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Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me, |
come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart! |
After him, fellows; bring him to the block. |
Provost: |
Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner? |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
A creature unprepared, unmeet for death; |
And to transport him in the mind he is |
Were damnable. |
Provost: |
Here in the prison, father, |
There died this morning of a cruel fever |
One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, |
A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head |
Just of his colour. What if we do omit |
This reprobate till he were well inclined; |
And satisfy the deputy with the visage |
Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio? |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides! |
Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on |
Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done, |
And sent according to command; whiles I |
Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die. |
Provost: |
This shall be done, good father, presently. |
But Barnardine must die this afternoon: |
And how shall we continue Claudio, |
To save me from the danger that might come |
If he were known alive? |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Let this be done. |
Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio: |
Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting |
To the under generation, you shall find |
Your safety manifested. |
Provost: |
I am your free dependant. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo. |
Now will I write letters to Angelo,-- |
The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents |
Shall witness to him I am near at home, |
And that, by great injunctions, I am bound |
To enter publicly: him I'll desire |
To meet me at the consecrated fount |
A league below the city; and from thence, |
By cold gradation and well-balanced form, |
We shall proceed with Angelo. |
Provost: |
Here is the head; I'll carry it myself. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Convenient is it. Make a swift return; |
For I would commune with you of such things |
That want no ear but yours. |
Provost: |
I'll make all speed. |
ISABELLA: |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know |
If yet her brother's pardon be come hither: |
But I will keep her ignorant of her good, |
To make her heavenly comforts of despair, |
When it is least expected. |
ISABELLA: |
Ho, by your leave! |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter. |
ISABELLA: |
The better, given me by so holy a man. |
Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon? |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
He hath released him, Isabel, from the world: |
His head is off and sent to Angelo. |
ISABELLA: |
Nay, but it is not so. |
DUKE VINCENTIO: |
It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter, |
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