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Hath for your love a great a pang of heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>As you have for Olivia: you cannot love her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>You tell her so; must she not then be answer'd?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=97>There is no woman's sides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Can bide the beating of so strong a passion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>So big, to hold so much; they lack retention</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=101>Alas, their love may be call'd appetite,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>No motion of the liver, but the palate,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>But mine is all as hungry as the sea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>And can digest as much: make no compare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Between that love a woman can bear me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>And that I owe Olivia.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=108>Ay, but I know--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=109>What dost thou know?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech34><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=110>Too well what love women to men may owe:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>In faith, they are as true of heart as we.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>My father had a daughter loved a man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>I should your lordship.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=115>And what's her history?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech36><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=116>A blank, my lord. She never told her love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>And with a green and yellow melancholy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>She sat like patience on a monument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>We men may say more, swear more: but indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=123>Our shows are more than will; for still we prove</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=124>Much in our vows, but little in our love.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech37><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=125>But died thy sister of her love, my boy?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech38><b>VIOLA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=126>I am all the daughters of my father's house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=127>And all the brothers too: and yet I know not.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=128>Sir, shall I to this lady?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE ORSINO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=129>Ay, that's the theme.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>To her in haste; give her this jewel; say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>My love can give no place, bide no denay.</A><br> | |
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