Enter Duke, CURIO, and Lords; Musicians attending. Duke. If musick 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: 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, t Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy, Cur. Duke. Cur, Will you go hunt, my lord? What, Curio? The hart. Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, from her? Enter VALENTINE. Val. So please my lord, I might not be ad- But from her hand-maid do return this answer: 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, That live in her! when liver, brain, and heart, These sovereign thrones, are all supply'd, and fill'd, (Her sweet perfections,) with one self-king!Away before me to sweet beds of flowers; Love thoughts lie rich, when canopy'd with bowers. [Exeunt.] Enter VIOLA, Captain, and Sailors. Vio. What country, friends, is this? Vio. And what should I do in Illyria? Perchance, he is not drown'd: sailors? What think you, Cap. It is perchance, that you yourself were sav'd. Vio. O my poor brother! and so, perchance, may he be. Cap. True, madam: and, to comfort chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, When and this you, poor you with number sav'd with you, Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself (Courage and hope both teaching him the prac tice) To a strong mast, that liv'd upon the sea; Vio. For saying so, there's gold: Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, The like of him. Know'st thou this country? born, Not three hours travel from this very place. Cap. A noble duke in nature, as in name. Cap. Orsino, 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 lefs will prattle of,) That he did seek the love of fair Õlivia. Cap. A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That dy'd some twelve-month since; then leav ing her In the protection of his son, her brother, And company of men. Vio. O, that I serv'd that lady; And might not be deliver❜d to the world, Till I had made mine own occasion mellow, What my estate is! Cap. That were hard to compass; Because she will admit no kind of suit, No, not the duke's. Vio. There is a fair behaviour in thee, cap tain; And though that nature with a beauteous wall That will allow me very worth his service. Cap. Be you his eunuch, and your mute I'll be: When my tongue blabs, then let mine eyes not 1 see! Vio. I thank thee: Lead me on. [Exeunt.] A Room in Olivia's House. "Enter Sir TOBY BELCH, and MARIA. Sir To. What a plague means my niece, to take the death of her brother thus? I am sure, care's an enemy to life. Mar. By my troth, Sir Toby, you must come in earlier o'nights; your cousin, my lady, takes great exceptions to your ill hours. Sir To. Why, let her except before excepted. Mar. Ay, but you must confine yourself within the modest limits of order. Sir To. Confine? I'll confine myself no finer than I am: these clothes are good enough to drink in, and so be these boots too; and they be not, let them hang themselves in their own straps. Mar. That quaffing and drinking will undo you: I heard my lady talk of it yesterday; and of a foolish knight, that you brought in one night here, to be her wooer. Sir To. Who? Sir Andrew Ague-cheek? Mar. Ay, he. Sir To. He's as tall a man as any's in Illyria. Mar. What's that to the purpose? Sir To. Why, he has three thousand ducats. a year. |