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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.</h3>
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<i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants</i>
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<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.1>Escalus.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech2><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.2>My lord.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.3>Of government the properties to unfold,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.4>Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.5>Since I am put to know that your own science</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.6>Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.7>My strength can give you: then no more remains,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.8>But that to your sufficiency as your Worth is able,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>And let them work. The nature of our people,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.10>Our city's institutions, and the terms</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.11>For common justice, you're as pregnant in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.12>As art and practise hath enriched any</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.13>That we remember. There is our commission,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.14>From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.15>I say, bid come before us Angelo.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p>
<A NAME=1.1.16>What figure of us think you he will bear?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.17>For you must know, we have with special soul</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.18>Elected him our absence to supply,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.19>Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.20>And given his deputation all the organs</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.21>Of our own power: what think you of it?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech4><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.22>If any in Vienna be of worth</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.23>To undergo such ample grace and honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>It is Lord Angelo.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.25> Look where he comes.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ANGELO</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech6><b>ANGELO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.26>Always obedient to your grace's will,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.27>I come to know your pleasure.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.28>Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.29>There is a kind of character in thy life,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>That to the observer doth thy history</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.31>Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.32>Are not thine own so proper as to waste</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.33>Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.34>Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.35>Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.36>Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.38>But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>The smallest scruple of her excellence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.40>But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.41>Herself the glory of a creditor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.42>Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.43>To one that can my part in him advertise;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.44>Hold therefore, Angelo:--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.45>In our remove be thou at full ourself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.46>Mortality and mercy in Vienna</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.48>Though first in question, is thy secondary.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.49>Take thy commission.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech8><b>ANGELO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.50>Now, good my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.51>Let there be some more test made of my metal,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.52>Before so noble and so great a figure</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.53>Be stamp'd upon it.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.54>No more evasion:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.55>We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.56>Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.57>Our haste from hence is of so quick condition</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.59>Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.60>As time and our concernings shall importune,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.61>How it goes with us, and do look to know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.62>What doth befall you here. So, fare you well;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.63>To the hopeful execution do I leave you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.64>Of your commissions.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech10><b>ANGELO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.65>Yet give leave, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.66>That we may bring you something on the way.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.67>My haste may not admit it;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.68>Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.69>With any scruple; your scope is as mine own</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.70>So to enforce or qualify the laws</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.71>As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.72>I'll privily away. I love the people,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.73>But do not like to stage me to their eyes:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.74>Through it do well, I do not relish well</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.75>Their loud applause and Aves vehement;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.76>Nor do I think the man of safe discretion</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.77>That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech12><b>ANGELO</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.78>The heavens give safety to your purposes!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech13><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.79>Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE</b></a>
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<A NAME=1.1.80>I thank you. Fare you well.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
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<A NAME=speech15><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.81>I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.82>To have free speech with you; and it concerns me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.83>To look into the bottom of my place:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.84>A power I have, but of what strength and nature</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.85>I am not yet instructed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.86>'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.87>And we may soon our satisfaction have</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.88>Touching that point.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.89>I'll wait upon your honour.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. A Street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>If the duke with the other dukes come not to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.2>composition with the King of Hungary, why then all</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.3>the dukes fall upon the king.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.4>Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.5>Hungary's!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.6>Amen.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.8>went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.9>one out of the table.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.10>'Thou shalt not steal'?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.11>Ay, that he razed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.12>Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.13>all the rest from their functions: they put forth</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.14>to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.15>the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.16>well that prays for peace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.17>I never heard any soldier dislike it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.18>I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.19>grace was said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.20>No? a dozen times at least.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.21>What, in metre?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.22>In any proportion or in any language.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.23>I think, or in any religion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.24>Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.25>controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.26>wicked villain, despite of all grace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.27>Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.28>I grant; as there may between the lists and the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.29>velvet. Thou art the list.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.30>And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.31>a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.32>be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.33>art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>feelingly now?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.35>I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.36>feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.37>confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.38>live, forget to drink after thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.39>I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.40>Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.41>Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.42>have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.43>To what, I pray?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.44>Judge.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.45>To three thousand dolours a year.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.46>Ay, and more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.47>A French crown more.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.48>Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.49>art full of error; I am sound.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.50>Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.51>things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.52>impiety has made a feast of thee.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.53>How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.54>Well, well; there's one yonder arrested and carried</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.55>to prison was worth five thousand of you all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.56>Who's that, I pray thee?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.57>Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.58>Claudio to prison? 'tis not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.59>Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.60>him carried away; and, which is more, within these</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.61>three days his head to be chopped off.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.62>But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.63>Art thou sure of this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.64>I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.65>Julietta with child.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.66>Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>hours since, and he was ever precise in</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.68>promise-keeping.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>Second Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.69>Besides, you know, it draws something near to the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.70>speech we had to such a purpose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>First Gentleman</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.71>But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.72>Away! let's go learn the truth of it.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt LUCIO and Gentlemen</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.73>Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.74>with the gallows and what with poverty, I am</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.75>custom-shrunk.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter POMPEY</i></p>
<A NAME=1.2.76>How now! what's the news with you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.77>Yonder man is carried to prison.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.78>Well; what has he done?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.79>A woman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.80>But what's his offence?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.81>Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.82>What, is there a maid with child by him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.83>No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.84>not heard of the proclamation, have you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.85>What proclamation, man?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.86>All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.87>And what shall become of those in the city?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.88>They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.89>but that a wise burgher put in for them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.90>But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>pulled down?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.92>To the ground, mistress.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.93>Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>What shall become of me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.95>Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.96>clients: though you change your place, you need not</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.97>change your trade; I'll be your tapster still.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.100>will be considered.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.101>What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.102>Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.103>prison; and there's Madam Juliet.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
<p><i>Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.104>Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.105>Bear me to prison, where I am committed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.106>I do it not in evil disposition,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.107>But from Lord Angelo by special charge.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.108>Thus can the demigod Authority</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.109>Make us pay down for our offence by weight</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.110>The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.111>On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.112>Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.113>From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.114>As surfeit is the father of much fast,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.115>So every scope by the immoderate use</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.116>Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.117>Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.118>A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.119>If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.120>send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.121>the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.122>as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.123>offence, Claudio?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.124>What but to speak of would offend again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.125>What, is't murder?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.126>No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.127>Lechery?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.128>Call it so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.129>Away, sir! you must go.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.130>One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.131>A hundred, if they'll do you any good.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.132>Is lechery so look'd after?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.133>Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.134>I got possession of Julietta's bed:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.135>You know the lady; she is fast my wife,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.136>Save that we do the denunciation lack</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.137>Of outward order: this we came not to,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.138>Only for propagation of a dower</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.139>Remaining in the coffer of her friends,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.140>From whom we thought it meet to hide our love</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.141>Till time had made them for us. But it chances</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.142>The stealth of our most mutual entertainment</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.143>With character too gross is writ on Juliet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.144>With child, perhaps?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.145>Unhappily, even so.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.146>And the new deputy now for the duke--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.147>Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.148>Or whether that the body public be</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.149>A horse whereon the governor doth ride,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.150>Who, newly in the seat, that it may know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.151>He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.152>Whether the tyranny be in his place,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.153>Or in his emmence that fills it up,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.154>I stagger in:--but this new governor</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.155>Awakes me all the enrolled penalties</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.156>Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.157>So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.158>And none of them been worn; and, for a name,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.159>Now puts the drowsy and neglected act</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.160>Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.161>I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.162>thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.163>may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.164>him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.165>I have done so, but he's not to be found.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.166>I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.167>This day my sister should the cloister enter</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.168>And there receive her approbation:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.169>Acquaint her with the danger of my state:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.170>Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.171>To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.172>I have great hope in that; for in her youth</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.173>There is a prone and speechless dialect,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.174>Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.175>When she will play with reason and discourse,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.176>And well she can persuade.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.177>I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.178>like, which else would stand under grievous</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.179>imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.180>would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.181>game of tick-tack. I'll to her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.182>I thank you, good friend Lucio.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.183>Within two hours.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.184> Come, officer, away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A monastery.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>No, holy father; throw away that thought;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.2>Believe not that the dribbling dart of love</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.3>Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.5>More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.6>Of burning youth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>FRIAR THOMAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.7> May your grace speak of it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.8>My holy sir, none better knows than you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.9>How I have ever loved the life removed</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.10>And held in idle price to haunt assemblies</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.11>Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.12>I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.13>A man of stricture and firm abstinence,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.14>My absolute power and place here in Vienna,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.15>And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.16>For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.17>And so it is received. Now, pious sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.18>You will demand of me why I do this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>FRIAR THOMAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.19>Gladly, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.20>We have strict statutes and most biting laws.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.21>The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.22>Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.23>Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.24>That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.26>Only to stick it in their children's sight</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>For terror, not to use, in time the rod</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.29>Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.30>And liberty plucks justice by the nose;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.31>The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.32>Goes all decorum.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>FRIAR THOMAS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.33> It rested in your grace</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.34>To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.36>Than in Lord Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.37>I do fear, too dreadful:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.38>Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.39>'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.40>For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.41>When evil deeds have their permissive pass</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.42>And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.43>I have on Angelo imposed the office;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.44>Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.45>And yet my nature never in the fight</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.46>To do in slander. And to behold his sway,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.47>I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.48>Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.49>Supply me with the habit and instruct me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.50>How I may formally in person bear me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.51>Like a true friar. More reasons for this action</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.52>At our more leisure shall I render you;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.53>Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.54>Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.55>That his blood flows, or that his appetite</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.56>Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.57>If power change purpose, what our seemers be.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A nunnery.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.1>And have you nuns no farther privileges?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>FRANCISCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.2>Are not these large enough?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.3>Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.4>But rather wishing a more strict restraint</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.5>Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.6>[Within] Ho! Peace be in this place!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.7>Who's that which calls?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>FRANCISCA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.8>It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.9>Turn you the key, and know his business of him;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.10>You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.11>When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.12>But in the presence of the prioress:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.13>Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.14>Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.15>He calls again; I pray you, answer him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.16>Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LUCIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.17>Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.18>Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.19>As bring me to the sight of Isabella,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.20>A novice of this place and the fair sister</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.21>To her unhappy brother Claudio?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.22>Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.23>The rather for I now must make you know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.24>I am that Isabella and his sister.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.25>Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.26>Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.27>Woe me! for what?