As it happens, the Captain is from Illyria, and tells Viola of Count Orsino, and of his love for Lady Olivia the Captain also mentions Olivia's recent loss of both her father and her brother, and Viola, having lost her brother as well, commiserates with Olivia's situation. The Captain recalls seeing her brother in the water after the shipwreck, clinging onto a mast, and riding above the waves. Viola hopes that her brother was saved, as she was the Captain, who also managed to get ashore, tries to console her of the hopes of finding her brother alive. Viola lands in Illyria, after a terrible shipwreck in which she was separated from her twin brother, Sebastian. Orsino's servant Valentine, whom Orsino sent to give his affections to Olivia, returns Valentine was not allowed to speak directly to Olivia, but Olivia sent a message, via her handmaiden, that Olivia will continue to mourn her dead brother, and will neither allow Orsino to see her or to woo her. Count Orsino of Illyria is introduced he laments that he is lovesick, and wishes that "if music be the food of love," he could kill his unrequited love through an overdose of music.
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