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- TWELFTH NIGHT
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- Act 2 Scene 1
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- (Enter Antonio and Sebastian)
- l1l Antonio Will you stay no longer, nor will you not that
- l2l I go with you?
- l3l Sebastian By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly
- l4l over me. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps
- l5l distemper yours, therefore I shall crave of you your
- l6l leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad
- l7l recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
- l8l Antonio Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.
- l9l Sebastian No, sooth, sir. My determinate voyage is mere
- l10l extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch
- l11l of modesty that you will not extort from me what I am
- l12l willing to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners
- l13l the rather to express myself. You must know of me
- l14l then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, which I called
- l15l Roderigo. My father was that Sebastian of Messaline
- l16l whom I know you have heard of. He left behind him
- l17l myself and a sister, both born in an hour. If the heavens
- l18l had been pleased, would we had so ended. But you,
- l19l sir, altered that, for some hour before you took me
- l20l from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned.
- l21l Antonio Alas the day!
- l22l Sebastian A lady, sir, though it was said she much
- l23l resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful.
- l24l But though I could not with such estimable wonder
- l25l over-far believe that, yet thus far I will boldly publish
- l26l her: she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair.
- l27l She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I
- l28l seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
- l29l Antonio Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
- l30l Sebastian O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
- l31l Antonio If you will not murder me for my love, let me
- l32l be your servant.
- l33l Sebastian If you will not undo what you have doneù
- l34l that is, kill him whom you have recoveredùdesire it
- l35l not. Fare ye well at once. My bosom is full of kindness,
- l36l and I am yet so near the manners of my mother that
- l37l upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell tales
- l38l of me. I am bound to the Count OrsinoÆs court. Farewell.
- (Exit)
- l39l Antonio The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
- l40l I have many enemies in OrsinoÆs court,
- l41l Else would I very shortly see thee there.
- l42l But come what may, I do adore thee so
- l43l That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
- (Exit)
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