Shakespeare, William / 2008-07-24 00:00:00
TWELFTH NIGHT
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ORSINO Duke of Illyria. (DUKE ORSINO:)
SEBASTIAN brother to Viola.
ANTONIO a sea captain, friend to Sebastian.
A Sea Captain, friend to Viola. (Captain:)
VALENTINE |
| gentlemen attending on the Duke.
CURIO |
SIR TOBY BELCH uncle to Olivia.
SIR ANDREW
AGUECHEEK (SIR ANDREW:)
MALVOLIO steward to Olivia.
FABIAN |
| servants to Olivia.
FESTE a Clown (Clown:) |
OLIVIA:
VIOLA:
MARIA Olivia's woman.
Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians,
and other Attendants.
(Priest:)
(First Officer:)
(Second Officer:)
(Servant:)
SCENE A city in Illyria, and the sea-coast near it.
TWELFTH NIGHT
ACT I
SCENE I DUKE ORSINO's palace.
[Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and other Lords;
Musicians attending]
DUKE ORSINO 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.
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