Twelfth Night

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   blazedale

   in Act I Scene 5, the countess falls in love with Viola, who is disguised as a man. She admires Viola/Cesario's speech, looks, and general attitude and style.

   She says:

   Methinks I feel this youth's perfections
   With an invisible and subtle stealth
   To creep in at mine eyes. Well, let it be.--

   and then, at the very end of the act, she goes on to say:

   I do I know not what: and fear to find
   Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind.
   Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not
   owe:

   Which is her way of saying she thinks she is falling in love, but is unsure exactly.

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   http://www.enotes.com/twelfth-text/37643

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   Posted by blazedale on Friday February 2, 2007 at 2:18 PM
   
   

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