Diocesan School for Girls

ENGLISH S1

Twelfth Night Before you hear of the shipwreck, you must know that, inland from its wild sea coast, Illyria was a green and golden land, of thatched cottages, neat as well-combed children, of gracious mansions, and the noble palace of the Duke. Orsino was his name, and, before the shipwreck, he was fathoms deep in love with Olivia, a fair countess who dwelt nearby. "If music be the food of love, 't he sighed, gazing through his windows towards the lady's house, ' 'play on, give me excess of it . . . and his lute-player bent low over his beribboned instrument and filled the air with song. But alas! What pleasure was there in a feast for only one? The lady would have nothing to do with him. nor, indeed, with any of his sex. That is, until the shipwreck. She 'vvas in mourning for a brother deceased, and had shut herself away in her ma