The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 3 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Sec. Off._ Come, sir, I pray you, go.
_Ant._ Let me speak a little. This youth that you see here
I snatch'd one half out of the jaws of death;
Relieved him with such sanctity of love; 345
And to his image, which methought did promise
Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
_First Off._ What's that to us? The time goes by: away!
_Ant._ But O how vile an idol proves this god!
Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame. 350
In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be call'd deform'd but the unkind:
Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous evil
Are empty trunks, o'erflourish'd by the devil.
_First Off._ The man grows mad: away with him! Come, come, sir. 355
_Ant._ Lead me on. [_Exit with Officers._
_Vio._ Methinks his words do from such passion fly,
That he believes himself: so do not I.
Prove true, imagination, O, prove true,
That I, dear brother, be now ta'en for you! 360
_Sir To._ Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian:
we'll whisper o'er a couplet or two of most sage saws.
_Vio._ He named Sebastian: I my brother know
Yet living in my glass; even such and so
In favour was my brother, and he went 365
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament,
For him I imitate: O, if it prove,
Tempests are kind and salt waves fresh in love! [_Exit._
_Sir To._ A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward
than a hare: his dishonesty appears in leaving his friend 370
here in necessity and denying him; and for his cowardship,
ask Fabian.
_Fab._ A coward, a most devout coward, religious in it.
_Sir And._ 'Slid, I'll after him again and beat him.
_Sir To._ Do; cuff him soundly, but never draw thy 375
sword.
_Sir And._ An I do not,-- [_Exit._
_Fab._ Come, let's see the event.
_Sir To._ I dare lay any money 'twill be nothing yet.
[_Exeunt._
LINENOTES:
SCENE IV.] SCENE VII. Pope.
OLIVIA'S garden.] Capell. Olivia's house. Rowe.
[1] _he says he'll_] _say, he will_ Theobald.
[2, 3] _bestow of him? For youth is ... borrow'd_] _bestow? for youth
Is ... borrow'd of_ Badham conj.
[2] _of_] _on_ Pope.
[4,5] _I speak ... civil_] Printed as in Pope; as one line in Ff.
[5] _Where is_] Pope. _Where's_ Ff.
[7-10] _Where is ... rave?_] As prose in Pope; as three lines in Ff,
ending _madam ... madam ... rave?_ As three lines in Hanmer, ending
_madam ... possest ... rave?_
[8] _He's_] _He is_ Hanmer.
_very_] om. Hanmer.
[11] _nothing_] _nothing else_ Hanmer, who reads lines 11-14 as four
verses, ending _smile; ... guard ... man ... hither._
[13] _in 's_] _in his_ Hanmer.
[14] [Exit M.] Dyce.
_I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[15] _merry_] _mercy_ F2.
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