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PRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPY, WITH REMARKS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.

To which are added,

A DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUME, CAST OF THE CHARACTERS, EXITS AND ENTRANCES, RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PER FORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE

BUSINESS,

As now performed at the

THEATRES ROYAL, LONDON.

EMBELLISHED WITH A WOOD ENGRAVING.

LONDON:

JOHN CUMBERLAND, 19, LUDGATE HILL.

TWELFTH NIGHT.

ACT I.

SCENE I.-The Sea-coast.

Enter VIOLA, ROBERTO, and two Sailors, L. U. E. carrying a Trunk.

Vio. What country, friends, is this?
Rob. This is Illyria, lady.

Vio. And what should I do in Illyria?
My brother he is in Elysium.

Perchance, he is not drown'd:-what think you, sailors? Rob. It is perchance that you yourself were saved. Vio. O my poor brother! and so, perchance, may he be.

Rob. True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance,

Assure yourself, after our ship did split,

When you, and that poor number saved with you,
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,

Courage and hope both teaching him the practice,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves,
So long as I could see.

Vio. Mine own escape unfoldeth to my hope,
Whereto thy speech serves for authority,

The like of him. Know'st thou this country?
Rob. Ay, madam, well; for I was bred and born
Not three hours' travel from this very place.
Vio. Who governs here?

Rob. A noble duke, in nature,
As in his name.

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