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ALONSO:
Prithee, no more: thou dost talk nothing to me.
GONZALO:
I do well believe your highness; and
did it to minister occasion to these gentlemen,
who are of such sensible and nimble lungs that
they always use to laugh at nothing.
ANTONIO:
'Twas you we laughed at.
GONZALO:
Who in this kind of merry fooling am nothing
to you: so you may continue and laugh at
nothing still.
ANTONIO:
What a blow was there given!
SEBASTIAN:
An it had not fallen flat-long.
GONZALO:
You are gentlemen of brave metal; you would lift
the moon out of her sphere, if she would continue
in it five weeks without changing.
SEBASTIAN:
We would so, and then go a bat-fowling.
ANTONIO:
Nay, good my lord, be not angry.
GONZALO:
No, I warrant you; I will not adventure
my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh
me asleep, for I am very heavy?
ANTONIO:
Go sleep, and hear us.
ALONSO:
What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts: I find
They are inclined to do so.
SEBASTIAN:
Please you, sir,
Do not omit the heavy offer of it:
It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth,
It is a comforter.
ANTONIO:
We two, my lord,
Will guard your person while you take your rest,
And watch your safety.
ALONSO:
Thank you. Wondrous heavy.
SEBASTIAN:
What a strange drowsiness possesses them!
ANTONIO:
It is the quality o' the climate.
SEBASTIAN:
Why
Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find not
Myself disposed to sleep.
ANTONIO:
Nor I; my spirits are nimble.
They fell together all, as by consent;
They dropp'd, as by a thunder-stroke. What might,
Worthy Sebastian? O, what might?--No more:--
And yet me thinks I see it in thy face,
What thou shouldst be: the occasion speaks thee, and
My strong imagination sees a crown
Dropping upon thy head.
SEBASTIAN:
What, art thou waking?
ANTONIO:
Do you not hear me speak?
SEBASTIAN:
I do; and surely
It is a sleepy language and thou speak'st
Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say?
This is a strange repose, to be asleep
With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving,
And yet so fast asleep.
ANTONIO:
Noble Sebastian,
Thou let'st thy fortune sleep--die, rather; wink'st
Whiles thou art waking.