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  1. Feb 2021
    1. I’ll sacrifice the lamb that I do love To spite a raven’s heart within a dove.VIOLA 135 And I, most jocund, apt, and willingly, To do you rest a thousand deaths would die.OLIVIA  Where goes Cesario?VIOLA  After him I love More than I love these eyes, more than my life,140 More by all mores than e’er I shall love wife. If I do feign, you witnesses above, Punish my life for tainting of my love. 171 Twelfth Night ACT 5. SC. 1 OLIVIA  Ay me, detested! How am I beguiled!VIOLA  Who does beguile you? Who does do you wrong?OLIVIA 145 Hast thou forgot thyself? Is it so long?— Call forth the holy father.⌜An Attendant exits.⌝ORSINO, ⌜to Viola⌝  Come, away!OLIVIA  Whither, my lord?—Cesario, husband, stay.ORSINO  Husband?OLIVIA 150 Ay, husband. Can he that deny?ORSINO  Her husband, sirrah?VIOLA  No, my lord, not I.

      Previously Olivia and Viola were rhyming together; now they are rhyming with Orsino too.

    1.  A murd’rous guilt shows not itself more soon155 Than love that would seem hid. Love’s night is noon.— Cesario, by the roses of the spring, By maidhood, honor, truth, and everything, I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,160 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.VIOLA 165 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. Nevermore170 Will I my master’s tears to you deplore.OLIVIA  Yet come again, for thou perhaps mayst move That heart, which now abhors, to like his love.

      These 18 lines are all in couplets. Olivia and Viola seem to be in synch here, even as they are in disagreement. In Act 5, the two of them and Orsino all rhyme together.

    2. Love’s night is noon.

      It's impossible to hide love, it's bright as day. This is true of many characters – Orsino, Antonio, Malvolio pretty much, Sir Toby, Sebastian once he meets Olivia – pretty much everyone except Viola (or is it just that Orsino is thick?). It's ironic, given all the other hiding and secrecy in the play.

    3. Stay. I prithee, tell me what thou think’st of me.

      In Act 1, Scene 5, Viola had a lot to say about what she (and Orsino) thought of Olivia. This time, Olivia barely lets Viola get a word in edgewise and then now she's all "but let's talk about me".

    4. Have you not set mine honor at the stake And baited it with all th’ unmuzzled thoughts125 That tyrannous heart can think?

      Violent imagery (bear-baiting) – so many of the characters have such violent associations with love.

    1. She took the ring of me. I’ll none of it.

      Viola is smart and gracious enough not to call Olivia a liar to her servant. I wonder what would have happened if she had?