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202. - giant: perhaps a sarcastic reference to longer.-Some mollification
for your .,.
mant sweet
Maria's size
i
lad . . '
208. office: i.e., what you have been ordered to say rOLIVIA Tell me your mind.
209. alone ... ear: i.e., concerns no one but you rVIOLA7 I am a messenger.
210. taxation of: i.e., demand that.you pay; olive: OLIVIA Sure you have some hide 205
ous matter to deliver
olive branch, a symbol of peace and goodwill when the courtesy of it is so
fearful. Speak your
212-13. What would you?: i.e., what do you want? office.
215. my entertainment: the way I was received VIOLA It alone concerns your
ear. I bring no overture
217. divinity: i.e., religious truth, theology; profa- of war, no taxation of homage.
nation: a violation of something sacred I hold the olive in 210
my hand. My words are as full
of peace as matter.
220. your text: the scriptural passage on which OLIVIA Yet you began rudely.
What are you? What
you are to expound would you?
222. comfortable: comforting VIOLA T he rudeness that hath
appeared in me have I
226. by the method: according to the division of learned from my entertainme
nt. What I am and 215
the text in the table of contents what I would are as secret as mai
233-34. such ... present: i.e., this is a portrait of denhead: to your
eru-s, divinity; to any other's, pro
me as I am at this moment fanation.
OLIVIA Give us the place alon
. e. We will hear this
236. in grain: indeI1ble (Grain was a "fast" or divinity. rMaria and Attendants
permanent dye..)
exit.l Now, sir, what
is your text?
VIOLA Most sweet lady- 220
OLIVIA A comfortable doctrin
e, and much may be said
of it. Where lies your text?
VIOLA In OFSino's bosom.
OLIVIA In his bosom? In wha
t chapter of his bosom? 225
VIOLA To answer by the method
, in the first of his heart.
OLIVIA 0, I have read it; it is her
esy. Have you no more
to say?
VIO� Good madam, let me see
your face.
OLIVIA Have you any commis
sion from your lord to 230 .
negotiate with my face? You are
now· out of your
text. But we will draw the curtain
and show you the
picture. rShe removes her veif. l
"I hold the olive in my hand." (1.5.210-11) Look you, sir, such a
one I was this present. Is 't not
From Gilles Corrozet, Hecatongraphie . .. (1543). well done?
VIOLA Excellently done, if God
did all. 235
38 OLIVIA 'Tis in grain, sir; 'twi
ll endure wind and
weather.
2.1 A young gentleman named Sebastian, w�o h�
recently been saved from a shipwreck in which his
sister has been lost, sets off for Orsino '� court.
Antonio, the sailor who saved him, follows him, even
though Antonio r isks his own life to do so. ACT-2

1. will you not: i.e., do you not wish " . your

3. By your patience: a polite phrase, with
·
per miss ion" .
lo gical te�m,
4. malignancy: evil influence (ast"ro Scene 1
My stars shine -
carried also in the preceding phrase, Enter Antonio and Sebastian.
· darkly o ver' me.")
Will you stay no longer? Nor will you not that
5. distemper: disturb, damage
ANTONIO

10. sooth: i.e., truly; My ... voya ge: the Journey I go with you?
· SEBASTIAN By your patience, no. My stars shine dar kly
I've set for myself . ·
andenng o ver me. The malignancy o f my fate might perhaps
11. mere extravagancy: no more than �
pt10n . distemper you rs. .Therefore I shall crave of you your s
12. modesty: reserve, lack of presu1:°
wha t I wish to hide leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad
13. what ... keep in: i.e.,
ners : i.e., c u tesy c ompels me reco mpense for your lo ve to lay any of them on you.
13-14. it ... man o r
ANTONIO Let me yet. know of you whither yo u are
14. the rather: all the more
bound.
19. in an: i.e., within the same
ng waves SEBASTIAN No, sooth, sir. My determinate voyage is 10
22. breach of the sea: i.e., the b.reaki
mere extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excel-
lent a touch of modesty that you will not extort
from me what I am willing to keep in. Therefore it
charges me in mariners the rather to express my-
self. You must know of me, then, Antonio, my name 15
is Sebastian, which I called Roderigo. My father w�
that Sebastian of Messaline who m I know you have
heard of. He left 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, 20
altered that, for some hour before you took me
48 fro m the breach of the sea was my sister drowned.
ANTONIO Alas the day!

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