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.28>For that which, if myself might be his judge,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.29>He should receive his punishment in thanks:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.30>He hath got his friend with child.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.31>Sir, make me not your story.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.32>It is true.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.33>I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.34>With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.35>Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.36>I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.37>By your renouncement an immortal spirit,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.38>And to be talk'd with in sincerity,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.39>As with a saint.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.40>You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.41>Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.42>Your brother and his lover have embraced:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.43>As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.44>That from the seedness the bare fallow brings</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.45>To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.46>Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.47>Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.48>Is she your cousin?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.49>Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.50>By vain though apt affection.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.51>She it is.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.52>O, let him marry her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.53>This is the point.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.54>The duke is very strangely gone from hence;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.55>Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.56>In hand and hope of action: but we do learn</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.57>By those that know the very nerves of state,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.58>His givings-out were of an infinite distance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.59>From his true-meant design. Upon his place,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.60>And with full line of his authority,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.61>Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.62>Is very snow-broth; one who never feels</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.63>The wanton stings and motions of the sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.64>But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.65>With profits of the mind, study and fast.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.66>He--to give fear to use and liberty,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.67>Which have for long run by the hideous law,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.68>As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.69>Under whose heavy sense your brother's life</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.70>Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.71>And follows close the rigour of the statute,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.72>To make him an example. All hope is gone,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.73>Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.74>To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.75>'Twixt you and your poor brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.76>Doth he so seek his life?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.77>Has censured him</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.78>Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.79>A warrant for his execution.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.80>Alas! what poor ability's in me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.81>To do him good?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.82> Assay the power you have.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.83>My power? Alas, I doubt--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.84>Our doubts are traitors</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.85>And make us lose the good we oft might win</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.86>By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.87>And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.88>Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.89>All their petitions are as freely theirs</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.90>As they themselves would owe them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.91>I'll see what I can do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.92>But speedily.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.93>I will about it straight;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.94>No longer staying but to give the mother</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.95>Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.96>Commend me to my brother: soon at night</A><br>
<A NAME=1.4.97>I'll send him certain word of my success.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.98>I take my leave of you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.4.99>Good sir, adieu.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT II</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. A hall In ANGELO's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants, behind</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.1>We must not make a scarecrow of the law,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.2>Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.3>And let it keep one shape, till custom make it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.4>Their perch and not their terror.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.5>Ay, but yet</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.6>Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.7>Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.8>Whom I would save, had a most noble father!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.9>Let but your honour know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.10>Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.11>That, in the working of your own affections,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.12>Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.13>Or that the resolute acting of your blood</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.14>Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.15>Whether you had not sometime in your life</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.16>Err'd in this point which now you censure him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.17>And pull'd the law upon you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.18>'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.19>Another thing to fall. I not deny,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.20>The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.21>May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.22>Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.23>That justice seizes: what know the laws</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.24>That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.25>The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.26>Because we see it; but what we do not see</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.27>We tread upon, and never think of it.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.28>You may not so extenuate his offence</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.29>For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.30>When I, that censure him, do so offend,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.31>Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.32>And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.33>Be it as your wisdom will.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.34>Where is the provost?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.35>Here, if it like your honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.36>See that Claudio</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.37>Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.38>Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.39>For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.40>[Aside] Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.41>Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.42>Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.43>And some condemned for a fault alone.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.44>Come, bring them away: if these be good people in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.45>a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.46>common houses, I know no law: bring them away.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.47>How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.48>If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.49>constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.50>justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.51>honour two notorious benefactors.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.52>Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.53>they not malefactors?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.54>If it? please your honour, I know not well what they</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.55>are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.56>of; and void of all profanation in the world that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.57>good Christians ought to have.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.58>This comes off well; here's a wise officer.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.59>Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.60>name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.61>He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.62>What are you, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.63>He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.64>serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.65>say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.66>professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.67>How know you that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.68>My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.69>How? thy wife?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.70>Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.71>Dost thou detest her therefore?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.72>I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.73>she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.74>it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.75>How dost thou know that, constable?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.76>Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.77>cardinally given, might have been accused in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.78>fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.79>By the woman's means?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.80>Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.81>spit in his face, so she defied him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.82>Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.83>Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.84>man; prove it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.85>Do you hear how he misplaces?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.86>Sir, she came in great with child; and longing,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.87>saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.88>sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.89>distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.90>dish of some three-pence; your honours have seen</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.91>such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.92>good dishes,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.93>Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.94>No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.95>the right: but to the point. As I say, this</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.96>Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.97>being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.98>prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.99>Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.100>rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.101>honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.102>not give you three-pence again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.103>No, indeed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.104>Very well: you being then, if you be remembered,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.105>cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.106>Ay, so I did indeed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.107>Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.108>remembered, that such a one and such a one were past</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.109>cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.110>good diet, as I told you,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.111>All this is true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.112>Why, very well, then,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.113>Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.114>was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.115>complain of? Come me to what was done to her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.116>Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.117>No, sir, nor I mean it not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.118>Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.119>leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.120>here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.121>father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.122>Master Froth?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.123>All-hallond eve.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.124>Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.125>sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.126>the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.127>to sit, have you not?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.128>I have so; because it is an open room and good for winter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.129>Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.130>This will last out a night in Russia,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.131>When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.132>And leave you to the hearing of the cause;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.133>Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.134>I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ANGELO</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.135>Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.136>Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.137>I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.138>I beseech your honour, ask me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.139>Well, sir; what did this gentleman to her?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.140>I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.141>Good Master Froth, look upon his honour; 'tis for a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.142>good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.143>Ay, sir, very well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.144>Nay; I beseech you, mark it well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.145>Well, I do so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.146>Doth your honour see any harm in his face?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.147>Why, no.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.148>I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.149>thing about him. Good, then; if his face be the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.150>worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.151>constable's wife any harm? I would know that of</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.152>your honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.153>He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.154>First, an it like you, the house is a respected</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.155>house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.156>mistress is a respected woman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.157>By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.158>person than any of us all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.159>Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.160>time has yet to come that she was ever respected</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.161>with man, woman, or child.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.162>Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.163>Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.164>this true?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.165>O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.166>Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.167>to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.168>with me, let not your worship think me the poor</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.169>duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.170>I'll have mine action of battery on thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.171>If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.172>action of slander too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.173>Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.174>your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.175>Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.176>that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.177>continue in his courses till thou knowest what they</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.178>are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.179>Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.180>wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.181>to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.182>Where were you born, friend?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.183>Here in Vienna, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.184>Are you of fourscore pounds a year?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.185>Yes, an't please you, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.186>So. What trade are you of, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>POMPHEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.187>Tapster; a poor widow's tapster.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.188>Your mistress' name?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>POMPHEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.189>Mistress Overdone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.190>Hath she had any more than one husband?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.191>Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.192>Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.193>Froth, I would not have you acquainted with</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.194>tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.195>will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.196>more of you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>FROTH</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.197>I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.198>come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.199>in.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.200>Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit FROTH</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.201>Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.202>name, Master tapster?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.203>Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.204>What else?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.205>Bum, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.206>Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.207>so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.208>Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.209>howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.210>not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.211>Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.212>How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.213>do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.214>If the law would allow it, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.215>But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.216>not be allowed in Vienna.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech94><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.217>Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.218>youth of the city?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech95><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.219>No, Pompey.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech96><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.220>Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.221>If your worship will take order for the drabs and</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.222>the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech97><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.223>There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.224>it is but heading and hanging.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech98><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.225>If you head and hang all that offend that way but</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.226>for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.227>commission for more heads: if this law hold in</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.228>Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.229>after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.230>come to pass, say Pompey told you so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech99><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.231>Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.232>prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.233>you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.234>no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.235>I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.236>Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.237>have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech100><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.238>I thank your worship for your good counsel:</A><br>
<p><i>Aside</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.239>but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.240>better determine.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.241>Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.242>The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech101><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.243>Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.244>constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech102><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.245>Seven year and a half, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech103><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.246>I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.247>continued in it some time. You say, seven years together?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech104><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.248>And a half, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech105><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.249>Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.250>wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.251>in your ward sufficient to serve it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech106><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.252>Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.253>are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.254>do it for some piece of money, and go through with</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.255>all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech107><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.256>Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.257>the most sufficient of your parish.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech108><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.258>To your worship's house, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech109><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.259>To my house. Fare you well.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ELBOW</i></p>
<A NAME=2.1.260>What's o'clock, think you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech110><b>Justice</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.261>Eleven, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech111><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.262>I pray you home to dinner with me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech112><b>Justice</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.263>I humbly thank you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech113><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.264>It grieves me for the death of Claudio;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.265>But there's no remedy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech114><b>Justice</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.266>Lord Angelo is severe.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech115><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.1.267>It is but needful:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.268>Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.269>Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.270>But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.1.271>Come, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Another room in the same.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Provost and a Servant</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.1>He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.2>I'll tell him of you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.3>Pray you, do.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.4>I'll know</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.5>His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.6>He hath but as offended in a dream!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.7>All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.8>To die for't!</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ANGELO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.9> Now, what's the matter. Provost?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.10>Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.11>Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.12>Why dost thou ask again?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.13>Lest I might be too rash:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.14>Under your good correction, I have seen,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.15>When, after execution, judgment hath</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.16>Repented o'er his doom.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.17>Go to; let that be mine:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.18>Do you your office, or give up your place,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.19>And you shall well be spared.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.20>I crave your honour's pardon.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.21>What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.22>She's very near her hour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.23>Dispose of her</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.24>To some more fitter place, and that with speed.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Servant</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.25>Here is the sister of the man condemn'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.26>Desires access to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.27>Hath he a sister?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.28>Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.29>And to be shortly of a sisterhood,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.30>If not already.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.31> Well, let her be admitted.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.32>See you the fornicatress be removed:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.33>Let have needful, but not lavish, means;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.34>There shall be order for't.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.35>God save your honour!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.36>Stay a little while.</A><br>
