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    <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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      <castItem type="role"><role id="duke.">VINCENTIO</role><roleDesc>the Duke</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="ang.">ANGELO</role><roleDesc>Deputy</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="escal.">ESCALUS</role><roleDesc>an ancient Lord</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="claud.">CLAUDIO</role><roleDesc>a young gentleman</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="lucio.">LUCIO</role><roleDesc>a fantastic</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="first-gent.">First Gentleman</role></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="sec.-gent.">Second Gentleman</role></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="prov.">PROVOST</role></castItem>
      
      <castGroup><head rend="braced"> two friars.</head>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="fri.-t.">THOMAS</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="fri.-p.">PETER</role></castItem>
      </castGroup>
      
      <castItem type="role"><role id="just.">A Justice</role></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role>VARRIUS</role></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="elb.">ELBOW</role><roleDesc>a simple constable</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="froth.">FROTH</role><roleDesc>a foolish gentleman</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="pom.">POMPEY</role><roleDesc>servant to Mistress Overdone</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="abhor.">ABHORSON</role><roleDesc>an executioner</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="bar.">BARNARDINE</role><roleDesc>a dissolute prisoner</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="isab.">ISABELLA</role><roleDesc>sister to Claudio</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="mari.">MARIANA</role><roleDesc>betrothed to Angelo</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="jul.">JULIET</role><roleDesc>beloved of Claudio</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="fran.">FRANCISCA</role><roleDesc>a nun</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="mrs-ov.">MISTRESS OVERDONE</role><roleDesc>a bawd</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="list"><role>Lords</role>, <role>Officers</role>, <role>Citizens</role>, <role id="boy.">Boy</role>, and <role>Attendants</role>.</castItem>
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    <head>ACT I</head><lb n="2" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.</stage>

<lb n="3" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="4" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Escalus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="5" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>My lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="6" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Of government the properties to unfold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="7" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="8" ed="F1"/></l><l>Since I am put to know that your own science
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="9" ed="F1"/></l><l>Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="10" ed="F1"/></l><l>My strength can give you: then no more remains,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="11" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that to your sufficiency........
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="12" ed="F1"/></l><l>....................as your worth is able,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="13" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let them work. The nature of our people,
<lb n="11" ed="G"/><lb n="14" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our city's institutions, and the terms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="15" ed="F1"/></l><l>For common justice, you're as pregnant in
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="16" ed="F1"/></l><l>As art and practice hath enriched any
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="17" ed="F1"/></l><l>That we remember. There is our commission,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="18" ed="F1"/></l><l>From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="19" ed="F1"/></l><l>I say, bid come before us Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit an Attendant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="20" ed="F1"/></l><l>What figure of us think you he will bear?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="21" ed="F1"/></l><l>For you must know, we have with special soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="22" ed="F1"/></l><l>Elected him our absence to supply,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="23" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,
<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="24" ed="F1"/></l><l>And given his deputation all the organs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="25" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of our own power: what think you of it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="26" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>If any in Vienna be of worth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="27" ed="F1"/></l><l>To undergo such ample grace and honour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="28" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">It is Lord Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="29" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Look where he comes.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter ANGELO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="30" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Always obedient to your grace's will,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="31" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I come to know your pleasure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="32" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="33" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is a kind of character in thy life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="34" ed="F1"/></l><l>That to the observer doth thy history
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="35" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="36" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are not thine own so proper as to waste
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="37" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="38" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="39" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="40" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="41" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="42" ed="F1"/></l><l>But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="43" ed="F1"/></l><l>The smallest scruple of her excellence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="44" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="45" ed="F1"/></l><l>Herself the glory of a creditor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="46" ed="F1"/></l><l>Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="47" ed="F1"/></l><l>To one that can my part in him advertise;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="48" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hold therefore, Angelo:--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="49" ed="F1"/></l><l>In our remove be thou at full ourself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="50" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mortality and mercy in Vienna
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="51" ed="F1"/></l><l>Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="52" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though first in question, is thy secondary.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="53" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Take thy commission.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="54" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Now, good my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="55" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let there be some more test made of my metal,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="56" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before so noble and so great a figure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="57" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Be stamp'd upon it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="58" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">No more evasion:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="59" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="60" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="61" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="62" ed="F1"/></l><l>That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="63" ed="F1"/></l><l>Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="64" ed="F1"/></l><l>As time and our concernings shall importune,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="65" ed="F1"/></l><l>How it goes with us, and do look to know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="66" ed="F1"/></l><l>What doth befall you here. So, fare you well:
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="67" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the hopeful execution do I leave you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="68" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of your commissions.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="69" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Yet give leave, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="70" ed="F1"/></l><l>That we may bring you something on the way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="71" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>My haste may not admit it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="72" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="73" ed="F1"/></l><l>With any scruple; your scope is as mine own,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="74" ed="F1"/></l><l>So to enforce or qualify the laws
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="75" ed="F1"/></l><l>As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="76" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll privily away. I love the people,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="77" ed="F1"/></l><l>But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="78" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though it do well, I do not relish well
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="79" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their loud applause and Aves vehement;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="80" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="81" ed="F1"/></l><l>That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="82" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>The heavens give safety to your purposes!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="83" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>Lead forth and bring you back in <lb n="84" ed="F1"/>happiness!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="85" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I thank you. Fare you well.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="86" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="87" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="88" ed="F1"/></l><l>To look into the bottom of my place:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="89" ed="F1"/></l><l>A power I have, but of what strength and nature
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="90" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am not yet instructed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="91" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="92" ed="F1"/></l><l>And we may soon our satisfaction have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="93" ed="F1"/></l><l>Touching that point.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="94" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>I'll wait upon your honour.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
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  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="95" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A street. </stage>
<lb n="96" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Lucio and two Gentlemen. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="97" ed="F1"/><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>If the duke with the other dukes come
<lb ed="G"/>not to <lb n="98" ed="F1"/>composition with the King of Hungary,
<lb ed="G"/>why then all the <lb n="99" ed="F1"/>dukes fall upon the king.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="100" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Heaven grant us its peace, but
<lb ed="G"/>not the King <lb n="101" ed="F1"/>of Hungary's!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="102" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Amen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="103" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Thou concludest like the sanctimonious
<lb ed="G"/>pirate, <lb n="104" ed="F1"/>that went to sea with the Ten
<lb ed="G"/>Commandments, but <lb n="105" ed="F1"/>scraped one out of the
<lb ed="G"/>table.

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="106" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>'Thou shalt not steal'?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="107" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Ay, that he razed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="108" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Why, 'twas a commandment to
<lb ed="G"/>command <lb n="109" ed="F1"/>the captain and all the rest from
<lb ed="G"/>their functions: they <lb n="110" ed="F1"/>put forth to steal.   There's
<lb ed="G"/>not a soldier of us all, that, <lb n="111" ed="F1"/>in the thanksgiving
<lb ed="G"/>before meat, do relish the petition <lb n="112" ed="F1"/>well
<lb ed="G"/>that prays for peace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="113" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>I never heard any soldier dislike it.

<lb n="19" ed="G"/><lb n="114" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I believe thee; for I think thou
<lb ed="G"/>never wast <lb n="115" ed="F1"/>where grace was said.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="116" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>No? a dozen times at least.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="117" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>What, in metre?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="118" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>In any proportion or in any language.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="119" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>I think, or in any religion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="120" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite
<lb ed="G"/>of all controversy: <lb n="121" ed="F1"/>as for example, thou thyself
<lb ed="G"/>art a wicked <lb n="122" ed="F1"/>villain, despite of all grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="123" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Well, there went but a pair of
<lb ed="G"/>shears between <lb n="124" ed="F1"/>us.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="125" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I grant; as there may between the
<lb ed="G"/>lists and <lb n="126" ed="F1"/>the velvet. Thou art the list.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="127" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>And thou the velvet: thou art
<lb ed="G"/>good velvet; <lb n="128" ed="F1"/>thou'rt a three-piled piece, I
<lb ed="G"/>warrant thee: I had as lief <lb n="129" ed="F1"/>be a list of an
<lb ed="G"/>English kersey as be piled, as thou art <lb n="130" ed="F1"/>piled,
<lb ed="G"/>for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="131" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I think thou dost; and, indeed, with
<lb ed="G"/>most painful <lb n="132" ed="F1"/>feeling of thy speech: I will, out of
<lb ed="G"/>thine own confession, <lb n="133" ed="F1"/>learn to begin thy health;
<lb ed="G"/>but, whilst I live, forget <lb n="134" ed="F1"/>to drink after thee. 40

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="135" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>I think I have done myself
<lb ed="G"/>wrong, have I not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="136" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Yes, that thou hast, whether
<lb ed="G"/>thou art tainted <lb n="137" ed="F1"/>or free.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="138" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation
<lb ed="G"/>comes! <lb n="139" ed="F1"/>I have purchased as many diseases
<lb ed="G"/>under her roof <lb n="140" ed="F1"/>as come to--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="141" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>To what, I pray?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="142" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Judge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="143" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>To three thousand dolours a year.

<lb n="51" ed="G"/><lb n="144" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Ay, and more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="145" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>A French crown more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="146" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Thou art always figuring diseases
<lb ed="G"/>in me; but <lb n="147" ed="F1"/>thou art full of error; I am
<lb ed="G"/>sound.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="148" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Nay, not as one would say, healthy;
<lb ed="G"/>but so <lb n="149" ed="F1"/>sound as things that are hollow: thy
<lb ed="G"/>bones are hollow; <lb n="150" ed="F1"/>impiety has made a feast of
<lb ed="G"/>thee.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="151" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>How now! which of your hips
<lb ed="G"/>has the most <lb n="152" ed="F1"/>profound sciatica?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="153" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Well, well; there's one yonder
<lb ed="G"/>arrested and <lb n="154" ed="F1"/>carried to prison was worth five
<lb ed="G"/>thousand of you all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="155" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Who's that, I pray thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="156" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior
<lb ed="G"/>Claudio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="157" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>Claudio to prison? 'tis not so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="158" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw
<lb ed="G"/>him arrested, <lb n="159" ed="F1"/>saw him carried away; and,
<lb ed="G"/>which is more, within these <lb n="160" ed="F1"/>three days his
<lb ed="G"/>head to be chopped off.

<lb n="71" ed="G"/><lb n="161" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>But, after all this fooling, I would
<lb ed="G"/>not have it so. <lb n="162" ed="F1"/>Art thou sure of this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="163" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>I am too sure of it: and it is for
<lb ed="G"/>getting Madam <lb n="164" ed="F1"/>Julietta with child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="165" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Believe me, this may be: he promised
<lb ed="G"/>to meet <lb n="166" ed="F1"/>me two hour? since, and he was
<lb ed="G"/>ever precise in <lb n="167" ed="F1"/>promise-keeping.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="168" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="sec.-gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><p>Besides, you know, it draws
<lb ed="G"/>something near <lb n="169" ed="F1"/>to the speech we had to such
<lb ed="G"/>a purpose.

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="170" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="first-gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><p>But, most of all, agreeing with
<lb ed="G"/>the proclamation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="171" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Away! let's go learn the truth of it.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Exeunt Lucio and Gentlemen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="172" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Thus, what with the war, what
<lb ed="G"/>with the sweat, <lb n="173" ed="F1"/>what with the gallows and
<lb ed="G"/>what with poverty, I am <lb n="174" ed="F1"/>custom-shrunk.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter POMPEY.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>How now! what's the news with <lb n="175" ed="F1"/>you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="176" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Yonder man is carried to prison.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="177" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Well; what has he done?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="178" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>A woman.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="179" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>But what's his offence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="180" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="181" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>What, is there a maid with child
<lb ed="G"/>by him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="182" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>No, but there's a woman with maid
<lb ed="G"/>by him. <lb n="183" ed="F1"/>You have not heard of the proclamation,
<lb ed="G"/>have you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="184" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>What proclamation, man?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="185" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>All houses in the suburbs of Vienna
<lb ed="G"/>in the suburbs be <lb n="186" ed="F1"/>pulled down?

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="187" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>And what shall become of those
<lb ed="G"/>in the city?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="188" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>They shall stand for seed: they had
<lb ed="G"/>gone down <lb n="189" ed="F1"/>too, but that a wise burgher put in
<lb ed="G"/>for them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="190" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>But shall all our houses of resort
<lb ed="G"/>in the suburbs <lb n="191" ed="F1"/>be pulled down?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="192" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>To the ground, mistress.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="193" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Why, here's a change indeed in the
<lb ed="G"/>commonwealth! <lb n="194" ed="F1"/>What shall become of me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="195" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Come; fear not you: good counsellors
<lb ed="G"/>lack <lb n="196" ed="F1"/>no clients: though you change your place,
<lb ed="G"/>you need <lb n="197" ed="F1"/>not change your trade; I'll be your
<lb ed="G"/>tapster still. Courage! <lb n="198" ed="F1"/>there will be pity taken
<lb ed="G"/>on you: you that have <lb n="199" ed="F1"/>worn your eyes almost
<lb ed="G"/>out in the service, you will be <lb n="200" ed="F1"/>considered.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="201" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>What's to do here, Thomas tapster?
<lb ed="G"/>let's <lb n="202" ed="F1"/>withdraw.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="203" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Here comes Signior Claudio, led by
<lb ed="G"/>the provost <lb n="204" ed="F1"/>to prison; and there's Madam
<lb ed="G"/>Juliet.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
<lb n="205" ed="F1"/>
<lb n="206" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">    Enter PROVOST, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and
<lb ed="G"/>Officers.</stage>

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="207" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="208" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bear me to prison, where I am committed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="209" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>I do it not in evil disposition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="210" ed="F1"/></l><l>But from Lord Angelo by special charge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="211" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Thus can the demigod Authority
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="212" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make us pay down for our offence by weight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="213" ed="F1"/></l><l>The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="214" ed="F1"/></l><l>On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just.
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter Lucio and two Gentlemen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="215" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="216" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="217" ed="F1"/></l><l>As surfeit is the father of much fast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="218" ed="F1"/></l><l>So every scope by the immoderate use
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="219" ed="F1"/></l><l>Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="220" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="221" ed="F1"/></l><l>A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="222" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>If I could speak so wisely under an
<lb ed="G"/>arrest, I <lb n="223" ed="F1"/>would send for certain of my creditors:
<lb ed="G"/>and yet, to say <lb n="224" ed="F1"/>the truth, I had as lief
<lb ed="G"/>have the foppery of freedom as <lb n="225" ed="F1"/>the morality of
<lb ed="G"/>imprisonment. What's thy offence, <lb n="226" ed="F1"/>Claudio?

<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="227" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>What but to speak of would offend again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="228" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>What, is't murder?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="229" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><p>No.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="230" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Lechery?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="231" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><p>Call it so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="232" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Away sir! you must go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="233" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>One word, good friend. <lb n="234" ed="F1"/>Lucio, a word with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="235" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>A hundred, <lb n="236" ed="F1"/>if they'll do you any good.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Is lechery so look'd after?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="237" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="238" ed="F1"/></l><l>I got possession of Julietta's bed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="239" ed="F1"/></l><l>You know the lady; she is fast my wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="240" ed="F1"/></l><l>Save that we do the denunciation lack
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="241" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of outward order: this we came not to,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="242" ed="F1"/></l><l>Only for propagation of a dower
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="243" ed="F1"/></l><l>Remaining in the coffer of her friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="244" ed="F1"/></l><l>From whom we thought it meet to hide our love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="245" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till time had made them for us. But it chances
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="246" ed="F1"/></l><l>The stealth of our most mutual entertainment
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="247" ed="F1"/></l><l>With character too gross is writ on Juliet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="248" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="I">With child, perhaps?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="249" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Unhappily, even so.
<lb n="161" ed="G"/><lb n="250" ed="F1"/></l><l>And the new deputy now for the duke--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="251" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="252" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or whether that the body public be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="253" ed="F1"/></l><l>A horse whereon the governor doth ride,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="254" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who, newly in the seat, that it may know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="255" ed="F1"/></l><l>He can command, lets it straight feel the spur;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="256" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whether the tyranny be in his place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="257" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or in his eminence that fills it up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="258" ed="F1"/></l><l>I stagger in:--but this new governor
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="259" ed="F1"/></l><l>Awakes me all the enrolled penalties
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="260" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="261" ed="F1"/></l><l>So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="262" ed="F1"/></l><l>And none of them been worn; and, for a name,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="263" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="264" ed="F1"/></l><l>Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="265" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I warrant it is: and thy head stands
<lb ed="G"/>so tickle on <lb n="266" ed="F1"/>thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if
<lb ed="G"/>she be in love, may <lb n="267" ed="F1"/>sigh it off. Send after
<lb ed="G"/>the duke and appeal to him.

<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="268" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>I have done so, but he's not to be found.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="269" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="270" ed="F1"/></l><l>This day my sister should the cloister enter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="271" ed="F1"/></l><l>And there receive her approbation:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="272" ed="F1"/></l><l>Acquaint her with the danger of my state;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="273" ed="F1"/></l><l>Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="274" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="275" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have great hope in that; for in her youth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="276" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is a prone and speechless dialect,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="277" ed="F1"/></l><l>Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="278" ed="F1"/></l><l>When she will play with reason and discourse,
<lb n="191" ed="G"/><lb n="279" ed="F1"/></l><l>And well she can persuade.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="280" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I pray she may; as well for the encouragement
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="281" ed="F1"/>of the like, which else would stand
<lb ed="G"/>under grievous imposition, <lb n="282" ed="F1"/>as for the enjoying
<lb ed="G"/>of thy life, who I would be <lb n="283" ed="F1"/>sorry should be thus
<lb ed="G"/>foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. <lb n="284" ed="F1"/>I'll to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="285" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>I thank you, good friend Lucio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="286" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="I">Within two hours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="287" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Come, officer, away!

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="288" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A monastery.</stage>
<lb n="289" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DUKE and FRIAR THOMAS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="290" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>No, holy father; throw away that thought;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="291" ed="F1"/></l><l>Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="292" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="293" ed="F1"/></l><l>To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="294" ed="F1"/></l><l>More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="295" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of burning youth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="296" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-t."><speaker>Fri. T.</speaker><l part="F">May your grace speak of it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="297" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>My holy sir, none better knows than you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="298" ed="F1"/></l><l>How I have ever loved the life removed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="299" ed="F1"/></l><l>And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="300" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="301" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="302" ed="F1"/></l><l>A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="303" ed="F1"/></l><l>My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="304" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="305" ed="F1"/></l><l>For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="306" ed="F1"/></l><l>And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="307" ed="F1"/></l><l>You will demand of me why I do this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="308" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-t."><speaker>Fri. T.</speaker><l>Gladly, my lord.

<lb n="19" ed="G"/><lb n="309" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>We have strict statutes and most biting laws,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="310" ed="F1"/></l><l>The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="311" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which for this nineteen years we have let slip;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="312" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="313" ed="F1"/></l><l>That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="314" ed="F1"/></l><l>Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="315" ed="F1"/></l><l>Only to stick it in their children's sight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="316" ed="F1"/></l><l>For terror, not to use, in time the rod
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="317" ed="F1"/></l><l>Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="318" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="319" ed="F1"/></l><l>And liberty plucks justice by the nose;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="320" ed="F1"/></l><l>The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="321" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Goes all decorum.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="322" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-t."><speaker>Fri. T.</speaker><l part="F">It rested in your grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="323" ed="F1"/></l><l>To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="324" ed="F1"/></l><l>And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="325" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than in Lord Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="326" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">I do fear, too dreadful:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="327" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="328" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="329" ed="F1"/></l><l>For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="330" ed="F1"/></l><l>When evil deeds have their permissive pass
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="331" ed="F1"/></l><l>And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="332" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have on Angelo imposed the office;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="333" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="334" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet my nature never in the fight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="335" ed="F1"/></l><l>To do in slander. And to behold his sway,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="336" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="337" ed="F1"/></l><l>Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="338" ed="F1"/></l><l>Supply me with the habit and instruct me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="339" ed="F1"/></l><l>How I may formally in person bear me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="340" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like a true friar. Moe reasons for this action
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="341" ed="F1"/></l><l>At our more leisure shall I render you;
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="342" ed="F1"/></l><l>Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="343" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="344" ed="F1"/></l><l>That his blood flows, or that his appetite
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="345" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="346" ed="F1"/></l><l>If power change purpose, what our seemers be.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="4" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE IV</head><lb n="347" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A nunnery.</stage>
<lb n="348" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="349" ed="F1"/><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>And have you nuns no farther privileges?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="350" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fran."><speaker>Fran.</speaker><l>Are not these large enough?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="351" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="352" ed="F1"/></l><l>But rather wishing a more strict restraint
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="353" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare.

