Twelfth Night — William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, or What You Will Layout 2 ∵ The Yale Shakespeare ∵ TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL EDITED BY GEORGE HENRY NETTLETON NEW HAVEN · YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON · HUMPHREY MILFORD OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS · MCMXXII Copyright , 1922 By Yale University Press First published, January, 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE The Text1 Act I1 Act II23 Act III46 Act IV72 Act V82 Notes98 Appendix A. Sources of the Play105 Appendix B. The History of the Play112 Appendix C. The Text117 Appendix D. Suggestions for Collateral Reading119 Index of Words Glossed120 The facsimile opposite represents the title-page of an early edition, in the Yale University Library, of the comedy of 'Gl' Ingannati,' originally performed during a Sienese carnival ( 1531 ) by the literary society of the Intronati. This play first combined in a significant degree the essential elements in the plot of 'Twelfth Night.' See Appendix A. THE YALE SHAKESPEARE Edited by Wilbur L. Cross Tucker Brooke Published under the Direction of the Department of English, Yale University, on the Fund Given to the Yale University Press in 1917 by the Members of the Kingsley Trust Association To Commemorate the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the Society PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The Text Layout 2 Twelfth Night, or What You Will [DRAMATIS PERSONÆ Orsino , Duke of Illyria Sebastian , Brother to Viola Antonio , a Sea Captain, Friend to Sebastian A Sea Captain, Friend to Viola Valentine , Gentlemen attending on the Duke Curio , Sir Toby Belch , Uncle to Olivia Sir Andrew Aguecheek Malvolio , Steward to Olivia Fabian , Servants to Olivia Feste , a Clown , Olivia , a rich Countess Viola , in love with the Duke Maria , Olivia's Woman Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants Scene : A City in Illyria; and the Sea-coast near it. ] Footnotes Dramatis Personæ; First given by Rowe, 1709. Act I Layout 2 ACT FIRST Scene One [ A Room in the Duke's Palace ] Enter Orsino, Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords . [ Musicians attending .] Duke . If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall : 4 O! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour. Enough! no more: 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. 8 O spirit of love! how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, 12 But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute: so full of shapes is fancy , That it alone is high fantastical . Cur . Will you go hunt, my lord? Duke . What, Curio? 16 Cur . The hart. Duke . Why, so I do, the noblest that I have. O! when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Methought she purg'd the air of pestilence. 20 That instant was I turn'd into a hart, And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds , E'er since pursue me. Enter Valentine . How now! what news from her? Val . So please my lord, I might not be admitted; 24 But from her handmaid do return this answer: The element itself, till seven years' heat , Shall not behold her face at ample view; But, like a cloistress , she will veiled walk, 28 And water once a day her chamber round With eye-offending brine: all this, to season A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh And lasting in her sad remembrance. 32 Duke . O! she that hath a heart of that fine frame To pay this debt of love but to a brother, How will she love, when the rich golden shaft Hath kill'd the flock of all affections else 36 That live in her; when liver , brain, and heart, These sovereign thrones, are all supplied, and fill'd Her sweet perfections with one self king. Away before me to sweet beds of flowers; 40 Love-thoughts lie rich when canopied with bowers. Exeunt . Scene Two [ The Sea-coast ] Enter Viola, a Captain, and Sailors . Vio . What country, friends, is this? Cap . This is Illyria, lady. Vio . And what should I do in Illyria? My brother he is in Elysium. Perchance he is not drown'd: what think you, sailors? 4 Cap . It is perchance that you yourself were sav'd. Vio . O my poor brother! and so perchance may he be. Cap . True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance, Assure yourself, after our ship did split, 8 When you and those poor number sav'd with you Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself,— Courage and hope both teaching him the practice,— 12 To a strong mast that liv'd upon the sea; Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back, I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves So long as I could see. Vio . For saying so, there's gold. 16 Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope, Whereto thy speech serves for authority, The like of him. Know'st thou this country? Cap . Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born 20 Not three hours' travel from this very place. Vio . Who governs here? Cap . A noble duke, in nature as in name. Vio . What is his name? 24 Cap . Orsino. Vio . Orsino! I have heard my father name him: He was a bachelor then. Cap . And so is now, or was so very late ; 28 For but a month ago I went from hence, And then 'twas fresh in murmur ,—as, you know, What great ones do the less will prattle of,— That he did seek the love of fair Olivia. 32 Vio . What 's she? Cap . A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count That died some twelvemonth since; then leaving her In the protection of his son, her brother, 36 Who shortly also died: for whose dear love, They say, she hath abjur'd the company And sight of men. Vio . O! that I serv'd that lady, And might not be deliver'd to the world, 40 Till I had made mine own occasion mellow, What my estate is . Cap . That were hard to compass, Because she will admit no kind of suit, No, not the duke's. 44 Vio . There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe thou hast a mind that s