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The sea-coast.
[Enter VIOLA, a Captain, and Sailors ]
VIOLA
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What count|ry (friends)| is this?
CAPTAIN
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This is
Illyr|ia la||dy.
VIOLA
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And what | should I | do in | Illy|ria?
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My broth|er he | is in | Elys|ium,
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Perchance | he is not | drowned: what | think you
| sailors?
CAPTAIN
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It is | perchance | that you | yourself | were
saved.
VIOLA
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O my poor brother, and so perchance may he be. ????
CAPTAIN
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True | madam,| and to com|fort you | with chance,
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Assure | yourself,| after | our ship | did split,
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When you,| and those / poor num|ber saved | with you,
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Hung on | our driv|ing boat:| I saw | your
broth||er,
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Most | provi|dent in / peril, bind | himself,
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(Courage and | hope both teach//ing him the |
practice)
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To a / strong mast,| that lived | upon | the sea:
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Where like Ar|ion on | the dolph|in's back,
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I saw | him hold | acquaint|ance with | the waves,
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So long | as I could see.
VIOLA
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For say|ing so,|
there's^gold:
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Mine own | escape | unfold|eth to | my hope,
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Whereto | thy speech | serves for |
author|ity
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The like | of him.| Knowst thou this | country?
CAPTAIN
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Aye madam well,| for I | was bred | and born
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Not three | hours'^trav|el from | this ve|ry
place.
VIOLA
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Who gov|erns here? \\
CAPTAIN
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A nob|le duke | in na|ture, as | in name.
VIOLA
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What is |
his name?
CAPTAIN
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Orsin|o.
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VIOLA
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Orsin|o: I | have heard | my fath|er name || him.
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He | was a | bache|lor then.|
CAPTAIN
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And so | is now,| or was | so ve|ry late:
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For but | a month | ago | I went | from hence,
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And then | 'twas fresh | in mur|mur (as | you
know
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What great | ones^do,| the less | will prat|tle
of)
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That he | did seek | the love | of fair |
Oliv||ia.
VIOLA
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What's she?
CAPTAIN
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A vir|tuous maid,| the daugh|ter of a
count
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That died | some twelve|month^since,| then
leav|ing her
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In the pro|tection | of his | son, her | brother,
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Who short|ly al|so died:| for whose | dear love
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(They say)| she hath | abjured | the comp|any
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And sight | of men.
VIOLA
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O that I | served that | lady,
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And might | not be | deliv|ered to | the world
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Till I had | made mine^|own oc|casion | mellow
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What my es|tate is.
CAPTAIN
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That were | hard to |
compass,
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Because | she will ad|mit no kind | of suit,
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No, not | the duke's. \\
VIOLA
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There is | a fair | behav|ior in thee |
captain,
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And though | that na|ture, with | a beaut|eous
wall
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Doth^oft | close in | pollu|tion: yet | of thee
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I will | believe | thou hast | a mind | that
suits
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With this | thy fair | and out|ward char|acter.
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I prith|ee (and | I'll pay | thee bount|eously)
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Conceal | me what | I am,| and be | my aid,
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For such | disguise | as hap|ly shall | become
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The form | of my | intent.| I'll serve | this
duke,
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Thou shall pre|sent me | as a | eunuch | to him,
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It may | be worth | thy pains:| for I | can sing,
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And speak | to him | in many | sorts of | music,
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That will al|low me | very | worth his | service.
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What else | may hap,| to time | I will | commit,
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Only | shape thou | thy sil|ence to | my wit.
CAPTAIN.
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Be you | his eun|uch, and / your mute | I'll be,
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When my / tongue blabs,| then let | mine^eyes |
not see.
VIOLA
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I thank | thee: lead | me on. \\
[Exeunt]