[Stage] Enter Valentine and Viola in man’s attire, as Cesario
Valentine(瓦伦丁)
If the duke continue these favors towards you, Cesario,
you are like to be much advanced.
He hath known you but
three days, and already you are no stranger.
Viola(薇奥拉)
You either fear his humor or my negligence, that you
call in question the continuance of his love.
Is he
inconstant, sir, in his favors?
Valentine(瓦伦丁)
No, believe me.
Viola(薇奥拉)
I thank you. Here comes the count.
[Stage] Enter Orsino, Curio, and attendants
Orsino(奥西诺)
Who saw Cesario, ho?
Viola(薇奥拉)
On your attendance, my lord, here.
Orsino(奥西诺)
Stand you a while aloof.
Cesario,
Thou know’st no less but all. I have unclasped
To thee the book even of my secret soul.
Therefore, good youth, address thy gait unto her;
Be not denied access, stand at her doors,
And tell them there thy fixed foot shall grow
Till thou have audience.
Viola(薇奥拉)
Sure, my noble lord,
If she be so abandoned to her sorrow
As it is spoke
, she never will admit me.
Orsino(奥西诺)
Be clamorous, and leap all civil bounds,
Rather than make unprofited return.
Viola(薇奥拉)
Say I do speak with her, my lord, what then?
Orsino(奥西诺)
O, then unfold the passion of my love,
Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith:
It shall become thee well to act my woes;
She will attend it better in thy youth
Than in a nuncio’s of more grave aspect.
Viola(薇奥拉)
I think not so, my lord.
Orsino(奥西诺)
Dear lad, believe it.
For they shall yet belie thy happy years
That say thou art a man.
Diana’s lip
Is not more smooth and rubious. Thy small pipe
Is as the maiden’s organ, shrill and sound,
And all is semblative a woman’s part.
I know thy constellation is right apt
For this affair.
Some four or five attend him.
All, if you will, for I myself am best
When least in company.
Prosper well in
this,
And thou shalt live as freely as thy lord,
To call his fortunes thine.
Viola(薇奥拉)
I’ll do my best
To woo your lady—
Yet, a barful strife—
Whoe’er I woo, myself would be his wife.
[Stage] Exeunt