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Measure for Measure

Act II, Scene 3

A room in a prison.
 
[Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost]
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
        ,             ,         ,       ,          ,
      Hail to | you, pro|vost, so | I think | you are.
 
PROVOST
      ,   2       ,          ,             ,           ,
      I am the | provost:| What's your | will, good*| friar?
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
        ,             ,   2    ,          ,       ,
      Bound by | my char|ity, and | my blessed | order,
          ,        ,      ,        ,         x
      I come | to vis|it the | afflict|ed spirits
        ,    2       ,        ,           ,        ,
      Here in the | prison:| do me | the com|mon right
          ,        ,           ,         ,         ,
      To let | me see | them: and | to make | me know
           ,       ,            ,          ,        ,      ,  ->
      The na|ture of | their crimes,| that I | may min||ister
       ,           ,       ,
      To them | accord|ingly.  \\
 
PROVOST
      ,      2       ,           ,          ,           ,
      I would do | more than | that, if | more were | needful.
        ,           T    T   .   Tx    ,           ,
      Look here*| comes one: a gentle|woman | of mine,
           ,        ,         ,               ,    ,
      Who fal|ling in | the flaws | of her / own youth,
             ,         ,        ,         ,          ,
      Hath blist|ered her | report:| she is | with child,
           ,         ,          ,               ,    ,
      And he | that got | it, sent|enced: a / young man,
            ,        ,     ,        ,        ,
      More fit | to do | anoth|er such | offense,
            ,          ,
      Than die | for this.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
            ,         ,
      When must | he die?  (di with prev)
 
PROVOST
         ,        ,        ,
      As I | do think | tomor|row.   \\
      ,            ,      ,           ,       ,
      I have | provid|ed for | you, stay | awhile
           ,           ,       ,
      And you | shall be | conduc|ted.  \\
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
          ,           ,     ,     2       ,         ,
      Repent | you (fair | one) of the | sin you | carry?
 
JULIET
         ,         ,          ,           ,       ,
      I do;| and bear | the shame | most pa|tiently.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
             ,          ,     ,       2     ,           ,
      I'll teach | you how | you shall ar|raign your | conscience
           ,          ,     ,         ,        ,
      And try | your pen|itence,| if it | be sound,
          ,      ,        ,
      Or hol|lowly | put^on.
 
JULIET
                                    ,       ,
                             I'll glad|ly learn.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
        ,             ,            ,
      Love you | the man | that wronged | you?  \\
 
JULIET
       ,            ,         ,               ,     ,
      Yes, as | I love | the wom|an that / wronged him.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
           ,         ,            ,        ,        ,
      So then | it seems | your most | offense|ful act
           ,   2  ,       ,
      Was mu|tually | commit|ted.
 
JULIET
                                  ,   2  ,
                                 Mut|ually.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
                   ,   ,         ,   2    ,          ,
      Then was / your sin | of heav|ier kind | than his.
 
JULIET
         ,          x      ,       ,        ,
      I do | confess it,| and re|pent it |(father).
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
             ,           ,      2      ,         ,       ,
      'Tis meet | so (daught|er) but lest | you do | repent
           ,         ,            ,           ,          ,
      As that | the sin | hath brought | you to | this shame,
             ,     2    ,         ,            ,            x
      Which sor|row is al|ways towards | ourselves,| not heaven,
       ,         ,          T    T      Tx      2       x
      Showing | we would | not spare heaven,| as we love it,
           ,        ,          ,
      But as | we stand | in fear.  \\
 
JULIET
         ,       ,         ,       ,       x
      I do | repent | me, as | it is | an evil,
            ,          ,           ,
      And take | the shame | with joy.
 
DUKE VINCENTIO
                                       ___     __
                                      There | rest:
        ,    ,         2      ,           ,      ,
      Your part/ner (as I | hear) must | die to|morrow,
          ,       ,       ,         ,        ,        ->
      And I | am go|ing with | instruc|tion to || him:
        ,      ,              ,    ,    ,
      Grace | go with | you, Be|nedi|cite.
 
[Exit]
 
JULIET
            ,       ,        ,      ,   2     ,
      Must^die | tomor|row? Oh | injur|ious love
          2     ,      ,       ,            ,      ,
      That respites | me a | life, whose | very | comfort
           ,        ,      ,      2
      Is still | a dy|ing hor|ror.
 
PROVOST
                                         ,   2    ,
                                   'Tis pi|ty of him.
 
[Exeunt]

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