Great Plays in Rehearsal
Twelfth Night in Rehearsal with Eric Salmon
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Eric Salmon directs actors in a vibrant rehearsal of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."
Visiting Director for the Wisconsin Idea Theatre Eric Salmon leads actors through a spirited rehearsal of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night." Blending sharp comedy with heartfelt drama, Salmon guides performers with expert insight, helping them unlock character, rhythm and emotion. Witness the energy and creativity behind staging one of the Bard’s most beloved plays.
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Great Plays in Rehearsal
Twelfth Night in Rehearsal with Eric Salmon
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Visiting Director for the Wisconsin Idea Theatre Eric Salmon leads actors through a spirited rehearsal of Shakespeare’s "Twelfth Night." Blending sharp comedy with heartfelt drama, Salmon guides performers with expert insight, helping them unlock character, rhythm and emotion. Witness the energy and creativity behind staging one of the Bard’s most beloved plays.
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"Milipulous voice as I am a true knight."
[Laughs] "Tagious braver."
"That is sweet and contagious, if they."
"So here by the nose is dulcet and contagious."
"But shall we make a well-condensed indeed?"
"Shall we rouse the night out and catch the cool, draw three souls out of one weather?"
"Shall we do that?"
"And you love me?
Let's do it.
I'm a dog at a camp."
"By a lady, sir, and some dogs will catch well."
"And most certainly, I let our catch be down-nave."
"Hold my peace, though, nave-night.
Well, I shall be constrained into call the nave-night."
"It is not the first time I have constrained one to call me nave."
"Beginful, it begins, hold thy peace."
"Yes, he sings it, actually, Bill.
It's around the catch, hold thy peace."
"Hold thy peace."
"That's right, and then they all pick it up."
"Go ahead."
"It's good you're safe.
Now, let's come begin."
"Hold thy peace, hold thy peace."
"And hold thy peace, and thy peace, hold thy peace."
"And thy peace, and thy peace, hold thy peace."
"My lady, have not called up a Stuart Malvolio, and bid him turn you out of doors, never trust me."
"How many ladies to attend, we are politicians, manfolios, appear empty."
"And, free Mary, men be we, am I concerned with this?
Am I not of her blood?"
"Chill him, all a lady, that well's a man in Babylon, little lady, lady."
"Ah, this room is a night's an admirable fool."
"He does it well enough, he be disposed, and so do I, too."
"He does it for the better grace, but I do it more natural."
"Oh, well, there be some bad..." "My masters are your mad.
Have you no wit, manners, no honesty, but to gather like tinkers at this time of night?
Do you make an ale house, son of mille ladies house, that you squeak out your coasters, catches, without any mitigation or remorse of voice?
Is there no respective place, persons, not time in you?"
"We did keep time, sir, and our catches, smek up."
"Sort to be, I must be round with you.
My lady bad me tell you that although she harbors you as her kinsmen, she's nothing allied to your disordereds.
If you can separate yourself and your misdemeanors, you are welcome to the house.
If not then, would please you to take leave of her, she is very willing to bid you farewell."
"Well, dear hearts, since I must be gone."
"His eyes do show his days are almost done."
"His even so, but I will never die."
"Forget for me, there you lie."
"This is much credit to your shall I bet him go?"
"I bet him you do."
"Shall I bet him go and spare no."
"No, no, no, you dare not, Arituun, sir, he lies."
"I shall any bother to stride, the staff, ain't because our brituals there shall be no more cakes and ale."
"Yes, by safe hand and ginger shall be hot in the mouth too."
"Now to the right, go, sir, rub your chain with cloth, stoop war and mariah, mistress Mary."
"If you prized my lady's favor at anything more than contempt, you would not give means for this unsivell rule.
She shall know of it by this hand."
"No, shake your ear."
"No, it's good indeed, just to drink when a man's a hungry, to challenge him in the field, and then to break promise with him and to make a fool of him."
"Don't lie, tell right to your challenge, or I deliver lying, mignation showing by word of mouth."
"Sweet sir Toby, be patient for the night.
Since the use of the count was today with my lady, she is much of a quiet."
"For Miss Yormel-Volio, let me alone with him.
If I do not go him into a neighborhood and make him a common recreation, do not think I have with enough to lie straight in my bed.
I know I can do it."
"Bossesus, bossesus, tell us something arreared."
"Sometimes he's a kind of pure thing.
