ACT II. SCENE I.
The sea-coast
Enter ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN
| 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 call'd 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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| ANTONIO. | write_ads(1,1)> Alas the day!
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| 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 overfar 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
| ANTONIO. | The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
I have many cnemies 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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