<lb n="354" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><lb ed="G"/> <stage>[Within]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="355" ed="F1"/><l part="I">Ho! Peace be in this place!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="356" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Who's that which calls?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="357" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fran."><speaker>Fran.</speaker><l>It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="358" ed="F1"/></l><l>Turn you the key, and know his business of him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="359" ed="F1"/></l><l>You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="360" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="361" ed="F1"/></l><l>But in the presence of the prioress:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="362" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="363" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="364" ed="F1"/></l><l>He calls again; I pray you, answer him.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="365" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls?
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter Lucio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="366" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="367" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="368" ed="F1"/></l><l>As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="369" ed="F1"/></l><l>A novice of this place and the fair sister
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="370" ed="F1"/></l><l>To her unhappy brother Claudio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="371" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="372" ed="F1"/></l><l>The rather for I now must make you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="373" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am that Isabella and his sister.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="374" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="375" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="376" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Woe me! for what?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>For that which, if myself might be his judge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="378" ed="F1"/></l><l>He should receive his punishment in thanks:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="379" ed="F1"/></l><l>He hath got his friend with child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="380" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">Sir, make me not your story.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="381" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">It is true.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="382" ed="F1"/></l><l>With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="383" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="384" ed="F1"/></l><l>I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="385" ed="F1"/></l><l>By your renouncement an immortal spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="386" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to be talk'd with in sincerity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="387" ed="F1"/></l><l>As with a saint.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="388" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>You do blaspheme the good in mocking me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="389" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Do not believe it.  Fewness and truth, 'tis thus:
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="390" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your brother and his lover have embraced:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="391" ed="F1"/></l><l>As those that feed grow full as blossoming time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="392" ed="F1"/></l><l>That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="393" ed="F1"/></l><l>To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="394" ed="F1"/></l><l>Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="395" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Some one with child by him?   My cousin Juliet?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="396" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Is she your cousin?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="397" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="398" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">By vain though apt affection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="399" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">She it is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="400" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">O, let him marry her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="401" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">This is the point.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="402" ed="F1"/></l><l>The duke is very strangely gone from hence;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="403" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bore many gentlemen, myself being one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="404" ed="F1"/></l><l>In hand and hope of action: but we do learn
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="405" ed="F1"/></l><l>By those that know the very nerves of state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="406" ed="F1"/></l><l>His givings-out were of an infinite distance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="407" ed="F1"/></l><l>From his true-meant design. Upon his place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="408" ed="F1"/></l><l>And with full line of his authority,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="409" ed="F1"/></l><l>Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="410" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="411" ed="F1"/></l><l>The wanton stings and motions of the sense,
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="412" ed="F1"/></l><l>But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="413" ed="F1"/></l><l>With profits of the mind, study and fast.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="414" ed="F1"/></l><l>He--to give fear to use and liberty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="415" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which have for long run by the hideous law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="416" ed="F1"/></l><l>As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="417" ed="F1"/></l><l>Under whose heavy sense your brother's life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="418" ed="F1"/></l><l>Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="419" ed="F1"/></l><l>And follows close the rigour of the statute,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="420" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make him an example. All hope is gone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="421" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="422" ed="F1"/></l><l>To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="423" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twixt you and your poor brother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="424" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">Doth he so <lb n="425" ed="F1"/>seek his life?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="426" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">Has censured him
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Already; <lb n="427" ed="F1"/>and, as I hear, the provost hath
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A warrant <lb n="428" ed="F1"/>for his execution.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="429" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Alas! What poor <lb n="430" ed="F1"/>ability's in me
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">To do him good?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="431" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">Assay the power you have.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="432" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">My power?   Alas, I doubt--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="433" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">Our doubts are traitors
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="434" ed="F1"/></l><l>And make us lose the good we oft might win
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="435" ed="F1"/></l><l>By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="436" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="437" ed="F1"/></l><l>Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="438" ed="F1"/></l><l>All their petitions are as freely theirs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="439" ed="F1"/></l><l>As they themselves would owe them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="440" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">I'll see what I can do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="441" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">But speedily.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="442" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I will about it straight;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="443" ed="F1"/></l><l>No longer staying but to give the mother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="444" ed="F1"/></l><l>Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="445" ed="F1"/></l><l>Commend me to my brother: soon at night
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="446" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll send him certain word of my success.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="447" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="I">I take my leave of you.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="448" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Good sir, adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 n="2" type="act">
    <head>ACT II</head><lb n="449" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A hall in ANGELO'S house.</stage>
<lb n="450" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants, behind.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="451" ed="F1"/><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="452" ed="F1"/></l><l>Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="453" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let it keep one shape, till custom make it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="454" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Their perch and not their terror.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="455" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, but yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="456" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="457" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than fall, and bruise to death.   Alas, this gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="458" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom I would save, had a most noble father
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="459" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let but your honour know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="460" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="461" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, in the working of your own affections,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="462" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="463" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or that the resolute acting of your blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="464" ed="F1"/></l><l>Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="465" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whether you had not sometime in your life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="466" ed="F1"/></l><l>Err'd in this point which now you censure him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="467" ed="F1"/></l><l>And pull'd the law upon you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="468" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="469" ed="F1"/></l><l>Another thing to fall. I not deny,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="470" ed="F1"/></l><l>The jury, passing on the prisoner's life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="471" ed="F1"/></l><l>May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="472" ed="F1"/></l><l>Guiltier than him they try.   What's open made to justice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="473" ed="F1"/></l><l>That justice seizes: what know the laws
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="474" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="475" ed="F1"/></l><l>The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="476" ed="F1"/></l><l>Because we see it; but what we do not see
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="477" ed="F1"/></l><l>We tread upon, and never think of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="478" ed="F1"/></l><l>You may not so extenuate his offence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="479" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
<lb n="29" ed="G"/><lb n="480" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I, that censure him, do so offend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="481" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let mine own judgement pattern out my death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="482" ed="F1"/></l><l>And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
<lb n="483" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="484" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l part="I">Be it as your wisdom will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="485" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Where is the provost?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="486" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="I">Here, if it like your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="487" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">See that Claudio
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="488" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="489" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="490" ed="F1"/></l><l>For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Provost.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="491" ed="F1"/><l>Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="492" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="493" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="494" ed="F1"/></l><l n="40" part="I">And some condemned for a fault alone.
<lb n="495" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="496" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Come, bring them away: if these be
<lb ed="G"/>good people <lb n="497" ed="F1"/>in a commonweal that do nothing
<lb ed="G"/>but use their <lb n="498" ed="F1"/>abuses in common houses, I know
<lb ed="G"/>no law: bring them <lb n="499" ed="F1"/>away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="500" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>How now, sir! What's your name?
<lb ed="G"/>and what's <lb n="501" ed="F1"/>the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="502" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>If it please your honour, I am the
<lb ed="G"/>poor duke's <lb n="503" ed="F1"/>constable, and my name is Elbow:
<lb ed="G"/>I do lean upon justice, <lb n="504" ed="F1"/>sir, and do bring in
<lb ed="G"/>here before your good honour <lb n="505" ed="F1"/>two notorious
<lb ed="G"/>benefactors.

<lb n="51" ed="G"/><lb n="506" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>Benefactors? Well; what benefactors
<lb ed="G"/>are they? <lb n="507" ed="F1"/>are they not malefactors?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="508" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>If it please your honour, I know not
<lb ed="G"/>well what <lb n="509" ed="F1"/>they are: but precise villains they are,
<lb ed="G"/>that I am sure of; <lb n="510" ed="F1"/>and void of all profanation
<lb ed="G"/>in the world that good <lb n="511" ed="F1"/>Christians ought to
<lb ed="G"/>have.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="512" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>This comes off well; here's a wise
<lb ed="G"/>officer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="513" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>Go to: what quality are they of?
<lb ed="G"/>Elbow is <lb n="514" ed="F1"/>your name? <lb n="515" ed="F1"/>why dost though not
<lb ed="G"/>speak, Elbow?

<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="516" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="517" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>What are you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="518" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd;
<lb ed="G"/>one that <lb n="519" ed="F1"/>serves a bad woman; whose house,
<lb ed="G"/>sir, was, as they say, <lb n="520" ed="F1"/>plucked down in the
<lb ed="G"/>suburbs; and now she professes a <lb n="521" ed="F1"/>hot-house,
<lb ed="G"/>which, I think, is a very ill house too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="522" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>How know you that?

<lb n="69" ed="G"/><lb n="523" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>My wife, sir, whom I detest before
<lb ed="G"/>heaven and <lb n="524" ed="F1"/>your honour,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="525" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>How? thy wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="526" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an
<lb ed="G"/>honest <lb n="527" ed="F1"/>woman,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="528" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Dost thou detest her therefore?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="529" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as
<lb ed="G"/>well as she, <lb n="530" ed="F1"/>that this house, if it be not a
<lb ed="G"/>bawd's house, it is pity of her <lb n="531" ed="F1"/>life, for it is a
<lb ed="G"/>naughty house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="532" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>How dost thou know that, constable?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="533" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she
<lb ed="G"/>had been a woman <lb n="534" ed="F1"/>cardinally given, might
<lb ed="G"/>have been accused in fornication, <lb n="535" ed="F1"/>adultery,
<lb ed="G"/>and all uncleanliness there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="536" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>By the woman's means?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="537" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's
<lb ed="G"/>means: but as she spit <lb n="538" ed="F1"/>in his face, so she defied
<lb ed="G"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="539" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, if it please your honour, this is
<lb ed="G"/>not so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="540" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Prove it before these varlets here, thou
<lb ed="G"/>honourable <lb n="541" ed="F1"/>man; prove it.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="542" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Do you hear how he misplaces?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="543" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, she came in great with child; and
<lb ed="G"/>longing, <lb n="544" ed="F1"/>saving your honour's reverence, for
<lb ed="G"/>stewed prunes; sir, <lb n="545" ed="F1"/>we had but two in the
<lb ed="G"/>house, which at that very distant <lb n="546" ed="F1"/>time stood, as
<lb ed="G"/>it were, in a fruit-dish, a dish of some threepence;
<lb n="547" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>your honours have seen such dishes; they
<lb ed="G"/>are not <lb n="548" ed="F1"/>China dishes, but very good dishes,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="549" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Go to, go to: no matter for the dish,
<lb ed="G"/>sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="550" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you
<lb ed="G"/>are therein in <lb n="551" ed="F1"/>the right: but to the point. As
<lb ed="G"/>I say, this Mistress Elbow, <lb n="552" ed="F1"/>being, as I say,
<lb ed="G"/>with child, and being great-bellied, and <lb n="553" ed="F1"/>longing,
<lb ed="G"/>as I said, for prunes; and having but two
<lb ed="G"/>in <lb n="554" ed="F1"/>the dish, as I said, Master Froth here, this
<lb ed="G"/>very man, having <lb n="555" ed="F1"/>eaten the rest, as I said, and,
<lb ed="G"/>as I say, paying for them <lb n="556" ed="F1"/>very honestly; for,
<lb ed="G"/>as you know, Master Froth, I could not <lb n="557" ed="F1"/>give
<lb ed="G"/>you three-pence again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="558" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>No, indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="559" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Very well; you being then, if you be
<lb ed="G"/>remembered, <lb n="560" ed="F1"/>cracking the stones of the foresaid
<lb ed="G"/>prunes,--

<lb n="112" ed="G"/><lb n="561" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>Ay, so I did indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="562" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Why, very well; I telling you then, if
<lb ed="G"/>you be <lb n="563" ed="F1"/>remembered, that such a one and such
<lb ed="G"/>a one were past <lb n="564" ed="F1"/>cure of the thing you wot of,
<lb ed="G"/>unless they kept very good <lb n="565" ed="F1"/>diet, as I told you,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="566" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>All this is true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="567" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Why, very well, then,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="568" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Come, you are a tedious fool: to the
<lb ed="G"/>purpose. <lb n="569" ed="F1"/>What was done to Elbow's wife,
<lb ed="G"/>that he hath cause to <lb n="570" ed="F1"/>complain of? Come me
<lb ed="G"/>to what was done to her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="571" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, your honour cannot come to that
<lb ed="G"/>yet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="572" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>No, sir, nor I mean it not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="573" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, but you shall come to it, by your
<lb ed="G"/>honour's <lb n="574" ed="F1"/>leave. And, I beseech you, look into
<lb ed="G"/>Master Froth here, <lb n="575" ed="F1"/>sir; a man of fourscore
<lb ed="G"/>pound a year; whose father <lb n="576" ed="F1"/>died at Hallowmas:
<lb ed="G"/>was't not a Hallowmas, Master <lb n="577" ed="F1"/>Froth?

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="578" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>All-hallond eve.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="579" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Why, very well; I hope here be
<lb ed="G"/>truth. He, sir, <lb n="580" ed="F1"/>sitting, as I say, in a lower
<lb ed="G"/>chair, sir; 'twas in the Bunch <lb n="581" ed="F1"/>of Grapes, where
<lb ed="G"/>indeed you have a delight to sit, have <lb n="582" ed="F1"/>you
<lb ed="G"/>not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="583" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>I have so; because it is an open
<lb ed="G"/>room and good <lb n="584" ed="F1"/>for winter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="585" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Why, very well, then; I hope here
<lb ed="G"/>be truths.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="586" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>This will last out a night in Russia,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="587" ed="F1"/></l><l>When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="588" ed="F1"/></l><l>And leave you to the hearing of the cause;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="589" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="590" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Angelo. </stage>
<lb n="591" ed="F1"/></l><p>Now. sir come on: what was done to Elbow's
<lb n="592" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/> wife, once more?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="593" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Once, sir? there was nothing done to
<lb ed="G"/>her once.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="594" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>I beseech you, sir, ask him what this
<lb ed="G"/>man did to <lb n="595" ed="F1"/>my wife.

<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="596" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I beseech your honour, ask me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="597" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Well, sir; what did this gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>to her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="598" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's
<lb ed="G"/>face. <lb n="599" ed="F1"/>Good Master Froth, look upon
<lb ed="G"/>his honour; 'tis for a good <lb n="600" ed="F1"/>purpose.   Doth
<lb ed="G"/>your honour mark his face?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="601" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Ay, sir, very well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="602" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Nay, I beseech you, mark it well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="603" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Well, I do so,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="604" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Doth your honour see any harm in
<lb ed="G"/>his face?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="605" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Why, no.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="606" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I'll be supposed upon a book, his face
<lb ed="G"/>is the worst <lb n="607" ed="F1"/>thing about him. Good, then; if
<lb ed="G"/>his face be the worst <lb n="608" ed="F1"/>thing about him, how
<lb ed="G"/>could Master Froth do the constable's <lb n="609" ed="F1"/>wife any
<lb ed="G"/>harm? I would know that of <lb n="610" ed="F1"/>your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="611" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>He's in the right. Constable, what
<lb ed="G"/>say you to it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="612" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>First, an it like you, the house is a respected
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="613" ed="F1"/>house; next, this is a respected fellow;
<lb ed="G"/>and his mistress is <lb n="614" ed="F1"/>a respected woman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="615" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>By this hand, sir, his wife is a more
<lb ed="G"/>respected person <lb n="616" ed="F1"/>than any of us all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="617" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked
<lb ed="G"/>varlet! the <lb n="618" ed="F1"/>time is yet to come that she was
<lb ed="G"/>ever respected with <lb n="619" ed="F1"/>man, woman, or child.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="620" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, she was respected with him before
<lb ed="G"/>he married <lb n="621" ed="F1"/>with her.

<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="622" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Which is the wiser here? Justice or
<lb ed="G"/>Iniquity? Is <lb n="623" ed="F1"/>this true?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="624" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou
<lb ed="G"/>wicked <lb n="625" ed="F1"/>Hannibal! I respected with her before
<lb ed="G"/>I was married <lb n="626" ed="F1"/>to her! If ever I was respected
<lb ed="G"/>with her, or she with me, <lb n="627" ed="F1"/>let not your worship
<lb ed="G"/>think me the poor duke's officer. <lb n="628" ed="F1"/>Prove this.
<lb ed="G"/>thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have <lb n="629" ed="F1"/>mine
<lb ed="G"/>action of battery on thee.

<lb n="189" ed="G"/><lb n="630" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>If he took you a box o' the ear, you
<lb ed="G"/>might have <lb n="631" ed="F1"/>your action of slander too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="632" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Marry, I thank your good worship for
<lb ed="G"/>it. What <lb n="633" ed="F1"/>is't your worship's pleasure I shall
<lb ed="G"/>do with this wicked <lb n="634" ed="F1"/>caitiff?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="635" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Truly, officer, because he hath some
<lb ed="G"/>offences in <lb n="636" ed="F1"/>him that thou wouldst discover if
<lb ed="G"/>thou couldst let him <lb n="637" ed="F1"/>continue in his courses
<lb ed="G"/>till thou knowest what they are.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="638" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Marry, I thank your worship for it.
<lb ed="G"/>Thou seest, <lb n="639" ed="F1"/>thou wicked varlet, now, what's
<lb ed="G"/>come upon thee: thou <lb n="640" ed="F1"/>art to continue now,
<lb ed="G"/>thou varlet; thou art to continue.

<lb n="202" ed="G"/><lb n="641" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Where were you born, friend?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="642" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>Here in Vienna, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="643" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Are you of fourscore pounds a year?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="644" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>Yes, an't please you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="645" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>So. What trade are you of, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="646" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>A tapster; a poor widow's tapster.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="647" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Your mistress' name?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="648" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Mistress Overdone.

<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="649" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Hath she had any more than one
<lb ed="G"/> husband?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="650" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Nine, sir; Overdone by the last.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="651" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Nine! Come hither to me. Master
<lb ed="G"/>Master <lb n="652" ed="F1"/>Froth, I would not have you
<lb ed="G"/>acquainted with tapsters: <lb n="653" ed="F1"/>they will draw you,
<lb ed="G"/>Master Froth, and you will hang them. <lb n="654" ed="F1"/>Get
<lb ed="G"/>you gone, and let me hear no more of you.

<lb n="218" ed="G"/><lb n="655" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="froth."><speaker>Froth.</speaker><p>I thank your worship. For mine
<lb ed="G"/>own part, I <lb n="656" ed="F1"/>never come into any room in a
<lb ed="G"/>tap-house, but I am <lb n="657" ed="F1"/>drawn in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="658" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Well, no more of it, Master Froth:
<lb ed="G"/>farewell. <stage type="exit">[Exit Froth.</stage>
<lb n="659" ed="F1"/></p><p>Come you hither to me,
<lb ed="G"/>Master tapster. What's your name, <lb n="660" ed="F1"/>Master
<lb ed="G"/>tapster?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="661" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Pompey.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="662" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>What else?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="663" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Bum, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="664" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Troth, and your bum is the greatest
<lb ed="G"/>thing about <lb n="665" ed="F1"/>you; so that in the beastliest sense
<lb ed="G"/>you are Pompey the <lb n="666" ed="F1"/>Great. Pompey, you are
<lb ed="G"/>partly a bawd, Pompey, howsoever <lb n="667" ed="F1"/>you colour
<lb ed="G"/>it in being a tapster, are you not? Come, <lb n="668" ed="F1"/>tell
<lb ed="G"/>me true: it shall, be the better for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="669" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that
<lb ed="G"/>would live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="670" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>How would you live, Pompey? by
<lb ed="G"/>being a bawd? <lb n="671" ed="F1"/>What do you think of the
<lb ed="G"/>trade, Pompey? is it a lawful <lb n="672" ed="F1"/>trade?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="673" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>If the law would allow it, sir.

