DRAMATIS PERSONE. ORSINO, Duke of Illyria. SEBASTIAN, a young Gentleman, Brother to VIOLA. ANTONIO, a Sea Captain, Friend to SEBASTIAN. A Sea Captain, Friend to VIOLA. Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants. SCENE, A City in ILLYRIA; and the Sea-coast near it. TWELFTH NIGHT: OR, WHAT YOU WILL. ACT I. SCENE I.-An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. 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 south, Stealing, and giving odour.-Enough; no more: O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou! That, notwithstanding thy capacity Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high-fantastical. Cur. Will you go hunt, my lord? Duke. Cur. What, Curio? The hart. Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have: 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; The element itself, till seven years' heat, Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame, That live in her, when liver, brain, and heart, SCENE II.-The Sea-coast. Vio. What country, friends, is this? Cap. Vio. And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. [Exeunt. This is Illyria, lady. Perchance, he is not drown'd:-what think you, sailors? Vio. O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. When you, and those poor number sav'd with you, (Courage and hope both teaching him the practice) Vio. For saying so, there's gold: Whereto thy speech serves for authority, The like of him. Know'st thou this country? Not three hours' travel from this very place. |