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LUCIO: |
Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint? |
CLAUDIO: |
From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: |
As surfeit is the father of much fast, |
So every scope by the immoderate use |
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, |
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, |
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die. |
LUCIO: |
If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would |
send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say |
the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom |
as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy |
offence, Claudio? |
CLAUDIO: |
What but to speak of would offend again. |
LUCIO: |
What, is't murder? |
CLAUDIO: |
No. |
LUCIO: |
Lechery? |
CLAUDIO: |
Call it so. |
Provost: |
Away, sir! you must go. |
CLAUDIO: |
One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you. |
LUCIO: |
A hundred, if they'll do you any good. |
Is lechery so look'd after? |
CLAUDIO: |
Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract |
I got possession of Julietta's bed: |
You know the lady; she is fast my wife, |
Save that we do the denunciation lack |
Of outward order: this we came not to, |
Only for propagation of a dower |
Remaining in the coffer of her friends, |
From whom we thought it meet to hide our love |
Till time had made them for us. But it chances |
The stealth of our most mutual entertainment |
With character too gross is writ on Juliet. |
LUCIO: |
With child, perhaps? |
CLAUDIO: |
Unhappily, even so. |
And the new deputy now for the duke-- |
Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness, |
Or whether that the body public be |
A horse whereon the governor doth ride, |
Who, newly in the seat, that it may know |
He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; |
Whether the tyranny be in his place, |
Or in his emmence that fills it up, |
I stagger in:--but this new governor |
Awakes me all the enrolled penalties |
Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall |
So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round |
And none of them been worn; and, for a name, |
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act |
Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name. |
LUCIO: |
I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on |
thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, |
may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to |
him. |
CLAUDIO: |
I have done so, but he's not to be found. |
I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service: |
This day my sister should the cloister enter |
And there receive her approbation: |
Acquaint her with the danger of my state: |
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends |
To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him: |
I have great hope in that; for in her youth |
There is a prone and speechless dialect, |
Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art |
When she will play with reason and discourse, |
And well she can persuade. |
LUCIO: |
I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the |
like, which else would stand under grievous |
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