TPTT Twelfth Night, or What You Will: ACT II
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
SCENE I. The sea-coast.
SCENE II. A street.
SCENE III. OLIVIA's house.
SCENE IV. DUKE ORSINO's palace.
SCENE V. OLIVIA's garden.
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE I. The sea-coast.
Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
ANTONIO
      Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
SEBASTIAN
      By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over
      me: the malignancy of my fate might perhaps
      distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your
5     leave that I may bear my evils alone: it were a bad
      recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.
ANTONIO
      Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.
SEBASTIAN
      No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere
      extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a
10    touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me
      what I am willing to keep in; therefore it charges
      me in manners the rather to express myself. You
      must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
      which I called Roderigo. My father was that
15    Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard
      of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
      born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased,
      would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that;
      for some hour before you took me from the breach of
20    the sea was my sister drowned.
ANTONIO
      Alas the day!
SEBASTIAN
      A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled
      me, was yet of many accounted beautiful: but,
      though I could not with such estimable wonder
25    overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly
      publish her; she bore a mind that envy could not but
      call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt
      water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more.
ANTONIO
      Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
SEBASTIAN
30    O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
ANTONIO
      If you will not murder me for my love, let me be
      your servant.
SEBASTIAN
      If you will not undo what you have done, that is,
      kill him whom you have recovered, desire it not.
35    Fare ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness,
      and I am yet so near the manners of my mother, that
      upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell
      tales of me. I am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.
Exit
ANTONIO
      The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
40    I have many enemies in Orsino's court,
      Else would I very shortly see thee there.
      But, come what may, I do adore thee so,
      That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
Exit
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