_Sir And._ O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone.
_Sir To._ Then he's a rogue, a drunken rogue,--and I hate a drunken
rogue. [_Enter_ SEBASTIAN _behind_.
_Oli._ Away with him: Who hath made this havock with them?
_Sir And._ I'll help you, Sir Toby, because we'll be dress'd
together.
_Sir To._ Will you help an ass head, and a coxcomb, and a knave? a
thin-faced knave, a gull!
_Oli._ Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look'd to.
[_Exeunt_ SIR ANDREW, SIR TOBY, _and Servants_.
_Seb._ [_Advances_] 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.
[ANTONIO, _seeing_ SEBASTIAN, _comes forward_.
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.
_Seb._ Antonio, O my dear Antonio!
How have the hours rack'd and tortured me.
Since I have lost thee.
_Ant._ Sebastian are you?
_Seb._ Fear'st thou that, Antonio?
_Ant._ How have you made division of yourself?--
An apple, cleft in two, is not more twin
Than these two creatures. Which is Sebastian?
_Seb._ [_Sees_ VIOLA.] Do I stand there? I never had a brother:
I had a sister,
Whom the blind waves and surges have devour'd:--
Of charity, [_To_ VIOLA.] what kin are you to me?
What countryman? what name? what parentage?
_Vio._ 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.
_Seb._ Were you a woman, as the rest goes even,
I should my tears let fall upon your cheek,
And say--Thrice welcome, drowned Viola!
_Vio._ If nothing lets to make us happy both,
But this my masculine usurp'd attire,
Away with doubt:--each other circumstance
Of place, time, fortune, doth cohere, and jump,
That I am Viola,--your sister Viola. [_They embrace._
_Seb._ [_To_ OLIVIA.] So comes it, lady, you have been mistook.
_Duke._ If this be so, as yet the glass seems true,
I shall have share in this most happy wreck:--
Boy, [_To_ VIOLA.] thou hast said to me a thousand times,
Thou never should'st love woman like to me.
_Vio._ And all those sayings will I over-swear;
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.
_Vio._ 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.
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