THE

PLAYS

OF

WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE,

ACCURATELY PRINTED FROM

THE TEXT OF MR. STEEVEN'S

LAST EDITION,

WITH

A SELECTION

OF

THE MOST IMPORTANT NOTES.

VOLUME II.

CONTAINING

TWELFTH-NIGHT: OR WHAT YOU WILL.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

LEIPSICK:

PRINTED FOR GERHARD FLEISCHER THE YOUNGER.

180 4.

LIBR TWELFTH-NIGHT:

OR,

WHAT YOU WILL.

PERSONS REPRESENTED.

Orsino, Duke of Illyria.

Sebastian, a young gentleman, brother to Viola. Antonio, a sea-captain, friend to Sebastian.

A sea-captain, friend to Viola.

Valentine, Gentlemen attending

Curio,

on

the Duke.

Lords, Priests, Sailors, Officers, Musicians, and other Attendants.

SCENE, a city in Illyria; and the sea-coast

near it.

VOL. II.

1

ACT I.

SCENE I.

An apartment in the Duke's palace.

Enter DUKE, CURIO, Lords; Musicians attending.

Duke. If musick 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:
O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour. - Enough; no more;
'Tis not so sweet now, as it was before.
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 soever,
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?

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;
That instant was I turu'd into a hart;

And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me. How now? what news