Act II, Scene i: The sea-coast
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| | ANTONIO: | |
| | Will you stay no longer; nor will you not that I go with you? | |
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| | 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 leave that I may bear my evils alone: it | |
| | were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you. | |
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| | ANTONIO: | |
| | Let me know of you whither you are bound. | |
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| | SEBASTIAN: | |
| | No, sooth, sir; my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I | |
| | perceive in you so excellent a 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 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 pleas'd, would we had so ended! but you, sir, alter'd that; | |
| | for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was | |
| | my sister drown'd. | |
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| | SEBASTIAN: | |
| | A lady, sir, though it was said she much resembl'd me, was yet of | |
| | many accounted beautiful; but, though I could not, with such | |
| | estimable wonder, over-far believe that, yet thus far I will | |
| | boldly publish her: she bore mind that envy could not but call | |
| | fair. She is drown'd already, sir, with salt water, though I seem | |
| | to drown her remembrance again with more. | |
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| | ANTONIO: | |
| | Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. | |
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| | SEBASTIAN: | |
| | O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble! | |
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| | ANTONIO: | |
| | If you will not murder me for my love, let me be your servant. | |
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| | SEBASTIAN: | |
| | If you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom | |
| | you have recover'd, desire it not. 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. | |
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[Exit.]
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| | ANTONIO: | |
| | The gentleness of all the gods go with thee! | |
| | 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. | |
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[Exit.]
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