Oh, if I thought better, I'd beat him like a dog."
"What?
For being a puritan?
For exquisite reason, dear night."
"I have no exquisite reason for it, but I have a reason, good enough."
"The devil of pureism in he is, or anything constantly, by the time, please, an affection asked that can't state without book and others it by great's laws."
"The best person made it of himself, so crammed as he thinks with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all that look on him love him."
"And on that vice in him will my revenge find notable cause to work."
"Well, foul too."
"I will drop in his way some obscure kissles of love.
We're in by the colour of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expression of his eye-forward in complexion.
"He shall find himself most feelingly fast, and then he will fall."
"I can write very like my lady, your niece.
On a forgotten matter, or we can hardly make distinction of our hands."
"Excellent, I smell a device.
I have it in my nose too."
"He shall take by the letters that thou will drop that they come from my niece, and that she's in love with him."
"My purpose is indeed a horse of that colour."
"And your horse now would make him an ass, I shall not."
"But it shall be as proposed for royal I won't unto him.
I know my particular work with him.
I will grant you to, and that the fool make a birth, but he shall find the matter."
"Observe his construction of his, for this night too bad and dream on the events."
"Good life, Pesthucilia.
For me she's a good wince.
She's a big old fruble and one that adores me."
"What are that?"
"I was once adored too."
"That's the bad night thou hast need sent for more money."
"I am full on the way out."
"Send for money nights, if thou hast turn out of the end, call me cash."
"And if I do not, never trust me.
I'll take it how you will."
"Come, come.
I'll go burn some sacks.
It's too late to go to bed now.
Come night, come night."
"Right, could I have you all on the set again for just a moment, the people who in that scene please?"
"Just one or two points about the playing.
Could I have a bigger and a more sudden reaction to Malvolio when he comes in my master's are you mad?"
"All of you, you really are shattered.
You're somewhere down in the depths of the house in the kitchen or somewhere."
"Having a roistering time and the master whom you thought was in bed, I mean your master, name him Malvolio, suddenly makes an appearance, ludicously dressed in a night gown and a sleeping cap."
"And you are absolutely shattered, so do make everything you can of that."
"Malvolio, I think you too could be more shocked by their noise inners.
The point is, make him assert the mountain sincerity so that when we do push him off his horse, the fall is further.
He's narrow and bigoted but he is sincere.
He really can't understand this sort of going on at all."
"Andrew, a point about a line there, I have no exquisite reason once emphasis, but I have reason good enough.
I smell a device, it would be a good idea if in playing it when we get it moving, you could imitate each other's gesture.
I smell a device and he does exactly the same money.
He hasn't the wit to invent even a gesture of his own."
"Good Caesario, not that piece of song, that old and antique song we heard last night.
He thought it did relieve my passion much more than light hairs and recollected terms, these most brisk and giddy-pasted times.
Come but one verse."
"He's not here, so please your lordship that should sing it."
"Who was it?"
"Best is a gesture, my lord, a fool that the lady or live his father took much delight in.
He's about to house."
"Well, see him out.
And play the tune of while.
Come here, their boy.
If ever thou shalt love, in the sweet pangs of it, remember me.
For such as I am all true lovers are, unstayed and skittish in all notions, even the constant image of the creature that is beloved."
"How does thou like this tune?"
"It gives a very echo to the seat where love is thrown."
"How does speak masterly, I liked upon it young though thou art, and I have stayed upon some favor that it loves.
Has it not, boy?"
"A little by your favor."
"What kind of woman is?"
"Your complexion?"
"She is not worthy then.
What years in faith?"
"About your years, my lord."
"To old by heaven.
Let's still the woman take an elder than herself.
So where she to him so sway she level in her husband's heart."
"Boy, however we do praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and unfurring, more longing, wavering, sooner lost than one than women's are."
"I think it's well, my lord."
"Then let thy love be younger than thyself, or thy affection cannot hold the bent, for women are as roses whose fair flower being once displayed dothfall at very hour."
"And so they are, alas, that they are so, to die even when they to perfection grow."
"Oh fellow come, the song we had last night.
Markets is aerial, it is old and plain, the spinsters and the knitters in the sun and the free-maids that weave their thread with bones do use to chant it.
It is silly soot, and dallies with the innocence of love like the old age."
"Are you ready sir?"
"I pretty sing."
"Come away, come away death, and in sad cipres let me belay.