<lb n="240" ed="G"/><lb n="674" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>But the law will not allow it, Pompey;
<lb ed="G"/>nor it <lb n="675" ed="F1"/>shall not be allowed in Vienna.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="676" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Does your worship mean to geld and
<lb ed="G"/>splay all <lb n="677" ed="F1"/>the youth of the city?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="678" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>No, Pompey.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="679" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they
<lb ed="G"/>will to't <lb n="680" ed="F1"/>then. If your worship will take order
<lb ed="G"/>for the drabs and <lb n="681" ed="F1"/>the knaves, you need not to
<lb ed="G"/>fear the bawds.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="682" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>There are pretty orders beginning, I
<lb ed="G"/>can tell you: <lb n="683" ed="F1"/>it is but heading and hanging.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="684" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>If you head and hang all that offend
<lb ed="G"/>that way <lb n="685" ed="F1"/>but for ten year together, you'll be
<lb ed="G"/>glad to give out a <lb n="686" ed="F1"/>commission for more heads:
<lb ed="G"/>if this law hold in Vienna <lb n="687" ed="F1"/>ten year, I'll rent
<lb ed="G"/>the fairest house in it after three-pence <lb n="688" ed="F1"/>a bay:
<lb ed="G"/>if you live to see this come to pass, say Pompey
<lb n="689" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>told you so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="690" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Thank you, good Pompey; and, in
<lb ed="G"/>requital of <lb n="691" ed="F1"/>your prophecy, hark you, I advise
<lb ed="G"/>you, let me not find <lb n="692" ed="F1"/>you before me again upon
<lb ed="G"/>any complaint whatsoever; <lb n="693" ed="F1"/>no, not for dwelling
<lb ed="G"/>where you do: if I do, Pompey, I <lb n="694" ed="F1"/>shall beat
<lb ed="G"/>you to your tent, and prove a shrewd Caesar
<lb n="695" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall
<lb ed="G"/>have you whipt: <lb n="696" ed="F1"/>so, for this time, Pompey,
<lb ed="G"/>fare you well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="697" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I thank your worship for your good
<lb ed="G"/>counsel: <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb n="698" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>but I shall follow it as the
<lb ed="G"/>flesh and fortune shall better <lb n="699" ed="F1"/>determine.
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="700" ed="F1"/></l><l>The valiant heart's not whipt out of his trade.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="701" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Come hither to me, Master Elbow;
<lb ed="G"/>come hither, <lb n="702" ed="F1"/>Master constable.   How long
<lb ed="G"/>have you been in this place <lb n="703" ed="F1"/>of constable?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="704" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Seven year and a half, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="705" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I thought, by your readiness in the
<lb ed="G"/>office, you had <lb n="706" ed="F1"/>continued in it some time. You
<lb ed="G"/>say, seven years <lb n="707" ed="F1"/>together?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="708" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>And a half, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="709" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Alas, it hath been great pains to
<lb ed="G"/>you. They do <lb n="710" ed="F1"/>you wrong to put you so oft
<lb ed="G"/>upon't: are there not men <lb n="711" ed="F1"/>in your ward sufficient
<lb ed="G"/>to serve it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="712" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters:
<lb ed="G"/>as they <lb n="713" ed="F1"/>are chosen, they are glad to
<lb ed="G"/>choose me for them; I do it <lb n="714" ed="F1"/>for some piece of
<lb ed="G"/>money, and go through with all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="715" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Look you bring me in the names of
<lb ed="G"/>some six <lb n="716" ed="F1"/>or seven, the most sufficient of your
<lb ed="G"/>parish.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="717" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>To your worship's house, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="718" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>To my house. Fare you well.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Elbow.</stage>
<lb n="296" ed="G"/>What's o'clock, <lb n="719" ed="F1"/>think you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="720" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="just."><speaker>Just.</speaker><p>Eleven, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="721" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I pray you home to dinner with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="722" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="just."><speaker>Just.</speaker><p>I humbly thank you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="723" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>It grieves me for the death of Claudio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="724" ed="F1"/></l><l>But there's no remedy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="725" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="just."><speaker>Just.</speaker><l part="I">Lord Angelo is severe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="726" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l part="F">It is but needful:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="727" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="728" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pardon is still the nurse of second woe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="729" ed="F1"/></l><l>But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="730" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="731" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Another room in the same.</stage>
<lb n="732" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter PROVOST and a Servant. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="733" ed="F1"/><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="734" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll tell him of you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="735" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">Pray you, do. <stage type="exit">[Exit Servant.]</stage> I'll know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="736" ed="F1"/></l><l>His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="737" ed="F1"/></l><l>He hath but as offended in a dream!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="738" ed="F1"/></l><l>All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="739" ed="F1"/></l><l>To die for't!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter ANGELO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="740" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Now, what's the matter, provost?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="741" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="742" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="743" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Why dost thou ask again?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="744" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">Lest I might be too rash:
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="745" ed="F1"/></l><l>Under your good correction. I have seen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="746" ed="F1"/></l><l>When, after execution, judgement hath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="747" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Repented o'er his doom.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="748" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Go to; let that be mine:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="749" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do you your office. or give up your place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="750" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And you shall well be spared.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="751" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">I crave your honour's pardon.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="752" ed="F1"/></l><l>What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="753" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She's very near her hour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="754" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Dispose of her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="755" ed="F1"/></l><l>To some more fitter place, and that with speed.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="756" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="757" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Desires access to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="758" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Hath he a sister?

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="759" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="760" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="761" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If not already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="762" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Well, let her be admitted.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Servant.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="763" ed="F1"/></l><l>See you the fornicatress be removed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="764" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let her have needful, but not lavish, means;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="765" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">There shall be order for't.
<lb n="766" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="767" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">God save your honour!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="768" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Stay a little while. <stage>To Isab.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="769" ed="F1"/></l><l>You're welcome: what's your will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="770" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="771" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Please but your honour hear me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="772" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Well; what's your suit?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="773" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>There is a vice that most I do abhor,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="774" ed="F1"/></l><l>And most desire should meet the blow   of justice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="775" ed="F1"/></l><l>For which I would not plead, but that I must;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="776" ed="F1"/></l><l>For which I must not plead, but that I am
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="777" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">At war 'twixt will and will not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="778" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Well; the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="779" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I have a brother is condemn'd to die:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="780" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do beseech you, let it be his fault,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="781" ed="F1"/></l><l>And not my brother.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker>      <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="782" ed="F1"/><l>Heaven give thee moving graces!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="783" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="784" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done:
<lb n="39" ed="G"/><lb n="785" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mine were the very cipher of a function,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="786" ed="F1"/></l><l>To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="787" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And let go by the actor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="788" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O just but severe law!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="789" ed="F1"/></l><l>I had a brother, then.  Heaven keep your honour!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="790" ed="F1"/><l>Give't not o'er so: to him again, entreat him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="791" ed="F1"/></l><l>Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="792" ed="F1"/></l><l>You are too cold; if you should need a pin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="793" ed="F1"/></l><l>You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="794" ed="F1"/></l><l>To him, I say!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="795" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">Must he needs die?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="796" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Maiden, no remedy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="797" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="798" ed="F1"/></l><l>And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="799" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="I">I will not do't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="800" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">But can you, if you would?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="801" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Look, what I will not, that I cannot do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="802" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="803" ed="F1"/></l><l>If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="804" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As mine is to him?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="805" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">He's sentenced; 'tis too late.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker> <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="806" ed="F1"/><l>You are too cold.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="807" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="808" ed="F1"/></l><l>May call it back again. Well, believe this,
<lb n="59" ed="G"/><lb n="809" ed="F1"/></l><l>No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="810" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="811" ed="F1"/></l><l>The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="812" ed="F1"/></l><l>Become them with one half so good a grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="813" ed="F1"/></l><l>As mercy does.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="814" ed="F1"/></l><l>If he had been as you and you as he,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="815" ed="F1"/></l><l>You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="816" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Would not have been so stern.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="817" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Pray you, be gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="818" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I would to heaven I had your potency,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="819" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you were Isabel! should it then be thus?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="820" ed="F1"/></l><l>No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="821" ed="F1"/></l><l>And what a prisoner.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="822" ed="F1"/><l>Ay, touch him; there's the vein.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="823" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Your brother is a forfeit of the law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="824" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And you but waste your words.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="825" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Alas, alas!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="826" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="827" ed="F1"/></l><l>And He that might the vantage best have took
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="828" ed="F1"/></l><l>Found out the remedy. How would you be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="829" ed="F1"/></l><l>If He, which is the top of judgement, should
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="830" ed="F1"/></l><l>But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="831" ed="F1"/></l><l>And mercy then will breathe within your lips
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="832" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Like man new made.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="833" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Be you content, fair maid;
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="834" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is the law, not I condemn your brother:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="835" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="836" ed="F1"/></l><l>It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="837" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="838" ed="F1"/></l><l>He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="839" ed="F1"/></l><l>We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="840" ed="F1"/></l><l>With less respect than we do minister
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="841" ed="F1"/></l><l>To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="842" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who is it that hath died for this offence?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="843" ed="F1"/></l><l>There's many have committed it.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker>       <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="844" ed="F1"/><l>Ay, well said.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="845" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="846" ed="F1"/></l><l>Those many had not dared to do that evil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="847" ed="F1"/></l><l>If the first that did the edict infringe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="848" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="849" ed="F1"/></l><l>Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="850" ed="F1"/></l><l>Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="851" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either new, or by remissness new-conceived,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="852" ed="F1"/></l><l>And so in progress to be hatch'd and born,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="853" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are now to have no successive degrees,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="854" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But, ere they live, to end.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="855" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Yet show some pity.

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="856" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>I show it most of all when I show justice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="857" ed="F1"/></l><l>For then I pity those I do not know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="858" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="859" ed="F1"/></l><l>And do him right that, answering one foul wrong,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="860" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="861" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your brother dies to-morrow; be content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="862" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>So you must be the first that gives this sentence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="863" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he, that suffers. O, it is excellent
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="864" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="865" ed="F1"/></l><l>To use it like a giant.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker>   <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="866" ed="F1"/><l>That's well said.

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="867" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Could great men thunder
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="868" ed="F1"/></l><l>As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="869" ed="F1"/></l><l>For every pelting, petty officer
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="870" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would use his heaven for thunder;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="871" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="872" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="873" ed="F1"/></l><l>Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="874" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="875" ed="F1"/></l><l>Drest in a little brief authority,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="876" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="877" ed="F1"/></l><l>His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="878" ed="F1"/></l><l>Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="879" ed="F1"/></l><l>As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="880" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would all themselves laugh mortal.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker>   <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="881" ed="F1"/><l>O, to him, to him, wench! he will relent;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="882" ed="F1"/></l><l>He's coming; I perceive't.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="883" ed="F1"/><l>Pray heaven she win him!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="884" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>We cannot weigh our brother with ourself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="885" ed="F1"/></l><l>Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="886" ed="F1"/></l><l>But in the less foul profanation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="887" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o' that.

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="888" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>That in the captain's but a choleric word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="889" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker> <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="890" ed="F1"/><l>Art avised o' that? more on't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="891" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Why do you put these sayings upon me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="892" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Because authority, though it err like others,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="893" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="894" ed="F1"/></l><l>That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="895" ed="F1"/></l><l>Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="896" ed="F1"/></l><l>That's like my brother's fault: if it confess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="897" ed="F1"/></l><l>A natural guiltiness such as is his,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="898" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="899" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Against my brother's life.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker>           <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="900" ed="F1"/><l part="F">She speaks, and 'tis
<lb n="142" ed="G"/><lb n="901" ed="F1"/></l><l>Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="902" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Gentle my lord, turn back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="903" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="904" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="905" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>How! bribe me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="906" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker>   <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="907" ed="F1"/><l>You had marr'd all else.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="908" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="909" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="910" ed="F1"/></l><l>As fancy values them; but with true prayers
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="911" ed="F1"/></l><l>That shall be up at heaven and enter there
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="912" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="913" ed="F1"/></l><l>From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="914" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To nothing temporal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="915" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Well; come to me to-morrow.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker> <stage>[Aside to Isab.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="916" ed="F1"/><l>Go to; 'tis well; away!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="917" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">Heaven keep your honour safe!

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker>                          <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="918" ed="F1"/><l part="F">Amen:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="919" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I am that way going to temptation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="920" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Where prayers cross.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="921" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">At what hour to-morrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="922" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Shall I attend your worship?

<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="923" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">At any time 'fore noon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="924" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>'Save your honour!

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Isabella, Lucio, and Provost.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="925" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>From thee, even from thy virtue!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="926" ed="F1"/></l><l>What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="927" ed="F1"/></l><l>The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Ha!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="928" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not she; nor doth she tempt: but it is I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="929" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, lying by the violet in the sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="930" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="931" ed="F1"/></l><l>Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="932" ed="F1"/></l><l>That modesty may more betray our sense
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="933" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="934" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="935" ed="F1"/></l><l>And pitch our evils there?   O, fie, fie, fie!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="936" ed="F1"/></l><l>What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="937" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dost thou desire her foully for those things
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="938" ed="F1"/></l><l>That make her good? O, let her brother live:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="939" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thieves for their robbery have authority
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="940" ed="F1"/></l><l>When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="941" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I desire to hear her speak again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="942" ed="F1"/></l><l>And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="943" ed="F1"/></l><l>O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="944" ed="F1"/></l><l>With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="945" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is that temptation that doth goad us on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="946" ed="F1"/></l><l>To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="947" ed="F1"/></l><l>With all her double vigour, art and nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="948" ed="F1"/></l><l>Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="949" ed="F1"/></l><l>Subdues me quite. Ever till now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="950" ed="F1"/></l><l>When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="951" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in a prison.</stage>
<lb n="952" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter, severally, DUKE disguised as a friar, and PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="953" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="954" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>I am the provost.   What's your will, good friar?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="955" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Bound by my charity and my blest order,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="956" ed="F1"/></l><l>I come to visit the afflicted spirits
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="957" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here in the prison. Do me the common right
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="958" ed="F1"/></l><l>To let me see them and to make me know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="959" ed="F1"/></l><l>The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="960" ed="F1"/></l><l>To them accordingly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="961" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>I would do more than that, if more were needed.
<lb n="962" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter JULIET.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="963" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="964" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="965" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="966" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="967" ed="F1"/></l><l>More fit to do another such office
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="968" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than die for this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="969" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">When must he die?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="970" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">As I do think, to-morrow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="971" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have provided for you: stay awhile, <stage>[To Juliet.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="972" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you shall be conducted.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="973" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="974" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l>I do; and bear the shame most patiently.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="975" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="976" ed="F1"/></l><l>And try your penitence, if it be sound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="977" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Or hollowly put on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="978" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l part="F">I'll gladly learn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="979" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Love you the man that wrong'd you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="980" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l>Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="981" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>So then it seems your most offenceful act
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="982" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Was mutually committed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="983" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l part="F">Mutually.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="984" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="985" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l>I do confess it, and repent it, father.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="986" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="987" ed="F1"/></l><l>As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="988" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="989" ed="F1"/></l><l>Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="990" ed="F1"/></l><l>But as we stand in fear,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="991" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l>I do repent me, as it is an evil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="992" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And take the shame with joy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="993" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">There rest.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="994" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="995" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I am going with instruction to him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="996" ed="F1"/></l><l>Grace go with you, Benedicite! <stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="997" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="jul."><speaker>Jul.</speaker><l>Must die to-morrow!   O injurious love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="998" ed="F1"/></l><l>That respites me a life, whose very comfort
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="999" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Is still a dying horror!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1000" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis pity of him. <stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="4" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE IV</head><lb n="1001" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in ANGELO'S house.</stage>
<lb n="1002" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter ANGELO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1003" ed="F1"/><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>When I would pray and think, I think and pray
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1004" ed="F1"/></l><l>To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1005" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1006" ed="F1"/></l><l>Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1007" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if I did but only chew his name;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1008" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in my heart the strong and swelling evil
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1009" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my conception.   The state, whereon I studied,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1010" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is like a good thing, being often read,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1011" ed="F1"/></l><l>Grown fear'd and tedious; yea, my gravity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1012" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1013" ed="F1"/></l><l>Could I with boot change for an idle plume,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1014" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1015" ed="F1"/></l><l>How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1016" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1017" ed="F1"/></l><l>To thy false seeming!   Blood, thou art blood:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1018" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let's write good angel on the devil's horn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1019" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'Tis not the devil's crest.
<stage type="entrance">              Enter a SERVANT.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Now now! who's there?
<lb n="1020" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1021" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1022" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Teach her the way. <stage type="exit">[Exit Serv.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>O heavens!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1023" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1024" ed="F1"/></l><l>Making both it unable for itself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1025" ed="F1"/></l><l>And dispossessing all my other parts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1026" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of necessary fitness?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1027" ed="F1"/></l><l>So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1028" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come all to help him, and so stop the air
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1029" ed="F1"/></l><l>By which he should revive: and even so
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1030" ed="F1"/></l><l>The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1031" ed="F1"/></l><l>Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1032" ed="F1"/></l><l>Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1033" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Must needs appear offence.
<stage type="entrance">                Enter ISABELLA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">How now, fair maid?
<lb n="1034" ed="F1"/>

<lb n="31" ed="G"/><lb n="1035" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I am come to know your pleasure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1036" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>That you might know it, would much better please me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1037" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1038" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Even so. Heaven keep your honour!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1039" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1040" ed="F1"/></l><l>As long as you or I: yet he must die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1041" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Under your sentence?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1042" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Yea.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1043" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve,
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1044" ed="F1"/></l><l>Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1045" ed="F1"/></l><l>That his soul sicken not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1046" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1047" ed="F1"/></l><l>To pardon him that hath from nature stolen
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1048" ed="F1"/></l><l>A man already made, as to remit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1049" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1050" ed="F1"/></l><l>In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1051" ed="F1"/></l><l>Falsely to take away a life true made
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1052" ed="F1"/></l><l>As to put metal in restrained means
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1053" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make a false one.

