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[Enter Provost and a Servant]
SERVANT
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He's hear|ing of | a cause;| he will / come
straight,
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I'll tell | him of | you.
PROVOST
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Pray | you do;| I'll know
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His pleas|ure, may|be he will | relent;| alas
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He hath | but as | offend|ed in | a dream,
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All sects,| all ag|es smack | of this vice,| and he
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To die | for it?
[Enter ANGELO]
ANGELO
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Now, what's the | matter | Provost?
PROVOST
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Is it your | will Claud/io shall | die to|morrow?
ANGELO
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Did not | I tell | thee yea?| Hadst^thou | not order?
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Why dost | thou ask | again?
PROVOST
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Lest^I | might be | too rash: (tri
with prev)
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Under | your good | correc|tion, I | have seen
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When aft|er ex|ecu|tion, judg|ment hath
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Repent|ed ore | his doom.
ANGELO
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Go to;| let that | be mine, (tri with
prev)
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Do you | your^of|fice, or | give^up | your place,
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And you | shall well | be spared.
PROVOST
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I crave | your hon|or's pardon: (tri
with prev)
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What shall be | done sir,| with the groan|ing Jul|iet?
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,
She's ve|ry near | her hour.
ANGELO
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Dispose | of her
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To some / more fit|ter place;| and that | with
speed.
[Enter Servant]
SERVANT
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Here is | the sis|ter of | the man | condemned,
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Desires | access | to you.
ANGELO
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Hath he a | sister?
PROVOST
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Aye my | good* lord,| a ve|ry vir|tuous maid,
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And to | be short|ly of | a sis|terhood,
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If not | alrea|dy.
ANGELO
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Well:| let her | be admit||ted,
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See | you the forn|icat|ress be | removed,
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Let her | have^need|ful, but / not lav|ish means,
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There shall | be ord|er for it.
[Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO]
PROVOST
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Save your | honor.
ANGELO
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Stay a little while:| you're wel|come: what's
| your
will?
ISABELLA
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I am a | woeful | suitor | to your | honor,
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Please but | your hon|or hear | me.
\\
ANGELO
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Well:| what's your | suit. \\
ISABELLA
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There^is | a vice | that most | I do | abhor,
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And most | desire | should meet | the blow of | justice;
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For which | I would | not plead,| but that | I
must,
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For which | I must | not plead,| but that | I am
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At war | 'twixt will, and will | not.
ANGELO
T . Tx
Well: the matter?
ISABELLA
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I have | a broth|er is | condemned | to die:
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I do | beseech | you let | it be | his fault,
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And not | my broth|er. \\
PROVOST
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Heaven | give thee | moving | graces.|
ANGELO
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Condemn | the fault,| and not | the act|or of it,
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Why eve|ry fault's | condemned | ere it | be done:
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Mine were the | very | cipher | of a | function
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To fine | the faults,| whose fine | stands in |
record,
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And let | go by the | actor:
ISABELLA
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O just,| but se/vere law: (tri with
prev)
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Tx T x
I had a | brother | then; heaven keep your honor.
??
LUCIO
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Give it not | ore so*:| to him a|gain, en|treat
him,
T T . T
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Kneel down before | him, hang | upon | his
gown,
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You are / too cold:| if you | should need | a
pin,
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T . T
x
You could | not with | more tame a tongue |
desire it:
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To him,| I say.|
ISABELLA
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Must he | needs | die?
ANGELO
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Maiden,| no rem|edy. (trimeter with
prev two)
ISABELLA
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Yes: I do | think that | you might | pardon him,
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And neith|er heaven,| nor man | grieve at the |
mercy.
ANGELO
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I will / not do it.
ISABELLA
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But can | you if | you would?
ANGELO
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Look what | I will | not, that | I can|not do.
ISABELLA
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But might | you do it | and do | the world | no^wrong
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If so | your heart | were touched | with that |
remorse,
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As mine is | to him?
ANGELO
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He's sent|enced, 'tis |
too* late.
LUCIO
You are too cold.
