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Things are not always what they seem in Illyria.
Orsino conflates references to the senses in his opening speech about music, O it came o'er my ear like the sweet / That breathes upon a bank of (I.1.5–6).
O it came o'er my ear like the sweet / That breathes upon a bank of
Ask yourself: To what extent is Illyria presented as a place in which the senses are unreliable and more powerful than they should be?