<p><i>To ISABELLA</i></p>
<A NAME=2.2.37>You're welcome: what's your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.38>I am a woeful suitor to your honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.39>Please but your honour hear me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.40>Well; what's your suit?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.41>There is a vice that most I do abhor,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.42>And most desire should meet the blow of justice;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.43>For which I would not plead, but that I must;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.44>For which I must not plead, but that I am</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.45>At war 'twixt will and will not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.46>Well; the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.47>I have a brother is condemn'd to die:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.48>I do beseech you, let it be his fault,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.49>And not my brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.50>[Aside] Heaven give thee moving graces!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.51>Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.52>Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.53>Mine were the very cipher of a function,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.54>To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.55>And let go by the actor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.56>O just but severe law!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.57>I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.58>[Aside to ISABELLA] Give't not o'er so: to him</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.59>again, entreat him;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.60>Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.61>You are too cold; if you should need a pin,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.62>You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.63>To him, I say!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.64>Must he needs die?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.65> Maiden, no remedy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.66>Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.67>And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.68>I will not do't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.69> But can you, if you would?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.70>Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.71>But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.72>If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.73>A s mine is to him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.74> He's sentenced; 'tis too late.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.75>[Aside to ISABELLA] You are too cold.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.76>Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.77>May call it back again. Well, believe this,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.78>No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.79>Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.80>The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.81>Become them with one half so good a grace</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.82>As mercy does.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.83>If he had been as you and you as he,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.84>You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.85>Would not have been so stern.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.86>Pray you, be gone.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.87>I would to heaven I had your potency,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.88>And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.89>No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.90>And what a prisoner.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.91>[Aside to ISABELLA]</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.92>Ay, touch him; there's the vein.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.93>Your brother is a forfeit of the law,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.94>And you but waste your words.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.95>Alas, alas!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.96>Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.97>And He that might the vantage best have took</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.98>Found out the remedy. How would you be,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.99>If He, which is the top of judgment, should</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.100>But judge you as you are? O, think on that;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.101>And mercy then will breathe within your lips,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.102>Like man new made.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.103> Be you content, fair maid;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.104>It is the law, not I condemn your brother:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.105>Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.106>It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.107>To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.108>He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.109>We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.110>With less respect than we do minister</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.111>To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.112>Who is it that hath died for this offence?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.113>There's many have committed it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.114>[Aside to ISABELLA] Ay, well said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.115>The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.116>Those many had not dared to do that evil,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.117>If the first that did the edict infringe</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.118>Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.119>Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.120>Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.121>Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.122>And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.123>Are now to have no successive degrees,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.124>But, ere they live, to end.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.125>Yet show some pity.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.126>I show it most of all when I show justice;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.127>For then I pity those I do not know,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.128>Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.129>And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.130>Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.131>Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.132>So you must be the first that gives this sentence,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.133>And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.134>To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.135>To use it like a giant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.136>[Aside to ISABELLA] That's well said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.137>Could great men thunder</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.138>As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.139>For every pelting, petty officer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.140>Would use his heaven for thunder;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.141>Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.142>Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.143>Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.144>Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.145>Drest in a little brief authority,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.146>Most ignorant of what he's most assured,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.147>His glassy essence, like an angry ape,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.148>Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.149>As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.150>Would all themselves laugh mortal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.151>[Aside to ISABELLA] O, to him, to him, wench! he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.152>will relent;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.153>He's coming; I perceive 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.154>[Aside] Pray heaven she win him!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.155>We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.156>Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.157>But in the less foul profanation.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.158>Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o, that.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.159>That in the captain's but a choleric word,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.160>Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.161>[Aside to ISABELLA] Art avised o' that? more on 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.162>Why do you put these sayings upon me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.163>Because authority, though it err like others,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.164>Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.165>That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.166>Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.167>That's like my brother's fault: if it confess</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.168>A natural guiltiness such as is his,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.169>Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.170>Against my brother's life.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.171>[Aside] She speaks, and 'tis</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.172>Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.173>Gentle my lord, turn back.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.174>I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.175>Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.176>How! bribe me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.177>Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.178>[Aside to ISABELLA] You had marr'd all else.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.179>Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.180>Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.181>As fancy values them; but with true prayers</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.182>That shall be up at heaven and enter there</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.183>Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.184>From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.185>To nothing temporal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.186>Well; come to me to-morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.187>[Aside to ISABELLA] Go to; 'tis well; away!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.188>Heaven keep your honour safe!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.189>[Aside] Amen:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.190>For I am that way going to temptation,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.191>Where prayers cross.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.192>At what hour to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.193>Shall I attend your lordship?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.194>At any time 'fore noon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.195>'Save your honour!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.2.196> From thee, even from thy virtue!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.197>What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.198>The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.199>Ha!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.200>Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.201>That, lying by the violet in the sun,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.202>Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.203>Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.204>That modesty may more betray our sense</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.205>Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.206>Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.207>And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.208>What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.209>Dost thou desire her foully for those things</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.210>That make her good? O, let her brother live!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.211>Thieves for their robbery have authority</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.212>When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.213>That I desire to hear her speak again,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.214>And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.215>O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.216>With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.217>Is that temptation that doth goad us on</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.218>To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.219>With all her double vigour, art and nature,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.220>Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.221>Subdues me quite. Even till now,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.2.222>When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A room in a prison.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.1>Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.2>I am the provost. What's your will, good friar?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.3>Bound by my charity and my blest order,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.4>I come to visit the afflicted spirits</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.5>Here in the prison. Do me the common right</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.6>To let me see them and to make me know</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.7>The nature of their crimes, that I may minister</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.8>To them accordingly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.9>I would do more than that, if more were needful.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter JULIET</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.10>Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.11>Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.12>Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.13>And he that got it, sentenced; a young man</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.14>More fit to do another such offence</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.15>Than die for this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.16>When must he die?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.17> As I do think, to-morrow.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.18>I have provided for you: stay awhile,</A><br>
<p><i>To JULIET</i></p>
<A NAME=2.3.19>And you shall be conducted.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.20>Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.21>I do; and bear the shame most patiently.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.22>I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.23>And try your penitence, if it be sound,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.24>Or hollowly put on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.25>I'll gladly learn.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.26>Love you the man that wrong'd you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.27>Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.28>So then it seems your most offenceful act</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.29>Was mutually committed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.30>Mutually.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.31>Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.32>I do confess it, and repent it, father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.33>'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.34>As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.35>Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.36>Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.37>But as we stand in fear,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.38>I do repent me, as it is an evil,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.39>And take the shame with joy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.40>There rest.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.41>Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.42>And I am going with instruction to him.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.43>Grace go with you, Benedicite!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>JULIET</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.44>Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.45>That respites me a life, whose very comfort</A><br>
<A NAME=2.3.46>Is still a dying horror!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.3.47>'Tis pity of him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ANGELO</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.1>When I would pray and think, I think and pray</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.2>To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.3>Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.4>Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.5>As if I did but only chew his name;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.6>And in my heart the strong and swelling evil</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.7>Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.8>Is like a good thing, being often read,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.9>Grown fear'd and tedious; yea, my gravity,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.10>Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.11>Could I with boot change for an idle plume,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.12>Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.13>How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.14>Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.15>To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.16>Let's write good angel on the devil's horn:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.17>'Tis not the devil's crest.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.18>How now! who's there?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>Servant</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.19>One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.20>Teach her the way.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Servant</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.21>O heavens!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.22>Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.23>Making both it unable for itself,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.24>And dispossessing all my other parts</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.25>Of necessary fitness?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.26>So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.27>Come all to help him, and so stop the air</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.28>By which he should revive: and even so</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.29>The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.30>Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.31>Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.32>Must needs appear offence.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ISABELLA</i></p>
<A NAME=2.4.33>How now, fair maid?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.34>I am come to know your pleasure.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.35>That you might know it, would much better please me</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.36>Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.37>Even so. Heaven keep your honour!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.38>Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>As long as you or I</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.39>yet he must die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.40>Under your sentence?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.41>Yea.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.42>When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.43>Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.44>That his soul sicken not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.45>Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.46>To pardon him that hath from nature stolen</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.47>A man already made, as to remit</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.48>Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.49>In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.50>Falsely to take away a life true made</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.51>As to put metal in restrained means</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.52>To make a false one.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.53>'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.54>Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.55>Which had you rather, that the most just law</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.56>Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.57>Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.58>As she that he hath stain'd?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.59>Sir, believe this,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.60>I had rather give my body than my soul.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.61>I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.62>Stand more for number than for accompt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.63>How say you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.64>Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.65>Against the thing I say. Answer to this:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.66>I, now the voice of the recorded law,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.67>Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.68>Might there not be a charity in sin</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.69>To save this brother's life?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.70>Please you to do't,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.71>I'll take it as a peril to my soul,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.72>It is no sin at all, but charity.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.73>Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.74>Were equal poise of sin and charity.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.75>That I do beg his life, if it be sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.76>Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.77>If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.78>To have it added to the faults of mine,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.79>And nothing of your answer.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.80>Nay, but hear me.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.81>Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.82>Or seem so craftily; and that's not good.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.83>Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.84>But graciously to know I am no better.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.85>Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.86>When it doth tax itself; as these black masks</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.87>Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.88>Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.89>To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.90>Your brother is to die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.91>So.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.92>And his offence is so, as it appears,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.93>Accountant to the law upon that pain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.94>True.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.95>Admit no other way to save his life,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.96>As I subscribe not that, nor any other,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.97>But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.98>Finding yourself desired of such a person,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.99>Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.100>Could fetch your brother from the manacles</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.101>Of the all-building law; and that there were</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.102>No earthly mean to save him, but that either</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.103>You must lay down the treasures of your body</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.104>To this supposed, or else to let him suffer;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.105>What would you do?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.106>As much for my poor brother as myself:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.107>That is, were I under the terms of death,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.108>The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.109>And strip myself to death, as to a bed</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.110>That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.111>My body up to shame.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.112>Then must your brother die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.113>And 'twere the cheaper way:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.114>Better it were a brother died at once,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.115>Than that a sister, by redeeming him,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.116>Should die for ever.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.117>Were not you then as cruel as the sentence</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.118>That you have slander'd so?