ISABELLA
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Too late?| Why* no:| I that | do speak | a word
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May call it | again:| Well, be|lieve this
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No || cere|mony | that to / great ones | longs,
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Not the / king's crown;| nor the | deput|ed sword,
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The marsh|al's trunch|eon, nor | the judge|'s
robe
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Become | them with / one half | so good | a grace
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As mer|cy does:| if he | had been as you,| and
you as he, ??
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You would | have slipped | like^him,| but he |
like^you
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Would not | have been | so stern.
ANGELO
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Pray you | be gone.
ISABELLA
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I would | to heaven | I had | your pot|ency,
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And you | were Is|abel:| should it then | be
thus?
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No: I | would tell | what twere | to be | a
judge,
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And what | a pris|oner.
LUCIO
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Aye* touch | him: there's | the vein.
ANGELO
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Your broth|er is | a for|feit of | the law,
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And you | but waste | your words.
ISABELLA
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Alas,| alas:
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Why all | the souls | that were,| were for|feit once,
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And he | that might | the vant|age best | have
took,
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Found^out | the rem|edy:| how would / you be,
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If he,| which is | the top | of judg|ment, should
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But judge | you, as | you are?| Oh, think | on
that,
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And mer|cy then | will breathe | within | your lips
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Like man | new-made.
ANGELO
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Be | you content,|(fair* maid)
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It is the | law, not | I, con|demn your |
brother,
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Were he | my kins|man, broth|er, or | my son,
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It should be | thus with him:| he must | die to|morrow.
ISABELLA
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Tomor|row? Oh,| that's sudden,
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spare him,| spare
him:
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He's not | prepared | for death;| even | for our
| kitchens
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We kill | the fowl | of seas|on: shall | we serve
| heaven (hex with prev)
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With less | respect | than we | do min|ister
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To our gross | selves? Good, good | my lord,| bethink ||
you;
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Who | is it that | hath died | for this |
offense?
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There's ma|ny have | commit|ted it.
LUCIO
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Aye,| well* said.
ANGELO
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The law | hath not | been dead,| though it | hath
slept.
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Those^ma|ny had | not dared | to do | that
evil
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If the | first, that | did the | edict | infringe
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Had ans|wered for | his deed.| Now 'tis | awake,
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Takes^note | of what | is done,| and like | a prophet
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Looks in a | glass that | shows what | future |
evils
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Either now,| or by | remiss|ness, new-|conceived,
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And so | in pro|gress to | be hatched,| and born,
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Are now | to have | no suc|cessive | degrees,
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But here | they live | to end.
ISABELLA
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Yet show | some pi||ty.
ANGELO
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I show | it most | of all,| when I show | justice;
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For then | I pi|ty those | I do | not know,
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Which a | dismissed | offense,| would aft|er gall
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And do | him right,| that ans|wering | one foul
wrong
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Lives^not | to act | anoth|er. Be | satis|fied;
(hex with prev)
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Your broth|er dies | tomor|row; be | content.
ISABELLA
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2 ,
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So you | must be the | first that | gives this
| sentence,
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And he,| that suf|fers: Oh,| it is ex|cellent
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To have | a gi|ant's strength:| but it is |
tyrannous
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To use | it like | a gi|ant. \\
LUCIO
T T
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That's well said.
ISABELLA
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Could great men | thunder
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As Jove | himself | does, Jove | would nere
| be quiet,
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For eve|ry pelt|ing pet|ty of|ficer
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Would use | his heaven | for thund|er; \\
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Nothing | but thund|er: mer|ciful heaven,|
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Thou rath|er with | thy sharp | and sulph|urous
bolt
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Splitst the | unwedge|able | and gnarl|ed oak,
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Than the / soft myrt|le: but | man, proud man,
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Drest in | a lit|tle brief | author|ity,
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Most^ig|norant | of what | he's most | assured,
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(His glas|sy es|sence) like | an ang|ry ape
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Plays^such | fantas|tic tricks | before high
heaven,
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As make | the ang|els weep;| who with | our
spleens,
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Would all | themselves | laugh mor/tal. |
LUCIO
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Oh*, to | him, to | him wench:| He will | relent,
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He's com|ing: I | perceive it.
