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Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man’s attire, as Cesario
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Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man’s attire, as Cesario
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VALENTINE If the duke continue these favors towards you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced. He hath known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
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VALENTINE If the duke continue these favors towards you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced. He hath known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
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VIOLA You either fear his humor or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favors?
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VIOLA You either fear his humor or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favors?
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VALENTINE No, believe me.
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VALENTINE No, believe me.
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VIOLA I thank you. Here comes the count.
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VIOLA I thank you. Here comes the count.
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Enter ORSINO , CURIO , and attendants
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Enter ORSINO , CURIO , and attendants
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ORSINO Who saw Cesario, ho?
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ORSINO Who saw Cesario, ho?
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VIOLA 10 On your attendance, my lord, here.
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VIOLA On your attendance, my lord, here.
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ORSINO (to VIOLA and attendants)
Stand you a while aloof. (to VIOLA) Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
15 Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
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ORSINO (to VIOLA and attendants)
Stand you a while aloof. (to VIOLA) Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
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VIOLA Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandoned to her sorrow
20 As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
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VIOLA Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandoned to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
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ORSINO Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
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ORSINO Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
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VIOLA Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
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VIOLA Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
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ORSINO O, then unfold the passion of my love,
25 Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
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ORSINO O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
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VIOLA I think not so, my lord.
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VIOLA I think not so, my lord.
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ORSINO Dear lad, believe it.
30 For they shall yet belie thy happy years
That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe
Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
35 I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. (to CURIO and attendants)
Some four or five attend him.
All, if you will, for I myself am best
When least in company. (to VIOLA) Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
40 To call his fortunes thine.
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ORSINO Dear lad, believe it.
For they shall yet belie thy happy years
That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe
Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. (to CURIO and attendants)
Some four or five attend him.
All, if you will, for I myself am best
When least in company. (to VIOLA) Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
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VIOLA I’ll do my best
To woo your lady—(aside) Yet, a barful strife—
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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VIOLA I’ll do my best
To woo your lady—(aside) Yet, a barful strife—
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man’s attire, as Cesario
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Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man’s attire, as Cesario
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VALENTINE If the duke continue these favors towards you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced. He hath known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
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VALENTINE If the duke continue these favors towards you, Cesario, you are like to be much advanced. He hath known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
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VIOLA You either fear his humor or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favors?
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VIOLA You either fear his humor or my negligence, that you call in question the continuance of his love. Is he inconstant, sir, in his favors?
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VALENTINE No, believe me.
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VALENTINE No, believe me.
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VIOLA I thank you. Here comes the count.
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VIOLA I thank you. Here comes the count.
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Enter ORSINO , CURIO , and attendants
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Enter ORSINO , CURIO , and attendants
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ORSINO Who saw Cesario, ho?
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ORSINO Who saw Cesario, ho?
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VIOLA 10 On your attendance, my lord, here.
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VIOLA On your attendance, my lord, here.
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ORSINO (to VIOLA and attendants)
Stand you a while aloof. (to VIOLA) Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
15 Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
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ORSINO (to VIOLA and attendants)
Stand you a while aloof. (to VIOLA) Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
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VIOLA Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandoned to her sorrow
20 As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
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VIOLA Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandoned to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
|
|
ORSINO Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
|
ORSINO Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
|
|
VIOLA Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
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VIOLA Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
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ORSINO O, then unfold the passion of my love,
25 Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
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ORSINO O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
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VIOLA I think not so, my lord.
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VIOLA I think not so, my lord.
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ORSINO Dear lad, believe it.
30 For they shall yet belie thy happy years
That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe
Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
35 I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. (to CURIO and attendants)
Some four or five attend him.
All, if you will, for I myself am best
When least in company. (to VIOLA) Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
40 To call his fortunes thine.
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ORSINO Dear lad, believe it.
For they shall yet belie thy happy years
That say thou art a man. Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe
Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair. (to CURIO and attendants)
Some four or five attend him.
All, if you will, for I myself am best
When least in company. (to VIOLA) Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
|
|
VIOLA I’ll do my best
To woo your lady—(aside) Yet, a barful strife—
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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VIOLA I’ll do my best
To woo your lady—(aside) Yet, a barful strife—
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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