And leave the world no copy. Oli. O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted; I will give out divers schedules of my beauty: it shall be inventoried, and every particle and utensil labeled to my will: as, item, two lips indifferent red; item, two gray eyes, with lids to them; item, one neck, one chin, and so forth. Were Were you sent hither to praise me? Vio. I see you what you are, you are too proud; But, if you were the devil, you are fair. My lord and master loves you: O, such love Could be but recompensed, though you were crown'd Oli. The nonpareil of beauty! How does he love me? Vio. With adorations, fertile tears, 281 With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. Oli. Your lord does know my mind; I cannot love him: Yet I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, And in dimension and the shape of nature 290 A gracious person: but yet I cannot love him; Vio. If I did love you in my master's flame, 290. "In voices well divulged"; well reputed in the popular voice. -C. H. H. "learned and valiant; that is, well-reputed for his knowledge in languages, which was esteemed a great accomplishment in the Poet's time.-H. N. H. With such a suffering, such a deadly life, 300 Oli. Oli. You might do much. What is your parentage? Vio. Above my fortunes, yet my state is well: I am a gentleman. Oli. 310 Get you to your lord; I cannot love him: let him send no more; Unless, perchance, you come to me again, To tell me how he takes it. Fare you well: I thank you for your pains: spend this for me. Vio. I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse: My master, not myself, lacks recompense. Love make his heart of flint that you shall love; And let your fervor, like my master's, be Placed in contempt! Farewell, fair cruelty. [Exit. Oli. 'What is your parentage?' 'Above my fortunes, yet my state is well: 320 303. "babbling gossip of the air"; a Shakespearean expression for echo.-H. N. H. I am a gentleman.' I'll be sworn thou art; Thy tongue, thy face, thy limbs, actions, and spirit, Do give thee five-fold blazon: not too fast: soft, Unless the master were the man. How now! To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be. Mal. Re-enter Malvolio. Here, madam, at your service. Oli. Run after that same peevish messenger, 330 The county's man: he left this ring behind him, Nor hold him up with hopes; I am not for him: If that the youth will come this way to-morrow, I'll give him reasons for 't: hie thee, Malvolio. Mal. Madam, I will. Oli. I do I know not what, and fear to find [Exit. Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. 341 [Exit. 339. "Mine eye too great a flatterer"; that is, she fears that her eyes had formed so flattering an idea of the supposed youth Cesario, that she should not have strength of mind sufficient to resist the impression.-H. N. H. ACT SECOND SCENE I The sea-coast. Enter Antonio and Sebastian. Ant. Will you stay no longer? nor will you not Seb. By your patience, no. My stars shine mere extravagancy. But I perceive in you 10 19. "Messaline"; possibly an error for Mitylene, as Capell conjectured.-I. G. whom I know you have heard of. He left 20 behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased, would we had so ended! but you, sir, altered that; for some hour before you took me from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned. Ant. Alas the day. Seb. A lady, sir, though it was said she much Ant. Pardon me, sir, your bad entertainment. 39. “your servant"; Mr. Knight thinks, and apparently with good reason, that in this passage reference is had to a superstition thus indicated by Sir Walter Scott in The Pirate: When Mordaunt has rescued Cleveland from the sea, and is trying to revive him, Bryce the peddler says to him,-“Are you mad? you, that have so long lived in Zetland, to risk the saving of a drowning man? Wot ye not, if you bring him to life again, he will be sure to do you some capital injury?" Sir Walter suggests in a note that this inhuman maxim was probably held by the islanders of the Orkneys, as an excuse for leaving all to perish alone who were shipwrecked upon their coasts, to the end that there might be nothing to hinder the plundering of their goods; which of course could not well be, if any of the owners survived. This practice, he says, continued into the eighteenth century, and "was with difficulty weeded out by the sedulous instructions of the clergy and the rigorous injunctions of the proprietors."-H. N. H. |