Fly away, fly away breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
My shroud of white stock all with you all prepare it.
My part of death, no one so true did shall it.
Not a flower, not a flower sweet on my black coffin let there be strone, not a friend, not a friend greet my poor corpse where my bones shall be throne.
A thousand, thousand sighs to save, flame me all, where sad fruit of I never find my grave to weep there."
"There's for thy pains, no pains sir, I take pleasure in singing sir, I'll pay thy pleasure then, and truly sir, and pleasure will be paid one time or another.
Give me now leave to leave thee."
"Now the millen colleague God protect thee, and the tailor makes thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal.
I would have men of such constancy put to see that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere, for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing."
"Oh well.
Let all the rest give place.
Once more, Cesareo, get thee to Yon same sovereign cruelty.
Tell her my love, more noble than the world, prize is not quantity of dirty lands.
The parts that fortune hath bestowed upon her, tell her I hold as giddily as fortune.
Tis that miracle and queen of gems that nature pranks her in attracts my soul.
But she cannot love you sir."
"I cannot be so answered."
"Sook you must."
"Say that some lady, as perhaps there is, for your love as great a pang of heart as you have for a living.
You cannot love her, you tell her so.
Must she not then be answered?"
"Oh there is no woman's sides can buy the beating of so strong a passion as love does give my heart.
No woman's heart so big to hold so much.
A lack retention.
Alas, their love may be called appetite.
No motion of deliver but the palate, suffer, surfeit, deployment and revolt.
Mine is all as hungry as the sea and can digest as much.
Make no compare between that love a woman can bear me in that high old livia.
"I but I know."
"What does thou know?"
"To well what love women to men may owe in faith there is true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man as it might be perhaps where I a woman I should your lord she."
And what's her history?
"A blank my lord."
"She never told her love.
But let concealment like a burden like a worm in the bud feed on her damished cheek.
She pined and thought and with a green and yellow melon collet she sat like cautions on a monument smiling at grief.
Was not this love indeed?
We men may say more, swear more, but indeed our shows are more than will for still we prove much in our vows but little in our love."
"But died thy sister of her love my boy."
"I am all the daughters of my father's house and all the brothers too.
And yet I know not.
Sir shall I to this lady?"
"I, that's the theme to her in haste.
Give her this jewel, say my love can give no place by no delay."
"Very good.
Could I have Fester back please for just a comment or two?
Fester."
And, Valor you were in that scene too.
One or two comments.
"Fest a bear in mind that Cyprus in your song and in sad Cyprus that we've been laid means not the actual tree itself but either and we're not quite sure either the coffin made of Cyprus or else it was a word meaning a light copy."
"I have meaning a light cotton winding in which the body was wrapped.
I mention it because Olivia also has the same problem a little later on when she says a Cyprus not the bosom hides my heart.
Just try to make that point."
And another thing more for interpretation, Fester.
Will you mock or see no a bit more when you describe him, his mind is very opal, changeable tapeter.
"This scene through him, this links up Norman with what you were saying about how to interpret him.
Fester the realist sees this man who can't make up his own mind who just strikes attitudes to assume posture.
Give us that Fester a little smile, not something pathetic but understanding."
"The approaches, cutts is there to me."
"Slow the swallow, little."
"Oh though our silence be drawn from us by the ears."
"I extend my hand to him thus quenching my familiar smile with an austere regard of control."
"And does that Toby take you a blow, saying, cousin Toby, my fortunes having cast me on your niece, give me this prerogative of speed.
You must amend your drunkenness."
"Houks, oh no patience, oh we break the sinews of our plush."
"You waste the treasure of your time with a foolish knife."
"Ah that's me I worry about you, I do not know."
"Once her anger."
"I need to blow me a fool."
"What the employment have we here?"
"Oh now is the wood caught near the gin."
"Oh peace."
"And the spirit of humor is to make reading allow to him."
"Oh by my life this is my lady's hand.
These be her very seas, her use and her teas, and thus make she her great peace."
"It is in contempt of question her hand."
"Her seas are used in her teas, why that?"
"To the unknown beloved this and my good wishes.
Her very phrases, a by your leave wax, a soft and the impression of her lucris with which she uses to seal."
"Tis my lady, oh to whom should this be?
Oh this wins him liver and all."
"Joe knows I love, but who?
Lips do not move, no man must know.
No man must know.
What follows?
The number is altered.
No man must know.
