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ANTONIO and SEBASTIAN enter. |
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| | ANTONIO |
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Will you stay no longer, nor will you not that I go with you? |
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| ANTONIO |
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You won't stay any longer? And you don't want me to come with you? |
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| | SEBASTIAN |
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By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me. The |
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malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours. |
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Therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my |
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evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay |
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any of them on you. |
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| SEBASTIAN |
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No, I'd rather you stayed here. My luck is pretty bad right now, and it might rub off on you. So just let me say goodbye and face the bad stuff alone—otherwise I wouldn't be thanking you very well for all you've done for me. |
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| | ANTONIO |
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Let me yet know of you whither you are bound. |
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At least tell me where you're going. |
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| | SEBASTIAN |
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No, sooth, sir. My determinate voyage is mere |
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extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch of |
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modesty that you will not extort from me what I am willing |
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to keep in. Therefore it charges me in manners the rather to |
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express myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my |
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name is Sebastian, which I called Roderigo. My father was |
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that Sebastian of Messaline, whom I know you have heard |
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of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both born in an |
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hour. If the heavens had been pleased, would we had so |
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ended! But you, sir, altered that, for some hour before you |
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took me from the breach of the sea was my sister drowned. |
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| SEBASTIAN |
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Honestly, I can't. I'm just wandering, with no particular destination. But I know you'd never force me to tell you things I don't want to, so I should be polite and tell you what I can. My name's Sebastian, though I've been calling myself Roderigo. My father was Sebastian of Messaline. I know you've heard of him. He's dead now. He left behind myself and my twin sister, who was born in the same hour as me. If God had been willing, I wish we had died in the same hour too! But you kept that from happening. An hour before you pulled me out of the breaking waves, my sister drowned. |
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