Array ( [TITLE] => Measure for Measure [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => VINCENTIO, the Duke. [1] => ANGELO, Deputy. [2] => ESCALUS, an ancient Lord. [3] => CLAUDIO, a young gentleman. [4] => LUCIO, a fantastic. [5] => Two other gentlemen. [6] => Provost. [7] => A Justice. [8] => VARRIUS [9] => ELBOW, a simple constable. [10] => FROTH, a foolish gentleman. [11] => POMPEY, servant to Mistress Overdone. [12] => ABHORSON, an executioner. [13] => BARNARDINE, a dissolute prisoner. [14] => ISABELLA, sister to Claudio. [15] => MARIANA, betrothed to Angelo. [16] => JULIET, beloved of Claudio. [17] => FRANCISCA, a nun. [18] => MISTRESS OVERDONE, a bawd. [19] => Lords, Officers, Citizens, Boy, and Attendant. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => PETER [1] => THOMAS ) [GRPDESCR] => two friars. ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Vienna. [PLAYSUBT] => MEASURE FOR MEASURE [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. An apartment in the DUKE'S palace. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants [1] => Enter ANGELO [2] => Exit [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Escalus. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => My lord. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of government the properties to unfold, [1] => Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse; [2] => Since I am put to know that your own science [3] => Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice [4] => My strength can give you: then no more remains, [5] => But that to your sufficiency, as your Worth is able, [6] => And let them work. The nature of our people, [7] => Our city's institutions, and the terms [8] => For common justice, you're as pregnant in [9] => As art and practise hath enriched any [10] => That we remember. There is our commission, [11] => From which we would not have you warp. Call hither, [12] => I say, bid come before us Angelo. [13] => What figure of us think you he will bear? [14] => For you must know, we have with special soul [15] => Elected him our absence to supply, [16] => Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love, [17] => And given his deputation all the organs [18] => Of our own power: what think you of it? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit an Attendant ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If any in Vienna be of worth [1] => To undergo such ample grace and honour, [2] => It is Lord Angelo. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Look where he comes. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Always obedient to your grace's will, [1] => I come to know your pleasure. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Angelo, [1] => There is a kind of character in thy life, [2] => That to the observer doth thy history [3] => Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings [4] => Are not thine own so proper as to waste [5] => Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. [6] => Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, [7] => Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues [8] => Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike [9] => As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd [10] => But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends [11] => The smallest scruple of her excellence [12] => But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines [13] => Herself the glory of a creditor, [14] => Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech [15] => To one that can my part in him advertise; [16] => Hold therefore, Angelo:-- [17] => In our remove be thou at full ourself; [18] => Mortality and mercy in Vienna [19] => Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus, [20] => Though first in question, is thy secondary. [21] => Take thy commission. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, good my lord, [1] => Let there be some more test made of my metal, [2] => Before so noble and so great a figure [3] => Be stamp'd upon it. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No more evasion: [1] => We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice [2] => Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours. [3] => Our haste from hence is of so quick condition [4] => That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd [5] => Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, [6] => As time and our concernings shall importune, [7] => How it goes with us, and do look to know [8] => What doth befall you here. So, fare you well; [9] => To the hopeful execution do I leave you [10] => Of your commissions. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet give leave, my lord, [1] => That we may bring you something on the way. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My haste may not admit it; [1] => Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do [2] => With any scruple; your scope is as mine own [3] => So to enforce or qualify the laws [4] => As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand: [5] => I'll privily away. I love the people, [6] => But do not like to stage me to their eyes: [7] => Through it do well, I do not relish well [8] => Their loud applause and Aves vehement; [9] => Nor do I think the man of safe discretion [10] => That does affect it. Once more, fare you well. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => The heavens give safety to your purposes! ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Lead forth and bring you back in happiness! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE [LINE] => I thank you. Fare you well. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave [1] => To have free speech with you; and it concerns me [2] => To look into the bottom of my place: [3] => A power I have, but of what strength and nature [4] => I am not yet instructed. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together, [1] => And we may soon our satisfaction have [2] => Touching that point. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I'll wait upon your honour. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A Street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen [1] => Enter MISTRESS OVERDONE [2] => Exeunt LUCIO and Gentlemen [3] => Exit Act [4] => Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers [5] => Re-enter LUCIO and two Gentlemen [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the duke with the other dukes come not to [1] => composition with the King of Hungary, why then all [2] => the dukes fall upon the king. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of [1] => Hungary's! ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Amen. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that [1] => went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped [2] => one out of the table. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => 'Thou shalt not steal'? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Ay, that he razed. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and [1] => all the rest from their functions: they put forth [2] => to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in [3] => the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition [4] => well that prays for peace. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => I never heard any soldier dislike it. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where [1] => grace was said. