And yet Viola was to have been presented to Orsino as a eunuch!—Act i. sc. 2. Viola's speech. Either she forgot this, or else she had altered her plan.
Ib.
'Vio'. A blank, my lord: she never told her love!—
But let concealment, &c.
After the first line, (of which the last five words should be spoken with, and drop down in, a deep sigh) the actress ought to make a pause; and then start afresh, from the activity of thought, born of suppressed feelings, and which thought had accumulated during the brief interval, as vital heat under the skin during a dip in cold water.
Ib. sc. 5.
'Fabian'. Though our silence be drawn from us by cars, yet peace.
Perhaps, 'cables.'
Act iii. sc. 1.
'Clown'. A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit.
(Theobald's note.)