_Vio._ I know of none;
Nor know I you by voice, or any feature.
_Ant._ O heavens themselves!
_1 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;
And to his image, which, methought, did promise
Most venerable worth, did I devotion.
But, O, how vile an idol proves this god!--
Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.--
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.
[_Exeunt_ ANTONIO _and Officers_.
_Sir To._ Come hither, knight; come hither, Fabian.
[_They retire together._
_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
Still in this fashion, colour, ornament;
For him I imitate: O, if it prove,
Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love!
[_Exit_ VIOLA.
[_They advance._]
_Sir To._ A very dishonest paltry boy, and more a coward than a
hare; his dishonesty appears, in leaving his friend 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 sword.
_Sir And._ An I do not!-- [_Exeunt._
SCENE III.
_The Street before_ OLIVIA'S _House_.
_Enter_ SEBASTIAN _and_ CLOWN.
_Clo._ Will you make me believe, that I am not sent for you?
_Seb._ Go to, go to, thou art a foolish fellow; Let me be clear of
thee.
_Clo._ Well held out, i' faith! No, I do not know you; nor I am not
sent to you by my lady, to bid you come speak with her; nor your name is
not Cesario; nor this is not my nose neither:--Nothing, that is so, is
so.
_Seb._ I pr'ythee, vent thy folly somewhere else;--Thou know'st not
me.
_Clo._ Vent my folly! He has heard that word of some great man, and
now applies it to a fool.--I pr'ythee, tell me what I shall vent to my
lady; Shall I vent to her, that thou art coming?
_Seb._ I pr'ythee, foolish Greek, depart from me; There's money for
thee; if you tarry longer, I shall give worse payment.
_Clo._ By my troth, thou hast an open hand:--These wise men, that
give fools money, get themselves a good report after fourteen years'
purchase.
_Enter_ SIR ANDREW.
_Sir And._ Now, sir, have I met you again? There's for you.
[_Striking_ SEBASTIAN.
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