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A monastery.
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS]
DUKE VINCENTIO
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No:| holy | father,| throw^away | that thought,
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Believe | not that | the drib|bling dart | of
love
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Can pierce | a complete | bosom:| why, I de|sire
thee
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To give | me sec|ret har|bor, hath | a pur||pose
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More | grave, and | wrinkled,| than the aims,| and
ends
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Of burn|ing youth.
FRIAR THOMAS
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May your | grace speak / of it?
DUKE VINCENTIO
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My ho|ly sir,| none better knows | than you
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How I | have ev|er loved | the life | removed
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And held | in idle | price, to | haunt as|semblies
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Where youth,| and cost,| witless | brave|ry
keeps.
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I have | deliv|ered to / Lord Ang|elo
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(A man | of stric|ture and / firm ab|stinence)
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My abs|olute* power,| and place | here in
Vi|enna,
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And he | suppos|es me | travelled to | Poland,
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(For so | I have strewed | it in | the com|mon
ear)
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And so | it is | received:| now (pious sir)
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You will | demand | of me,| why I | do this.
FRIAR THOMAS
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Gladly,| my lord. \\
DUKE VINCENTIO
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We have / strict stat|utes, and / most bit|ing laws,
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(The need|ful bits | and curbs | to headstrong weeds,)
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Which for this | fourteen years,| we have / let
slip,
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Even | like an | oregrown lion | in a cave
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That goes | not out | to prey:| Now* as fond |
fathers,
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Having | bound^up | the threat|ening twigs | of birch,
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Only | to stick | it in | their child|ren's sight,
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For ter|ror, not | to use:| in time | the rod
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Becomes more mocked,| than feared:| so our |
decrees,
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Dead to | inflic|tion, to | themselves | are
dead,
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And lib|erty,| plucks just/ice by | the nose;
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The ba|by beats | the nurse,| and quite | athwart
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Goes^all | decor|um.
FRIAR THOMAS
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It rest|ed in | your grace
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To unloose | this tied-|up just|ice, when | you
pleased:
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And it | in you | more* dread|ful would | have seemed
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Than in Lord | Angelo.
DUKE VINCENTIO
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I do* fear:| too dreadful:
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Sith^'twas | my fault,| to give | the peo|ple
scope,
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'Twould be | my ty|ranny | to strike | and gall |
them,
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For what I | bid them | do: for,| we bid | this be done
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When ev|il deeds | have their | permis|sive pass,
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And not | the pun|ishment: there|fore indeed |(my
fath|er)
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I have | on Ang|elo | imposed | the office,
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Who may | in the am|bush of my | name, strike
home,
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And yet,| my na|ture nev|er in | the fight
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To do | in sland|er: And | to behold | his sway,
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I will,| as twere a | brother | of your | order,
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Visit both^|prince, and | people:| therefore I |
prithee,
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Supply | me with | the hab|it, and | instruct ||
me
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How | I may form|ally | in pers|on bear
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Like a true friar:| More^reas|ons for | this
ac||tion
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At our / more leis|ure, shall | I rend|er you;
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Only,| this one:| Lord^Ang|elo is | precise,
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Stands at a | guard with | envy:| scarce
con|fesses
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That his / blood flows:| or that | his ap|petite
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Is more | to bread | than stone:| hence shall |
we see
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If pow|er change | purpose:| what our seem|ers
be.
[Exeunt]