"Oh, this should be demelvolio."
"Mary, hey me, brak.
I may command where I adore, but silence like a lucris knife with bloodless stroke my heart that gore.
M-O-A-I that sway my life."
"Oh, fast in riddles, silent wets they are."
"M-O-A-I that sway my life."
"Oh, never first let me see, let me see, let me see."
"Oh what dissapewies and has he dressed in?
Everyf what wangles my amulet check, savaget.
I may command where I adore.
Why she may command me?"
"I serve her, she is my lady.
Why this is evident to any formal capacity.
There's no obstruction in this.
And the end.
Or what should that alphabetical portion pretend?
If I could make that resemble something in me.
"Softly, M-O-A-I.
Oh, I make up that.
He's now a call sense.
So to a workriapunnet for all this, the wippy is weak as a fox."
"M-O-A-I."
"M-O-A-I."
"What that begins my name?"
"N-O-A-I say he would work it out.
The curries are excellent at all."
"Oh, but then there's no constanancy in this equal.
That suffers under probation.
A should follow, but O does."
"And O shall end, I who fire, I'll cut live and make him cry.
And then I comes behind."
"I, and you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you."
"M-O-A-I."
This simulation is not as the former.
And yet to crush this a little, it would bow to me.
For every one of these letters are in my name.
"Softly, follows prose.
If this fall into thy hand revolve.
In my stars I am above thee.
But be not afraid of greatness.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness.
And some have greatness thrust upon them."
Thy faiths open their hands, let thy blood and spirit embrace them.
And to endure thyself to what thou art, like to be cast thy humble slaw and the pear fresh.
The opposite with the kinsmen, solely with servants, let thy tongue-tang arguments of state, will put thyself into the trick of singularity.
She thus advises thee that size for thee.
Remember who commended thy yellow stockings and wish to see thee ever cross-guarded.
I say, "Remember, go to thou madeeth thou desireest to be so.
If not, let me see thee astray, still the fellow of servants, and not worthy to touch fortunes' fingers."
Therewel, she that would alter services with thee, were fortunate unhappy.
"Daylight and champion discovers not more.
This is open.
I will be proud.
I will repolitic offers.
I will baffle so tobey.
I will wash off gross acquaintance.
I will be point devised of very men."
"I do not now fool myself.
To let imagination jade me, for every region excites to this that my lady loves me.
She did commend my yellow stockings of late.
And she did praise my leg being cross-guarded.
And in this she manifests herself to my love.
And with the kind of injunction drives me to these habits of her liking."
"I thank my stars.
I am happy.
I will be stout.
Strange.
In yellow stockings and cross-guarded, even with the swiftness of putting on joven my stars be praised.
Oh, here is yet a post script.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
If thou entertainst my love, let it appear in thy smiling.
Thy smiles become..." "There is a point there.
This person is about smiling.
Mariah has given Marlvoli an instruction to do something which is very apricotic.
He is not a smiling man at all.
It is the last thing he usually does.
And even he, in reading this letter, is surprised about it.
Can you pre-pause the words "smiling?"
"I am saying something of a double take on it."
"That's right.
Yes.
Making very surprised."
"I'd like to.
He is yet a post script.
Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
If thou entertainst my love, let it appear in thy smiling.
Thy smiles become thee well.
Therefore, in my presence, still smile my dear sweet, I breathy.
Show, by thank thee."
"I will smile.
I will do everything that thou wilt have me."
"I will not give my pledge of this post for a pinching of thousands to be paid from the soot in thee."
"I can marry this westerness device.
And I ask no other dowry than such another gesture."
"I am not a neither.
There comes my noble cow.
I will cut plants I put on my neck."
"Or on my neither.
Shall I play my freedom at treetrip and become thy bond slave?"
"I thought why thou hast put him in such a dream that when the image of it leaves him, he must run mad."
"Nay, but say true.
Does it work upon him?"
"Oh, like aqua fighting with a midwife."
"If you will then see the fruits of the sport, mark his first approach before my lady.
He will come to her in yellow stocking.
It is a color she abhors.
"And cross-cothered a fashion she did test.
And he will smile upon her which will now be so unsuitable to her disposition, being addicted to a melon-pale, as she is, that it cannot but turn him into a notable content.
If you will see it, follow me."
"To the gates of corner, my most excellent devil of wit, and I will make one too."
"Right.
Could I have you all back please?"
"All the people who were in that scene."
