The Stratford gallery; . rue, too holy,To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. •When I protest true loyalty to her,She twits me with my falsehood to my friend ;When to her beauty I commend my vows,She bids me think how I have been forswornIn breaking faith with Julia whom I lovd;And, notwithstanding all her sudden quips,The kast whereof would quell a lovers hope,Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,The more it grows and fawneth on her still. SILVIA. 101 And her own words to him, in Julias hearing, on the night ofthe serenade, afford still more conclusive evidence of her incor-ruptib
The Stratford gallery; . rue, too holy,To be corrupted with my worthless gifts. •When I protest true loyalty to her,She twits me with my falsehood to my friend ;When to her beauty I commend my vows,She bids me think how I have been forswornIn breaking faith with Julia whom I lovd;And, notwithstanding all her sudden quips,The kast whereof would quell a lovers hope,Yet, spaniel-like, the more she spurns my love,The more it grows and fawneth on her still. SILVIA. 101 And her own words to him, in Julias hearing, on the night ofthe serenade, afford still more conclusive evidence of her incor-ruptible purity: Thou subtle, perjurd, false, disloyal man!Thinkst thou I am so shallow, so conceitless,To be seduced by thy flattery,That hast deceivd so many with thy vows ?Return, return, and make thy love amends !For me,—by this pale queen of night I swear !-I am so far from granting thy request,That I despise thee for thy wrongful suit;And by and by intend to chide myself,Even for this time I spend in talking to VIOLA. Viola was the daughter of one Sebastian, a Messalinian, and ofgentle Wood. Voyaging with her twin-brother Sebastian, near thecoast of IUyria, a terrible storm arose, which wrecked the vessel,only a few of her crew reaching the shore. Viola was among thesaved; but her brothers fate for a time remained unknown. Ayoung and beautiful woman, without protection, in a strange land,she conceived the familiar idea of attiring herself as a page, toengage service in some noble family; and thus, through the influ-ence of the captain of the wrecked vessel, she obtained admission,under the name of Cesario, into the household of Orsino, duke ofIllyria. This young nobleman had long been enamoured of the CountessOlivia, a noble and wealthy lady, who did not in the least recipro-cate Ms preference. Orsino, prepossessed with his pretty page,made Viola his confidant in his unhappy love ? affair, and consti-tuted it her chief duty to deliver his tender messages to the inac-
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