OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. EDITED BY WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK AND WILLIAM ALDIS WRIGHT. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOLUME II. NEW YORK: WM. L. ALLISON COMPANY, TWELFTH NIGHT; OR, WHAT YOU WILL. DRAMATIS PERSONA. ORSINO, Duke of Illyria. Sebastian. A Sea Captain, friend to Viola. VIOLA. servants to Olivia. MARIA, Olivia's woman. Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, SCENE: A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it. ACT I. SCENE I. The DUKE's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending. 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 sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy Cur. Will you go hunt, my lord? What, Curio? 10 Cur. The hart. Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have : O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, 20 Methought she puiged the air of pestilence ! And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, Enter VALENTINE. How now! what news from her? Val. So please my lord, I might not be admitted; A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame How will she love, when the rich golden shaft Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else That live in her; when liver, brain and heart, These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd Away before me to sweet beds of flowers: 30 40 Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. [Exeunt. SCENE II. The sea-coast. Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors. Vio. What country, friends, is this? Cap. This is Illyria, lady. Vio. And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors? 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 Most provident in peril, bind himself, Courage and hope both teaching him the practice, 10 |