"Now, the first thing that I want to say about that, the general thing is that it's playing enormously well.
You scored one great victory.
This comic stuff really is funny.
It really is funny.
"I know this play fairly well.
I'm sitting here laughing like anything I should.
It's very good."
"One of the two detail points I'd like to make, could you, the three who hide in the box tree, could you suggest a little bit more the subtle vulture between your low voice which Malvolio isn't supposed to hear.
It is, of course, only a stage convention.
And you do use a fair amount of voice.
"If you could appear to be whispering to each other, although using a full voice in fact, it would help that convention along.
Next, a little bit more businessfuel Malvolio.
When you imagine yourself with Toby, I extend my hand to him thus."
"No, thus.
You're not going to be quite so forward with him.
That could be tacked in, I think.
"I knew to a sigh for many to call me fool.
Andrew, you mustn't speak that line, of course, until he mentions your name.
You jump in there and you're getting it over enthusiastic."
"Lukres, I think in fact Lucreis is the normal anglicisation.
Lucreis is not Lucreis.
Oh, Toby, a Stannule is not a Spannule.
It isn't the same breed of foul at all, in fact.
"The Stannule is a foul.
It's a Kestrel, an inferior kind of hawk.
The reference is to hawking, not to hunting with a dog."
"Champion, Ray.
Champagne."
Now, your edition, I know, gives champion.
"What does it mean?"
"Oh, well, Champagne means open countryside.
So that the whole line, daylight and Champagne, discover's not more, means even though we get it right out in the open, it couldn't be plainer than this."
"Well, that makes sense."
"Yes, it wasn't the point.
Oh, Aquavitai, the pronunciation of the brandy Toby, Aquavitai.
Toby and Andrew must make their minds up about either and either.
It can be either or either.
But it's got to be one or another."
"That's right.
Yes, we'll get it sorted out.
I don't mind.
But it must be consistent.
The only other point falls, the three who hide, very, very good by it.
"Very, very good by play.
And I note two bits that you invented yourself.
Apparently even actors have good ideas."
"The two I especially like are the imitating of his smiling.
That's super grin, which you all have.
That's good."
"And another quite brilliant one.
The here, no evil, see no evil speak now, you feel.
That's very good.
I admire you for that very much."
"Right, how could I go straight on please to Act 3C1?"
"I thought I may say the king lied by a beggar if a beggar dwell near him.
Or the church stands by thy tabour, if thy tabour stand by the church."
"Oh, you have said, sir.
Oh, to see this age.
A sentence is for the chevril glove to a good wit.
How quickly the wrong side may be turned out for it."
"No, that's certain.
They, dally nicely with words, make quickly, make them wanton."
"I would therefore my sister had had no name, sir."
"Why, man?"
"Why, sir.
Her name's a word, and to dally with that word might make my sister wanton.
But indeed words are very rascals since bonds disgrace them."
"I reason, man."
"Trotser, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false I am loathed to prove reason with them."
"I warrant our to marry fellow and carous for nothing."
"Oh, not so, sir.
I do care for something.
But in my conscience, sir, I do not care for you.
If that be to care for nothing, sir, I would it would make you invisible."
"I not allow the lady Olivia's fool."
"Oh, no, indeed, sir.
The lady Olivia has no folly.
She will keep no fool, sir, till she be married.
And fools are as like husbands as pilches after herrings for husbands the bigger.
I am indeed not her fool, but her corruptor of words."
"I saw thee later the count orsinos."
"Fool reserters walk about the ore like the son it shines everywhere.
I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my mistress.
I think I saw your wisdom there."
"Nay and thou pass upon me.
I'll know more with thee."
"Hold.
Here's expenses for thee."
"Oh, now, Joven, his next commodity of hair, send thee a beard."
"By my troth, I'll tell thee I'm almost six for one, though I'd not have it grow on my chin."
"Is thy lady within?"
"Oh, would not a pair of these have bred, sir?"
"Yes, being kept together and put to use."
"I would play Lord Pandora's suffrage, sir, to bring a crescer to this triless."
"Nay understand, you, sir.
He is well-baked."
"The matter I hope is not great, sir.
Begging but a beggar.
A crescer was a beggar.
My lady is within, sir.
"I will consta to them when you come.
Who you are and what you would rather out of my welcome."
"I might say element, but the word is overwarned."
"Yes, first day, there's a point there.
