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VALENTINE.
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So please my lord, I might not be admitted,
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But from her handmaid do return this answer:
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The element itself, till seven years' heat,
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Shall not behold her face at ample view;
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But like a cloistress she will veiled walk,
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And water once a-day her chamber round
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With eye-offending brine: all this to season
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A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
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And lasting in her sad remembrance.
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DUKE.
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O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame
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To pay this debt of love but to a brother,
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How will she love when the rich golden shaft
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Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else
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That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart,
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These sovereign thrones, are all supplied and fill'd,--
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Her sweet perfections,--with one self king!--
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Away before me to sweet beds of flowers:
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Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers.
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[Exeunt.]
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SCENE II.
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The sea-coast.
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[Enter VIOLA, CAPTAIN, and Sailors.]
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VIOLA.
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What country, friends, is this?
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CAPTAIN.
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This is Illyria, lady.
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VIOLA.
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And what should I do in Illyria?
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My brother he is in Elysium.
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Perchance he is not drown'd--What think you, sailors?
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CAPTAIN.
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It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd.
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VIOLA.
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O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be.
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CAPTAIN.
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True, madam; and, to comfort you with chance,
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Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
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When you, and those poor number sav'd with you,
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Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
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Most provident in peril, bind himself,---
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Courage and hope both teaching him the practice,--
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To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea;
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Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
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I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
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So long as I could see.
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VIOLA.
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For saying so, there's gold!
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Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
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Whereto thy speech serves for authority,
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The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
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CAPTAIN.
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Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
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Not three hours' travel from this very place.
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VIOLA.
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Who governs here?
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CAPTAIN.
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A noble duke, in nature
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As in name.
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VIOLA.
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What is his name?
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CAPTAIN.
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Orsino.
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VIOLA.
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Orsino! I have heard my father name him.
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He was a bachelor then.
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CAPTAIN.
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And so is now,
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Or was so very late; for but a month
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Ago I went from hence; and then 'twas fresh
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In murmur,--as, you know, what great ones do,
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The less will prattle of,--that he did seek
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The love of fair Olivia.
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