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After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; |
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, |
Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey, |
And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none; |
For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, |
The mere effusion of thy proper loins, |
Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, |
For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age, |
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, |
Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth |
Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms |
Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, |
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, |
To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this |
That bears the name of life? Yet in this life |
Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear, |
That makes these odds all even. |
CLAUDIO: |
I humbly thank you. |
To sue to live, I find I seek to die; |
And, seeking death, find life: let it come on. |
ISABELLA: |
Provost: |
Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again. |
CLAUDIO: |
Most holy sir, I thank you. |
ISABELLA: |
My business is a word or two with Claudio. |
Provost: |
And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Provost, a word with you. |
Provost: |
As many as you please. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed. |
CLAUDIO: |
Now, sister, what's the comfort? |
ISABELLA: |
Why, |
As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed. |
Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven, |
Intends you for his swift ambassador, |
Where you shall be an everlasting leiger: |
Therefore your best appointment make with speed; |
To-morrow you set on. |
CLAUDIO: |
Is there no remedy? |
ISABELLA: |
None, but such remedy as, to save a head, |
To cleave a heart in twain. |
CLAUDIO: |
But is there any? |
ISABELLA: |
Yes, brother, you may live: |
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, |
If you'll implore it, that will free your life, |
But fetter you till death. |
CLAUDIO: |
Perpetual durance? |
ISABELLA: |
Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint, |
Though all the world's vastidity you had, |
To a determined scope. |
CLAUDIO: |
But in what nature? |
ISABELLA: |
In such a one as, you consenting to't, |
Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear, |
And leave you naked. |
CLAUDIO: |
Let me know the point. |
ISABELLA: |
O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, |
Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, |
And six or seven winters more respect |
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