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ACTIvITy 4.16
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I had a sister,
Whom the blind waves and surges have devour’d. my Notes Of charity, what kin are you to me?
What countryman? what name? what parentage?
Viola: Of Messaline: Sebastian was my father; Such a Sebastian was my brother too,
So went he suited to his watery tomb.
Sebastian: Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
And say ‘Thrice-welcome, drowned Viola!’
Viola: My father had a mole upon his brow. Sebastian: And so had mine.
Viola: And died that day when Viola from her birth Had number’d thirteen years.
Sebastian: O, that record is lively in my soul! He finished indeed his mortal act
That day that made my sister thirteen years.
Viola: If nothing lets to make us happy both
But this my masculine usurp’d attire,
I’ll bring you to a captain in this town,
Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help I was preserved to serve this noble count.
Sebastian (To Olivia): So comes it, lady, you have been mistook: You would have been contracted to a maid;
Nor are you therein, by my life, deceived,
You are betroth’d both to a maid and man.
Duke Orsino: Be not amazed; right noble is his blood. If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wreck. (To Viola) Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
Thou never shouldst love woman like to me. Viola: And all those sayings will I overswear.
Duke Orsino: Give me thy hand;
And let me see thee in thy woman’s weeds.
Viola: The captain that did bring me first on shore Hath my maid’s garments.
Duke Orsino: Your master quits you;
And since you call’d me master for so long, Here is my hand: you shall from this time be Your master’s mistress. Cesario, come;
For so you shall be, while you are a man; But when in other habits you are seen, Orsino’s mistress and his fancy’s queen.
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