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.119>Ignomy in ransom and free pardon</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.120>Are of two houses: lawful mercy</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.121>Is nothing kin to foul redemption.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.122>You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.123>And rather proved the sliding of your brother</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.124>A merriment than a vice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.125>O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.126>To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.127>I something do excuse the thing I hate,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.128>For his advantage that I dearly love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.129>We are all frail.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.130> Else let my brother die,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.131>If not a feodary, but only he</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.132>Owe and succeed thy weakness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.133>Nay, women are frail too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.134>Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.135>Which are as easy broke as they make forms.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.136>Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.137>In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.138>For we are soft as our complexions are,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.139>And credulous to false prints.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.140>I think it well:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.141>And from this testimony of your own sex,--</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.142>Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.143>Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.144>I do arrest your words. Be that you are,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.145>That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.146>If you be one, as you are well express'd</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.147>By all external warrants, show it now,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.148>By putting on the destined livery.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.149>I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.150>Let me entreat you speak the former language.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.151>Plainly conceive, I love you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.152>My brother did love Juliet,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.153>And you tell me that he shall die for it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.154>He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.155>I know your virtue hath a licence in't,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.156>Which seems a little fouler than it is,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.157>To pluck on others.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.158>Believe me, on mine honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.159>My words express my purpose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.160>Ha! little honour to be much believed,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.161>And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.162>I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.163>Sign me a present pardon for my brother,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.164>Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.165>What man thou art.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.166> Who will believe thee, Isabel?</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.167>My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.168>My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.169>Will so your accusation overweigh,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.170>That you shall stifle in your own report</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.171>And smell of calumny. I have begun,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.172>And now I give my sensual race the rein:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.173>Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.174>Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.175>That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.176>By yielding up thy body to my will;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.177>Or else he must not only die the death,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.178>But thy unkindness shall his death draw out</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.179>To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.180>Or, by the affection that now guides me most,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.181>I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.182>Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=2.4.183>To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.184>Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.185>That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.186>Either of condemnation or approof;</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.187>Bidding the law make court'sy to their will:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.188>Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.189>To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.190>Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.191>Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.192>That, had he twenty heads to tender down</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.193>On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.194>Before his sister should her body stoop</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.195>To such abhorr'd pollution.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.196>Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.197>More than our brother is our chastity.</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.198>I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,</A><br>
<A NAME=2.4.199>And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT III</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. A room in the prison.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and Provost</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.1>So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.2>The miserable have no other medicine</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.3>But only hope:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.4>I've hope to live, and am prepared to die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.5>Be absolute for death; either death or life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.6>Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.7>If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.8>That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.9>Servile to all the skyey influences,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.10>That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.11>Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.12>For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.13>And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.14>For all the accommodations that thou bear'st</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.15>Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.16>For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.17>Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.18>And that thou oft provokest; yet grossly fear'st</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.19>Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.20>For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.21>That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.22>For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.23>And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.24>For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.25>After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.26>For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.27>Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.28>And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.29>For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.30>The mere effusion of thy proper loins,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.31>Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.32>For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.33>But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.34>Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.35>Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.36>Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.37>Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.38>To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.39>That bears the name of life? Yet in this life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.40>Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.41>That makes these odds all even.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.42>I humbly thank you.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.43>To sue to live, I find I seek to die;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.44>And, seeking death, find life: let it come on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.45>[Within] What, ho! Peace here; grace and good company!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.46>Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.47>Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.48>Most holy sir, I thank you.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ISABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.49>My business is a word or two with Claudio.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.50>And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.51>Provost, a word with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.52>As many as you please.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.53>Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt DUKE VINCENTIO and Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.54>Now, sister, what's the comfort?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.55>Why,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.56>As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.57>Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.58>Intends you for his swift ambassador,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.59>Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.60>Therefore your best appointment make with speed;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.61>To-morrow you set on.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.62>Is there no remedy?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.63>None, but such remedy as, to save a head,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.64>To cleave a heart in twain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.65>But is there any?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.66>Yes, brother, you may live:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.67>There is a devilish mercy in the judge,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.68>If you'll implore it, that will free your life,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.69>But fetter you till death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.70>Perpetual durance?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.71>Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.72>Though all the world's vastidity you had,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.73>To a determined scope.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.74>But in what nature?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.75>In such a one as, you consenting to't,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.76>Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.77>And leave you naked.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.78>Let me know the point.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.79>O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.80>Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.81>And six or seven winters more respect</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.82>Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.83>The sense of death is most in apprehension;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.84>And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.85>In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.86>As when a giant dies.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.87>Why give you me this shame?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.88>Think you I can a resolution fetch</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.89>From flowery tenderness? If I must die,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.90>I will encounter darkness as a bride,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.91>And hug it in mine arms.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.92>There spake my brother; there my father's grave</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.93>Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.94>Thou art too noble to conserve a life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.95>In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.96>Whose settled visage and deliberate word</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.97>Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.98>As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.99>His filth within being cast, he would appear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.100>A pond as deep as hell.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.101>The prenzie Angelo!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.102>O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.103>The damned'st body to invest and cover</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.104>In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.105>If I would yield him my virginity,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.106>Thou mightst be freed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.107>O heavens! it cannot be.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.108>Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.109>So to offend him still. This night's the time</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.110>That I should do what I abhor to name,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.111>Or else thou diest to-morrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.112>Thou shalt not do't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.113>O, were it but my life,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.114>I'ld throw it down for your deliverance</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.115>As frankly as a pin.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.116>Thanks, dear Isabel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.117>Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.118>Yes. Has he affections in him,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.119>That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.120>When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.121>Or of the deadly seven, it is the least.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.122>Which is the least?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.123>If it were damnable, he being so wise,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.124>Why would he for the momentary trick</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.125>Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.126>What says my brother?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.127>Death is a fearful thing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.128>And shamed life a hateful.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.129>Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.130>To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.131>This sensible warm motion to become</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.132>A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.133>To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.134>In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.135>To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.136>And blown with restless violence round about</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.137>The pendent world; or to be worse than worst</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.138>Of those that lawless and incertain thought</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.139>Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.140>The weariest and most loathed worldly life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.141>That age, ache, penury and imprisonment</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.142>Can lay on nature is a paradise</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.143>To what we fear of death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.144>Alas, alas!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.145> Sweet sister, let me live:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.146>What sin you do to save a brother's life,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.147>Nature dispenses with the deed so far</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.148>That it becomes a virtue.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.149>O you beast!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.150>O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.151>Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.152>Is't not a kind of incest, to take life</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.153>From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.154>Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.155>For such a warped slip of wilderness</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.156>Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.157>Die, perish! Might but my bending down</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.158>Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.159>I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.160>No word to save thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.161>Nay, hear me, Isabel.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.162>O, fie, fie, fie!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.163>Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.164>Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.165>'Tis best thou diest quickly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.166>O hear me, Isabella!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter DUKE VINCENTIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.167>Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.168>What is your will?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.169>Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.170>by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.171>would require is likewise your own benefit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.172>I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.173>stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile.</A><br>
<p><i>Walks apart</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.174>Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.175>and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.176>corrupt her; only he hath made an essay of her</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.177>virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.178>of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.179>hath made him that gracious denial which he is most</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.180>glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.181>know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.182>death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.183>that are fallible: tomorrow you must die; go to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.184>your knees and make ready.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.185>Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.186>with life that I will sue to be rid of it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.187>Hold you there: farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CLAUDIO</i></p>
<A NAME=3.1.188>Provost, a word with you!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.189>What's your will, father</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.190>That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.191>awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.192>habit no loss shall touch her by my company.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.193>In good time.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.194>The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.195>the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.196>brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.197>your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.198>fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.199>fortune hath conveyed to my understanding; and, but</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.200>that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.201>wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.202>substitute, and to save your brother?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.203>I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.204>brother die by the law than my son should be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.205>unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.206>deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.207>speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.208>discover his government.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.209>That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.210>now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.211>trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.212>advisings: to the love I have in doing good a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.213>remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.214>that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.215>lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.216>the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.217>person; and much please the absent duke, if</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.218>peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.219>this business.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.220>Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.221>anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.222>Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.223>you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.224>Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.225>I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.226>She should this Angelo have married; was affianced</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.227>to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.228>which time of the contract and limit of the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.229>solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.230>having in that perished vessel the dowry of his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.231>sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.232>poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.233>renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.234>kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.235>her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.236>combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.237>Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.238>Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.239>with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.240>pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.241>bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.242>wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.243>is washed with them, but relents not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.244>What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.245>from the world! What corruption in this life, that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.246>it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.247>It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.248>cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.249>you from dishonour in doing it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.250>Show me how, good father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.251>This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.252>of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.253>in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.254>like an impediment in the current, made it more</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.255>violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.256>requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.257>his demands to the point; only refer yourself to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.258>this advantage, first, that your stay with him may</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.259>not be long; that the time may have all shadow and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.260>silence in it; and the place answer to convenience.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.261>This being granted in course,--and now follows</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.262>all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.263>your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.264>acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.265>her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.266>saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.267>advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.268>will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.269>think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.270>of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.271>What think you of it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.272>The image of it gives me content already; and I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.273>trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.274>It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.275>to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.276>bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.277>presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.278>grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.279>place call upon me; and dispatch with Angelo, that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.1.280>it may be quickly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.1.281>I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt severally</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. The street before the prison.