<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1054" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1055" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1056" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which had you rather, that the most just law
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1057" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1058" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1059" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As she that he hath stain'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1060" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, believe this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1061" ed="F1"/></l><l>I had rather give my body than my soul.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1062" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1063" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Stand more for number than for accompt.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1064" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">How say you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1065" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1066" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against the thing I say. Answer to this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1067" ed="F1"/></l><l>I, now the voice of the recorded law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1068" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1069" ed="F1"/></l><l>Might there not be a charity in sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1070" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To save this brother's life?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1071" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Please you to do't.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1072" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll take it as a peril to my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1073" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is no sin at all, but charity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1074" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1075" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were equal poise of sin and charity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1076" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>That I do beg his life if it be sin,
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1077" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1078" ed="F1"/></l><l>If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1079" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have it added to the faults of mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1080" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And nothing of your answer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1081" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, but hear me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1082" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1083" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or seem so craftily; and that's not good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1084" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1085" ed="F1"/></l><l>But graciously to know I am no better.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1086" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1087" ed="F1"/></l><l>When it doth tax itself; as these black masks
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="1088" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1089" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1090" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be received plain, I'll speak more gross:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1091" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your brother is to die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1092" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>So.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1093" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>And his offence is so, as it appears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1094" ed="F1"/></l><l>Accountant to the law upon that pain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1095" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>True.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1096" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Admit no other way to save his life,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1097" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I subscribe not that, nor any other,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1098" ed="F1"/></l><l>But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister,
<lb n="91" ed="G"/><lb n="1099" ed="F1"/></l><l>Finding yourself desired of such a person,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1100" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose credit with the judge, or own great place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1101" ed="F1"/></l><l>Could fetch your brother from the manacles
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1102" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of the all-building law; and that there were
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1103" ed="F1"/></l><l>No earthly mean to save him, but that either
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1104" ed="F1"/></l><l>You must lay down the treasures of your body
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1105" ed="F1"/></l><l>To this supposed, or else to let him suffer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1106" ed="F1"/></l><l>What would you do?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1107" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>As much for my poor brother as myself:
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1108" ed="F1"/></l><l>That is, were I under the terms of death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1109" ed="F1"/></l><l>The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1110" ed="F1"/></l><l>And strip myself to death, as to a bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1111" ed="F1"/></l><l>That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1112" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My body up to shame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1113" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Then must your brother die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1114" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>And 'twere the cheaper way:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1115" ed="F1"/></l><l>Better it were a brother died at once,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1116" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1117" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should die for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1118" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="1119" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you have slander'd so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1120" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1121" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are of two houses: lawful mercy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1122" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is nothing kin to foul redemption.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1123" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1124" ed="F1"/></l><l>And rather proved the sliding of your brother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1125" ed="F1"/></l><l>A merriment than a vice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1126" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1127" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have what we would have, <lb n="1128" ed="F1"/>we speak not what we mean:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1129" ed="F1"/></l><l>I something do excuse the thing I hate,
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1130" ed="F1"/></l><l>For his advantage that I dearly love,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1131" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>We are all frail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1132" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Else let my brother die,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1133" ed="F1"/></l><l>If not a feodary, but only he
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1134" ed="F1"/></l><l>Owe and succeed thy weakness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1135" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Nay, women are frail too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1136" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1137" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1138" ed="F1"/></l><l>Women!   Help Heaven! men their creation mar
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1139" ed="F1"/></l><l>In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;
<lb n="129" ed="G"/><lb n="1140" ed="F1"/></l><l>For we are soft as our complexions are,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1141" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And credulous to false prints.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1142" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">I think it well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1143" ed="F1"/></l><l>And from this testimony of your own sex,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1144" ed="F1"/></l><l>Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1145" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1146" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do arrest your words. Be that you are,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1147" ed="F1"/></l><l>That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1148" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you be one, as you are well express'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1149" ed="F1"/></l><l>By all external warrants, show it now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1150" ed="F1"/></l><l>By putting on the destined livery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1151" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1152" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me entreat you speak the former language.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1153" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>Plainly conceive, I love you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1154" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>My brother did love Juliet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1155" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you tell me that he shall die for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1156" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1157" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I know your virtue hath a license in't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1158" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which seems a little fouler than it is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1159" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To pluck on others.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1160" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Believe me, on mine honour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1161" ed="F1"/></l><l>My words express my purpose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1162" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Ha! little honour to be much believed,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1163" ed="F1"/></l><l>And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1164" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1165" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1166" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1167" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What man thou art.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1168" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">Who will believe thee, Isabel?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1169" ed="F1"/></l><l>My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1170" ed="F1"/></l><l>My vouch against you, and my place i' the state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1171" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will so your accusation overweigh,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1172" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you shall stifle in your own report
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1173" ed="F1"/></l><l>And smell of calumny. I have begun,
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="1174" ed="F1"/></l><l>And now I give my sensual race the rein:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1175" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1176" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1177" ed="F1"/></l><l>That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1178" ed="F1"/></l><l>By yielding up thy body to my will;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1179" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else he must not only die the death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1180" ed="F1"/></l><l>But thy unkindness shall his death draw out
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1181" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1182" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or, by the affection that now guides me most,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1183" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1184" ed="F1"/></l><l>Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>


<lb n="171" ed="G"/><lb n="1185" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>To whom should I complain? Did I tell this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1186" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who would believe me? O perilous mouths,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1187" ed="F1"/></l><l>That bear in them one and the self-same tongue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1188" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either of condemnation or approof;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1189" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bidding the law make court'sy to their will;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1190" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1191" ed="F1"/></l><l>To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1192" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though he hath fall'n by prompture of the blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1193" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour,
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="1194" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, had he twenty heads to tender down
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1195" ed="F1"/></l><l>On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1196" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before his sister should her body stoop
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1197" ed="F1"/></l><l>To such abhorr'd pollution.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1198" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1199" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than our brother is our chastity.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1200" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1201" ed="F1"/></l><l>And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 n="3" type="act">
    <head>ACT III</head><lb n="1202" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A room in the prison.</stage>
<lb n="1203" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter DUKE disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1204" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1205" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>The miserable have no other medicine
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1206" ed="F1"/></l><l>But only hope:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I've hope to live, and am prepared to <lb n="1207" ed="F1"/>die,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1208" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Be absolute for death; either death or life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1209" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall thereby be the sweeter.   Reason thus with life:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1210" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1211" ed="F1"/></l><l>That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1212" ed="F1"/></l><l>Servile to all the skyey influences,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1213" ed="F1"/></l><l>That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1214" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1215" ed="F1"/></l><l>For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1216" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet runn'st toward him still.   Thou art not noble;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1217" ed="F1"/></l><l>For all the accommodations that thou bear'st
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1218" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1219" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1220" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1221" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that thou oft provokes; yet grossly fear'st
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1222" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1223" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1224" ed="F1"/></l><l>That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1225" ed="F1"/></l><l>For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1226" ed="F1"/></l><l>And what thou hast, forget'st.   Thou art not certain;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1227" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1228" ed="F1"/></l><l>After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1229" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1230" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1231" ed="F1"/></l><l>And death unloads thee.   Friend hast thou none;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1232" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1233" ed="F1"/></l><l>The mere effusion of thy proper loins,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1234" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1235" ed="F1"/></l><l>For ending thee no sooner.   Thou hast nor youth nor age,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1236" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1237" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dreaming on both; for ail thy blessed youth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1238" ed="F1"/></l><l>Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1239" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1240" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1241" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1242" ed="F1"/></l><l>That bears the name of life? Yet in this life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1243" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1244" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That makes these odds all even.

<lb n="41" ed="G"/><lb n="1245" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">I humbly thank you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1246" ed="F1"/></l><l>To sue to live, I find I seek to die;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1247" ed="F1"/></l><l>And seeking death, find life: let it come on.
<lb n="1248" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker>   <stage>[Within]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1249" ed="F1"/><l>What, ho! Peace here; grace and good <lb n="1250" ed="F1"/>company!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1251" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>Who's there?  come in: the wish deserves a <lb n="1252" ed="F1"/>welcome.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1253" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1254" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Most holy sir, I thank you.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ISABELLA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1255" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>My business is a word or two with Claudio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1256" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your <lb n="1257" ed="F1"/>sister.

<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1258" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Provost, a word with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1259" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>As many as you please.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1260" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Bring me to hear them speak, where
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I may be <lb n="1261" ed="F1"/>concealed.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Duke and Provost.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1262" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="I">Now, sister, what's the comfort?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1263" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Why,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1264" ed="F1"/></l><l>As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1265" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1266" ed="F1"/></l><l>Intends you for his swift ambassador,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1267" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where you shall be an everlasting leiger:
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1268" ed="F1"/></l><l>Therefore your best appointment make with speed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1269" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To-morrow you set on.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1270" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Is there no remedy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1271" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>None, but such remedy as, to save a head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1272" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To cleave a heart in twain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1273" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">But is there any?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1274" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Yes, brother, you may live:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1275" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1276" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you'll implore it, that will free your life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1277" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But fetter you till death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1278" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Perpetual durance?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1279" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1280" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though all the world's vastidity you had,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1281" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To a determined scope.

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1282" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">But in what nature?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1283" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>In such a one as, you consenting to't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1284" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1285" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And leave you naked.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1286" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Let me know the point.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1287" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1288" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1289" ed="F1"/></l><l>And six or seven winters more respect
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1290" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1291" ed="F1"/></l><l>The sense of death is most in apprehension;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1292" ed="F1"/></l><l>And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="1293" ed="F1"/></l><l>In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1294" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As when a giant dies.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1295" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Why give you me this shame?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1296" ed="F1"/></l><l>Think you I can a resolution fetch
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1297" ed="F1"/></l><l>From flowery tenderness? If I must die,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1298" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will encounter darkness as a bride,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1299" ed="F1"/></l><l>And hug it in mine arms.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1300" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>There spake my brother; there my father's grave
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1301" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1302" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou art too noble to conserve a life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1303" ed="F1"/></l><l>In base appliances.   This outward-sainted deputy,
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1304" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose settled visage and deliberate word
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1305" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1306" ed="F1"/></l><l>As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1307" ed="F1"/></l><l>His filth within being cast, he would appear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1308" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A pond as deep as hell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1309" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">The prenzie Angelo!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1310" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1311" ed="F1"/></l><l>The damned'st body to invest and cover
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1312" ed="F1"/></l><l>In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1313" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I would yield him my virginity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1314" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thou mightst be freed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1315" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">O heavens! it cannot be.

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1316" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1317" ed="F1"/></l><l>So to offend him still. This night's the time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1318" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I should do what I abhor to name,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1319" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Or else thou diest to-morrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1320" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Thou shalt not do't

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1321" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, were it but my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1322" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'ld throw it down for your deliverance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1323" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As frankly as a pin.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1324" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Thanks, dear Isabel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1325" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1326" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Yes. Has he affections in him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1327" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thus can make him bite the law by the nose,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1328" ed="F1"/></l><l>When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1329" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or of the deadly seven it is the least.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1330" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Which is the least?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1331" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>If it were damnable, he being so wise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1332" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why would he for the momentary trick
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1333" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be perdurably fined? O Isabel!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1334" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">What says my brother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1335" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Death is a fearful thing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1336" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>And shamed life a hateful.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1337" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1338" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lie in cold obstruction and to rot;
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1339" ed="F1"/></l><l>This sensible warm motion to become
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1340" ed="F1"/></l><l>A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1341" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1342" ed="F1"/></l><l>In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1343" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1344" ed="F1"/></l><l>And blown with restless violence round about
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1345" ed="F1"/></l><l>The pendent world; or to be worse than worst
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1346" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of those that lawless and incertain thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1347" ed="F1"/></l><l>Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1348" ed="F1"/></l><l>The weariest and most loathed worldly life
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1349" ed="F1"/></l><l>That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1350" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can lay on nature is a paradise
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1351" ed="F1"/></l><l>To what we fear of death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1352" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="I">Alas, alas!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1353" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">Sweet sister, let me live:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1354" ed="F1"/></l><l>What sin you do to save a brother's life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1355" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nature dispenses with the deed so far
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1356" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That it becomes a virtue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1357" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O you beast!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1358" ed="F1"/></l><l>O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1359" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1360" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is't not a kind of incest, to take life
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1361" ed="F1"/></l><l>From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1362" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1363" ed="F1"/></l><l>For such a warped slip of wilderness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1364" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1365" ed="F1"/></l><l>Die, perish! Might but my bending down
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1366" ed="F1"/></l><l>Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1367" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1368" ed="F1"/></l><l>No word to save thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1369" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="I">Nay, hear me, Isabel.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1370" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O, fie, fie, fie!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1371" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade.
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1372" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1373" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'Tis best that thou diest quickly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1374" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l part="F">O hear me, Isabella!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Re-enter DUKE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1375" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1376" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>What is your will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Might you dispense with your leisure,
<lb ed="G"/>I would <lb n="1378" ed="F1"/>by and by have some speech
<lb ed="G"/>with you: the satisfaction I <lb n="1379" ed="F1"/>would require is
<lb ed="G"/>likewise your own benefit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1380" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>I have no superfluous leisure; my stay
<lb ed="G"/>must be <lb n="1381" ed="F1"/>stolen out of other affairs; but I will
<lb ed="G"/>attend you awhile.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Walks apart.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1382" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Son, I have overheard what hath
<lb ed="G"/>passed between <lb n="1383" ed="F1"/>you and your sister. Angelo
<lb ed="G"/>had never the purpose to corrupt <lb n="1384" ed="F1"/>her; only he
<lb ed="G"/>hath made an assay of her virtue to <lb n="1385" ed="F1"/>practise his
<lb ed="G"/>judgement with the disposition of natures: <lb n="1386" ed="F1"/>she,
<lb ed="G"/>having the truth of honour in her, hath made
<lb ed="G"/>him <lb n="1387" ed="F1"/>that gracious denial which he is most glad
<lb ed="G"/>to receive. I <lb n="1388" ed="F1"/>am confessor to Angelo, and I
<lb ed="G"/>know this to be true; therefore <lb n="1389" ed="F1"/>prepare yourself
<lb ed="G"/>to death: do not satisfy your resolution
<lb n="1390" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>with hopes that are fallible: to-morrow you
<lb n="1391" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>must die; go to your knees and make ready.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1392" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><p>Let me ask my sister pardon. I am
<lb ed="G"/>so out of love <lb n="1393" ed="F1"/>with life that I will sue to be
<lb ed="G"/>rid of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1394" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Hold you there: farewell.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Claudio.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Provost, a word <lb n="1395" ed="F1"/>with you!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1396" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>What's your will, father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1397" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>That now you are come, you will be
<lb ed="G"/>gone. Leave <lb n="1398" ed="F1"/>me awhile with the maid: my
<lb ed="G"/>mind promises with my <lb n="1399" ed="F1"/>habit no loss shall
<lb ed="G"/>touch her by my company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1400" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>In good time.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exit Provost.</stage><stage> Isabella comes forward.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1401" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>The hand that hath made you fair
<lb ed="G"/>hath made <lb n="1402" ed="F1"/>you good: the goodness that is cheap
<lb ed="G"/>in beauty makes <lb n="1403" ed="F1"/>beauty brief in goodness; but
<lb ed="G"/>grace, being the soul of <lb n="1404" ed="F1"/>your complexion, shall
<lb ed="G"/>keep the body of it ever fair. <lb n="1405" ed="F1"/>The assault that
<lb ed="G"/>Angelo hath made to you, fortune hath <lb n="1406" ed="F1"/>conveyed
<lb ed="G"/>to my understanding; and, but that
<lb ed="G"/>frailty hath <lb n="1407" ed="F1"/>examples for his falling, I should
<lb ed="G"/>wonder at Angelo. How <lb n="1408" ed="F1"/>will you do to content
<lb ed="G"/>this substitute, and to save your <lb n="1409" ed="F1"/>brother?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1410" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>I am now going to resolve him; I had
<lb ed="G"/>rather <lb n="1411" ed="F1"/>my brother die by the law than my son
<lb ed="G"/>should be unlawfully <lb n="1412" ed="F1"/>born. But, O, how much
<lb ed="G"/>is the good duke <lb n="1413" ed="F1"/>deceived in Angelo! If ever
<lb ed="G"/>he return and I can speak <lb n="1414" ed="F1"/>to him, I will open
<lb ed="G"/>my lips in vain, or discover his <lb n="1415" ed="F1"/>government.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1416" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>That shall not be much amiss: yet,
<lb ed="G"/>as the matter <lb n="1417" ed="F1"/>now stands, he will avoid your
<lb ed="G"/>accusation; he made <lb n="1418" ed="F1"/>trial of you only. Therefore
<lb ed="G"/>fasten your ear on my <lb n="1419" ed="F1"/>advisings: to the
<lb ed="G"/>love I have in doing good a remedy <lb n="1420" ed="F1"/>presents
<lb ed="G"/>itself. I do make myself believe that you <lb n="1421" ed="F1"/>may
<lb ed="G"/>most uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a
<lb ed="G"/>merited <lb n="1422" ed="F1"/>benefit; redeem your brother from the
<lb ed="G"/>angry law; <lb n="1423" ed="F1"/>do no stain to your own gracious
<lb ed="G"/>person; and much <lb n="1424" ed="F1"/>please the absent duke, if
<lb ed="G"/>peradventure he shall ever return <lb n="1425" ed="F1"/>to have hearing
<lb ed="G"/>of this business.

<lb n="212" ed="G"/><lb n="1426" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>Let me hear you speak farther. I
<lb ed="G"/>have spirit to <lb n="1427" ed="F1"/>do any thing that appears not
<lb ed="G"/>foul in the truth of my <lb n="1428" ed="F1"/>spirit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1429" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Virtue is bold, and goodness never
<lb ed="G"/>fearful. <lb n="1430" ed="F1"/>Have you not heard speak of Mariana,
<lb ed="G"/>the sister of Frederick <lb n="1431" ed="F1"/>the great soldier
<lb ed="G"/>who miscarried at sea?

<lb n="219" ed="G"/><lb n="1432" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>I have heard of the lady, and good
<lb ed="G"/>words went <lb n="1433" ed="F1"/>with her name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1434" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>She should this Angelo have married;
<lb ed="G"/>was affianced <lb n="1435" ed="F1"/>to her by oath, and the nuptial
<lb ed="G"/>appointed: between <lb n="1436" ed="F1"/>which time of the contract
<lb ed="G"/>and limit of the solemnity, <lb n="1437" ed="F1"/>her brother Frederick
<lb ed="G"/>was wrecked at sea, having in that <lb n="1438" ed="F1"/>perished
<lb ed="G"/>vessel the dowry of his sister. But mark
<lb ed="G"/>how <lb n="1439" ed="F1"/>heavily this befell to the poor gentlewoman:
<lb ed="G"/>there she <lb n="1440" ed="F1"/>lost a noble and renowned
<lb ed="G"/>brother, in his love toward <lb n="1441" ed="F1"/>her ever most kind
<lb ed="G"/>and natural; with him, the portion and <lb n="1442" ed="F1"/>sinew of
<lb ed="G"/>her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with <lb n="1443" ed="F1"/>both, her
<lb ed="G"/>combinate husband, this well-seeming <lb n="1444" ed="F1"/>Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1445" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>Can this be so? did Angelo so leave
<lb ed="G"/>her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1446" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Left her in her tears, and dried not
<lb ed="G"/>one of them <lb n="1447" ed="F1"/>with his comfort; swallowed his
<lb ed="G"/>vows whole, pretending <lb n="1448" ed="F1"/>in her discoveries of
<lb ed="G"/>dishonour: in few, bestowed <lb n="1449" ed="F1"/>her on her own
<lb ed="G"/>lamentation, which she yet wears for <lb n="1450" ed="F1"/>his sake;
<lb ed="G"/>and he, a marble to her tears, is washed with
<lb n="1451" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>them, but relents not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1452" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>What a merit were it in death to take
<lb ed="G"/>this poor <lb n="1453" ed="F1"/>maid from the world! What corruption
<lb ed="G"/>in this life, that <lb n="1454" ed="F1"/>it will let this man live!
<lb ed="G"/>But how out of this can she <lb n="1455" ed="F1"/>avail?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1456" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>It is a rupture that you may easily
<lb ed="G"/>heal: and the <lb n="1457" ed="F1"/>cure of it not only saves your
<lb ed="G"/>brother, but keeps you <lb n="1458" ed="F1"/>from dishonour in doing
<lb ed="G"/>it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1459" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>Show me how, good father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1460" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>This forenamed maid hath yet in her
<lb ed="G"/>the continuance <lb n="1461" ed="F1"/>of her first affection: his unjust
<lb ed="G"/>unkindness, <lb n="1462" ed="F1"/>that in all reason should have
<lb ed="G"/>quenched her love, hath, <lb n="1463" ed="F1"/>like an impediment
<lb ed="G"/>in the current, made it more violent <lb n="1464" ed="F1"/>and unruly.
<lb ed="G"/>Go you to Angelo; answer his requiring
<lb n="1465" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>with a plausible obedience; agree with his demands
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1466" ed="F1"/>to the point; only refer yourself to this
<lb ed="G"/>advantage, <lb n="1467" ed="F1"/>first, that your stay with him may
<lb ed="G"/>not be long; that the <lb n="1468" ed="F1"/>time may have all shadow
<lb ed="G"/>and silence in it; and the place <lb n="1469" ed="F1"/>answer to convenience.
<lb ed="G"/>This being granted in course,--<lb n="1470" ed="F1"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>now follows all,--we shall advise this wronged
<lb n="1471" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>maid to stead up your appointment, go in your
<lb ed="G"/>place; <lb n="1472" ed="F1"/>if the encounter acknowledge itself
<lb ed="G"/>hereafter, it may <lb n="1473" ed="F1"/>compel him to her recompense:
<lb ed="G"/>and here, by this, is <lb n="1474" ed="F1"/>your brother saved,
<lb ed="G"/>your honour untainted, the poor <lb n="1475" ed="F1"/>Mariana advantaged,
<lb ed="G"/>and the corrupt deputy scaled. <lb n="1476" ed="F1"/>The
<lb ed="G"/>maid will I frame and make fit for this attempt.
<lb ed="G"/>If <lb n="1477" ed="F1"/>you think well to carry this as you
<lb ed="G"/>may, the doubleness <lb n="1478" ed="F1"/>of the benefit defends the
<lb ed="G"/>deceit from reproof. What <lb n="1479" ed="F1"/>think you of it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1480" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>The image of it gives me content
<lb ed="G"/>already; and I <lb n="1481" ed="F1"/>trust it will grow to a most
<lb ed="G"/>prosperous perfection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1482" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>It lies much in your holding up. Haste
<lb ed="G"/>you speedily <lb n="1483" ed="F1"/>to Angelo: if for this night he
<lb ed="G"/>entreat you to his bed, <lb n="1484" ed="F1"/>give him promise of satisfaction.
<lb ed="G"/>I will presently to Saint <lb n="1485" ed="F1"/>Luke's: there,
<lb ed="G"/>at the moated grange, resides this dejected
<lb n="1486" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>Mariana. At that place call upon me; and dispatch
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1487" ed="F1"/>with Angelo, that it may be quickly.

