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VIOLA
Who governs here?
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VIOLA
Who’s the ruler here?
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CAPTAIN
A noble duke, in nature
As in name.
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A duke who is noble in name and character.
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VIOLA
What is his name?
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VIOLA
What’s his name?
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CAPTAIN
Orsino.
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Orsino.
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VIOLA
Orsino. I have heard my father name him.
He was a bachelor then.
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VIOLA
Orsino. I’ve heard my father mention him. When I first heard about him, he was still a bachelor.
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CAPTAIN
And so is now, or was so very late.
For but a month ago I went from hence,
And then ’twas fresh in murmur—as, you know,
What great ones do the less will prattle of—
That he did seek the love of fair Olivia.
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CAPTAIN
He’s still a bachelor, or at least he was a month ago, when I left. But there was a rumor—you know, people always gossip about royalty—that he was in love with the beautiful Olivia.
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VIOLA
What’s she?
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VIOLA
Who’s she?
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CAPTAIN
A virtuous maid, the daughter of a count
That died some twelvemonth since, then leaving her
In the protection of his son, her brother,
Who shortly also died, for whose dear love,
They say, she hath abjured the company
And sight of men.
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CAPTAIN
A virtuous young woman, the daughter of a count who died last year. Her brother had custody of her for a while, but then he died too. They say she’s totally sworn off men now, in memory of her brother.
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VIOLA
Oh, that I served that lady
And might not be delivered to the world,
Till I had made mine own occasion mellow,
What my estate is.
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VIOLA
I wish I could work for that lady! It’d be a good way to hide from the world until the time was right to identify myself.
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CAPTAIN
That were hard to compass,
Because she will admit no kind of suit,
No, not the duke’s.
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CAPTAIN
That would be hard to do. She won’t allow anyone in to see her, not even the duke’s messengers.
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