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before; on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.1>Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.2>needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.3>shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.4>O heavens! what stuff is here</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.5>'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.6>merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.7>order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.8>furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.9>craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.10>Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.11>And you, good brother father. What offence hath</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.12>this man made you, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.13>Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.14>take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.15>upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.16>sent to the deputy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.17>Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.18>The evil that thou causest to be done,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.19>That is thy means to live. Do thou but think</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.20>What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.21>From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.22>From their abominable and beastly touches</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.23>I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.24>Canst thou believe thy living is a life,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.25>So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.26>Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.27>sir, I would prove--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.28>Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.29>Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.30>Correction and instruction must both work</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.31>Ere this rude beast will profit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.32>He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.33>warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.34>he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.35>as good go a mile on his errand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.36>That we were all, as some would seem to be,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.37>From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.38>His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.39>I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.40>friend of mine.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LUCIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.41>How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.42>Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.43>none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.44>had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.45>extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.46>sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.47>not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.48>thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.49>the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.50>trick of it?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.51>Still thus, and thus; still worse!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.52>How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.53>still, ha?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.54>Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.55>is herself in the tub.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.56>Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.57>so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.58>an unshunned consequence; it must be so. Art going</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.59>to prison, Pompey?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.60>Yes, faith, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.61>Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.62>sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.63>For being a bawd, for being a bawd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.64>Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.65>due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.66>doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.67>Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.68>Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.69>will keep the house.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.70>I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.71>No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.72>I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.73>you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.74>more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.75>And you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.76>Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.77>Come your ways, sir; come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.78>You will not bail me, then, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.79>Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.80>what news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ELBOW</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.81>Come your ways, sir; come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.82>Go to kennel, Pompey; go.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.83>What news, friar, of the duke?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.84>I know none. Can you tell me of any?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.85>Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.86>some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.87>I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.88>It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.89>the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.90>to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.91>puts transgression to 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.92>He does well in 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.93>A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.94>him: something too crabbed that way, friar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.95>It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.96>Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.97>it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.98>it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.99>down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.100>woman after this downright way of creation: is it</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.101>true, think you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.102>How should he be made, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.103>Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.104>was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.105>certain that when he makes water his urine is</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.106>congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.107>motion generative; that's infallible.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.108>You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.109>Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.110>rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.111>man! Would the duke that is absent have done this?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.112>Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.113>hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.114>a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.115>knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.116>I never heard the absent duke much detected for</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.117>women; he was not inclined that way.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.118>O, sir, you are deceived.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.119>'Tis not possible.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.120>Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.121>his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.122>duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.123>that let me inform you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.124>You do him wrong, surely.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.125>Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.126>duke: and I believe I know the cause of his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.127>withdrawing.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.128>What, I prithee, might be the cause?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.129>No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be locked within the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.130>teeth and the lips: but this I can let you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.131>understand, the greater file of the subject held the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.132>duke to be wise.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.133>Wise! why, no question but he was.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.134>A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.135>Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.136>the very stream of his life and the business he hath</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.137>helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.138>proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.139>bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.140>envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.141>Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.142>knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.143>Sir, I know him, and I love him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.144>Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.145>dearer love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.146>Come, sir, I know what I know.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.147>I can hardly believe that, since you know not what</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.148>you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.149>prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.150>answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.151>you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.152>upon you; and, I pray you, your name?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.153>Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.154>He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.155>report you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.156>I fear you not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.157>O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.158>imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.159>can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.160>I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.161>friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.162>Claudio die to-morrow or no?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.163>Why should he die, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.164>Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.165>the duke we talk of were returned again: the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.166>ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.167>continency; sparrows must not build in his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.168>house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.169>yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.170>never bring them to light: would he were returned!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.171>Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.172>Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.173>duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.174>Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.175>he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.176>bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.177>No might nor greatness in mortality</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.178>Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.179>The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.180>Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.181>But who comes here?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ESCALUS, Provost, and Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.182>Go; away with her to prison!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.183>Good my lord, be good to me; your honour is accounted</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.184>a merciful man; good my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.185>Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.186>the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.187>the tyrant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.188>A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.189>your honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>MISTRESS OVERDONE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.190>My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.191>Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.192>duke's time; he promised her marriage: his child</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.193>is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.194>I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.195>That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.196>called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.197>no more words.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.198>Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.199>Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.200>with divines, and have all charitable preparation.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.201>if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.202>so with him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.203>So please you, this friar hath been with him, and</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.204>advised him for the entertainment of death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.205>Good even, good father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.206>Bliss and goodness on you!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.207>Of whence are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.208>Not of this country, though my chance is now</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.209>To use it for my time: I am a brother</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.210>Of gracious order, late come from the See</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.211>In special business from his holiness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.212>What news abroad i' the world?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.213>None, but that there is so great a fever on</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.214>goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.215>novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.216>to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.217>to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.218>truth enough alive to make societies secure; but</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.219>security enough to make fellowships accurst: much</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.220>upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.221>news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.222>pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.223>One that, above all other strifes, contended</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.224>especially to know himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.225>What pleasure was he given to?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.226>Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.227>any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.228>gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.229>his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.230>and let me desire to know how you find Claudio</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.231>prepared. I am made to understand that you have</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.232>lent him visitation.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.233>He professes to have received no sinister measure</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.234>from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.235>to the determination of justice: yet had he framed</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.236>to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.237>deceiving promises of life; which I by my good</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.238>leisure have discredited to him, and now is he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.239>resolved to die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.240>You have paid the heavens your function, and the</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.241>prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.242>laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.243>shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.244>found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.245>he is indeed Justice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.246>If his own life answer the straitness of his</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.247>proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.248>chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.249>I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=3.2.250>Peace be with you!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ESCALUS and Provost</i></p>
<A NAME=3.2.251>He who the sword of heaven will bear</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.252>Should be as holy as severe;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.253>Pattern in himself to know,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.254>Grace to stand, and virtue go;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.255>More nor less to others paying</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.256>Than by self-offences weighing.</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.257>Shame to him whose cruel striking</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.258>Kills for faults of his own liking!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.259>Twice treble shame on Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.260>To weed my vice and let his grow!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.261>O, what may man within him hide,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.262>Though angel on the outward side!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.263>How may likeness made in crimes,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.264>Making practise on the times,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.265>To draw with idle spiders' strings</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.266>Most ponderous and substantial things!</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.267>Craft against vice I must apply:</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.268>With Angelo to-night shall lie</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.269>His old betrothed but despised;</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.270>So disguise shall, by the disguised,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.271>Pay with falsehood false exacting,</A><br>
<A NAME=3.2.272>And perform an old contracting.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT IV</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. The moated grange at ST. LUKE's.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter MARIANA and a Boy</i>
</blockquote>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Boy sings</i>
</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.1>Take, O, take those lips away,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.2>That so sweetly were forsworn;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.3>And those eyes, the break of day,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.4>Lights that do mislead the morn:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.5>But my kisses bring again, bring again;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.6>Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.7>Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.8>Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.9>Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Boy</i></p>
<p><i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before</i></p>
<A NAME=4.1.10>I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.11>You had not found me here so musical:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.12>Let me excuse me, and believe me so,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.13>My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.14>'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.15>To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.16>I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.17>for me here to-day? much upon this time have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.18>I promised here to meet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.19>You have not been inquired after:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.20>I have sat here all day.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ISABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.21>I do constantly believe you. The time is come even</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.22>now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.23>be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.24>I am always bound to you.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.25>Very well met, and well come.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.26>What is the news from this good deputy?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.27>He hath a garden circummured with brick,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.28>Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.29>And to that vineyard is a planched gate,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.30>That makes his opening with this bigger key:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.31>This other doth command a little door</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.32>Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.33>There have I made my promise</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.34>Upon the heavy middle of the night</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.35>To call upon him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.36>But shall you on your knowledge find this way?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.37>I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.38>With whispering and most guilty diligence,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.39>In action all of precept, he did show me</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.40>The way twice o'er.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.41>Are there no other tokens</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.42>Between you 'greed concerning her observance?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.43>No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.44>And that I have possess'd him my most stay</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.45>Can be but brief; for I have made him know</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.46>I have a servant comes with me along,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.47>That stays upon me, whose persuasion is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.48>I come about my brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.49>'Tis well borne up.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.50>I have not yet made known to Mariana</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.51>A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter MARIANA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.1.52>I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.53>She comes to do you good.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.54>I do desire the like.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.55>Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.56>Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.57>Take, then, this your companion by the hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.58>Who hath a story ready for your ear.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.59>I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.60>The vaporous night approaches.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.61>Will't please you walk aside?</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.62>O place and greatness! millions of false eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.63>Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.64>Run with these false and most contrarious quests</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.65>Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.66>Make thee the father of their idle dreams</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.67>And rack thee in their fancies.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA</i></p>
