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"I'll go burn some sack, 't is too late to go to bed now."

The next scene opens in Orsino's palace with the morning of the second day. To this one day all following incidents of the play belong. There is again the prelude of soft music :

"Give me some music ;-now, good morrow, friends: :Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song,

That old and antique song we heard last night."

Feste, the clown, who is to sing it, is not at hand. Let the music then be played until he comes. And so the spirit of young love then speaks again with music in the air.

In this scene is a passage that has been perverted into show of evidence that Shakespeare was not happy in his wife Anne, because she was older than he, although there is no good ground whatever for supposing that Shakespeare's married life was unhappy. Orsino asks Cesario if his fancy has been caught by some fair favour. Viola answers,

"A little, by your favour." "What kind of woman is 't " "Of your

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What years,

i' faith?"

"Too old, by

not worth thee, then.

"About your years, my lord?"

heaven." And then Orsino reasons that the woman

should take an older than herself,

"For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,

Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,

More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,

Than women's are;"

which reasoning, before the end of the scene, Grsino, in the fitfulness of his love fancies, absolutely re

verses:

"There is no woman's sides

Can bide the beating of so strong a passion

As love doth give my heart; no woman's heart
So big to hold so much: they lack retention.
Alas! their love may be called appetite,

No motion of the liver, but the palate,

That suffers surfeit, cloyment, and revolt."

Here, as elsewhere, the variation is designed. Between the earlier and later view of the relative powers of love in men and women is an interval of about ten minutes, within which the Clown has

and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere." Certainly those critics have put to sea who suppose a dramatist is thinking of himself when he is living in the persons of his story.

Sir Toby's delight in Maria's trick upon Malvolio. completes her conquest of him. "I could marry the wench,” he says, "f "for this." Sir Andrew, with no more wit of his own than an echo, says, "So could

I too."

"And ask no other dowry with her but such another jest," says Sir Toby. "Nor 1 neither," says Sir Andrew. And Sir Toby does marry her, as Fabian tells at the end.

"Maria writ

The letter at Sir Toby's great importance;

In recompence whereof, he hath married her."

In the Third Act it is in the third scene-in the middle of the play-that Sebastian first comes among the other persons of the story, and the few hours' confusion begins between brother and sister.

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which leads on to the happy close.

At the first,

when Antonio, finding her as Cesario, mistakes Viola for Sebastian, and at the profession of

ignorance says,

"Thou hast, Sebastian, done good feature shame.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind;
None can be called deformed but the unkind:"

Viola's after-thought is

"He named Sebastian: I my brother knew
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."

The Fourth Act is of cross-purposes that lead to the close of the Act with the marriage of Sebastian to Olivia, who takes him for Cesario.

"Olivia. Blame not this haste of mine. If you mean

well,

Now go with me and with this holy man

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Plight me the full assurance of your faith;
That my most jealous and too doubtful soul
May live at peace. He shall conceal it,

Whiles you are willing it shall come to note,
What time we will our celebration keep
According to my birth.-What do you say?

Sebastian. I'll follow this good man, and go with you, And, having sworn truth, ever will be true."

There is not in Bandello, nor in Belleforest, nor in Barnaby Riche, nor in Gl' Ingannati, nor in Inganni, this consecration of the lady's love.

The Fifth Act is occupied with the untying of the knot; the close of this Act being, according to the testimony of the priest, only two hours after the marriage of Olivia. The lapse of three months since the shipwreck is twice made clear: by the testimony of Antonio that he had nursed Sebastian for three months, and the reply of the Duke, "Three months this youth hath tended upon me." It is equally clear that from the beginning of the fourth scene of the Second Act we have the adventures of a single day. Malvolio was not long kept in the dark. Sir Toby cannot be said to have gone to bed drunk

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