I want you pleased to play up the word element as against the word welcome."
"There's a pun involved here, you see.
Element and working both in Shakespeare's time meant the sky.
So he's indulging in a pun."
"And in addition to that, he's also getting at Malfolio because element is one of Malfolio's favorite words.
Can you punch that?
Play it again, please."
"My lady is within, sir.
I will consta to them when you come.
Who you are and what you would rather out of my welcome."
"I might say element, but the word is overwarned."
"This fellow is wise enough to play the fool.
And to do that well craves the kind of whip.
He must observe their mood on whom he gests."
"The quality of persons in the time, not like the haggard, check it every feather that comes before his eye.
This is a practice as full of labor as a wise man's art.
For a folly that he wisely shows his fit.
But wise men folly fall and quite tape their wit."
"I'll save you, gentlemen."
"And you, sir."
"It gives you God, Miss Year."
"It will save us the servitude."
"I hope so you are in that eye of yours."
"Will you encounter the house?
My niece's desire is you should ever, if your trade be to her."
"I'm bound, your niece, sir.
I mean she's the list of my voyage."
"You taste your legs, sir.
Put them to motion."
"My legs do better understand me, sir, than I understand what you mean by bidding me taste my legs."
"I mean to go, sir, to enter."
"I will answer you with gate and entrance.
Ah, but we're prevented."
"Most excellent accomplished lady, the heaven's rain odor on you."
"Is that you, so great or courtier?
Rain odor?"
"That's where."
"My matter has no voice, lady, but to your own most pregnant and both safe at ear."
"Oder?"
"Pregnant about safe, sir.
But I'll get them all three already."
"Let the garden door be shot and leave me to my hearing."
"Give me your hand, sir."
"My duty, Madam, and most humble service."
"What is your name?"
"Cezario is your servant's name, Pair Princess."
"My servant, sir."
"To his never-merry world since lowly fainting was called Complement."
"You are servant to the counter, or seen, or use."
"And he is yours."
"And his must needs be yours.
Your servant servant is your servant, Madam."
"For him I think not on him.
For his thoughts would they were blanks, rather than filled with me."
"Madam, I come to wet your gentle thoughts on his behalf.
Oh, by your leave, I pray to you."
"I, bad, you never speak again of him.
But would you undertake another suit?"
"I had rather hear you to solicit that than music from the speed."
"Oh dear lady."
"Give me leave this issue."
"I had sent, after the last enchantment you did here, a ring in chase of you."
"So did I abuse myself, my servant, and I fear me you.
Under your hard construction must I sit to force that on you in a shameful cunning which you knew none of yours."
"What might you think?
Have you not set my honor at the stake and baited it with all the unmuzzled thoughts that tear in as heart can think?"
"To one of your receiving enough is shown.
A cypress not a bosom hides my heart.
So let me hear you speak."
"I pity you."
"That's a degree to love."
"Not a breeze, but to the vulgar proof that very often we pitty enemy."
"Why then may things just time to smile again?
Oh world, how apt the poor are to be proud.
If one should be a prey, how much the better to fall before the lion than the wolf?"
"The clock upgrade me with the waste of time.
Be not afraid good you.
I will not have you."
"And yet when wit and use is come to harvest, your wife is like to reap a proper man.
There lies your way, do we?"
"Then westward whole.
Grace and good disposition attend your leadership."
"You'll nothing madden to my lord by me."
"Stay.
I pretty tell me what thou thinkst of me.
That you do think you are not what you are."
"If I think so, I think the same of you."
"Then you think right.
I am not what I am."
"I would you worry I would have you be.
Would it be better madden than I am?
I wish it might for now I am your fool."
"How would a deal of score and looks beautiful in the contempt and anger at his lip.
A murderous guilt shows not itself more soon than love that would seem here.
Love's night is noon."
"Cezzario.
By the roses of the spring, by maidhood, honor truth and everything.
I in love thee so that magra all thy pride nor wit nor reason can my passion hide.
Do not extort thy reasons from this clause, for that I will thou therefore has no cause.
But rather reason thus with reason better.
Love's thought is good, but given unsought is better."
"By innocence I swear and by my youth I have one heart, one Muslim and one truth, and that no woman has.
No never none shall the mistress of it save I alone.
And so adieu, good madden, never more will I my master's tears to you deplore."
"Well yet come again, for thou perhaps may smooth that heart which now of hope, thy kiss long."
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