<A NAME=4.1.68>Welcome, how agreed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.69>She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.70>If you advise it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.71> It is not my consent,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.72>But my entreaty too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.73>Little have you to say</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.74>When you depart from him, but, soft and low,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.75>'Remember now my brother.'</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.76>Fear me not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.1.77>Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.78>He is your husband on a pre-contract:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.79>To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.80>Sith that the justice of your title to him</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.81>Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.1.82>Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. A room in the prison.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter Provost and POMPEY</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.1>Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.2>If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.3>married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.4>cut off a woman's head.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.5>Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.6>direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.7>and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.8>executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.9>you will take it on you to assist him, it shall</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.10>redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.11>your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.12>with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.13>notorious bawd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.14>Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.15>but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.16>would be glad to receive some instruction from my</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.17>fellow partner.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.18>What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ABHORSON</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.19>Do you call, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.20>Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.21>your execution. If you think it meet, compound with</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.22>him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.23>not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.24>cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.25>A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.26>Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.27>the scale.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.28>Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.29>good favour you have, but that you have a hanging</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.30>look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.31>Ay, sir; a mystery</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.32>Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.33>your whores, sir, being members of my occupation,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.34>using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.35>but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.36>should be hanged, I cannot imagine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.37>Sir, it is a mystery.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.38>Proof?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.39>Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.40>too little for your thief, your true man thinks it</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.41>big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.42>thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.43>apparel fits your thief.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.44>Are you agreed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.45>Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.46>a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.47>oftener ask forgiveness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.48>You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.49>to-morrow four o'clock.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.50>Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.51>I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.52>occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.53>me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.54>a good turn.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.55>Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.56>The one has my pity; not a jot the other,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.57>Being a murderer, though he were my brother.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CLAUDIO</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.58>Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.59>'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.60>Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>CLAUDIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.61>As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.62>When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.63>He will not wake.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.64> Who can do good on him?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.65>Well, go, prepare yourself.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.66>But, hark, what noise?</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.67>Heaven give your spirits comfort!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit CLAUDIO</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.68>By and by.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.69>I hope it is some pardon or reprieve</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.70>For the most gentle Claudio.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.71>Welcome father.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.72>The best and wholesomest spirts of the night</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.73>Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.74>None, since the curfew rung.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.75>Not Isabel?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.76> No.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.77> They will, then, ere't be long.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.78>What comfort is for Claudio?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.79>There's some in hope.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.80>It is a bitter deputy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.81>Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.82>Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.83>He doth with holy abstinence subdue</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.84>That in himself which he spurs on his power</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.85>To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.86>Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.87>But this being so, he's just.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.88>Now are they come.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.89>This is a gentle provost: seldom when</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.90>The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.</A><br>
<p><i>Knocking within</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.91>How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.92>That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.93>There he must stay until the officer</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.94>Arise to let him in: he is call'd up.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.95>Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.96>But he must die to-morrow?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.97>None, sir, none.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.98>As near the dawning, provost, as it is,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.99>You shall hear more ere morning.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.100>Happily</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.101>You something know; yet I believe there comes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.102>No countermand; no such example have we:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.103>Besides, upon the very siege of justice</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.104>Lord Angelo hath to the public ear</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.105>Profess'd the contrary.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
<A NAME=4.2.106>This is his lordship's man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.107>And here comes Claudio's pardon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.108>[Giving a paper]</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.109>My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.110>further charge, that you swerve not from the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.111>smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.112>other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.113>it is almost day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.114>I shall obey him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.115>[Aside] This is his pardon, purchased by such sin</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.116>For which the pardoner himself is in.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.117>Hence hath offence his quick celerity,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.118>When it is born in high authority:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.119>When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.120>That for the fault's love is the offender friended.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.121>Now, sir, what news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.122>I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.123>in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.124>putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.125>Pray you, let's hear.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.126>[Reads]</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.127>'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.128>Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.129>afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.130>let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.131>this be duly performed; with a thought that more</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.132>depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.133>not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.'</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.134>What say you to this, sir?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.135>What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.136>afternoon?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.137>A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred; one</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.138>that is a prisoner nine years old.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.139>How came it that the absent duke had not either</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.140>delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.141>have heard it was ever his manner to do so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.142>His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.143>indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.144>Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.145>It is now apparent?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.146>Most manifest, and not denied by himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.147>Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.148>seems he to be touched?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.149>A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.150>as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.151>of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.152>mortality, and desperately mortal.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.153>He wants advice.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.154>He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.155>of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.156>would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.157>entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.158>to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.159>warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.160>More of him anon. There is written in your brow,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.161>provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.162>truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but, in the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.163>boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.164>Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.165>no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.166>sentenced him. To make you understand this in a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.167>manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.168>for the which you are to do me both a present and a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.169>dangerous courtesy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.170>Pray, sir, in what?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.171>In the delaying death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.172>A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.173>and an express command, under penalty, to deliver</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.174>his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.175>as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.176>By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.177>instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.178>be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.179>Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.180>O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.181>Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.182>the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.183>death: you know the course is common. If any thing</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.184>fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.185>fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.186>against it with my life.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.187>Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.188>Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.189>To him, and to his substitutes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.190>You will think you have made no offence, if the duke</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.191>avouch the justice of your dealing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.192>But what likelihood is in that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.193>Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.194>you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.195>persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.196>further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.197>Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.198>duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.199>signet is not strange to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.200>I know them both.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.2.201>The contents of this is the return of the duke: you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.202>shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.203>shall find, within these two days he will be here.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.204>This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he this</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.205>very day receives letters of strange tenor;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.206>perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.207>into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.208>is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.209>shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.210>things should be: all difficulties are but easy</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.211>when they are known. Call your executioner, and off</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.212>with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.213>shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.214>are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve you.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.2.215>Come away; it is almost clear dawn.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. Another room in the same.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter POMPEY</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.1>I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.2>of profession: one would think it were Mistress</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.3>Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.4>customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.5>for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.6>ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.7>five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.8>much in request, for the old women were all dead.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.9>Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.10>Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.11>peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.12>beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.13>Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.14>Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.15>Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.16>Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.17>great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.18>Pots, and, I think, forty more; all great doers in</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.19>our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ABHORSON</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.20>Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.21>Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.22>Master Barnardine!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.23>What, ho, Barnardine!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.24>[Within] A pox o' your throats! Who makes that</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.25>noise there? What are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.26>Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.27>good, sir, to rise and be put to death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.28>[Within] Away, you rogue, away! I am sleepy.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.29>Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.30>Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.31>executed, and sleep afterwards.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.32>Go in to him, and fetch him out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.33>He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.34>Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.35>Very ready, sir.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter BARNARDINE</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.36>How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.37>Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.38>prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.39>You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.40>fitted for 't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>POMPEY</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.41>O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.42>and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.43>sounder all the next day.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ABHORSON</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.44>Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.45>we jest now, think you?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.46>Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.47>you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.48>you and pray with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.49>Friar, not I I have been drinking hard all night,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.50>and I will have more time to prepare me, or they</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.51>shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.52>consent to die this day, that's certain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.53>O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.54>Look forward on the journey you shall go.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.55>I swear I will not die to-day for any man's</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.56>persuasion.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.57>But hear you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>BARNARDINE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.58>Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.59>come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.60>Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.61>After him, fellows; bring him to the block.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ABHORSON and POMPEY</i></p>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.62>Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.63>A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.64>And to transport him in the mind he is</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.65>Were damnable.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.66> Here in the prison, father,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.67>There died this morning of a cruel fever</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.68>One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.69>A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.70>Just of his colour. What if we do omit</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.71>This reprobate till he were well inclined;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.72>And satisfy the deputy with the visage</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.73>Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.74>O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.75>Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.76>Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.77>And sent according to command; whiles I</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.78>Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.79>This shall be done, good father, presently.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.80>But Barnardine must die this afternoon:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.81>And how shall we continue Claudio,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.82>To save me from the danger that might come</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.83>If he were known alive?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.84>Let this be done.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.85>Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.86>Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.87>To the under generation, you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.88>Your safety manifested.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.89>I am your free dependant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.90>Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost</i></p>
<A NAME=4.3.91>Now will I write letters to Angelo,--</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.92>The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.93>Shall witness to him I am near at home,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.94>And that, by great injunctions, I am bound</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.95>To enter publicly: him I'll desire</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.96>To meet me at the consecrated fount</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.97>A league below the city; and from thence,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.98>By cold gradation and well-balanced form,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.99>We shall proceed with Angelo.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.100>Here is the head; I'll carry it myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.101>Convenient is it. Make a swift return;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.102>For I would commune with you of such things</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.103>That want no ear but yours.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.104>I'll make all speed.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.105>[Within] Peace, ho, be here!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.106>The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.107>If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.108>But I will keep her ignorant of her good,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.109>To make her heavenly comforts of despair,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.110>When it is least expected.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter ISABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.111>Ho, by your leave!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.112>Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.113>The better, given me by so holy a man.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.114>Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.115>He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.116>His head is off and sent to Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.117>Nay, but it is not so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.118>It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.119>In your close patience.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.120>O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.121>You shall not be admitted to his sight.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.122>Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.123>Injurious world! most damned Angelo!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.124>This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.125>Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.126>Mark what I say, which you shall find</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.127>By every syllable a faithful verity:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.128>The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.129>One of our convent, and his confessor,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.130>Gives me this instance: already he hath carried</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.131>Notice to Escalus and Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.132>Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.133>There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.134>In that good path that I would wish it go,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.135>And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.136>Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.137>And general honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.138> I am directed by you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.139>This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.140>'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.141>Say, by this token, I desire his company</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.142>At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.143>I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.144>Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.145>Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.146>I am combined by a sacred vow</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.147>And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.148>Command these fretting waters from your eyes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.149>With a light heart; trust not my holy order,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.150>If I pervert your course. Who's here?</A><br>
<p><i>Enter LUCIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.151>Good even. Friar, where's the provost?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.152>Not within, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.153>O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.154>thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.155>to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.156>my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.157>me to 't. But they say the duke will be here</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.158>to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.159>if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.160>at home, he had lived.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ISABELLA</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.161>Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.162>reports; but the best is, he lives not in them.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.163>Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.164>he's a better woodman than thou takest him for.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.165>Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.166>Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.167>I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.168>You have told me too many of him already, sir, if</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.169>they be true; if not true, none were enough.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.170>I was once before him for getting a wench with child.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.171>Did you such a thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.172>Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.173>they would else have married me to the rotten medlar.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.174>Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.3.175>By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.176>if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.3.177>it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.1>Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.2>In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.3>show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.4>not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.5>redeliver our authorities there</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.6>I guess not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.7>And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.8>entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.9>they should exhibit their petitions in the street?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.10>He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.11>complaints, and to deliver us from devices</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.12>hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.13>against us.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.14>Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.15>i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.16>notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.17>him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.18>I shall, sir. Fare you well.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.4.19>Good night.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit ESCALUS</i></p>
