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A nunnery.
[Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA]
ISABELLA
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And have | you nuns | no farth|er priv|ileges?
FRANCISCA
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Are not | these large | enough?
ISABELLA
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Yes | truly;|| I speak not | as de|siring
| more,
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But rath|er wish|ing a / more strict |
restraint
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Upon | the sis|terhood,| the vot|arists^of
/ Saint Clare. ??
LUCIO [Within]
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Ho?| Peace wi|thin this | place.|
ISABELLA
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Who's that | which calls? \\
FRANCISCA
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It is a / man's voice:| Gentle | Isa|bella,
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Turn you the | key, and | know his | business
| of him;
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You may; I | may* not:| you are yet | unsworn:
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When you | have vowed,| you must^/not speak |
with men,
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But^in | the pres|ence of | the pri|oress;
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Then if | you speak,| you must^/not show | your
face;
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Or if | you show | your face,| you must^/not
speak:
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He calls | again:| I pray | you ans|wer him.
[Exit]
ISABELLA
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Peace and | prosper|ity:| Who is it | that calls?
[Enter LUCIO]
LUCIO
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Hail vir/gin, (if | you be)| as those cheek-|roses
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Proclaim | you are | no less:| can you so*| stead
me,
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As bring | me to the | sight of | Isa|bella,
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A nov|ice of | this place,| and the fair | sister
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To her / unhap|py broth|er Claud|io?
ISABELLA
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Why her | unhap|py broth|er? Let | me ask,
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The rath|er for | I now | must make | you know
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I am that | Isa|bella,| and his | sister.
LUCIO
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Gentle and | fair: your | brother | kindly | greets
you;
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Not to be | weary | with you;| he's in | prison.
ISABELLA
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Woe | me;| for what? \\
LUCIO
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For that,| which^if | myself | might be | his
judge,
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He should | receive | his pun|ishment,| in
thanks:
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He hath | got his | friend with | child.|
ISABELLA
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Sir,| make me | not your | story.|
LUCIO
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'Tis true;| I would not,| though 'tis | my
famil|iar sin,
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With maids | to seem | the lap|wing, and | to
jest
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Tongue, far*| from heart:| play with | all*
vir|gins so: ??
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I hold | you as a | thing en|skyed, and | sainted,
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By your | renounce|ment, an | immort|al spirit
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And to | be talked | with^in | since|rity,
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As with | a saint. \\
ISABELLA
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You do | blaspheme | the good,| in mock|ing me.
LUCIO
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Do not | believe it:| fewness,| and truth;| 'tis thus,
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Your broth|er, and | his lov|er have | embraced;
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As those | that feed,| grow* full:| as
blos|soming time
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That from | the seed|ness, the / bare fal|low
brings
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To teem|ing foison:| even so | her plent|eous
womb
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Expres|seth his / full tilth,| and hus|bandry.
ISABELLA
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Some^one | with child | by him?| My cousin
| Juliet*?
LUCIO
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Is she your | cousin? \\
ISABELLA
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Adopt|edly,| as schoolmaids change | their
names
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By vain,| though apt | affec|tion.
LUCIO
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She | it is.
ISABELLA
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Oh, let | him mar|ry her.
LUCIO
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This is | the point.
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The duke | is ve|ry strange|ly gone | from hence;
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Bore* ma|ny gent|lemen (my/self be|ing one)
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In hand,| and hope | of ac|tion: but | we do learn,
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By those | that know | the ve|ry nerves | of
state,
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His giv|ings-out,| were of an | infinite |
distance
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From his / true-meant | design:| upon | his
place,
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(And with / full line | of his | author|ity)
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Governs | Lord^Ang|elo;| a man,| whose blood
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Is ve|ry snow-|broth: one*| who nev|er feels
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The want|on stings,| and mo|tions of | the sense;
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But doth | rebate,| and blunt | his na|tural edge
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With prof|its of | the mind:| study,| and fast
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He (to | give^fear | to use,| and lib|erty,
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Which have,| for long | run by | the hid|eous
law,
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As mice,| by li|ons) hath / picked out | an act,
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Under | whose hea|vy sense,| your broth|er's life
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Falls in|to for|feit: he | arrests | him on it,
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And fol|lows close | the rig|or of the / statute
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To make | him an ex|ample:| all hope is gone,
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Unless | you have | the grace,| by your / fair
prayer
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To sof|ten Ang|elo:| and that's | my pith || of
bus|iness
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'Twixt | you, and | your poor | brother.
ISABELLA
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Doth he | so,
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Seek his | life? (di with prev)
LUCIO
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Has cens|ured him | alread|y, \\
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And as I | hear, the | provost | hath a |
warrant
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For his | exe|cution.
ISABELLA
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Alas:| what poor
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Abil|ity's | in me,| to do | him good.
LUCIO
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Assay | the power | you have. \\
ISABELLA
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My power?| Alas,| I doubt.
LUCIO
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Our doubts | are trai||tors
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And make | us lose | the good | we oft | might win,
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By fear|ing to at/tempt: go | to Lord^Ang|elo
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And let | him learn | to know,| when maid|ens
sue
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Men^give | like^gods:| but when | they weep | and
kneel,
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All their | peti|tions, are | as free|ly theirs
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As they | themselves | would owe | them. \\
ISABELLA
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I'll see | what I | can do. \\
LUCIO
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But spee|dily.
ISABELLA
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I will | about | it straight;
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No long|er staying,| but to | give the |
mother
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Notice of | my af|fair: I | humbly | thank you:
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Commend | me to | my broth|er: soon | at night
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I'll send | him cert|ain word | of my | success.
LUCIO
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I take | my leave | of you.
ISABELLA
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Good sir,| adieu.
[Exeunt]