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An apartment in the DUKE'S palace.
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants]
DUKE VINCENTIO
Escalus.
ESCALUS
My lord.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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Of gov|ernment,| the prop|erties | to unfold,
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Would seem | in me | to affect | speech and discourse,
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Since I | am put | to know,| that your own |
science
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Exceeds |(in that)| the lists | of all | advice
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My strength | can give | you: then | no more |
remains
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But that,| to your suf|ficiency,| as your worth |
is able,
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And let | them work:| the na|ture of | our | people,
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Our ci|ty's inst|itu|tions, and | the terms
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For com|mon just|ice, you're | as preg|nant in
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As art,| and prac|tice, hath | enriched | any
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That we re|member:| there is | our com|mission,
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From which,| we would not | have you | warp;
call*| hither,
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I say,| bid come | before | us Ang|elo:
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What fig|ure of | us think | you, he | will bear.
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For you | must know,| we have | with spe|cial soul
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Elect|ed him | our ab|sence to | supply;
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Lent him | our ter|ror, dressed | him with | our
love,
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And given | his dep|uta|tion all | the org||ans
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Of our / own pow|er: what | think you | of it?
ESCALUS
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If an|y in | Vien|na be | of worth
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To und|ergo | such^amp|le grace,| and hon||or,
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It | is Lord^Ang|elo.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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Look where | he comes.
[Enter ANGELO]
ANGELO
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Always | obed|ient to | your grace|'s will,
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I come | to know | your pleas|ure.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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Ang|elo:
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There is | a kind | of char|acter in | thy life,
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That to | the observ|er, doth | thy hist|ory
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Fully | unfold:| thyself,| and thy | belong||ings
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Are not | thine^own | so prop|er, as | to waste
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Thyself | upon | thy vir|tues; they | on thee:
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Heaven doth with us,| as we,| with torch|es do,
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Not light | them for | themselves:| for if our
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Did not | go forth | of us,| twere^all | alike
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As if | we had | them not:| Spirits are | not
fine|ly touched, ????
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But to fine | issues:| nor na|ture nev|er lends
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The smal|lest scrup|le of | her ex|cellence,
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But like^a | thrifty | goddess,| she de|termines
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Herself | the glo|ry of | a cred|itor,
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Both^thanks,| and use;| but I | do bend | my
speech
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To one | that can | my part | in him ad|vertise;
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Hold therefore | Ange|lo: ?? \\
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In our | remove,| be thou | at full,| ourself:
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Morta|lity | and mer|cy in | Vien||na
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Live | in thy tongue,| and heart:| old^Esc|alus
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Though first | in ques|tion, is | thy sec|ondary.
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Take thy | commis|sion.
ANGELO
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Now good | my lord
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Let there | be some / more test,| made of | my mettle,
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Before | so nob|le, and | so great | a fig||ure
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Be stamped | upon | it.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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No | more e|vasion:
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We have | with a leav|ened, and | prepar|ed
choice
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Procee|ded to you;| therefore | take your |
honors:
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Our haste | from hence | is of so | quick
con|dition,
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That it pre|fers it|self, and | leaves un|questioned
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Matters of | needful | value:| We shall | write
to you
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As time,| and our | concern|ings
shall^im|portune,
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How it | goes with | us, and | do look | to know
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What doth | befall | you here.| So fare | you
well:
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To the hope|ful ex|ecu|tion do | I leave | you,
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Of | your commis|sions.
ANGELO
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Yet | give leave |(my lord)
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That we | may bring | you some|thing on | the
way.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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My haste | may not | admit | it, \\
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Nor need | you (on | mine^hon|or) have | to do
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With an|y scruple:| your scope | is as |
mine^own,
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So to | enforce,| or qual|ify | the laws
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As to your | soul seems good:| Give me | your
hand,
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I'll priv|ily | away:| I love | the people,
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But do | not like | to stage | me to | their eyes:
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Though it | do well,| I do | not rel|ish well
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Their loud | applause,| and Av|es ve|hement;
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Nor do I | think the | man of | safe dis|cretion
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That does | affect | it. Once | more* fare | you
well.
ANGELO
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The heav|ens give | safety | to your pur|poses.
ESCALUS
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Lead forth, and bring | you back | in
hap|piness.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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I thank | you, fare | you well. \\
[Exit]
ESCALUS
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I shall | desire | you, sir,| to give | me leave
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To have | free speech / with you;| and it
con|cerns me
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To look | into | the bot|tom of | my place:
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A power | I have,| but of / what strength | and
na||ture,
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I am / not yet | instruc|ted.
ANGELO
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'Tis so | with me:| let us with|draw to|gether,
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And we | may soon | our sat|isfac|tion have
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Touching that | point.
ESCALUS
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I'll | wait u|pon your | honor.
[Exeunt]