<A NAME=4.4.20>This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.21>And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.22>And by an eminent body that enforced</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.23>The law against it! But that her tender shame</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.24>Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.25>How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.26>For my authority bears of a credent bulk,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.27>That no particular scandal once can touch</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.28>But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.29>Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.30>Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.31>By so receiving a dishonour'd life</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.32>With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.33>A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.4.34>Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE V. Fields without the town.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.1>These letters at fit time deliver me</A><br>
<p><i>Giving letters</i></p>
<A NAME=4.5.2>The provost knows our purpose and our plot.</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.3>The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.4>And hold you ever to our special drift;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.5>Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.6>As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.7>And tell him where I stay: give the like notice</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.8>To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.9>And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.10>But send me Flavius first.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.11>It shall be speeded well.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter VARRIUS</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.5.12>I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.13>Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends</A><br>
<A NAME=4.5.14>Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE VI. Street near the city gate.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.1>To speak so indirectly I am loath:</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.2>I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.3>That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.4>He says, to veil full purpose.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.5>Be ruled by him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.6>Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.7>He speak against me on the adverse side,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.8>I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.9>That's bitter to sweet end.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.10>I would Friar Peter--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.11>O, peace! the friar is come.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter FRIAR PETER</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=4.6.12>Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.13>Where you may have such vantage on the duke,</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.14>He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.15>The generous and gravest citizens</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.16>Have hent the gates, and very near upon</A><br>
<A NAME=4.6.17>The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote><p>
<H3>ACT V</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. The city gate.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand. Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and Citizens, at several doors</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.1>My very worthy cousin, fairly met!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.2>Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<A NAME=speech3><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.3>Happy return be to your royal grace!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.4>Many and hearty thankings to you both.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.5>We have made inquiry of you; and we hear</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.6>Such goodness of your justice, that our soul</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.7>Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.8>Forerunning more requital.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.9>You make my bonds still greater.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.10>O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.11>To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.12>When it deserves, with characters of brass,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.13>A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.14>And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.15>And let the subject see, to make them know</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.16>That outward courtesies would fain proclaim</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.17>Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.18>You must walk by us on our other hand;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.19>And good supporters are you.</A><br>
<p><i>FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.20>Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.21>Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.22>Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.23>O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.24>By throwing it on any other object</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.25>Till you have heard me in my true complaint</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.26>And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.27>Relate your wrongs; in what? by whom? be brief.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.28>Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.29>Reveal yourself to him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.30>O worthy duke,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.31>You bid me seek redemption of the devil:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.32>Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.33>Must either punish me, not being believed,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.34>Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.35>My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.36>She hath been a suitor to me for her brother</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.37>Cut off by course of justice,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.38>By course of justice!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.39>And she will speak most bitterly and strange.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.40>Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.41>That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.42>That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.43>That Angelo is an adulterous thief,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.44>An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.45>Is it not strange and strange?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.46>Nay, it is ten times strange.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.47>It is not truer he is Angelo</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.48>Than this is all as true as it is strange:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.49>Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.50>To the end of reckoning.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.51>Away with her! Poor soul,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.52>She speaks this in the infirmity of sense.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.53>O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.54>There is another comfort than this world,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.55>That thou neglect me not, with that opinion</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.56>That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.57>That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.58>But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.59>May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.60>As Angelo; even so may Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.61>In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.62>Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.63>If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.64>Had I more name for badness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.65>By mine honesty,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.66>If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.67>Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.68>Such a dependency of thing on thing,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.69>As e'er I heard in madness.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.70>O gracious duke,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.71>Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.72>For inequality; but let your reason serve</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.73>To make the truth appear where it seems hid,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.74>And hide the false seems true.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.75>Many that are not mad</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.76>Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.77>I am the sister of one Claudio,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.78>Condemn'd upon the act of fornication</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.79>To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.80>I, in probation of a sisterhood,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.81>Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.82>As then the messenger,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.83>That's I, an't like your grace:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.84>I came to her from Claudio, and desired her</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.85>To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.86>For her poor brother's pardon.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.87>That's he indeed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.88>You were not bid to speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.89>No, my good lord;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.90>Nor wish'd to hold my peace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.91>I wish you now, then;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.92>Pray you, take note of it: and when you have</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.93>A business for yourself, pray heaven you then</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.94>Be perfect.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.95>I warrant your honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.96>The warrants for yourself; take heed to't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.97>This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.98>Right.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.99>It may be right; but you are i' the wrong</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.100>To speak before your time. Proceed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.101>I went</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.102>To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.103>That's somewhat madly spoken.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.104>Pardon it;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.105>The phrase is to the matter.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.106>Mended again. The matter; proceed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.107>In brief, to set the needless process by,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.108>How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.109>How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.110>For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.111>I now begin with grief and shame to utter:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.112>He would not, but by gift of my chaste body</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.113>To his concupiscible intemperate lust,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.114>Release my brother; and, after much debatement,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.115>My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.116>And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.117>His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.118>For my poor brother's head.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.119>This is most likely!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.120>O, that it were as like as it is true!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.121>By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.122>Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.123>In hateful practise. First, his integrity</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.124>Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.125>That with such vehemency he should pursue</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.126>Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.127>He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.128>And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.129>Confess the truth, and say by whose advice</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.130>Thou camest here to complain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.131>And is this all?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.132>Then, O you blessed ministers above,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.133>Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.134>Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.135>In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.136>As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.137>I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.138>To prison with her! Shall we thus permit</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.139>A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.140>On him so near us? This needs must be a practise.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.141>Who knew of Your intent and coming hither?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.142>One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.143>A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.144>My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.145>I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.146>For certain words he spake against your grace</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.147>In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech46><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.148>Words against me? this is a good friar, belike!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.149>And to set on this wretched woman here</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.150>Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech47><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.151>But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.152>I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.153>A very scurvy fellow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech48><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.154>Blessed be your royal grace!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.155>I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.156>Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.157>Most wrongfully accused your substitute,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.158>Who is as free from touch or soil with her</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.159>As she from one ungot.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech49><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.160>We did believe no less.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.161>Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech50><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.162>I know him for a man divine and holy;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.163>Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.164>As he's reported by this gentleman;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.165>And, on my trust, a man that never yet</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.166>Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech51><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.167>My lord, most villanously; believe it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech52><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.168>Well, he in time may come to clear himself;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.169>But at this instant he is sick my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.170>Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.171>Being come to knowledge that there was complaint</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.172>Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.173>To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.174>Is true and false; and what he with his oath</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.175>And all probation will make up full clear,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.176>Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.177>To justify this worthy nobleman,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.178>So vulgarly and personally accused,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.179>Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.180>Till she herself confess it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech53><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.181>Good friar, let's hear it.</A><br>
<p><i>ISABELLA is carried off guarded; and MARIANA comes forward</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.182>Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.183>O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.184>Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.185>In this I'll be impartial; be you judge</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.186>Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.187>First, let her show her face, and after speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech54><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.188>Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.189>Until my husband bid me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech55><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.190>What, are you married?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech56><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.191>No, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech57><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.192>Are you a maid?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech58><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.193>No, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech59><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.194>A widow, then?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech60><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.195>Neither, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech61><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.196>Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech62><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.197>My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.198>neither maid, widow, nor wife.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech63><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.199>Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.200>To prattle for himself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech64><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.201>Well, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech65><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.202>My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.203>And I confess besides I am no maid:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.204>I have known my husband; yet my husband</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.205>Knows not that ever he knew me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech66><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.206>He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech67><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.207>For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech68><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.208>Well, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech69><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.209>This is no witness for Lord Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech70><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.210>Now I come to't my lord</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.211>She that accuses him of fornication,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.212>In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.213>And charges him my lord, with such a time</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.214>When I'll depose I had him in mine arms</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.215>With all the effect of love.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech71><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.216>Charges she more than me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech72><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.217>Not that I know.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech73><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.218>No? you say your husband.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech74><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.219>Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.220>Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.221>But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech75><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.222>This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech76><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.223>My husband bids me; now I will unmask.</A><br>
<p><i>Unveiling</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.224>This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.225>Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.226>This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.227>Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.228>That took away the match from Isabel,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.229>And did supply thee at thy garden-house</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.230>In her imagined person.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech77><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.231>Know you this woman?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech78><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.232>Carnally, she says.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech79><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.233>Sirrah, no more!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech80><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.234>Enough, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech81><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.235>My lord, I must confess I know this woman:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.236>And five years since there was some speech of marriage</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.237>Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.238>Partly for that her promised proportions</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.239>Came short of composition, but in chief</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.240>For that her reputation was disvalued</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.241>In levity: since which time of five years</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.242>I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.243>Upon my faith and honour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech82><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.244>Noble prince,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.245>As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.246>As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.247>I am affianced this man's wife as strongly</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.248>As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.249>But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.250>He knew me as a wife. As this is true,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.251>Let me in safety raise me from my knees</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.252>Or else for ever be confixed here,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.253>A marble monument!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech83><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.254> I did but smile till now:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.255>Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.256>My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.257>These poor informal women are no more</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.258>But instruments of some more mightier member</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.259>That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.260>To find this practise out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech84><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.261>Ay, with my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.262>And punish them to your height of pleasure.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.263>Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.264>Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.265>Though they would swear down each particular saint,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.266>Were testimonies against his worth and credit</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.267>That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.268>Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.269>To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.270>There is another friar that set them on;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.271>Let him be sent for.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech85><b>FRIAR PETER</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.272>Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.273>Hath set the women on to this complaint:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.274>Your provost knows the place where he abides</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.275>And he may fetch him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech86><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.276>Go do it instantly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.277>And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.278>Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.279>Do with your injuries as seems you best,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.280>In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.281>But stir not you till you have well determined</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.282>Upon these slanderers.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech87><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.283>My lord, we'll do it throughly.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit DUKE</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.284>Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.285>Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech88><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.286>'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.287>but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.288>villanous speeches of the duke.