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A room in ANGELO's house.
[Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS]
ESCALUS
Every letter he hath writ, hath disvouched other.
ANGELO
In most uneven and distracted manner, his actions show much like to madness,
pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted: and why meet him at the gates and
redeliver our authorities there?
ESCALUS
I guess not.
ANGELO
And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any
crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the
street?
ESCALUS
He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to
deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand
against us.
ANGELO
Well: I beseech you let it be proclaimed betimes in the morn. I'll call you
at your house: give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.
ESCALUS
I shall sir: Fare you well.
ANGELO
Good night.
[Exit ESCALUS]
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This deed | unshapes | me quite,| makes me un|pregnant
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And dull | to all | procee|dings. A de/flowered
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And by | an em|inent bo|dy, that | enforced
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The law | against | it? But | that her tend|er
shame
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Will not | proclaim | against | her maid|en loss,
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How might she | tongue me?| Yet reas|on dares |
her no,
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For my | author|ity bears | of a cred|ent bulk,
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That no | partic|ular scand|al once | can touch
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But it con|founds the | breather.| He should |
have lived,
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Save that | rio|tous youth | with dang|erous sense
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Might in | the times | to come | have tane |
revenge
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By so | receiv|ing a / dishon|ored life
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With rans|om of / such shame:| Would yet | he had
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Alack,| when once | our grace | we have | forgot,
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Nothing | goes right,| we would,| and we | would not.
[Exit]