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Twelfth Night - Act 2, scene 1
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Twelfth Night - Act 2, scene 1Act 2, scene 1
Scene 1
Synopsis:
A young gentleman named Sebastian, who has recently been saved from a shipwreck in which his sister has been lost, sets off for Orsino’s court. Antonio, the sailor who saved him, follows him, even though Antonio risks his own life to do so.
Enter Antonio and Sebastian.ANTONIO 0614 Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that
0615 I go with you?
SEBASTIAN 0616 By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly
0617 over me. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps
0618 5 distemper yours. Therefore I shall crave of you your
0619 leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad
0620 recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.
ANTONIO 0621 Let me yet know of you whither you are
0622 bound.
SEBASTIAN 0623 10No, sooth, sir. My determinate voyage is
0624 mere extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent
0625 a touch of modesty that you will not extort
0626 from me what I am willing to keep in. Therefore it
0627 charges me in manners the rather to express myself.
0628 15 You must know of me, then, Antonio, my name
0629 is Sebastian, which I called Roderigo. My father was
0630 that Sebastian of Messaline whom I know you have
0631 heard of. He left behind him myself and a sister,
0632 both born in an hour. If the heavens had been
0633 20 pleased, would we had so ended! But you, sir,
0634 altered that, for some hour before you took me
0635 from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned.
ANTONIO 0636 Alas the day!
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SEBASTIAN
0637
A lady, sir, though it was said she much0638 25 resembled me, was yet of many accounted beautiful.
0639 But though I could not with such estimable
0640 wonder overfar believe that, yet thus far I will boldly
0641 publish her: she bore a mind that envy could not but
0642 call fair. She is drowned already, sir, with salt water,
0643 30 though I seem to drown her remembrance again
0644 with more.
ANTONIO 0645 Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment.
SEBASTIAN 0646 O good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
ANTONIO 0647 If you will not murder me for my love, let me
0648 35 be your servant.
SEBASTIAN 0649 If you will not undo what you have done—
0650 that is, kill him whom you have recovered—desire
0651 it not. Fare you well at once. My bosom is full of
0652 kindness, and I am yet so near the manners of my
0653 40 mother that, upon the least occasion more, mine
0654 eyes will tell tales of me. I am bound to the Count
0655 Orsino’s court. Farewell.He exits.
ANTONIO
0656 The gentleness of all the gods go with thee!
0657 I have many enemies in Orsino’s court,
0658 45 Else would I very shortly see thee there.
0659 But come what may, I do adore thee so
0660 That danger shall seem sport, and I will go.
He exits.