O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love’s coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man’s son doth know.
– William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night, Act 2, Scene 3. Feste sings of journeys that end up in lovers meeting. The song foreshadows the happy romantic ending to the play, when Viola and Orsino find love together and Olivia and Sebastian are wed. It is particularly directed towards Feste’s mistress Olivia – “your true love’s coming.”