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dialogue 2
ACTIvITy 4.13
continued
Duke Orsino: Be clamorous and leap all civil bounds Rather than make unprofited return.
Viola: Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
Duke Orsino: O, then unfold the passion of my love, Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect. Viola: I think not so, my lord.
Duke Orsino: Dear lad, believe it;
For they shall yet belie thy happy years,
That say thou art a man: Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious; thy small pipe Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
I know thy constellation is right apt for this affair.
Viola: I’ll do my best
To woo your lady:
(Aside) yet, a barful strife!
Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.
Twelfth Night,
Viola: Most certain, if you are she, you do usurp yourself; for what is yours to bestow is not yours to reserve. I will on with my speech in your praise, and then show you the heart of my message.
Olivia: Come to what is important in’t: I forgive you the praise. Viola: Alas, I took great pains to study it, and ’tis poetical.
Olivia: It is the more like to be feigned: I pray you, if you have reason, be brief. Speak your office.
Viola: Good madam, let me see your face.
Olivia: We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. Look you, sir, is’t not well done? (Unveiling)
my Notes
clamorous: loud, pushy
adapted from
Act 1, Scene 5
by William Shakespeare
Olivia (to herself): Give me my veil. Come, throw it o’er my face. Viola: Are you the lady of the house?
Olivia: If I do not usurp myself, I am.
usurp: take someone else's place by force
feigned: insincere
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