第28章 Before OLIVIA's house(3)

SEBASTIAN.I am sorry, madam, I have hurt your kinsman; But, had it been the brother of my blood, I must have done no less with wit and safety.You throw a strange regard upon me, and by that I do perceive it hath offended you.Pardon me, sweet one, even for the vows We made each other but so late ago.DUKE.One face, one voice, one habit, and two persons! A natural perspective, that is and is not.SEBASTIAN.Antonio, O my dear Antonio! How have the hours rack'd and tortur'd me Since I have lost thee! ANTONIO.Sebastian are you? SEBASTIAN.Fear'st thou that, Antonio? ANTONIO.How have you made division of yourself? An apple cleft in two is not more twin Than these two creatures.Which is Sebastian? OLIVIA.Most wonderful! SEBASTIAN.Do I stand there? I never had a brother; Nor can there be that deity in my nature Of here and everywhere.I had a sister Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd.Of charity, what kin are you to me? What countryman, what name, what parentage? VIOLA.Of Messaline; Sebastian was my father.Such a Sebastian was my brother too; So went he suited to his watery tomb; If spirits can assume both form and suit, You come to fright us.SEBASTIAN.A spirit I am indeed, But am in that dimension grossly clad Which from the womb I did participate.Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, I should my tears let fall upon your cheek, And say 'Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!' VIOLA.My father had a mole upon his brow.SEBASTIAN.And so had mine.VIOLA.And died that day when Viola from her birth Had numb'red thirteen years.SEBASTIAN.O, that record is lively in my soul! He finished indeed his mortal act That day that made my sister thirteen years.VIOLA.If nothing lets to make us happy both But this my masculine usurp'd attire, Do not embrace me till each circumstance Of place, time, fortune, do cohere and jump That I am Viola; which to confirm, I'll bring you to a captain in this town, Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help I was preserv'd to serve this nobleCount.All the occurrence of my fortune since Hath been between this lady and this lord.SEBASTIAN.[To OLIVIA] So Comes it, lady, you have been mistook; But nature to her bias drew in that.You would have been contracted to a maid; Nor are you therein, by my life, deceiv'd; You are betroth'd both to a maid and man.DUKE.Be not amaz'd; right noble is his blood.If this be so, as yet the glass seems true, I shall have share in this most happy wreck.[To VIOLA] Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times Thou never shouldst love woman like to me.VIOLA.And all those sayings will I overswear; And all those swearings keep as true in soul As doth that orbed continent the fire That severs day from night.DUKE.Give me thy hand; And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds.VIOLA.The captain that did bring me first on shore Hath my maid's garments.He, upon some action, Is now in durance, at Malvolio's suit, A gentleman and follower of my lady's.OLIVIA.He shall enlarge him.Fetch Malvolio hither; And yet, alas, now I remember me, They say, poor gentleman, he's much distract.