PERSONS REPRESENTED. ORSINO, duke of Illyria. SEBASTIAN, a young gentleman, brother to Viola, A SEA CAPTAIN, friend to Viola. Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, ard other Attendants. SCENE, a city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it. An apartment in the Duke's palace. Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending. Stealing, and giving odor.-Enough; no more; Receiveth as the sea, naught enters there, 1 Value. But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy, Cur. Will you go hunt, my Duke. Cur. lord? What, Curio ? The hart. Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought, she purged the air of pestilence. That instant was I turn'd into a hart; And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds, E'er since pursue me.-How now? what news from her? Enter VALENTINE. Val. So please my lord, I might not be admitted, But from her handmaid do return this answer: The element itself, till seven years heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view; But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk, And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine: all this, to season A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her sad remembrance. To Duke. O, she, that hath a heart of that fine frame, pay this debt of love but to a brother, How will she love, when the rich golden shaft 1 Fantastical to the height. • Heated. Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else That live in her! when liver, brain, and heart, [Exeunt. SCENE II. The sea-coast. Enter VIOLA, 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 ? Cap. It is perchance, that you yourself were saved. 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 that poor number saved with you, Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) To a strong mast, that lived upon the sea; Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves, Vio. For saying so, there's gold: Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, Whereto thy speech serves for authority, Not three hours travel from this very place. Vio. Who governs here? 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, Vio. What's she? Cap. A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her In the protection of his son, her brother, Who shortly also died; for whose dear love, Vio. O, that I served that lady ; And might not be deliver'd to the world, |