1. The captain, speaking to Viola, says: "True, madam: and, to comfort you with chance, we
Assure yourself, after our ship did split,
When you and those poor number saved with you
Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother,
Most provident in peril, bind himself,
Courage and hope both teaching him the practise,
To a strong mast that lived upon the sea;
Where, like Arion on the dolphin's back,
I saw him hold acquaintance with the waves
So long as I could see."
What might this information foreshadow?
Sebastian may not have drowned.
Viola is now an orphan.
O Sebastian is dead.
O Viola will have to represent both Sebastian and herself.