<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="1488" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><p>I thank you for this comfort. Fare
<lb ed="G"/>you well, good <lb n="1489" ed="F1"/>father.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt severally.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">The street before the prison.</stage>
<lb n="1490" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter, on one side, DUKE disguised as before;
<lb ed="G"/>on the other, ELBOW, and Officers
<lb ed="G"/>with POMPEY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1491" ed="F1"/><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but
<lb ed="G"/>that you <lb n="1492" ed="F1"/>will needs buy and sell men and
<lb ed="G"/>women like beasts, we <lb n="1493" ed="F1"/>shall have all the world
<lb ed="G"/>drink brown and white bastard.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1494" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>O heavens! what stuff is here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1495" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>'Twas never merry world since, of two
<lb ed="G"/>usuries, <lb n="1496" ed="F1"/>the merriest was put down, and the
<lb ed="G"/>worser allowed by <lb n="1497" ed="F1"/>order of law a furred gown
<lb ed="G"/>to keep him warm; and <lb n="1498" ed="F1"/>furred with fox and
<lb ed="G"/>lambskins too, to signify, that craft, <lb n="1499" ed="F1"/>being
<lb ed="G"/>richer than innocency, stands for the facing.

<lb n="12" ed="G"/><lb n="1500" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good
<lb ed="G"/> father <lb n="1501" ed="F1"/>friar.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1502" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>And you, good brother father. What
<lb ed="G"/>offence <lb n="1503" ed="F1"/>hath this man made you, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1504" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, he hath offended the law:
<lb ed="G"/>and, sir, <lb n="1505" ed="F1"/>we take him to be a thief too, sir; for
<lb ed="G"/>we have found <lb n="1506" ed="F1"/>upon him, sir, a strange picklock,
<lb ed="G"/>which we have sent <lb n="1507" ed="F1"/>to the deputy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1508" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd!
<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="1509" ed="F1"/></l><l>The evil that thou causest to be done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1510" ed="F1"/></l><l>That is thy means to live. Do thou but think
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1511" ed="F1"/></l><l>What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1512" ed="F1"/></l><l>From such a filthy vice: say to thyself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1513" ed="F1"/></l><l>From their abominable and beastly touches
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1514" ed="F1"/></l><l>I drink, I eat, array myself, and live.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1515" ed="F1"/></l><l>Canst thou believe thy living is a life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1516" ed="F1"/></l><l>So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend.

<lb n="29" ed="G"/><lb n="1517" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Indeed, it does stink in some sort,
<lb ed="G"/>sir; <lb n="1518" ed="F1"/>but yet, sir, I would prove--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1519" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1520" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1521" ed="F1"/></l><l>Correction and instruction must both work
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1522" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ere this rude beast will profit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1523" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>He must before the deputy, sir; he
<lb ed="G"/>has given <lb n="1524" ed="F1"/>him warning: the deputy cannot
<lb ed="G"/>abide a whoremaster: <lb n="1525" ed="F1"/>if he be a whoremonger,
<lb ed="G"/>and comes before him, <lb n="1526" ed="F1"/>he were as good
<lb ed="G"/>go a mile on his errand.

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1527" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>That we were all, as some would seem to be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1528" ed="F1"/></l><l>From our fault as faults from seeming, free!
<lb n="1529" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1530" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1531" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a
<lb ed="G"/>gentleman <lb n="1532" ed="F1"/>and a friend of mine.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                  Enter Lucio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1533" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>How now, noble Pompey! What,
<lb ed="G"/>at the wheels <lb n="1534" ed="F1"/>of Caesar? art thou led in triumph?
<lb ed="G"/>What, is there none <lb n="1535" ed="F1"/>of Pygmalion's
<lb ed="G"/>images, newly made woman, to be had <lb n="1536" ed="F1"/>now,
<lb ed="G"/>for putting the hand in the pocket and extracting
<lb ed="G"/>it <lb n="1537" ed="F1"/>clutched?   What reply, ha?   What
<lb ed="G"/>sayest thou to this <lb n="1538" ed="F1"/>tune, matter and method?
<lb ed="G"/>Is't not drowned i' the last <lb n="1539" ed="F1"/>rain, ha? What
<lb ed="G"/>sayest thou, Trot? Is the world as it was,
<lb n="1540" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>man? Which is the way? Is it sad, and few
<lb ed="G"/>words? <lb n="1541" ed="F1"/>or how? The trick of it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1542" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Still thus, and thus; still worse!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1543" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress?
<lb ed="G"/>Procures <lb n="1544" ed="F1"/>she still, ha?

<lb n="58" ed="G"/><lb n="1545" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her
<lb ed="G"/> beef, and <lb n="1546" ed="F1"/>she is herself in the tub.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1547" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it;
<lb ed="G"/>it must be <lb n="1548" ed="F1"/>so: ever your fresh whore and your
<lb ed="G"/>powdered bawd: an <lb n="1549" ed="F1"/>unshunned consequence;
<lb ed="G"/>it must be so. Art going to prison, <lb n="1550" ed="F1"/>Pompey?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1551" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Yes, faith, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1552" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey: Farewell:
<lb ed="G"/>go say <lb n="1553" ed="F1"/>I sent thee thither. For debt,
<lb ed="G"/>Pompey, or how?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1554" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>For being a bawd, for being a bawd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1555" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment
<lb ed="G"/>be <lb n="1556" ed="F1"/>the due of a bawd, why, 'tis
<lb ed="G"/>his right: bawd is he doubtless, <lb n="1557" ed="F1"/>and of antiquity
<lb ed="G"/>too; bawd-born. Farewell, good <lb n="1558" ed="F1"/>Pompey.
<lb ed="G"/>Commend me to the prison, Pompey:
<lb ed="G"/>you will <lb n="1559" ed="F1"/>turn good husband now, Pompey;
<lb ed="G"/>you will keep the <lb n="1560" ed="F1"/>house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1561" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I hope, sir, your good worship will
<lb ed="G"/>be my bail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1562" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it
<lb ed="G"/>is not the wear. <lb n="1563" ed="F1"/>I will pray, Pompey, to
<lb ed="G"/>increase your bondage: if you <lb n="1564" ed="F1"/>take it not patiently,
<lb ed="G"/>why, your mettle is the more. <lb n="1565" ed="F1"/>Adieu,
<lb ed="G"/>trusty Pompey, <lb n="1566" ed="F1"/>'Bless you, friar.

<lb n="82" ed="G"/><lb n="1567" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>And you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1568" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1569" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Come your ways, sir; come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1570" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>You will not bail me, then, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1571" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Then, Pompey, nor now. What
<lb ed="G"/>news abroad, friar? <lb n="1572" ed="F1"/>what news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1573" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="elb."><speaker>Elb.</speaker><p>Come your ways, sir; come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1574" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Go to kennel, Pompey; go.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Elbow, Pompey and Officers.]</stage>
<lb n="1575" ed="F1"/></p><p n="90"> What news, friar, of the duke?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1576" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I know none. Can you tell me of any?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1577" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Some say he is with the Emperor of
<lb ed="G"/>Russia; other <lb n="1578" ed="F1"/>some, he is in Rome: but where
<lb ed="G"/>is he, think you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1579" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I know not where; but wheresoever,
<lb ed="G"/>I wish <lb n="1580" ed="F1"/>him well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1581" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>It was a mad fantastical trick of him
<lb ed="G"/>to steal <lb n="1582" ed="F1"/>from the state, and usurp the beggary he
<lb ed="G"/>was never <lb n="1583" ed="F1"/>born to. Lord Angelo dukes it well
<lb ed="G"/>in his absence; he <lb n="1584" ed="F1"/>puts transgression to't.

<lb n="102" ed="G"/><lb n="1585" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>He does well in't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1586" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>A little more lenity to lechery would
<lb ed="G"/>do no <lb n="1587" ed="F1"/>harm in him: something too crabbed
<lb ed="G"/>that way, friar.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1588" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>It is too general a vice, and severity
<lb ed="G"/>must cure it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1589" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a
<lb ed="G"/>great kindred; <lb n="1590" ed="F1"/>it is well allied: but it is impossible
<lb ed="G"/>to extirp it quite, <lb n="1591" ed="F1"/>friar, till eating and
<lb ed="G"/>drinking be put down. They say <lb n="1592" ed="F1"/>this Angelo
<lb ed="G"/>was not made by man and woman after <lb n="1593" ed="F1"/>this
<lb ed="G"/>downright way of creation: is it true, think <lb n="1594" ed="F1"/>you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1595" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>How should he be made, then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1596" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Some report a sea-maid spawned
<lb ed="G"/>him; some, <lb n="1597" ed="F1"/>that he was begot between two
<lb ed="G"/>stock-fishes. But it <lb n="1598" ed="F1"/>is certain that when he
<lb ed="G"/>makes water his urine is congealed <lb n="1599" ed="F1"/>ice; that I
<lb ed="G"/>know to be true: and he is a motion <lb n="1600" ed="F1"/>generative;
<lb ed="G"/>that's infallible.

<lb n="119" ed="G"/><lb n="1601" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>You are pleasant, sir, and speak
<lb ed="G"/>apace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1602" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Why, what a ruthless thing is this in
<lb ed="G"/>him, for <lb n="1603" ed="F1"/>the rebellion of a codpiece to take away
<lb ed="G"/>the life of a <lb n="1604" ed="F1"/>man! Would the duke that is absent
<lb ed="G"/>have done this? <lb n="1605" ed="F1"/>Ere he would have hanged
<lb ed="G"/>a man for the getting a hundred <lb n="1606" ed="F1"/>bastards, he
<lb ed="G"/>would have paid for the nursing a <lb n="1607" ed="F1"/>thousand:
<lb ed="G"/>he had some feeling of the sport; he knew <lb n="1608" ed="F1"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>service, and that instructed him to mercy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1609" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I never heard the absent duke much
<lb ed="G"/>detected <lb n="1610" ed="F1"/>for women; he was not inclined that
<lb ed="G"/>way.

<lb n="131" ed="G"/><lb n="1611" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>O, sir, you are deceived.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1612" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>'Tis not possible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1613" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar
<lb ed="G"/>of fifty; <lb n="1614" ed="F1"/>and his use was to put a ducat in her
<lb ed="G"/>clack-dish: the <lb n="1615" ed="F1"/>duke had crotchets in him. He
<lb ed="G"/>would be drunk too; <lb n="1616" ed="F1"/>that let me inform
<lb ed="G"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1617" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>You do him wrong, surely.

<lb n="138" ed="G"/><lb n="1618" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy
<lb ed="G"/>fellow was <lb n="1619" ed="F1"/>the duke: and I believe I know
<lb ed="G"/>the cause of his <lb n="1620" ed="F1"/>withdrawing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1621" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>What, I prithee, might be the cause?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1622" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be
<lb ed="G"/>locked within <lb n="1623" ed="F1"/>the teeth and the lips: but this I
<lb ed="G"/>can let you understand, <lb n="1624" ed="F1"/>the greater file of the
<lb ed="G"/>subject held the duke to be <lb n="1625" ed="F1"/>wise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1626" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Wise! why, no question but he was.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1627" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing
<lb ed="G"/>fellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1628" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Either this is envy in you, folly, or
<lb ed="G"/>mistaking: <lb n="1629" ed="F1"/>the very stream of his life and the
<lb ed="G"/>business he <lb n="1630" ed="F1"/>hath helmed must upon a warranted
<lb ed="G"/>need give him <lb n="1631" ed="F1"/>a better proclamation.
<lb ed="G"/>Let him be but testimonied in <lb n="1632" ed="F1"/>his own bringings-forth,
<lb ed="G"/>and he shall appear to the <lb n="1633" ed="F1"/>envious
<lb ed="G"/>a scholar, a statesman and a soldier. Therefore
<lb n="1634" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>you speak unskilfully; or if your knowledge
<lb ed="G"/>be <lb n="1635" ed="F1"/>more it is much darkened in your malice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1636" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Sir, I know him, and I love him.

<lb n="159" ed="G"/><lb n="1637" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Love talks with better knowledge,
<lb n="1638" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>and knowledge with dearer love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1639" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Come, sir, I know what I know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1640" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I can hardly believe that, since you
<lb ed="G"/>know not <lb n="1641" ed="F1"/>what you speak. But, if ever the
<lb ed="G"/>duke return, as our <lb n="1642" ed="F1"/>prayers are he may, let me
<lb ed="G"/>desire you to make your answer <lb n="1643" ed="F1"/>before him.
<lb ed="G"/>If it be honest you have spoke, you <lb n="1644" ed="F1"/>have courage
<lb ed="G"/>to maintain it: I am bound to call upon
<lb n="1645" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>you; and, I pray you, your name?

<lb n="169" ed="G"/><lb n="1646" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Sir, my name is Lucio; well known
<lb ed="G"/>to the duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1647" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>He shall know you better, sir, if I
<lb ed="G"/>may live to <lb n="1648" ed="F1"/>report you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1649" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I fear you not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1650" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>O, you hope the duke will return no
<lb ed="G"/>more; <lb n="1651" ed="F1"/>or you imagine me too unhurtful an
<lb ed="G"/>opposite. But indeed <lb n="1652" ed="F1"/>I can do you little harm;
<lb ed="G"/>you'll forswear this <lb n="1653" ed="F1"/>again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1654" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived
<lb ed="G"/>in me, <lb n="1655" ed="F1"/>friar. But no more of this. Canst thou
<lb ed="G"/>tell if Claudio <lb n="1656" ed="F1"/>die to-morrow or no?

<lb n="181" ed="G"/><lb n="1657" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Why should he die, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1658" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Why? For filling a bottle with a
<lb ed="G"/>tun-dish. <lb n="1659" ed="F1"/>I would the duke we talk of were
<lb ed="G"/>returned again: this <lb n="1660" ed="F1"/>ungenitured agent will
<lb ed="G"/>unpeople the province with <lb n="1661" ed="F1"/>continency; sparrows
<lb ed="G"/>must not build in his house-eaves, <lb n="1662" ed="F1"/>because
<lb ed="G"/>they are lecherous. The duke yet would <lb n="1663" ed="F1"/>have
<lb ed="G"/>dark deeds darkly answered; he would never
<lb n="1664" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>bring them to light: would he were returned!
<lb ed="G"/>Marry, <lb n="1665" ed="F1"/>this Claudio is condemned for untrussing.
<lb ed="G"/>Farewell, good <lb n="1666" ed="F1"/>friar: I prithee, pray
<lb ed="G"/>for me. The duke, I say to thee <lb n="1667" ed="F1"/>again, would
<lb ed="G"/>eat mutton on Fridays. He's not past <lb n="1668" ed="F1"/>it yet,
<lb ed="G"/>and I say to thee, he would mouth with a beggar,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1669" ed="F1"/>though she smelt brown bread and garlic:
<lb ed="G"/>say <lb n="1670" ed="F1"/>that I said so. Farewell.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1671" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>No might nor greatness in mortality
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1672" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1673" ed="F1"/></l><l>The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1674" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="1675" ed="F1"/></l><l>But who comes here?
<lb n="1676" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ESCALUS, PROVOST, and Officers with
<lb ed="G"/>MISTRESS OVERDONE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1677" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Go; away with her to prison!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1678" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>Good my lord, be good to me;
<lb ed="G"/>your honour <lb n="1679" ed="F1"/>is accounted a merciful man;
<lb ed="G"/>good my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1680" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Double and treble admonition, and
<lb ed="G"/>still forfeit <lb n="1681" ed="F1"/>in the same kind! This would
<lb ed="G"/>make mercy swear <lb n="1682" ed="F1"/>and play the tyrant.

<lb n="208" ed="G"/><lb n="1683" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>A bawd of eleven years' continuance,
<lb ed="G"/>may it <lb n="1684" ed="F1"/>please your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1685" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mrs-ov."><speaker>Mrs Ov.</speaker><p>My lord, this is one Lucio's information
<lb ed="G"/>against <lb n="1686" ed="F1"/>me. Mistress Kate Keepdown
<lb ed="G"/>was with child by <lb n="1687" ed="F1"/>him in the duke's time; he
<lb ed="G"/>promised her marriage: his <lb n="1688" ed="F1"/>child is a year and
<lb ed="G"/>a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob: <lb n="1689" ed="F1"/>I have
<lb ed="G"/>kept it myself; and see how he goes about <lb n="1690" ed="F1"/>to
<lb ed="G"/>abuse me!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1691" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>That fellow is a fellow of much
<lb ed="G"/>license: let <lb n="1692" ed="F1"/>him be called before us. Away
<lb ed="G"/>with her to prison! Go <lb n="1693" ed="F1"/>to; no more words.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Officers with Mistress Ov.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>Provost, my brother
<lb ed="G"/>Angelo will <lb n="1694" ed="F1"/>not be altered; Claudio
<lb ed="G"/>must die to-morrow: let him be <lb n="1695" ed="F1"/>furnished
<lb ed="G"/>with divines, and have all charitable preparation.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1696" ed="F1"/>If my brother wrought by my pity, it
<lb ed="G"/>should not <lb n="1697" ed="F1"/>be so with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1698" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>So please you, this friar hath been
<lb ed="G"/>with him, <lb n="1699" ed="F1"/>and advised him for the entertainment
<lb ed="G"/>of death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1700" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Good even, good father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1701" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Bliss and goodness on you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1702" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Of whence are you?

