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Twelfth Night, or What You Will

V. i. 237, 238. Nor can there he that deity in my nature. Of here and everywhere. Nor is it possible that my identity should reproduce itself in a Proteus-like manner, here, there, and everywhere; i.e., that doubles should spring up about me.

V. i. 270. nature to her bias drew in that. A figure from the popular game of bowling. Nature is compared to a 'bowl,' a round wooden ball in which a lump of lead is so placed as to draw it out of a straight course, when rolled on the ground, into an apparently erratic but really inevitable 'bias.'

V. i. 275. glass. The perspective glass alluded to in line 227. Orsino half believes that what he sees is not actual, but a delusion such as magicians' glasses create.

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