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech89><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.289>We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.290>enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.291>notable fellow.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech90><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.292>As any in Vienna, on my word.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech91><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.293>Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit an Attendant</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.294>Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.295>shall see how I'll handle her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech92><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.296>Not better than he, by her own report.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech93><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.297>Say you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech94><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.298>Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.299>she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.300>she'll be ashamed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech95><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.301>I will go darkly to work with her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech96><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.302>That's the way; for women are light at midnight.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Officers with ISABELLA; and Provost with the DUKE VINCENTIO in his friar's habit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech97><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.303>Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.304>that you have said.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech98><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.305>My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.306>the provost.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech99><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.307>In very good time: speak not you to him till we</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.308>call upon you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech100><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.309>Mum.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech101><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.310>Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.311>Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech102><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.312>'Tis false.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech103><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.313>How! know you where you are?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech104><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.314>Respect to your great place! and let the devil</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.315>Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.316>Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech105><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.317>The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.318>Look you speak justly.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech106><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.319>Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.320>Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.321>Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.322>Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.323>Thus to retort your manifest appeal,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.324>And put your trial in the villain's mouth</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.325>Which here you come to accuse.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech107><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.326>This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech108><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.327>Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.328>Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.329>To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.330>And in the witness of his proper ear,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.331>To call him villain? and then to glance from him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.332>To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.333>Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.334>Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.335>What 'unjust'!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech109><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.336> Be not so hot; the duke</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.337>Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.338>Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.339>Nor here provincial. My business in this state</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.340>Made me a looker on here in Vienna,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.341>Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.342>Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.343>But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.344>Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.345>As much in mock as mark.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech110><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.346>Slander to the state! Away with him to prison!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech111><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.347>What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.348>Is this the man that you did tell us of?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech112><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.349>'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.350>do you know me?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech113><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.351>I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.352>met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech114><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.353>O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech115><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.354>Most notedly, sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech116><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.355>Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.356>fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech117><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.357>You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.358>that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.359>much more, much worse.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech118><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.360>O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.361>nose for thy speeches?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech119><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.362>I protest I love the duke as I love myself.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech120><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.363>Hark, how the villain would close now, after his</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.364>treasonable abuses!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech121><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.365>Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.366>him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.367>to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.368>speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.369>with the other confederate companion!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech122><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.370>[To Provost] Stay, sir; stay awhile.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech123><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.371>What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech124><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.372>Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.373>bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.374>you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.375>show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.376>Will't not off?</A><br>
<p><i>Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers DUKE VINCENTIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech125><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.377>Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.378>First, provost, let me bail these gentle three.</A><br>
<p><i>To LUCIO</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.379>Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.380>Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech126><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.381>This may prove worse than hanging.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech127><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.382>[To ESCALUS] What you have spoke I pardon: sit you down:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.383>We'll borrow place of him.</A><br>
<p><i>To ANGELO</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.384>Sir, by your leave.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.385>Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.386>That yet can do thee office? If thou hast,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.387>Rely upon it till my tale be heard,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.388>And hold no longer out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech128><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.389>O my dread lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.390>I should be guiltier than my guiltiness,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.391>To think I can be undiscernible,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.392>When I perceive your grace, like power divine,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.393>Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.394>No longer session hold upon my shame,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.395>But let my trial be mine own confession:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.396>Immediate sentence then and sequent death</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.397>Is all the grace I beg.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech129><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.398>Come hither, Mariana.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.399>Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech130><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.400>I was, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech131><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.401>Go take her hence, and marry her instantly.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.402>Do you the office, friar; which consummate,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.403>Return him here again. Go with him, provost.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER and Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech132><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.404>My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.405>Than at the strangeness of it.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech133><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.406>Come hither, Isabel.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.407>Your friar is now your prince: as I was then</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.408>Advertising and holy to your business,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.409>Not changing heart with habit, I am still</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.410>Attorney'd at your service.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech134><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.411>O, give me pardon,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.412>That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.413>Your unknown sovereignty!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech135><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.414>You are pardon'd, Isabel:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.415>And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.416>Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.417>And you may marvel why I obscured myself,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.418>Labouring to save his life, and would not rather</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.419>Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.420>Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.421>It was the swift celerity of his death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.422>Which I did think with slower foot came on,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.423>That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.424>That life is better life, past fearing death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.425>Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.426>So happy is your brother.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech136><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.427>I do, my lord.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER, and Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech137><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.428>For this new-married man approaching here,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.429>Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.430>Your well defended honour, you must pardon</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.431>For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.432>Being criminal, in double violation</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.433>Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.434>Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,--</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.435>The very mercy of the law cries out</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.436>Most audible, even from his proper tongue,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.437>'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!'</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.438>Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.439>Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.440>Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.441>Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.442>We do condemn thee to the very block</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.443>Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.444>Away with him!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech138><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.445> O my most gracious lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.446>I hope you will not mock me with a husband.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech139><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.447>It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.448>Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.449>I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.450>For that he knew you, might reproach your life</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.451>And choke your good to come; for his possessions,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.452>Although by confiscation they are ours,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.453>We do instate and widow you withal,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.454>To buy you a better husband.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech140><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.455>O my dear lord,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.456>I crave no other, nor no better man.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech141><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.457>Never crave him; we are definitive.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech142><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.458>Gentle my liege,--</A><br>
<p><i>Kneeling</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech143><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.459> You do but lose your labour.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.460>Away with him to death!</A><br>
<p><i>To LUCIO</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.461>Now, sir, to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech144><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.462>O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.463>Lend me your knees, and all my life to come</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.464>I'll lend you all my life to do you service.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech145><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.465>Against all sense you do importune her:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.466>Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.467>Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.468>And take her hence in horror.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech146><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.469>Isabel,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.470>Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.471>Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.472>They say, best men are moulded out of faults;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.473>And, for the most, become much more the better</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.474>For being a little bad: so may my husband.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.475>O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech147><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.476>He dies for Claudio's death.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech148><b>ISABELLA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.477>Most bounteous sir,</A><br>
<p><i>Kneeling</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.478>Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.479>As if my brother lived: I partly think</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.480>A due sincerity govern'd his deeds,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.481>Till he did look on me: since it is so,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.482>Let him not die. My brother had but justice,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.483>In that he did the thing for which he died:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.484>For Angelo,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.485>His act did not o'ertake his bad intent,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.486>And must be buried but as an intent</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.487>That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.488>Intents but merely thoughts.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech149><b>MARIANA</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.489>Merely, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech150><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.490>Your suit's unprofitable; stand up, I say.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.491>I have bethought me of another fault.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.492>Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.493>At an unusual hour?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech151><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.494>It was commanded so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech152><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.495>Had you a special warrant for the deed?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech153><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.496>No, my good lord; it was by private message.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech154><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.497>For which I do discharge you of your office:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.498>Give up your keys.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech155><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.499> Pardon me, noble lord:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.500>I thought it was a fault, but knew it not;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.501>Yet did repent me, after more advice;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.502>For testimony whereof, one in the prison,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.503>That should by private order else have died,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.504>I have reserved alive.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech156><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.505>What's he?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech157><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.506>His name is Barnardine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech158><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.507>I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.508>Go fetch him hither; let me look upon him.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Provost</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech159><b>ESCALUS</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.509>I am sorry, one so learned and so wise</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.510>As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.511>Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.512>And lack of temper'd judgment afterward.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech160><b>ANGELO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.513>I am sorry that such sorrow I procure:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.514>And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.515>That I crave death more willingly than mercy;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.516>'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled, and JULIET</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech161><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.517>Which is that Barnardine?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech162><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.518>This, my lord.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech163><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.519>There was a friar told me of this man.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.520>Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.521>That apprehends no further than this world,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.522>And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.523>But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.524>And pray thee take this mercy to provide</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.525>For better times to come. Friar, advise him;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.526>I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech164><b>Provost</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.527>This is another prisoner that I saved.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.528>Who should have died when Claudio lost his head;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.529>As like almost to Claudio as himself.</A><br>
<p><i>Unmuffles CLAUDIO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech165><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.530>[To ISABELLA] If he be like your brother, for his sake</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.531>Is he pardon'd; and, for your lovely sake,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.532>Give me your hand and say you will be mine.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.533>He is my brother too: but fitter time for that.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.534>By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.535>Methinks I see a quickening in his eye.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.536>Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.537>Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.538>I find an apt remission in myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.539>And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon.</A><br>
<p><i>To LUCIO</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.540>You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.541>One all of luxury, an ass, a madman;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.542>Wherein have I so deserved of you,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.543>That you extol me thus?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech166><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.544>'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.545>trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.546>had rather it would please you I might be whipt.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech167><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.547>Whipt first, sir, and hanged after.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.548>Proclaim it, provost, round about the city.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.549>Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.550>As I have heard him swear himself there's one</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.551>Whom he begot with child, let her appear,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.552>And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.553>Let him be whipt and hang'd.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech168><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.554>I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.555>Your highness said even now, I made you a duke:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.556>good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech169><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.557>Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.558>Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.559>Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.560>And see our pleasure herein executed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech170><b>LUCIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.561>Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.562>whipping, and hanging.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech171><b>DUKE VINCENTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=5.1.563>Slandering a prince deserves it.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit Officers with LUCIO</i></p>
<A NAME=5.1.564>She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.565>Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.566>I have confess'd her and I know her virtue.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.567>Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.568>There's more behind that is more gratulate.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.569>Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.570>We shill employ thee in a worthier place.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.571>Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.572>The head of Ragozine for Claudio's:</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.573>The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.574>I have a motion much imports your good;</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.575>Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline,</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.576>What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine.</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.577>So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show</A><br>
<A NAME=5.1.578>What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
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