2371Ol. Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd too.

2373Seb. I am sorry Madam I haue hurt your kinsman:

2374But had it beene the brother of my blood,

2375I must haue done no lesse with wit and safety.

2376You throw a strange regard vpon me, and by that

2377I do perceiue it hath offended you:

2378Pardon me (sweet one) euen for the vowes

2379We made each other, but so late ago.

2380Du. One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons,

2381A naturall Perspectiue, that is, and is not.

2382Seb. Anthonio: O my deere Anthonio,

2383How haue the houres rack'd, and tortur'd me,

2384Since I haue lost thee?

2385Ant. Sebastian are you?

2386Seb. Fear'st thou that Anthonio?

2387Ant. How haue you made diuision of your selfe,

2388An apple cleft in two, is not more twin

2389Then these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?

2390Ol. Most wonderfull.

2391Seb. Do I stand there? I neuer had a brother:

2392Nor can there be that Deity in my nature

2393Of heere, and euery where. I had a sister,

2394Whom the blinde waues and surges haue deuour'd:

2395Of charity, what kinne are you to me?

2396What Countreyman? What name? What Parentage?

2397Vio. Of Messaline: Sebastian was my Father,

2398Such a Sebastian was my brother too:

2399So went he suited to his watery tombe:

2400If spirits can assume both forme and suite,

2401You come to fright vs.

2402Seb. A spirit I am indeed,

2403But am in that dimension grossely clad,

2404Which from the wombe I did participate.

2405Were you a woman, as the rest goes euen,

2406I should my teares let fall vpon your cheeke,

2407And say, thrice welcome drowned Viola.

2408Vio. My father had a moale vpon his brow.

2409Seb. And so had mine.

2410Vio. And dide that day when Viola from her birth

2411Had numbred thirteene yeares.

2412Seb. O that record is liuely in my soule,

2413He finished indeed his mortall acte

2414That day that made my sister thirteene yeares.

2415Vio. If nothing lets to make vs happie both,

2416But this my masculine vsurp'd attyre:

2417Do not embrace me, till each circumstance,

2418Of place, time, fortune, do co-here and iumpe

2419That I am Viola, which to confirme,

2420Ile bring you to a Captaine in this Towne,

2421Where lye my maiden weeds: by whose gentle helpe,

2422I was preseru'd to serue this Noble Count:

2423All the occurrence of my fortune since

2424Hath beene betweene this Lady, and this Lord.

2425Seb. So comes it Lady, you haue beene mistooke:

2426But Nature to her bias drew in that.

2427You would haue bin contracted to a Maid,

2428Nor are you therein (by my life) deceiu'd,

2429You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.

2430Du. Be not amaz'd, right noble is his blood:

2431If this be so, as yet the glasse seemes true,

2432I shall haue share in this most happy wracke,

2433Boy, thou hast saide to me a thousand times,

2434Thou neuer should'st loue woman like to me.

2435Vio. And all those sayings, will I ouer sweare,

2436And all those swearings keepe as true in soule,

2437As doth that Orbed Continent, the fire,

2438That seuers day from night.

2439Du. Giue me thy hand,

2440And let me see thee in thy womans weedes.

2441Vio. The Captaine that did bring me first on shore

2442Hath my Maides garments: he vpon some Action

2443Is now in durance, at Maluolio's suite,

2444A Gentleman, and follower of my Ladies.

2445Ol. He shall inlarge him: fetch Maluolio hither,

2446And yet alas, now I remember me,

2447They say poore Gentleman, he's much distract.

2449A most extracting frensie of mine owne

2450From my remembrance, clearly banisht his.

2451How does he sirrah?

2452Cl. Truely Madam, he holds Belzebub at the staues end as

2453well as a man in his case may do: has heere writ a letter to

2454you, I should haue giuen't you to day morning. But as a

2455madmans Epistles are no Gospels, so it skilles not much

2456when they are deliuer'd.

2457Ol. Open't, and read it.

2458Clo. Looke then to be well edified, when the Foole

2459deliuers the Madman. By the Lord Madam.

2460Ol. How now, art thou mad?

2461Clo. No Madam, I do but reade madnesse: and your

2462Ladyship will haue it as it ought to bee, you must allow

2463Vox.

2464Ol. Prethee reade i'thy right wits.

2465Clo. So I do Madona: but to reade his right wits, is to

2466reade thus: therefore, perpend my Princesse, and giue

2467eare.

2468Ol. Read it you, sirrah.

2469Fab. Reads. By the Lord Madam, you wrong me, and

2470the world shall know it: Though you haue put mee into

2471darkenesse, and giuen your drunken Cosine rule ouer me,

2472yet haue I the benefit of my senses as well as your Ladie-

2473ship. I haue your owne letter, that induced mee to the

2474semblance I put on; with the which I doubt not, but to

2475do my selfe much right, or you much shame: thinke of

2476me as you please. I leaue my duty a little vnthought of,

2477and speake out of my iniury. The madly vs'd Maluolio.

2478Ol. Did he write this?

2479Clo. I Madame.

2480Du. This sauours not much of distraction.

2481Ol. See him deliuer'd Fabian, bring him hither:

2482My Lord, so please you, these things further thought on,

2483To thinke me as well a sister, as a wife,

2484One day shall crowne th'alliance on't, so please you,

2485Heere at my house, and at my proper cost.

2486Du. Madam, I am most apt t'embrace your offer:

2487Your Master quits you: and for your seruice done him,

2488So much against the mettle of your sex,

2489So farre beneath your soft and tender breeding,

2490And since you call'd me Master, for so long:

2491Heere is my hand, you shall from this time bee

2492Your Masters Mistris.

2493Ol. A sister, you are she.

2495Du. Is this the Madman?

2496Ol. I my Lord, this same: How now Maluolio?

2497Mal. Madam, you haue done me wrong,

2498Notorious wrong.

2499Ol. Haue I Maluolio? No.

2500Mal. Lady you haue, pray you peruse that Letter.

2501You must not now denie it is your hand,

2502Write from it if you can, in hand, or phrase,