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ACT II IT

Scene I IT

The Street

Enter Antonio and Sebastian.

ANTONIO
Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you?

SEBASTIAN
By your patience, no: my stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my
fate might perhaps distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave
[5] that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love,

to lay any of them on you.

ANTONIO
Let me yet know of you whither you are bound.

SEBASTIAN
No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy. But I perceive
in you so excellent a [10] touch of modesty, that you will not extort from me

what I am willing to keep in: therefore it charges me in manners the rather to
express myself. You must know of me then, Antonio, my name is Sebastian,
which I called Roderigo; my father was that Sebastian of Messaline [15]
whom I know you have heard of. He left behind him myself and a sister, both
born in an hour: if the heavens had been pleased, would we had so ended!

But you, sir, altered that, for some hour before you took me from the breach
of the sea was my sister drowned. [20]

ANTONIO
Alas the day!