Act 5 Scene 1 Flashcards
OLIVIA Get him to bed, and let his hurt be look’d too.
I am sorry Madam, I have hurt your kinsmen. 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
OLIVIA Most wonderful.
Do I stand there? I never had a brother, nor can there be that diety in my nature Of here and everywhere. I had a sister whom the blind waves and suges have devoured. Of charity, what kin are you to me. What name? What manner? What values hath you?
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.
A spirit I am indeed! Were you a woman, as the rest goes even, I should my tears let fall on your cheek and say “thrice welcomed drowned Viola.”
VIOLA If nothing lets to make us happy both,
But this my truest masculine attire,
Do not embrace me till each circumstance
Of place, time, spirits, do cohere and jump
That I am Viola.
So comes it Lady, you have been mistook. But nature to her bias drew in that. You are betrothed to a maid and a man.
OLIVIA {gives letter to Sebastian} Read it you, Sirrah.
SEBASTIAN {Reads} By the Lord Madam, you wrong me, and the world shall know it. Though you have put me into darkness and given your drunken Cosine rule over me, yet have I the benefit of my senses as well as your Ladyship. I have your own letter, that induced me to the semblance I put on. Think of me as you please. I leave my duty a little unthought of, and speak out of my injury. The madly used Malvolio.
