Audition for Sebastian
ANTONIO
Will
you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?
SEBASTIAN
By
your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me: the malignancy of my fate
might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I
may bear my evils alone: it were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of
them on you.
ANTONIO
Let
me yet know of you whither you are bound.
SEBASTIAN
No,
sooth, sir: But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of modesty, that you
will not extort from me what I am willing to keep in.
You
must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian, Sebastian of Messaline,
whom I know you have heard of.
He
left behind him myself and a sister, both born in an hour: if the heavens had
been pleased, would we had so ended!
But
you, sir, altered that; for some hour before you took me from the breach of the
sea was my sister drowned.
ANTONIO
Alas
the day!
SEBASTIAN
A
lady, sir, though it was said she much resembled me, was yet of many accounted
beautiful: she bore a mind that envy could not but call fair; but she is
drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance
again with more.
ANTONIO
Pardon
me, sir, your bad entertainment.
SEBASTIAN
O
good Antonio, forgive me your trouble.
ANTONIO
If
you will not murder me for my love, let me be
your
servant.
SEBASTIAN
If
you will not undo what you have done, that is, kill him whom you have recovered,
desire it not.
Fare
ye well at once: my bosom is full of kindness, and I am yet so near the manners
of my mother, that upon the least occasion more mine eyes will tell tales of
me.
I
am bound to the Count Orsino's court: farewell.
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