NOTE XVII.

V. 2. 4. Warburton adopts Theobald's reading and copies in substance his note, but he has not claimed it in his copy of Theobald's edition. The conjecture was originally made in one of Theobald's letters to Warburton: Capell adopted the emendation, but afterwards repented.

NOTE XVIII.

EPILOGUE, 4. Mr Collier, in his second edition, quotes this substitution of 'succeeding' for 'exceeding,' but does not say by whom it was proposed.

TWELFTH NIGHT;

OR,

WHAT YOU WILL.

Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other At

tendants.

SCENE: A city in Illyria, and the sea coast near it.

1 First given by Rowe. See note (1).

TWELFTH NIGHT;

OR,

WHAT YOU WILL.

ACT I.

SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.

Enter DUKE, CURIO, and other Lords; Musicians attending.
Duke. If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.

That strain again! it had a dying fall:

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,

Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more:
'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!
That, notwithstanding thy capacity
Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there,
Of what validity and pitch soe'er,
But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute! so full of shapes is fancy,

That it alone is high fantastical.

Cur. Will you go hunt, my lord?

Duke.

Cur. The hart.

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What, Curio?

Duke. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have:
O, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methought she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turn'd into a hart;

And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.

Enter VALENTINE.

How now! what news from her?

Val. So please my lord, I might not be admitted;

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But from her handmaid do return this answer:

The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;

But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk

And water once a day her chamber round

With eye-offending brine: all this to season

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A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh
And lasting in her sad remembrance.

Duke. O, she that hath a heart of that fine frame

To pay this debt of love but to a brother,

How will she love, when the rich golden shaft

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Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else

That live in her; when liver, brain and heart,

These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd

14. is fancy] in fancy Theobald (Warburton).

15. That it alone is] And thou all o'er art Hanmer.

high] hight Warburton.

16. Curio] Curia F4.

19. mine] my Pope (ed. 2). 20. Methought... pestilence!] (Methought...pestilence) Capell. 23. E'er] Rowe. E're F3.

Ere F, F2F4.

Enter V.] Ff (after her).

26. years' heat] Harness. yeares heate FF2 yeares heat F3. years heat F4 years hence Rowe (ed. 2). See note (11).

29. chamber] F, chambers F2F3 F4 chamber's Capell.

32. remembrance] remembrance still Pope. rememberance Capell conj. MS. 38. These] Three Hanmer (Warburton).

38, 39. are... fill'd Her ... perfections] are...fill'd, (O sweet perfection!)