PROVOST
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Pray heaven | she win || him.
ISABELLA
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We can|not weigh | our broth|er with | ourself,
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Great* men | may* jest | with saints:| 'tis wit | in
them, ??
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But in the | less foul prof|ana|tion.
LUCIO
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Thou'rt^in | the right |(girl)| more of | that.
ISABELLA
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That in | the cap|tain's but | a choler|ic word,
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Which in | the sol|dier is / flat blas|phemy.
LUCIO
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Art a|vised of | that? More on it.|
ANGELO
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Why do | you put | these say|ings u/pon me?
ISABELLA
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Because | author|ity,| though it err |like
oth||ers,
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Hath | yet a kind | of med|icine in | itself
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That skins | the vice | of the top;| go to your |
bosom,
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Knock there, and ask | your heart | what it |
doth know
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That's like | my broth|er's fault:| if it | confess
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A nat|ural guilt|iness,| such as | is his,
T . T T , ,
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Let it not sound | a thought | upon | your
tongue
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Against | my broth|er's life.
ANGELO
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She speaks,| and 'tis | such^sense (tri with prev)
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That my / sense breeds | with it;| fare you | well.
ISABELLA
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Gentle | my lord,| turn back. \\
ANGELO
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I will be|think me:| come a|gain to|morrow.
ISABELLA
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Hark, how | I'll bribe | you: good | my lord
| turn^back.
ANGELO
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How?| Bribe | me? \\
ISABELLA
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Aye, with | such^gifts | that heaven | shall share | with
you.
LUCIO
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T T T
You had | marred all else. \\
ISABELLA
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Not with | fond shek/els of | the test|ed gold,
,
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Or stones,| whose^rate | are eith|er rich,| or poor
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As fan|cy val|ues them:| but with / true prayers,
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That shall | be up | at heaven,| and ent|er there
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Ere sun|rise: pray/ers from | preserv|ed souls,
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From fast|ing maids,| whose minds | are ded|icate
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To noth|ing tem|poral.
ANGELO
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Well:| come to | me to||morrow.
LUCIO
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oo
Go to:| 'tis well;| away.|
ISABELLA
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Heaven | keep your | honor | safe.
ANGELO
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A|men.
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For I am | that way*| going | to
temp|tation,
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Where pray|ers cross.
ISABELLA
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At what | hour to|morrow,
,
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Shall^I | attend | your lord|ship? \\
ANGELO
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T T
At a|ny time |'fore noon.
ISABELLA
T
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Save | your honor.
[Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost]
ANGELO
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oo
From thee:| even | from thy | virtue.|
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What's^this? || What's^this?| Is this / her
fault,| or mine?
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The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most? Ha?
????
,
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Not she:| nor doth | she tempt:| but it | is I,
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That, ly/ing by | the vi|olet in | the sun,
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Do as | the car|rion does,| not as | the flower,
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Corrupt | with vir|tuous seas|on: Can | it be,
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That mod|esty | may more | betray | our sense
,
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Than wom|an's light|ness? Hav|ing waste | ground
e||nough,
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Shall / we de|sire to | raze the | sanctuary
, x
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T
And pitch | our evils | there? Oh*| fie, fie, fie:
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What dost | thou? Or | what art | thou Ang|elo?
,
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Dost thou | desire | her foul|ly, for | those things
, ,
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That make | her good?| Oh let | her broth|er
live:
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Thieves for | their rob|bery have | author|ity,
,
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2 ,
When jud|ges steal | themselves:| What, do I |
love her,
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That I | desire | to hear | her speak | again?
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And feast | upon | her eyes?| What is it I | dream on?
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O cun|ning en|emy,| that to catch | a saint,
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With saints | dost bait | thy hook:|
Most^dang|erous
,
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Is that | tempta|tion, that | doth goad | us on
,
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To sin,| in lov|ing vir|tue: never | could the
|| strumpet,
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With all | her doub|le vig|or, art,|| and na|ture
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Once^stir | my temp|er: but | this vir||tuous
maid
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Subdues | me quite:| Ever | till now
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When men | were fond,| I smiled,| and wond|ered
how.
[Exit]