A COMEDY IN FIVE ACTS,

BY.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,

AS PERFORMED BY

MADAME HELENA MODJESKA,

(COUNTESS BOZENTA.)

INDIANAPOLIS:
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by

FRED. STINSON,

In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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TWELFTH NIGHT.

ACT I.

SCENE FIRST.-A Room in the Duke Orsino's Palace. The Duke seated, attended by Curio and Gentlemen, discovered. Music.

DUKE If music be the food of love, play on;
Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die.-
That strain again;-it had a dying fall:

Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odours.-

Enough; no more;

'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. CUR. Will you go hunt, my lord?

DUKE. What, Curio?

CUR. The hart.

DUKE. Why, so I do, the noblest that I have.
Oh, when mine eyes did see Olivia first,
Methough she purged the air of pestilence!
That instant was I turned into a hart;

And my desires, like fell and cruel hounds,
E'er since pursue me.

Enter VALENTINE, L. I E.

Rises.

How now? what news from my Olivia?-speak.
VAL. So please my lord, I might not be admitted.
But from her handmaid do return this answer:

The element itself, till seven years' heat,
Shall not behold her face at ample view;
But, like a cloistress, she will veiled walk,
And water once a day her chamber round
With eye-offending brine: all this, to season

A brother's dead love, which she would keep fresh,
And lasting in her sad remembrance.