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Enter VALENTINE and VIOLA in man's attireVALENTINE
If the duke continue these favours towards you,VIOLA
Cesario, you are like to be much advanced: he hath
known you but three days, and already you are no stranger.
You either fear his humour or my negligence, thatVALENTINE
you call in question the continuance of his love:
is he inconstant, sir, in his favours?
No, believe me.VIOLA
I thank you. Here comes the count.DUKE ORSINO
Enter DUKE ORSINO, CURIO, and Attendants
Who saw Cesario, ho?VIOLA
On your attendance, my lord; here.DUKE ORSINO
Stand you a while aloof, Cesario,VIOLA
Thou know'st no less but all; I have unclasp'd
To thee the book even of my secret soul:
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them, there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
Sure, my noble lord,DUKE ORSINO
If she be so abandon'd to her sorrow
As it is spoke, she never will admit me.
Be clamorous and leap all civil boundsVIOLA
Rather than make unprofited return.
Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?DUKE ORSINO
O, then unfold the passion of my love,VIOLA
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.
I think not so, my lord.DUKE ORSINO
Dear lad, believe it;VIOLA
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. Some four or five attend him;
All, if you will; for I myself am best
When least in company. Prosper well in this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
I'll do my best
To woo your lady:
Aside
yet, a barful strife!
Whoe'er I woo, myself would be his wife.
Exeunt
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