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| <H3>SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>ESCALUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>ANGELO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=2>In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>redeliver our authorities there</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>ESCALUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>I guess not.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>ANGELO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>entering, that if any crave redress of injustice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>they should exhibit their petitions in the street?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>ESCALUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>complaints, and to deliver us from devices</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>against us.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANGELO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>him.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>ESCALUS</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>I shall, sir. Fare you well.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>ANGELO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>Good night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ESCALUS</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=20>This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>And by an eminent body that enforced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>The law against it! But that her tender shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>For my authority bears of a credent bulk,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>That no particular scandal once can touch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>By so receiving a dishonour'd life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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