<lb n="230" ed="G"/><lb n="1703" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Not of this country, though my chance is now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1704" ed="F1"/></l><l>To use it for my time: I am a brother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1705" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of gracious order, late come from the See
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1706" ed="F1"/></l><l>In special business from his holiness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1707" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>What news abroad i' the world?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1708" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>None, but that there is so great a
<lb ed="G"/>fever on <lb n="1709" ed="F1"/>goodness, that the dissolution of it
<lb ed="G"/>must cure it: novelty <lb n="1710" ed="F1"/>is only in request; and
<lb ed="G"/>it is as dangerous to be <lb n="1711" ed="F1"/>aged in any kind of
<lb ed="G"/>course, as it is virtuous to be constant <lb n="1712" ed="F1"/>in any
<lb ed="G"/>undertaking. There is scarce truth enough <lb n="1713" ed="F1"/>alive
<lb ed="G"/>to make societies secure; but security enough
<lb ed="G"/>to <lb n="1714" ed="F1"/>make fellowships accurst: much upon this
<lb ed="G"/>riddle runs <lb n="1715" ed="F1"/>the wisdom of the world. This news
<lb ed="G"/>is old enough, <lb n="1716" ed="F1"/>yet it is every day's news. I pray
<lb ed="G"/>you, sir, of what disposition <lb n="1717" ed="F1"/>was the duke?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1718" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>One that, above all other strifes,
<lb n="1719" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>contended especially to know himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1720" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>What pleasure was he given to?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1721" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Rather rejoicing to see another merry,
<lb ed="G"/>than <lb n="1722" ed="F1"/>merry at any thing which professed to
<lb ed="G"/>make him rejoice: <lb n="1723" ed="F1"/>a gentlemen of all temperance.
<lb ed="G"/>But leave we him to <lb n="1724" ed="F1"/>his events, with a
<lb ed="G"/>prayer they may prove prosperous; and <lb n="1725" ed="F1"/>let
<lb ed="G"/>me desire to know how you find Claudio prepared.
<lb ed="G"/>  <lb n="1726" ed="F1"/>I am made to understand that you
<lb ed="G"/>have lent him <lb n="1727" ed="F1"/>visitation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1728" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>He professes to have received no sinister
<lb ed="G"/>measure <lb n="1729" ed="F1"/>from his judge, but most willingly
<lb ed="G"/>humbles himself <lb n="1730" ed="F1"/>to the determination of
<lb ed="G"/>justice: yet had he framed <lb n="1731" ed="F1"/>to himself, by the
<lb ed="G"/>instruction of his frailty, many deceiving <lb n="1732" ed="F1"/>promises
<lb ed="G"/>of life; which I by my good leisure <lb n="1733" ed="F1"/>have
<lb ed="G"/>discredited to him, and now is he resolved to die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1734" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>You have paid the heavens your function,
<lb ed="G"/>and <lb n="1735" ed="F1"/>the prisoner the very debt of your
<lb ed="G"/>calling. I have laboured <lb n="1736" ed="F1"/>for the poor gentleman
<lb ed="G"/>to the extremest shore <lb n="1737" ed="F1"/>of my modesty: but my
<lb ed="G"/>brother justice have I found so <lb n="1738" ed="F1"/>severe, that he
<lb ed="G"/>hath forced me to tell him he is indeed <lb n="1739" ed="F1"/>Justice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1740" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>If his own life <lb n="1741" ed="F1"/>answer the straitness
<lb ed="G"/>of his proceeding, <lb n="1742" ed="F1"/>it shall become him well;
<lb ed="G"/>wherein if he chance to fail, <lb n="1743" ed="F1"/>he hath sentenced
<lb ed="G"/>himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1744" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I am going to visit the prisoner.
<lb ed="G"/>Fare you well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1745" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Peace be with you!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Escalus and Provost.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1746" ed="F1"/></p><l>He who the sword of heaven will bear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1747" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should be as holy as severe;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1748" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pattern in himself to know,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1749" ed="F1"/></l><l>Grace to stand, and virtue go;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1750" ed="F1"/></l><l>More nor less to others paying
<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="1751" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than by self-offences weighing.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1752" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shame to him whose cruel striking
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1753" ed="F1"/></l><l>Kills for faults of his own liking!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1754" ed="F1"/></l><l>Twice treble shame on Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1755" ed="F1"/></l><l>To weed my vice and let his grow!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1756" ed="F1"/></l><l>O, what may man within him hide,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1757" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though angel on the outward side!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1758" ed="F1"/></l><l>How may likeness made in crimes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1759" ed="F1"/></l><l>Making practice on the times,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1760" ed="F1"/></l><l>To draw with idle spiders' strings
<lb n="290" ed="G"/><lb n="1761" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most ponderous and substantial things
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1762" ed="F1"/></l><l>Craft against vice I must apply:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1763" ed="F1"/></l><l>With Angelo to-night shall lie
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1764" ed="F1"/></l><l>His old betrothed but despised;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1765" ed="F1"/></l><l>So disguise shall, by the disguised,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1766" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pay with falsehood false exacting,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1767" ed="F1"/></l><l>And perform an old contracting.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 n="4" type="act">
    <head>ACT IV</head><lb n="1768" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">The moated grange at ST. LUKE'S.</stage>
<lb n="1769" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">          Enter MARIANA and a BOY.  BOY sings.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1770" ed="F1"/><sp who="boy."><speaker>Boy.</speaker><l>Take, O, take those lips away,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1771" ed="F1"/></l><l>That so sweetly were forsworn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1772" ed="F1"/></l><l>And those eyes, the break of day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1773" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lights that do mislead the morn:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1774" ed="F1"/></l><l>But my kisses bring again, bring again;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1775" ed="F1"/></l><l>Seals of love, but seal'd in vain, seal'd in vain,
<lb n="1776" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1777" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1778" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1779" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exit Boy.</stage><stage type="entrance"> Enter DUKE disguised as before. </stage>
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1780" ed="F1"/></l><l>I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1781" ed="F1"/></l><l>You had not found me here so musical:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1782" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1783" ed="F1"/></l><l>My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1784" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1785" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1786" ed="F1"/></l><l>I pray you, tell me, hath any body inquired
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>for me here <lb n="1787" ed="F1"/>to-day? much upon this time have
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I promised here <lb n="1788" ed="F1"/>to meet.

<lb n="19" ed="G"/><lb n="1789" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><p>You have not been inquired after: I
<lb ed="G"/>have sat <lb n="1790" ed="F1"/>here all day.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1791" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter ISABELLA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1792" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I do constantly believe you. The
<lb ed="G"/>time is come <lb n="1793" ed="F1"/>even now. I shall crave your
<lb ed="G"/>forbearance a little: may be <lb n="1794" ed="F1"/>I will call upon
<lb ed="G"/>you anon, for some advantage to <lb n="1795" ed="F1"/>yourself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1796" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><p>I am always bound to you.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1797" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Very well met, and well come.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1798" ed="F1"/></l><l>What is the news from this good deputy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1799" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>He hath a garden circummured with brick,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1800" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd;
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1801" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1802" ed="F1"/></l><l>That makes his opening with this bigger key:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1803" ed="F1"/></l><l>This other doth command a little door
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1804" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1805" ed="F1"/></l><l>There have I made my promise
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1806" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon the heavy middle of the night
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To call upon him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1807" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>But shall you on your knowledge find this way?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1808" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1809" ed="F1"/></l><l>With whispering and most guilty diligence,
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1810" ed="F1"/></l><l>In action all of precept, he did show me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1811" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The way twice o'er.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1812" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Are there no other tokens
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1813" ed="F1"/></l><l>Between you 'greed concerning her observance?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1814" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>No, none, but only a repair i' the dark;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1815" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that I have possess'd him my most stay
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1816" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can be but brief; for I have made him know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1817" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have a servant comes with me along,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1818" ed="F1"/></l><l>That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1819" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I come about my brother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1820" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis well borne up.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1821" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have not yet made known to Mariana
<lb n="1822" ed="F1"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1823" ed="F1"/></l><l>A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter MARIANA.</stage>
<lb n="51" ed="G"/><lb n="1824" ed="F1"/></l><l>I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1825" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">She comes to do you good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1826" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">I do desire the like.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1827" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1828" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1829" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1830" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who hath a story ready for your ear.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1831" ed="F1"/></l><l>I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1832" ed="F1"/></l><l>The vaporous night approaches.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1833" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Will 't please you walk aside?
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Mariana and Isabella.</stage>


<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1834" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1835" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1836" ed="F1"/></l><l>Run with these false and most contrarious quests
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1837" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1838" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make thee the father of their idle dreams
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1839" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And rack thee in their fancies.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Welcome, how agreed?
<lb n="1840" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1841" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1842" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If you advise it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1843" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">It is not my consent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1844" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But my entreaty too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1845" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Little have you to say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1846" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1847" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">'Remember now my brother.'

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1848" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l part="F">Fear me not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1849" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1850" ed="F1"/></l><l>He is your husband on a pre-contract:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1851" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1852" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sith that the justice of your title to him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1853" ed="F1"/></l><l>Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1854" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="2" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="1855" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in the prison.</stage>
<lb n="1856" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">         Enter PROVOST and POMPEY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1857" ed="F1"/><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off
<lb ed="G"/>a man's head?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1858" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can;
<lb n="1859" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>but if he be a married man, he's his wife's
<lb ed="G"/>head, <lb n="1860" ed="F1"/>and I can never cut of a woman's head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1861" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Come, sir, leave me your snatches,
<lb ed="G"/>and yield me <lb n="1862" ed="F1"/>a direct answer. To-morrow
<lb ed="G"/>morning are to die Claudio <lb n="1863" ed="F1"/>and Barnardine.
<lb ed="G"/>Here is in our prison a common executioner,
<lb n="1864" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>who in his office lacks a helper: if you will
<lb ed="G"/>take <lb n="1865" ed="F1"/>it on you to assist him, it shall redeem
<lb ed="G"/>you from your <lb n="1866" ed="F1"/>gyves; if not, you shall have
<lb ed="G"/>your full time of imprisonment <lb n="1867" ed="F1"/>and your deliverance
<lb ed="G"/>with an unpitied whipping, <lb n="1868" ed="F1"/>for you
<lb ed="G"/>have been a notorious bawd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1869" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd
<lb ed="G"/>time out of <lb n="1870" ed="F1"/>mind; but yet I will be content to
<lb ed="G"/>be a lawful hangman. <lb n="1871" ed="F1"/>I would be glad to receive
<lb ed="G"/>some instruction from <lb n="1872" ed="F1"/>my fellow partner.

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="1873" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson,
<lb ed="G"/>there?
<lb n="1874" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter ABHORSON.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1875" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Do you call, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1876" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you
<lb ed="G"/>to-morrow <lb n="1877" ed="F1"/>in your execution. If you think it
<lb ed="G"/>meet, compound with <lb n="1878" ed="F1"/>him by the year, and let
<lb ed="G"/>him abide here with you; if not, <lb n="1879" ed="F1"/>use him for
<lb ed="G"/>the present and dismiss him. He cannot <lb n="1880" ed="F1"/>plead
<lb ed="G"/>his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd.

<lb n="29" ed="G"/><lb n="1881" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will
<lb ed="G"/>discredit our <lb n="1882" ed="F1"/>mystery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1883" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a
<lb ed="G"/>feather will <lb n="1884" ed="F1"/>turn the scale.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1885" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for
<lb ed="G"/>surely, sir, a <lb n="1886" ed="F1"/>good favour you have, but that
<lb ed="G"/>you have a hanging look,--<lb n="1887" ed="F1"/>do you call, sir,
<lb ed="G"/>your occupation a mystery?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1888" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Ay, sir; a mystery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1889" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a
<lb ed="G"/>mystery; and <lb n="1890" ed="F1"/>your whores, sir, being members
<lb ed="G"/>of my occupation, using <lb n="1891" ed="F1"/>painting, do prove my
<lb ed="G"/>occupation a mystery: but <lb n="1892" ed="F1"/>what mystery there
<lb ed="G"/>should be in hanging, if I should <lb n="1893" ed="F1"/>be hanged, I
<lb ed="G"/>cannot imagine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1894" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Sir, it is a mystery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1895" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Proof?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1896" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Every true man's apparel fits your
<lb ed="G"/>thief: <lb n="1897" ed="F1"/>if it be too little for your thief, your
<lb ed="G"/>true man <lb n="1898" ed="F1"/>thinks it big enough; if it be too big
<lb ed="G"/>for your <lb n="1899" ed="F1"/>thief, your thief thinks it little enough:
<lb n="50" ed="G"/>so every <lb n="1900" ed="F1"/>true man's apparel fits your thief.
<lb n="1901" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1902" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Are you agreed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1903" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Sir, I will serve him; for I do find
<lb ed="G"/>your hangman <lb n="1904" ed="F1"/>is a more penitent trade than
<lb ed="G"/>your bawd; he doth <lb n="1905" ed="F1"/>oftener ask forgiveness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1906" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>You, sirrah, provide your block and
<lb ed="G"/>your axe <lb n="1907" ed="F1"/>to-morrow four o'clock.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1908" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Come on, bawd; I will instruct
<lb ed="G"/>thee in my <lb n="1909" ed="F1"/>trade; follow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1910" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope,
<lb ed="G"/>if you have <lb n="1911" ed="F1"/>occasion to use me for your own
<lb ed="G"/>turn, you shall find <lb n="1912" ed="F1"/>me yare; for truly, sir, for
<lb ed="G"/>your kindness I owe you a <lb n="1913" ed="F1"/>good turn.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1914" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Call hither Barnardine and Claudio:

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Pompey and Abhorson.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1915" ed="F1"/></p><l>The one has my pity; not a jot the other,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1916" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being a murderer, though he were my brother.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1917" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter CLAUDIO.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1918" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1919" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1920" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1921" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="claud."><speaker>Claud.</speaker><l>As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1922" ed="F1"/></l><l>When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1923" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He will not wake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1924" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">Who can do good on him?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1925" ed="F1"/></l><l>Well, go, prepare yourself. <stage>[Knocking within.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But, hark, what noise?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1926" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven give your spirits comfort!   <stage type="exit">[Exit Claudio.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>By and by.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1927" ed="F1"/></l><l>I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1928" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For the most gentle Claudio. <stage type="entrance">Enter DUKE disguised as before.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Welcome, father.
<lb n="1929" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1930" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>The best and wholesomest spirits of the night
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1931" ed="F1"/></l><l>Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1932" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>None, since the curfew rung.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1933" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">Not Isabel?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1934" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="Y">No.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1935" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">They will, then, ere't be long.

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="1936" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>What comfort is for Claudio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1937" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">There's some in hope.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1938" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">It is a bitter deputy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1939" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1940" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even with the stroke and line of his great justice:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1941" ed="F1"/></l><l>He doth with holy abstinence subdue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1942" ed="F1"/></l><l>That in himself which he spurs on his power
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1943" ed="F1"/></l><l>To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1944" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1945" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But this being so, he's just.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Knocking within.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Now are they come.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Provost.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1946" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is a gentle provost: seldom when
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1947" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The steeled gaoler is the friend of men.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Knocking within.] </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1948" ed="F1"/></l><l>How now! what noise? That spirit's possess'd with haste
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1949" ed="F1"/></l><l>That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">               Re-enter PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1950" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>There he must stay until the officer
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1951" ed="F1"/></l><l>Arise to let him in: he is call'd up.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1952" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1953" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But he must die to-morrow?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1954" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">None, sir, none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1955" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>As near the dawning, provost as it is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1956" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You shall hear more ere morning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1957" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">Happily
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1958" ed="F1"/></l><l>You something know; yet I believe there comes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1959" ed="F1"/></l><l>No countermand; no such example have we:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1960" ed="F1"/></l><l>Besides, upon the very siege of justice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1961" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lord Angelo hath to the public ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1962" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Profess'd the contrary.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1963" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">             Enter a MESSENGER.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1964" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">This is his lordship's man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1965" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>And here comes Claudio's pardon.
</l></sp>
<sp who="serv."><speaker>Mes.</speaker> <stage>[Giving a paper.]</stage>
<lb n="1966" ed="F1"/><p>My lord hath sent
<lb ed="G"/>you this note; <lb n="1967" ed="F1"/>and by me this further charge,
<lb n="1968" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>that you swerve not from the smallest article
<lb ed="G"/>of it, <lb n="1969" ed="F1"/>neither in time, matter, or other circumstance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1970" ed="F1"/>Good morrow; for, as I take it, it is
<lb ed="G"/>almost day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1971" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>I shall obey him.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Messenger.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker>   <stage>Aside.</stage>
<lb n="111" ed="G"/><lb n="1972" ed="F1"/><l>This is his pardon, purchased by such sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1973" ed="F1"/></l><l>For which the pardoner himself is in.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1974" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1975" ed="F1"/></l><l>When it is borne in high authority:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1976" ed="F1"/></l><l>When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1977" ed="F1"/></l><l>That for the fault's love is the offender friended.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1978" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now, sir, what news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1979" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>I told you. <lb n="1980" ed="F1"/>Lord Angelo, belike
<lb ed="G"/>thinking me remiss <lb n="1981" ed="F1"/>in mine office, awakens me
<lb n="1982" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>with this unwonted putting on;   methinks
<lb ed="G"/>strangely, <lb n="1983" ed="F1"/>for he hath not used it before.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1984" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Pray you, let's hear.
<lb n="1985" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><stage>[Reads]</stage>
<lb n="1986" ed="F1"/><p>'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary,
<lb ed="G"/>let Claudio be executed <lb n="1987" ed="F1"/>by four of the clock;
<lb ed="G"/>and in the afternoon Barnardine: <lb n="1988" ed="F1"/>for my better
<lb ed="G"/>satisfaction, let me have Claudio's <lb n="1989" ed="F1"/>head sent
<lb ed="G"/>me by five. Let this be duly performed; with
<lb ed="G"/>a <lb n="1990" ed="F1"/>thought that more depends on it than we
<lb ed="G"/>must yet deliver.   <lb n="1991" ed="F1"/>Thus fail not to do your
<lb ed="G"/>office, as you will answer it at <lb n="1992" ed="F1"/>your peril.'
<lb n="1993" ed="F1"/></p><p n="131">What say you to this, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1994" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>What is that Barnardine who is to
<lb ed="G"/>be executed <lb n="1995" ed="F1"/>in the afternoon?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1996" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>A Bohemian born, but here nursed
<lb ed="G"/>up and bred; <lb n="1997" ed="F1"/>one that is a prisoner nine years
<lb ed="G"/>old.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1998" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>How came it that the absent duke
<lb ed="G"/>had not <lb n="1999" ed="F1"/>either delivered him to his liberty or
<lb ed="G"/>executed him? I <lb n="2000" ed="F1"/>have heard it was ever his
<lb ed="G"/>manner to do so.

<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="2001" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>His friends still wrought reprieves
<lb ed="G"/>for him: <lb n="2002" ed="F1"/>and, indeed, his fact, till now in the
<lb ed="G"/>government of Lord <lb n="2003" ed="F1"/>Angelo, came not to an
<lb ed="G"/>undoubtful proof.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2004" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>It is now apparent?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2005" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Most manifest, and not denied by
<lb ed="G"/>himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2006" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Hath he borne himself penitently in
<lb ed="G"/>prison? <lb n="2007" ed="F1"/>how seems he to be touched?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2008" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>A man that apprehends death no
<lb ed="G"/>more dreadfully <lb n="2009" ed="F1"/>but as a drunken sleep; careless,
<lb ed="G"/>reckless, and <lb n="2010" ed="F1"/>fearless of what's past,
<lb ed="G"/>present, or to come; insensible <lb n="2011" ed="F1"/>of mortality,
<lb ed="G"/>and desperately mortal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2012" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>He wants advice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2013" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>He will hear none: he hath evermore
<lb ed="G"/>had the liberty <lb n="2014" ed="F1"/>of the prison; give him leave to
<lb ed="G"/>escape hence, he <lb n="2015" ed="F1"/>would not: drunk many times
<lb ed="G"/>a day, if not many days <lb n="2016" ed="F1"/>entirely drunk. We
<lb ed="G"/>have very oft awaked him, as if to <lb n="2017" ed="F1"/>carry him to
<lb ed="G"/>execution, and showed him a seeming warrant
<lb n="2018" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>for it: it hath not moved him at all.

<lb n="162" ed="G"/><lb n="2019" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>More of him anon. There is written
<lb ed="G"/>in your <lb n="2020" ed="F1"/>brow, provost, honesty and constancy:
<lb ed="G"/>if I read it not <lb n="2021" ed="F1"/>truly, my ancient skill beguiles
<lb ed="G"/>me; but, in the boldness <lb n="2022" ed="F1"/>of my cunning, I will
<lb ed="G"/>lay my self in hazard. Claudio, <lb n="2023" ed="F1"/>whom here you
<lb ed="G"/>have warrant to execute, is no greater <lb n="2024" ed="F1"/>forfeit
<lb ed="G"/>to the law than Angelo who hath sentenced
<lb ed="G"/>him. <lb n="2025" ed="F1"/>To make you understand this in a manifested
<lb ed="G"/>effect, I <lb n="2026" ed="F1"/>crave but four days' respite;
<lb ed="G"/>for the which you are to <lb n="2027" ed="F1"/>do me both a present
<lb ed="G"/>and a dangerous courtesy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2028" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Pray, sir, in what?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2029" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>In the delaying death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2030" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Alack, how may I do it, having the
<lb ed="G"/>hour limited, <lb n="2031" ed="F1"/>and an express command, under
<lb ed="G"/> penalty, to deliver <lb n="2032" ed="F1"/>his head in the view of
<lb ed="G"/>Angelo?  I may make my <lb n="2033" ed="F1"/>case as Claudio's,
<lb ed="G"/> to cross this in the smallest.

