Page 576 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

That you do think you are not what you are.

OLIVIA
If I think so, I think the same of you.

VIOLA
Then think you right; I am not what I am. [140]

OLIVIA
I would you were as I would have you be.

VIOLA
Would it be better, madam, than I am?
I wish it might, for now I am your fool.

OLIVIA
(Aside)

O what a deal of scorn looks beautiful
In the contempt and anger of his lip! [145]
A murd’rous guilt shows not itself more soon

Than love that would seem hid. Love’s night is noon.−
Cesario, by the roses of the spring,
By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything,
I love thee so, that maugre all thy pride, [150]
Nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.

Do not extort thy reasons from this clause,
For that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause;
But rather reason thus with reason fetter:

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. [155]

VIOLA

By innocence I swear, and by my youth,
I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth,
And that no woman has; nor never none
Shall mistress be of it, save I alone.

And so adieu, good madam; never more [160]
Will I my master’s tears to you deplore.