<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="2034" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>By the vow of mine order I warrant
<lb ed="G"/>you, <lb n="2035" ed="F1"/>if my instructions may be your
<lb ed="G"/>guide. <lb n="2036" ed="F1"/>Let this Barnardine be this morning
<lb ed="G"/>executed, <lb n="2037" ed="F1"/>and his head borne to Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2038" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Angelo hath seen them both, <lb n="2039" ed="F1"/>and will
<lb ed="G"/>discover the favour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2040" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>O, death's a great disguiser; and
<lb ed="G"/>you may <lb n="2041" ed="F1"/>add to it. Shave the head, and tie
<lb ed="G"/>the beard; and say it <lb n="2042" ed="F1"/>was the desire of the
<lb ed="G"/>penitent to be so bared before his <lb n="2043" ed="F1"/>death: you
<lb ed="G"/>know the course is common. If any thing <lb n="2044" ed="F1"/>fall
<lb ed="G"/>to you upon this more than thanks and good
<lb ed="G"/>fortune, <lb n="2045" ed="F1"/>by the saint whom I profess, I will
<lb ed="G"/>plead against <lb n="2046" ed="F1"/>it with my life.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2047" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>Pardon me, good father; it is
<lb ed="G"/>against my oath.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2048" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Were you sworn to the duke, or to
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2049" ed="F1"/>deputy?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2050" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><p>To him, and to his substitutes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2051" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>You will think you have made no
<lb ed="G"/>offence, if <lb n="2052" ed="F1"/>the duke avouch the justice of your
<lb ed="G"/>dealing?

<lb n="202" ed="G"/><lb n="2053" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>But what likelihood is in that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2054" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Not a resemblance, but a certainty.
<lb ed="G"/>Yet since <lb n="2055" ed="F1"/>I see you fearful, that neither my
<lb ed="G"/>coat, integrity, nor <lb n="2056" ed="F1"/>persuasion can with ease
<lb ed="G"/>attempt you, I will go further <lb n="2057" ed="F1"/>than I meant, to
<lb ed="G"/>pluck all fears out of you. Look <lb n="2058" ed="F1"/>you, sir, here
<lb ed="G"/> is the hand and seal of the duke: you <lb n="2059" ed="F1"/>know
<lb ed="G"/>the character, I doubt not; and the signet is
<lb ed="G"/>not <lb n="2060" ed="F1"/>strange to you.

<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="2061" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>I know them both.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2062" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>The contents of this is the return of
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb n="2063" ed="F1"/>duke: you shall anon over-read it at
<lb ed="G"/>your pleasure; <lb n="2064" ed="F1"/>where you shall find, within
<lb ed="G"/>these two days he will be <lb n="2065" ed="F1"/>here.   This is a
<lb ed="G"/>thing that Angelo knows not; for he <lb n="2066" ed="F1"/>this very
<lb ed="G"/>day receives letters of strange tenour; perchance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2067" ed="F1"/>of the duke's death; perchance entering
<lb ed="G"/>into some monastery; <lb n="2068" ed="F1"/>but, by chance,
<lb ed="G"/>nothing of what is writ. Look, <lb n="2069" ed="F1"/>the unfolding
<lb ed="G"/>star calls up the shepherd. Put not <lb n="2070" ed="F1"/>yourself
<lb ed="G"/>into amazement how these things should be: <lb n="2071" ed="F1"/>all
<lb ed="G"/>difficulties are but easy when they are known.
<lb ed="G"/>Call <lb n="2072" ed="F1"/>your executioner, and off with Barnardine's
<lb ed="G"/>head: I will <lb n="2073" ed="F1"/>give him a present shrift
<lb ed="G"/>and advise him for a better <lb n="2074" ed="F1"/>place. Yet you
<lb ed="G"/>are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve
<lb n="2075" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>you.   Come away; it is almost clear dawn.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 n="3" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="2076" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Another room in the same.</stage>
<lb n="2077" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter POMPEY.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2078" ed="F1"/><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>I am as well acquainted here as I
<lb ed="G"/>was in our <lb n="2079" ed="F1"/>house of profession: one would
<lb ed="G"/>think it were Mistress <lb n="2080" ed="F1"/>Overdone's own house,
<lb ed="G"/>for here be many of her old <lb n="2081" ed="F1"/>customers. First
<lb ed="G"/>here's young Master Rash; he's in for a <lb n="2082" ed="F1"/>commodity
<lb ed="G"/>of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore
<lb n="2083" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>and seventeen pounds; of which he
<lb ed="G"/>made five <lb n="2084" ed="F1"/>marks, ready money: marry, then
<lb ed="G"/>ginger was not <lb n="2085" ed="F1"/>much in request, for the old
<lb ed="G"/>women were all dead. <lb n="2086" ed="F1"/>Then is there here one
<lb ed="G"/>Master Caper, at the suit of Master <lb n="2087" ed="F1"/>Threepile
<lb ed="G"/>the mercer, for some four suits of peach-coloured
<lb n="2088" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>satin, which now peaches him a
<lb ed="G"/>beggar. <lb n="2089" ed="F1"/>Then have we here young Dizy, and
<lb ed="G"/>young Master Deep-vow, <lb n="2090" ed="F1"/>and Master Copperspur,
<lb ed="G"/>and Master Starve-lackey the rapier <lb n="2091" ed="F1"/>and
<lb ed="G"/>dagger man, and young Drop-heir that killed
<lb ed="G"/>lusty <lb n="2092" ed="F1"/>Pudding, and Master Forthlight the tilter,
<lb ed="G"/>and brave Master <lb n="2093" ed="F1"/>Shooty the great traveller,
<lb ed="G"/>and wild Half-can that <lb n="2094" ed="F1"/>stabbed Pots, and,
<lb ed="G"/>I think, forty more; all great doers in <lb n="2095" ed="F1"/>our
<lb ed="G"/>trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2096" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">              Enter ABHORSON.</stage>

<lb n="22" ed="G"/><lb n="2097" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2098" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Master Barnardine! you must rise
<lb ed="G"/>and be hanged, <lb n="2099" ed="F1"/>Master Barnardine!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2100" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>What, ho, Barnardine!

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker>   <lb n="2101" ed="F1"/><stage>[Within]</stage>
<lb n="2102" ed="F1"/><p>A pox o' your throats!
<lb ed="G"/>Who makes that noise <lb n="2103" ed="F1"/>there? What are you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2104" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Your friends, sir; the hangman.
<lb n="2105" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>You must be so good, sir, to rise and be put
<lb ed="G"/>to death.

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker>   <stage>[Within]</stage>
<lb n="2106" ed="F1"/><p>Away, you rogue, away! I
<lb ed="G"/>am sleepy.

<lb n="32" ed="G"/><lb n="2107" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Tell him he must awake, <lb n="2108" ed="F1"/>and that
<lb ed="G"/>quickly too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2109" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till
<lb ed="G"/>you are executed, <lb n="2110" ed="F1"/>and sleep afterwards.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2111" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Go in to him, and fetch him out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2112" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>He is coming, sir, he is coming; I
<lb ed="G"/>hear his <lb n="2113" ed="F1"/>straw rustle.
<lb n="2114" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2115" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Is the axe upon the block, sirrah?

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="2116" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>Very ready, sir.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">              Enter BARNARDINE.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2117" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker><p>How now, Abhorson? <lb n="2118" ed="F1"/>what's the
<lb ed="G"/>news with you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2119" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Truly, sir, I would desire you to
<lb ed="G"/>clap into your <lb n="2120" ed="F1"/>prayers; for, look you, the
<lb ed="G"/>warrant's come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2121" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker><p>You rogue, I have been drinking all
<lb ed="G"/>night; <lb n="2122" ed="F1"/>I am not fitted for't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2123" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="pom."><speaker>Pom.</speaker><p>O, the better, sir; for he that drinks
<lb ed="G"/>all night, <lb n="2124" ed="F1"/>and is hanged betimes in the morning,
<lb ed="G"/>may sleep the <lb n="2125" ed="F1"/>sounder all the next day.
<lb n="2126" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2127" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="abhor."><speaker>Abhor.</speaker><p>Look, you, sir; here comes your
<lb ed="G"/>ghostly father: <lb n="2128" ed="F1"/>do we jest now, think you? <stage type="entrance">Enter DUKE disguised as before.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2129" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Sir, induced by my charity, and
<lb ed="G"/>hearing how <lb n="2130" ed="F1"/>hasty you are to depart, I am
<lb ed="G"/>come to advise you, <lb n="2131" ed="F1"/>comfort you and pray
<lb ed="G"/>with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2132" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker><p>Friar, not I: I have been drinking
<lb ed="G"/>hard all night, <lb n="2133" ed="F1"/>and I will have more time to
<lb ed="G"/>prepare me, or they shall <lb n="2134" ed="F1"/>beat out my brains
<lb ed="G"/>with billets: I will not consent to <lb n="2135" ed="F1"/>die this day,
<lb ed="G"/>that's certain.

<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2136" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you
<lb n="2137" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>Look forward on the journey you shall go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2138" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker><p>I swear I will not die to-day for any
<lb ed="G"/>man's <lb n="2139" ed="F1"/>persuasion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2140" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>But hear you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2141" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bar."><speaker>Bar.</speaker><p>Not a word: if you have anything to
<lb ed="G"/>say to me, <lb n="2142" ed="F1"/>come to my ward; for thence will
<lb ed="G"/>not I to-day.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2143" ed="F1"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>
<lb n="2144" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2145" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2146" ed="F1"/></l><l>After him, fellows; bring him to the block.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt Abhorson and Pompey.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter PROVOST.</stage>

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2147" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2148" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>A creature unprepared, unmeet for death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2149" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to transport him in the mind he is
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2150" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Were damnable.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2151" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">Here in the prison, father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2152" ed="F1"/></l><l>There died this morning of a cruel fever
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2153" ed="F1"/></l><l>One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2154" ed="F1"/></l><l>A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2155" ed="F1"/></l><l>Just of his colour. What if we do omit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2156" ed="F1"/></l><l>This reprobate till he were well inclined;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2157" ed="F1"/></l><l>And satisfy the deputy with the visage
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2158" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2159" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2160" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2161" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2162" ed="F1"/></l><l>And sent according to command; whiles I
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2163" ed="F1"/></l><l>Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2164" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>This shall be done, good father, presently.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2165" ed="F1"/></l><l>But Barnardine must die this afternoon:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2166" ed="F1"/></l><l>And how shall we continue Claudio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2167" ed="F1"/></l><l>To save me from the danger that might come
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2168" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If he were known alive?

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="2169" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Let this be done.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2170" ed="F1"/></l><l>Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2171" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2172" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the under generation, you shall find
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2173" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your safety manifested.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2174" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>I am your free dependant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2175" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Provost.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2176" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now will I write letters to Angelo,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2177" ed="F1"/></l><l>The provost, he shall bear them,--whose contents
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2178" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall witness to him I am near at home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2179" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that, by great injunctions, I am bound
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2180" ed="F1"/></l><l>To enter publicly: him I'll desire
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2181" ed="F1"/></l><l>To meet me at the consecrated fount
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2182" ed="F1"/></l><l>A league below the city; and from thence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2183" ed="F1"/></l><l>By cold gradation and well-balanced form,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2184" ed="F1"/></l><l>We shall proceed with Angelo.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2185" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">              Re-enter PROVOST.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2186" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l>Here is the head; I'll carry it myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2187" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Convenient is it. Make a swift return;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2188" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I would commune with you of such things
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2189" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That want no ear but yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2190" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="prov."><speaker>Prov.</speaker><l part="F">I'll make all speed.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker>   <lb n="2191" ed="F1"/><stage>[Within]</stage>
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="2192" ed="F1"/><l>Peace, ho, be here!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2193" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>The tongue of Isabel.   She's come to know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2194" ed="F1"/></l><l>If yet her brother's pardon be come hither:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2195" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I will keep her ignorant of her good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2196" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make her heavenly comforts of despair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2197" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">When it is least expected.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2198" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">               Enter ISABELLA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2199" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Ho, by your leave!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2200" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Good morning to you, fair and gracious <lb n="2201" ed="F1"/>daughter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2202" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>The better, given me by so holy a man.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2203" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2204" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>He hath released him, Isabel, from the world:
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2205" ed="F1"/></l><l>His head is off and sent to Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2206" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Nay, but it is not so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2207" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>It is no other: <lb n="2208" ed="F1"/>show your wisdom, daughter,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>In your close patience.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2209" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2210" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>You shall not be admitted to his sight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2211" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2212" ed="F1"/></l><l>Injurious world! most damned Angelo!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2213" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2214" ed="F1"/></l><l>Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven.
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="2215" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mark what I say, which you shall find
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2216" ed="F1"/></l><l>By every syllable a faithful verity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2217" ed="F1"/></l><l>The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2218" ed="F1"/></l><l>One of our convent, and his confessor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2219" ed="F1"/></l><l>Gives me this instance: already he hath carried
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2220" ed="F1"/></l><l>Notice to Escalus and Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2221" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who do prepare to meet him at the gates,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2222" ed="F1"/></l><l>There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2223" ed="F1"/></l><l>In that good path that I would wish it go,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2224" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you shall have your bosom on this wretch,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="2225" ed="F1"/></l><l>Grace of the duke, revenge to your heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2226" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And general honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2227" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">I am directed by you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2228" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>This letter, then, to Friar Peter give;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2229" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2230" ed="F1"/></l><l>Say, by this token, I desire his company
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2231" ed="F1"/></l><l>At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2232" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2233" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2234" ed="F1"/></l><l>Accuse him home and home. For my poor self,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2235" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am combined by a sacred vow
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="2236" ed="F1"/></l><l>And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2237" ed="F1"/></l><l>Command these fretting waters from your eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2238" ed="F1"/></l><l>With a light heart: trust not my holy order,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2239" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I pervert your course. Who's here?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2240" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                 Enter Lucio.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2241" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Good even. <lb n="2242" ed="F1"/>Friar, where's the provost?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2243" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Not within, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2244" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine
<lb ed="G"/>heart to <lb n="2245" ed="F1"/>see thine eyes so red: thou must be
<lb ed="G"/>patient. I am fain <lb n="2246" ed="F1"/>to dine and sup with water
<lb ed="G"/>and bran; I dare not for my <lb n="2247" ed="F1"/>head fill my
<lb ed="G"/>belly; one fruitful meal would set me <lb n="2248" ed="F1"/>to't.
<lb ed="G"/>But they say the duke will be here to-morrow.
<lb n="2249" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother: if
<lb ed="G"/>the old fantastical <lb n="2250" ed="F1"/>duke of dark corners had
<lb ed="G"/>been at home, he had <lb n="2251" ed="F1"/>lived.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Isabella.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2252" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Sir, the duke is marvellous little
<lb ed="G"/>beholding <lb n="2253" ed="F1"/>to your reports; but the best is, he
<lb ed="G"/>lives not in them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2254" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Friar, thou knowest not the duke so
<lb ed="G"/>well as I <lb n="2255" ed="F1"/>do: he's a better woodman than thou
<lb ed="G"/>takest him for.

<lb n="172" ed="G"/><lb n="2256" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Well, you'll answer this one day.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Fare ye well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2257" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee:
<lb n="2258" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2259" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>You have told me too many of him
<lb ed="G"/>already, sir, <lb n="2260" ed="F1"/>if they be true; if not true, none
<lb ed="G"/>were enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2261" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>I was once before him for getting a
<lb ed="G"/>wench <lb n="2262" ed="F1"/>with child.

<lb n="181" ed="G"/><lb n="2263" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Did you such a thing?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2264" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Yes, marry, did I: but I was fain
<lb ed="G"/>to forswear it; <lb n="2265" ed="F1"/>they would else have married
<lb ed="G"/>me to the rotten medlar.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2266" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Sir, your company is fairer than
<lb ed="G"/>honest. Rest you <lb n="2267" ed="F1"/>well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2268" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>By my troth, I'll go with thee to the
<lb ed="G"/>lane's end: <lb n="2269" ed="F1"/>if bawdy talk offend you, we'll
<lb ed="G"/>have very little of it. Nay, <lb n="2270" ed="F1"/>friar, I am a kind
<lb ed="G"/>of burr; I shall stick.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 n="4" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE IV</head><lb n="2271" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in ANGELO'S house.</stage>
<lb n="2272" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2273" ed="F1"/><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched
<lb ed="G"/>other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2274" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>In most uneven and distracted manner.
<lb ed="G"/>His actions <lb n="2275" ed="F1"/>show much like to madness:
<lb ed="G"/>pray heaven his wisdom <lb n="2276" ed="F1"/>be not tainted! And
<lb ed="G"/>why meet him at the gates, and redeliver <lb n="2277" ed="F1"/>our
<lb ed="G"/>authorities there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2278" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I guess not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2279" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>And why should we proclaim it in an
<lb ed="G"/>hour <lb n="2280" ed="F1"/>before his entering, that if any crave
<lb ed="G"/>redress of injustice, <lb n="2281" ed="F1"/>they should exhibit their
<lb ed="G"/>petitions in the street?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2282" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>He shows his reason for that: to
<lb ed="G"/>have a dispatch <lb n="2283" ed="F1"/>of complaints, and to deliver
<lb ed="G"/>us from devices hereafter, <lb n="2284" ed="F1"/>which shall then
<lb ed="G"/>have no power to stand against <lb n="2285" ed="F1"/>us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2286" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed
<lb ed="G"/>betimes <lb n="2287" ed="F1"/>i' the morn; I'll call you at
<lb ed="G"/>your house: give notice <lb n="2288" ed="F1"/>to such men of sort
<lb ed="G"/>and suit as are to meet him.

<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="2289" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I shall, sir. Fare you well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2290" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>Good night.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Escalus.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2291" ed="F1"/></p><l>This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2292" ed="F1"/></l><l>And dull to all proceedings.   A deflower'd maid!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2293" ed="F1"/></l><l>And by an eminent body that enforced
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2294" ed="F1"/></l><l>The law against it!   But that her tender shame
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2295" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2296" ed="F1"/></l><l>How might she tongue me!   Yet reason dares her no;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2297" ed="F1"/></l><l>For my authority bears of a credent bulk,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="2298" ed="F1"/></l><l>That no particular scandal once can touch
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2299" ed="F1"/></l><l>But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2300" ed="F1"/></l><l>Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2301" ed="F1"/></l><l>Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2302" ed="F1"/></l><l>By so receiving a dishonour'd life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2303" ed="F1"/></l><l>With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2304" ed="F1"/></l><l>Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2305" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="5" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE V</head><lb n="2306" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Fields without the town.</stage>
<lb n="2307" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter DUKE in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2308" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>These letters at fit time deliver me:
<lb ed="G"/><stage>[Giving letters.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2309" ed="F1"/></l><l>The provost knows our purpose and our plot.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2310" ed="F1"/></l><l>The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2311" ed="F1"/></l><l>And hold you ever to our special drift;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2312" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though sometimes you do blench from this to that,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2313" ed="F1"/></l><l>As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2314" ed="F1"/></l><l>And tell him where I stay: give the like notice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2315" ed="F1"/></l><l>To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2316" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2317" ed="F1"/></l><l>But send me Flavius first.

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2318" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>It shall be speeded well.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2319" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">                Enter VARRIUS.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2320" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2321" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2322" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 n="6" type="scene">
  <head>SCENE VI</head><lb n="2323" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Street near the city gate.</stage>
<lb n="2324" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2325" ed="F1"/><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>To speak so indirectly I am loath:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2326" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2327" ed="F1"/></l><l>That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2328" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He says, to veil full purpose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2329" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l part="F">Be ruled by him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2330" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2331" ed="F1"/></l><l>He speak against me on the adverse side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2332" ed="F1"/></l><l>I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2333" ed="F1"/></l><l>That's bitter to sweet end.
<lb n="2334" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2335" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l part="I">I would Friar Peter--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2336" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O, peace! the friar is come,
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">              Enter FRIAR PETER.</stage>

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2337" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2338" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2339" ed="F1"/></l><l>He shall not pass you. <lb n="2340" ed="F1"/>Twice have the trumpets sounded;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2341" ed="F1"/></l><l>The generous and gravest citizens
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2342" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have hent the gates, and very near upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2343" ed="F1"/></l><l>The duke is entering: <lb n="2344" ed="F1"/>therefore, hence, away!
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 n="5" type="act">
    <head>ACT V</head><lb n="2345" ed="F1"/>
<div2 n="1" type="scene">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">The city gate.</stage>
<stage type="setting">MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand.</stage>
<lb n="2346" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance"> Enter DUKE, VARRIUS, LORDS, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, PROVOST, OFFICERS, and <lb n="2347" ed="F1"/>CITIZENS, at several doors.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2348" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>My very worthy cousin, fairly met!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2349" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2350" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang. escal."><speaker>Ang. and Escal.</speaker><l>Happy return be to your royal
<lb ed="G"/>grace!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2351" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Many and hearty thankings to you both.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2352" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have made inquiry of you; and we hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2353" ed="F1"/></l><l>Such goodness of your justice, that our soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2354" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2355" ed="F1"/></l><l>Forerunning more requital.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2356" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>You make my bonds still greater.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2357" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2358" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lock it in the wards of covert bosom,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2359" ed="F1"/></l><l>When it deserves, with characters of brass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2360" ed="F1"/></l><l>A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2361" ed="F1"/></l><l>And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2362" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let the subject see, to make them know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2363" ed="F1"/></l><l>That outward courtesies would fain proclaim
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2364" ed="F1"/></l><l>Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2365" ed="F1"/></l><l>You must walk by us on our other hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2366" ed="F1"/></l><l>And good supporters are you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2367" ed="F1"/><stage>FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward.</stage>


<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2368" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>Now is your time: <lb n="2369" ed="F1"/>speak loud and kneel before him.

<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="2370" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2371" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2372" ed="F1"/></l><l>O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2373" ed="F1"/></l><l>By throwing it on any other object
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2374" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till you have heard me in my true complaint
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2375" ed="F1"/></l><l>And given me justice, justice, justice, justice!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2376" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Relate your wrongs; <lb n="2377" ed="F1"/>in what? by whom? be brief.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2378" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2379" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Reveal yourself to him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2380" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O worthy duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2381" ed="F1"/></l><l>You bid me seek redemption of the devil:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2382" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak
<lb n="31" ed="G"/><lb n="2383" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must either punish me, not being believed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2384" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or wring redress from you. <lb n="2385" ed="F1"/>Hear me, O hear me, here!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2386" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2387" ed="F1"/></l><l>She hath been a suitor to me for her brother
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2388" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Cut off by course of justice,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2389" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">By course of justice!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2390" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>And she will speak most bitterly and strange.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2391" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2392" ed="F1"/></l><l>That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2393" ed="F1"/></l><l>That Angelo's a murderer; is't not strange?
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="2394" ed="F1"/></l><l>That Angelo is an adulterous thief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2395" ed="F1"/></l><l>An hypocrite, a virgin-violator;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2396" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Is it not strange and strange?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2397" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, it is ten times strange.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2398" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>It is not truer he is Angelo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2399" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than this is all as true as it is strange:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2400" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2401" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To the end of reckoning.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2402" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Away with her! Poor soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2403" ed="F1"/></l><l>She speaks this in the infirmity of sense.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2404" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2405" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is another comfort than this world,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2406" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou neglect me not, with that opinion
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2407" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I am touch'd with madness!  Make not impossible
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2408" ed="F1"/></l><l>That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2409" ed="F1"/></l><l>But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2410" ed="F1"/></l><l>May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2411" ed="F1"/></l><l>As Angelo; even so may Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2412" ed="F1"/></l><l>In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2413" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2414" ed="F1"/></l><l>If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2415" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Had I more name for badness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2416" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">By mine honesty,
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2417" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she be mad,--as I believe no other,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2418" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2419" ed="F1"/></l><l>Such a dependency of thing on thing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2420" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As e'er I heard in madness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2421" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">O gracious duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2422" ed="F1"/></l><l>Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2423" ed="F1"/></l><l>For inequality; but let your reason serve
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2424" ed="F1"/></l><l>To make the truth appear where it seems hid,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2425" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And hide the false seems true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2426" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Many that are not mad
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2427" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have, sure, more lack of reason. <lb n="2428" ed="F1"/>What would you say?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2429" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>I am the sister of one Claudio,
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2430" ed="F1"/></l><l>Condemn'd upon the act of fornication
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2431" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2432" ed="F1"/></l><l>I, in probation of a sisterhood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2433" ed="F1"/></l><l>Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2434" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As then the messenger,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2435" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">That's I, an't like your grace;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2436" ed="F1"/></l><l>I came to her from Claudio, and desired her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2437" ed="F1"/></l><l>To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2438" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For her poor brother's pardon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2439" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">That's he indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2440" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">You were not bid to speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2441" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="F">No, my good lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2442" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Nor wish'd to hold my peace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2443" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">I wish you now, then;
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2444" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pray you, take note of it: and when you have
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2445" ed="F1"/></l><l>A business for yourself, pray heaven you then
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2446" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be perfect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2447" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>I warrant your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2448" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>The warrant's for yourself; take heed to't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2449" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2450" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Right.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2451" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>It may be right; but you are i' the wrong
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2452" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To speak before your time. Proceed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2453" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">I went
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2454" ed="F1"/></l><l>To this pernicious caitiff deputy,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2455" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">That's somewhat madly spoken.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2456" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">Pardon it;
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="2457" ed="F1"/></l><l>The phrase is to the matter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2458" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Mended again. The matter; proceed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2459" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>In brief, to set the needless process by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2460" ed="F1"/></l><l>How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2461" ed="F1"/></l><l>How he refell'd me, and how I replied,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2462" ed="F1"/></l><l>For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2463" ed="F1"/></l><l>I now begin with grief and shame to utter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2464" ed="F1"/></l><l>He would not, but by gift of my chaste body
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2465" ed="F1"/></l><l>To his concupiscible intemperate lust,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2466" ed="F1"/></l><l>Release my brother; and, after much debatement,
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="2467" ed="F1"/></l><l>My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2468" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2469" ed="F1"/></l><l>His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2470" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For my poor brother's head.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2471" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">This is most likely!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2472" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>O, that it were as like as it is true!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2473" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>By heaven, fond wretch, thou know'st not what thou speak'st,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2474" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2475" ed="F1"/></l><l>In hateful practice. First, his integrity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2476" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2477" ed="F1"/></l><l>That with such vehemency he should pursue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2478" ed="F1"/></l><l>Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2479" ed="F1"/></l><l>He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2480" ed="F1"/></l><l>And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2481" ed="F1"/></l><l>Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2482" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thou camest here to complain.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2483" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l part="F">And is this all?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2484" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then, O you blessed ministers above,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2485" ed="F1"/></l><l>Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2486" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unfold the evil which is here wrap't up
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2487" ed="F1"/></l><l>In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2488" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go!

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2489" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2490" ed="F1"/></l><l>To prison with her! Shall we thus permit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2491" ed="F1"/></l><l>A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2492" ed="F1"/></l><l>On him so near us?   This needs must be a practice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2493" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who knew of your intent and coming hither?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2494" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="isab."><speaker>Isab.</speaker><l>One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2495" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>A ghostly father, belike.   <lb n="2496" ed="F1"/>Who knows that Lodowick?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2497" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2498" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2499" ed="F1"/></l><l>For certain words he spake against your grace
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2500" ed="F1"/></l><l>In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly.

<lb n="131" ed="G"/><lb n="2501" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Words against me! this is a good friar, belike!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2502" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to set on this wretched woman here
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2503" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against our substitute! Let this friar be found.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2504" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2505" ed="F1"/></l><l>I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2506" ed="F1"/></l><l>A very scurvy fellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2507" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>Blessed be your royal grace!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2508" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2509" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="2510" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2511" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who is as free from touch or soil with her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2512" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As she from one ungot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2513" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">We did believe no less.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2514" ed="F1"/></l><l>Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2515" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>I know him for a man divine and holy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2516" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2517" ed="F1"/></l><l>As he's reported by this gentleman;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2518" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, on my trust, a man that never yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2519" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2520" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>My lord, most villanously; believe it.

<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="2521" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>Well, he in time may come to clear himself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2522" ed="F1"/></l><l>But at this instant he is sick, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2523" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2524" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being come to knowledge that there was complaint
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2525" ed="F1"/></l><l>Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2526" ed="F1"/></l><l>To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2527" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is true and false; and what he with his oath
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2528" ed="F1"/></l><l>And all probation will make up full clear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2529" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whensoever he's convented.   First, for this woman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2530" ed="F1"/></l><l>To justify this worthy nobleman,
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="2531" ed="F1"/></l><l>So vulgarly and personally accused,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2532" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2533" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Till she herself confess it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2534" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Good friar, let's hear it.

<lb ed="G"/><stage>Isabella is carried off guarded; and
<lb ed="G"/>Mariana comes forward.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2535" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2536" ed="F1"/></l><l>O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2537" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2538" ed="F1"/></l><l>In this I'll be impartial; be you judge
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2539" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar?
<lb n="2540" ed="F1"/>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2541" ed="F1"/></l><l>First let her show her face, and after speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2542" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="2543" ed="F1"/></l><l>Until my husband bid me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2544" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>What, are you married?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2545" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><p>No, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2546" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Are you a maid?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2547" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><p>No, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2548" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>A widow, then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2549" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><p>Neither, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2550" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Why, you are nothing then: neither
<lb ed="G"/>maid, widow, <lb n="2551" ed="F1"/>nor wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2552" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>My lord, she may be a punk; for
<lb ed="G"/>many of <lb n="2553" ed="F1"/>them are neither maid, widow, nor
<lb ed="G"/>wife.

<lb n="181" ed="G"/><lb n="2554" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause
<lb n="2555" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>To prattle for himself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2556" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Well, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2557" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>My lord, I do confess I ne'er was married;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2558" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I confess besides I am no maid:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2559" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have known my husband; yet my husband
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2560" ed="F1"/></l><l>Knows not that ever he knew me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2561" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>He was drunk then, my lord: it can
<lb ed="G"/>be no better,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2562" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>For the benefit of silence, would
<lb ed="G"/>thou wert so too!

<lb n="192" ed="G"/><lb n="2563" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Well, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2564" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>This is no witness for Lord Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2565" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Now I come to't, my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2566" ed="F1"/></l><l>She that accuses him of fornication,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2567" ed="F1"/></l><l>In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2568" ed="F1"/></l><l>And charges him, my lord, with such a time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2569" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I'll depose I had him in mine arms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2570" ed="F1"/></l><l>With all the effect of love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2571" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="I">Charges she more than me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2572" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l part="F">Not that I know.

<lb n="201" ed="G"/><lb n="2573" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>No? you say your husband.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2574" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2575" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2576" ed="F1"/></l><l>But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2577" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2578" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l>My husband bids me; now I will
<lb ed="G"/> unmask.
<lb ed="G"/><stage>Unveiling. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2579" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2580" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2581" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2582" ed="F1"/></l><l>Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2583" ed="F1"/></l><l>That took away the match from Isabel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2584" ed="F1"/></l><l>And did supply thee at thy garden-house
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2585" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In her imagined person.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2586" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Know you this woman?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2587" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l part="I">Carnally, she says.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2588" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Sirrah, no more!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2589" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>Enough, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2590" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>My lord, I must confess I know this woman:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2591" ed="F1"/></l><l>And five years since there was some speech of marriage
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2592" ed="F1"/></l><l>Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2593" ed="F1"/></l><l>Partly for that her promised proportions
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="2594" ed="F1"/></l><l>Came short of composition, but in chief
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2595" ed="F1"/></l><l>For that her reputation was disvalued
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2596" ed="F1"/></l><l>In levity: since which time of five years
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2597" ed="F1"/></l><l>I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2598" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Upon my faith and honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2599" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mari."><speaker>Mari.</speaker><l part="F">Noble prince,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2600" ed="F1"/></l><l>As there comes light from heaven and words from breath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2601" ed="F1"/></l><l>As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2602" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am affianced this man's wife as strongly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2603" ed="F1"/></l><l>As words could make up vows: and, my good lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2604" ed="F1"/></l><l>But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house
<lb n="230" ed="G"/><lb n="2605" ed="F1"/></l><l>He knew me as a wife. As this is true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2606" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me in safety raise me from my knees;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2607" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else for ever be confixed here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2608" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A marble monument!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2609" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l part="F">I did but smile till now:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2610" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2611" ed="F1"/></l><l>My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2612" ed="F1"/></l><l>These poor informal women are no more
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2613" ed="F1"/></l><l>But instruments of some more mightier member
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2614" ed="F1"/></l><l>That sets them on: let me have way, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2615" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To find this practice out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2616" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, with my heart;
<lb n="240" ed="G"/><lb n="2617" ed="F1"/></l><l>And punish them to your height of pleasure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2618" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2619" ed="F1"/></l><l>Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2620" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though they would swear down each particular saint,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2621" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were testimonies against his worth and credit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2622" ed="F1"/></l><l>That's seal'd in approbation?   You, Lord Escalus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2623" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2624" ed="F1"/></l><l>To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2625" ed="F1"/></l><l>There is another friar that set them on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2626" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let him be sent for.

<lb n="250" ed="G"/><lb n="2627" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="fri.-p."><speaker>Fri. P.</speaker><l>Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2628" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath set the women on to this complaint:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2629" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your provost knows the place where he abides
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2630" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he may fetch him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2631" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Go do it instantly.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Provost.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2632" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2633" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2634" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do with your injuries as seems you best,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2635" ed="F1"/></l><l>In any chastisement: I for a while <lb n="2636" ed="F1"/>will leave you;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But stir not you till you have <lb n="2637" ed="F1"/>well determined
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Upon these slanderers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2638" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>My lord, we'll do it throughly.

<lb ed="G"/><stage type="exit">[Exit Duke.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Signior Lucio, <lb n="2639" ed="F1"/>did not you say you knew that
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Friar Lodowick to be a <lb n="2640" ed="F1"/>dishonest person?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2641" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>'Cucullus non facit monachum:'
<lb ed="G"/>honest in nothing <lb n="2642" ed="F1"/>but in his clothes; and one
<lb ed="G"/>that hath spoke most villanous <lb n="2643" ed="F1"/>speeches of the
<lb ed="G"/>duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2644" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>We shall entreat you to abide here
<lb ed="G"/>till he come <lb n="2645" ed="F1"/>and enforce them against him: we
<lb ed="G"/>shall find this friar a <lb n="2646" ed="F1"/>notable fellow.

<lb n="269" ed="G"/><lb n="2647" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>As any in Vienna, on my word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2648" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>Call that same Isabel here once again:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I would <lb n="2649" ed="F1"/>speak with her. <stage type="exit">[Exit an Attendant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/>Pray you, my lord, give me leave to <lb n="2650" ed="F1"/>question;
<lb ed="G"/> you shall see how I'll handle her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2651" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Not better than he, by her own
<lb ed="G"/>report.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2652" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Say you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2653" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, I think, if you handled
<lb ed="G"/>her privately, <lb n="2654" ed="F1"/>she would sooner confess: perchance,
<lb ed="G"/>publicly, she'll be <lb n="2655" ed="F1"/>ashamed.
<lb n="2656" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2657" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>I will go darkly to work with her.

<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="2658" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>That's the way; for women are light
<lb ed="G"/>at <lb n="2659" ed="F1"/>midnight.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance"> Re-enter OFFICERS with ISABELLA; and PROVOST
<lb ed="G"/>with the DUKE in his friar's habit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2660" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2661" ed="F1"/>denies all that you have said.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2662" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>My lord, here comes the rascal I
<lb ed="G"/>spoke of; <lb n="2663" ed="F1"/>here with the provost.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2664" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>In very good time: speak not you to
<lb ed="G"/>him till <lb n="2665" ed="F1"/>we call upon you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2666" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Mum.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2667" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Come, sir: did you set these women
<lb ed="G"/>on to slander <lb n="2668" ed="F1"/>Lord Angelo? they have confessed
<lb ed="G"/>you did.

<lb n="292" ed="G"/><lb n="2669" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>'Tis false.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2670" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>How! know you where you are?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2671" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Respect to your great place! and let the devil
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2672" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2673" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2674" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2675" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look you speak justly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2676" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2677" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2678" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2679" ed="F1"/></l><l>Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2680" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2681" ed="F1"/></l><l>And put your trial in the villain's mouth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2682" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which here you come to accuse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2683" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2684" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2685" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2686" ed="F1"/></l><l>To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth
<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="2687" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in the witness of his proper ear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2688" ed="F1"/></l><l>To call him villain? and then to glance from him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2689" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2690" ed="F1"/></l><l>Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2691" ed="F1"/></l><l>Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2692" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What 'unjust'!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2693" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Be not so hot; the duke
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2694" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2695" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dare rack his own: his subject am I not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2696" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor here provincial. My business in this state
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2697" ed="F1"/></l><l>Made me a looker on here in Vienna,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2698" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble
<lb n="321" ed="G"/><lb n="2699" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2700" ed="F1"/></l><l>But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2701" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2702" ed="F1"/></l><l>As much in mock as mark.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2703" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><l>Slander to the state!   <lb n="2704" ed="F1"/>Away with him to prison!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2705" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><l>What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2706" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is this the man that you did tell us of?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2707" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>'Tis he, my lord. Come hither,
<lb ed="G"/>goodman baldpate: <lb n="2708" ed="F1"/>do you know me?

<lb n="330" ed="G"/><lb n="2709" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I remember you, sir, by the sound
<lb ed="G"/>of your voice: <lb n="2710" ed="F1"/>I met you at the prison, in the
<lb ed="G"/>absence of the duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2711" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>O, did you so? And do you remember
<lb ed="G"/>what you <lb n="2712" ed="F1"/>said of the duke?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2713" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>Most notedly, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2714" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Do you so, sir? And was the duke
<lb ed="G"/>a fleshmonger, <lb n="2715" ed="F1"/>a fool, and a coward, as you
<lb ed="G"/>then reported him <lb n="2716" ed="F1"/>to be?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2717" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>You must, sir, change persons with
<lb ed="G"/>me, ere you <lb n="2718" ed="F1"/>make that my report: you, indeed.
<lb ed="G"/>spoke so of him; and <lb n="2719" ed="F1"/>much more, much worse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2720" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>O thou damnable fellow! Did not
<lb ed="G"/>I pluck thee <lb n="2721" ed="F1"/>by the nose for thy speeches?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2722" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>I protest I love the duke as I love
<lb ed="G"/>myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2723" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>Hark, how the villain would close
<lb ed="G"/>now, after <lb n="2724" ed="F1"/>his treasonable abuses!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2725" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="escal."><speaker>Escal.</speaker><p>Such a fellow is not to be talked
<lb ed="G"/>withal. Away <lb n="2726" ed="F1"/>with him to prison! Where is
<lb ed="G"/>the provost? Away with <lb n="2727" ed="F1"/>him to prison! lay
<lb ed="G"/>bolts enough upon him: let him speak <lb n="2728" ed="F1"/>no more.
<lb ed="G"/>Away with those giglots too, and with the
<lb ed="G"/>other <lb n="2729" ed="F1"/>confederate companion!

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker> <stage>[To Provost]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2730" ed="F1"/><l>Stay, sir; stay awhile.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2731" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="ang."><speaker>Ang.</speaker><p>What, resists he?   Help him, Lucio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2732" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><p>Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir;
<lb ed="G"/>foh, sir! Why, you <lb n="2733" ed="F1"/>bald-pated, lying rascal,
<lb ed="G"/>you must be hooded, must you? <lb n="2734" ed="F1"/>Show your
<lb ed="G"/>knave's visage, with a pox to you! show your
<lb n="2735" ed="F1"/><lb ed="G"/>sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour!
<lb ed="G"/>Will't <lb n="2736" ed="F1"/>not off?

<lb ed="G"/><stage>Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers
<lb ed="G"/>the Duke.</stage>

<lb n="360" ed="G"/><lb n="2737" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2738" ed="F1"/></l><l>First, provost, let me bail these gentle three.
<lb ed="G"/> <stage>[To Lucio]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2739" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2740" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2741" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lucio."><speaker>Lucio.</speaker><l>This may prove worse than hanging.