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => No? a dozen times at least. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => What, in metre? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => In any proportion or in any language. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => I think, or in any religion. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all [1] => controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a [2] => wicked villain, despite of all grace. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Well, there went but a pair of shears between us. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I grant; as there may between the lists and the [1] => velvet. Thou art the list. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt [1] => a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief [2] => be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou [3] => art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak [4] => feelingly now? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful [1] => feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own [2] => confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I [3] => live, forget to drink after thee. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => I think I have done myself wrong, have I not? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Behold, behold. where Madam Mitigation comes! I [1] => have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to-- ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => To what, I pray? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Judge. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => To three thousand dolours a year. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Ay, and more. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => A French crown more. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou [1] => art full of error; I am sound. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, not as one would say, healthy; but so sound as [1] => things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; [2] => impiety has made a feast of thee. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, well; there's one yonder arrested and carried [1] => to prison was worth five thousand of you all. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Who's that, I pray thee? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => Claudio to prison? 'tis not so. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, but I know 'tis so: I saw him arrested, saw [1] => him carried away; and, which is more, within these [2] => three days his head to be chopped off. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so. [1] => Art thou sure of this? ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am too sure of it: and it is for getting Madam [1] => Julietta with child. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two [1] => hours since, and he was ever precise in [2] => promise-keeping. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Gentleman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Besides, you know, it draws something near to the [1] => speech we had to such a purpose. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Gentleman [LINE] => But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Away! let's go learn the truth of it. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what [1] => with the gallows and what with poverty, I am [2] => custom-shrunk. [3] => How now! what's the news with you? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter POMPEY ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Yonder man is carried to prison. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Well; what has he done? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => A woman. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => But what's his offence? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Groping for trouts in a peculiar river. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => What, is there a maid with child by him? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have [1] => not heard of the proclamation, have you? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => What proclamation, man? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => And what shall become of those in the city? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too, [1] => but that a wise burgher put in for them. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be [1] => pulled down? ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => To the ground, mistress. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth! [1] => What shall become of me? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come; fear you not: good counsellors lack no [1] => clients: though you change your place, you need not [2] => change your trade; I'll be your tapster still. [3] => Courage! there will be pity taken on you: you that [4] => have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you [5] => will be considered. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to [1] => prison; and there's Madam Juliet. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world? [1] => Bear me to prison, where I am committed. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do it not in evil disposition, [1] => But from Lord Angelo by special charge. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus can the demigod Authority [1] => Make us pay down for our offence by weight [2] => The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will; [3] => On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: [1] => As surfeit is the father of much fast, [2] => So every scope by the immoderate use [3] => Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue, [4] => Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, [5] => A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would [1] => send for certain of my creditors: and yet, to say [2] => the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom [3] => as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy [4] => offence, Claudio? ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => What but to speak of would offend again. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => What, is't murder? ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => No. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Lechery? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Call it so. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Away, sir! you must go. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A hundred, if they'll do you any good. [1] => Is lechery so look'd after? ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract [1] => I got possession of Julietta's bed: [2] => You know the lady; she is fast my wife, [3] => Save that we do the denunciation lack [4] => Of outward order: this we came not to, [5] => Only for propagation of a dower [6] => Remaining in the coffer of her friends, [7] => From whom we thought it meet to hide our love [8] => Till time had made them for us. But it chances [9] => The stealth of our most mutual entertainment [10] => With character too gross is writ on Juliet. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => With child, perhaps? ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unhappily, even so. [1] => And the new deputy now for the duke-- [2] => Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness, [3] => Or whether that the body public be [4] => A horse whereon the governor doth ride, [5] => Who, newly in the seat, that it may know [6] => He can command, lets it straight feel the spur; [7] => Whether the tyranny be in his place, [8] => Or in his emmence that fills it up, [9] => I stagger in:--but this new governor [10] => Awakes me all the enrolled penalties [11] => Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall [12] => So long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round [13] => And none of them been worn; and, for a name, [14] => Now puts the drowsy and neglected act [15] => Freshly on me: 'tis surely for a name. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on [1] => thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, [2] => may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to [3] => him. ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have done so, but he's not to be found. [1] => I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service: [2] => This day my sister should the cloister enter [3] => And there receive her approbation: [4] => Acquaint her with the danger of my state: [5] => Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends [6] => To the strict deputy; bid herself assay him: [7] => I have great hope in that; for in her youth [8] => There is a prone and speechless dialect, [9] => Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art [10] => When she will play with reason and discourse, [11] => And well she can persuade. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the [1] => like, which else would stand under grievous [2] => imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I [3] => would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a [4] => game of tick-tack. I'll to her. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I thank you, good friend Lucio. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Within two hours. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Come, officer, away! ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A monastery. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO and FRIAR THOMAS [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, holy father; throw away that thought; [1] => Believe not that the dribbling dart of love [2] => Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee [3] => To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose [4] => More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends [5] => Of burning youth. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR THOMAS [LINE] => May your grace speak of it? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My holy sir, none better knows than you [1] => How I have ever loved the life removed [2] => And held in idle price to haunt assemblies [3] => Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps. [4] => I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo, [5] => A man of stricture and firm abstinence, [6] => My absolute power and place here in Vienna, [7] => And he supposes me travell'd to Poland; [8] => For so I have strew'd it in the common ear, [9] => And so it is received. Now, pious sir, [10] => You will demand of me why I do this? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR THOMAS [LINE] => Gladly, my lord. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have strict statutes and most biting laws. [1] => The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, [2] => Which for this nineteen years we have let slip; [3] => Even like an o'ergrown lion in a cave, [4] => That goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers, [5] => Having bound up the threatening twigs of birch, [6] => Only to stick it in their children's sight [7] => For terror, not to use, in time the rod [8] => Becomes more mock'd than fear'd; so our decrees, [9] => Dead to infliction, to themselves are dead; [10] => And liberty plucks justice by the nose; [11] => The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart [12] => Goes all decorum. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR THOMAS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It rested in your grace [1] => To unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased: [2] => And it in you more dreadful would have seem'd [3] => Than in Lord Angelo. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do fear, too dreadful: [1] => Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope, [2] => 'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them [3] => For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done, [4] => When evil deeds have their permissive pass [5] => And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father, [6] => I have on Angelo imposed the office; [7] => Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home, [8] => And yet my nature never in the fight [9] => To do in slander. And to behold his sway, [10] => I will, as 'twere a brother of your order, [11] => Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee, [12] => Supply me with the habit and instruct me [13] => How I may formally in person bear me [14] => Like a true friar. More reasons for this action [15] => At our more leisure shall I render you; [16] => Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise; [17] => Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses [18] => That his blood flows, or that his appetite [19] => Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see, [20] => If power change purpose, what our seemers be. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. A nunnery. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA [1] => Exit [2] => Enter LUCIO [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => And have you nuns no farther privileges? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRANCISCA [LINE] => Are not these large enough? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more; [1] => But rather wishing a more strict restraint [2] => Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Who's that which calls? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRANCISCA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella, [1] => Turn you the key, and know his business of him; [2] => You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn. [3] => When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men [4] => But in the presence of the prioress: [5] => Then, if you speak, you must not show your face, [6] => Or, if you show your face, you must not speak. [7] => He calls again; I pray you, answer him. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses [1] => Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me [2] => As bring me to the sight of Isabella, [3] => A novice of this place and the fair sister [4] => To her unhappy brother Claudio? ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask, [1] => The rather for I now must make you know [2] => I am that Isabella and his sister. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you: [1] => Not to be weary with you, he's in prison. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Woe me! for what? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For that which, if myself might be his judge, [1] => He should receive his punishment in thanks: [2] => He hath got his friend with child. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Sir, make me not your story. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is true. [1] => I would not--though 'tis my familiar sin [2] => With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest, [3] => Tongue far from heart--play with all virgins so: [4] => I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted. [5] => By your renouncement an immortal spirit, [6] => And to be talk'd with in sincerity, [7] => As with a saint. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus: [1] => Your brother and his lover have embraced: [2] => As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time [3] => That from the seedness the bare fallow brings [4] => To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb [5] => Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Some one with child by him? My cousin Juliet? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Is she your cousin? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Adoptedly; as school-maids change their names [1] => By vain though apt affection. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => She it is. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => O, let him marry her. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the point. [1] => The duke is very strangely gone from hence; [2] => Bore many gentlemen, myself being one, [3] => In hand and hope of action: but we do learn [4] => By those that know the very nerves of state, [5] => His givings-out were of an infinite distance [6] => From his true-meant design. Upon his place, [7] => And with full line of his authority, [8] => Governs Lord Angelo; a man whose blood [9] => Is very snow-broth; one who never feels [10] => The wanton stings and motions of the sense, [11] => But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge [12] => With profits of the mind, study and fast. [13] => He--to give fear to use and liberty, [14] => Which have for long run by the hideous law, [15] => As mice by lions--hath pick'd out an act, [16] => Under whose heavy sense your brother's life [17] => Falls into forfeit: he arrests him on it; [18] => And follows close the rigour of the statute, [19] => To make him an example. All hope is gone, [20] => Unless you have the grace by your fair prayer [21] => To soften Angelo: and that's my pith of business [22] => 'Twixt you and your poor brother. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Doth he so seek his life? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Has censured him [1] => Already; and, as I hear, the provost hath [2] => A warrant for his execution. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas! what poor ability's in me [1] => To do him good? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Assay the power you have. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => My power? Alas, I doubt-- ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Our doubts are traitors [1] => And make us lose the good we oft might win [2] => By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo, [3] => And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, [4] => Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel, [5] => All their petitions are as freely theirs [6] => As they themselves would owe them. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I'll see what I can do. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => But speedily. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will about it straight; [1] => No longer staying but to give the mother [2] => Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you: [3] => Commend me to my brother: soon at night [4] => I'll send him certain word of my success. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => I take my leave of you. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Good sir, adieu. ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A hall In ANGELO's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, and a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants, behind [1] => Exit Provost [2] => Enter ELBOW, and Officers with FROTH and POMPEY [3] => Exit [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We must not make a scarecrow of the law, [1] => Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, [2] => And let it keep one shape, till custom make it [3] => Their perch and not their terror. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, but yet [1] => Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, [2] => Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman [3] => Whom I would save, had a most noble father! [4] => Let but your honour know, [5] => Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue, [6] => That, in the working of your own affections, [7] => Had time cohered with place or place with wishing, [8] => Or that the resolute acting of your blood [9] => Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose, [10] => Whether you had not sometime in your life [11] => Err'd in this point which now you censure him, [12] => And pull'd the law upon you. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, [1] => Another thing to fall. I not deny, [2] => The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, [3] => May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two [4] => Guiltier than him they try. What's open made to justice, [5] => That justice seizes: what know the laws [6] => That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant, [7] => The jewel that we find, we stoop and take't [8] => Because we see it; but what we do not see [9] => We tread upon, and never think of it. [10] => You may not so extenuate his offence [11] => For I have had such faults; but rather tell me, [12] => When I, that censure him, do so offend, [13] => Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, [14] => And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Be it as your wisdom will. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Where is the provost? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Here, if it like your honour. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => See that Claudio [1] => Be executed by nine to-morrow morning: [2] => Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared; [3] => For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: [2] => Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: [3] => And some condemned for a fault alone. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, bring them away: if these be good people in [1] => a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in [2] => common houses, I know no law: bring them away. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => How now, sir! What's your name? and what's the matter? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's [1] => constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon [2] => justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good [3] => honour two notorious benefactors. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they? are [1] => they not malefactors? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it? please your honour, I know not well what they [1] => are: but precise villains they are, that I am sure [2] => of; and void of all profanation in the world that [3] => good Christians ought to have. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => This comes off well; here's a wise officer. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your [1] => name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow? ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => What are you, sir? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He, sir! a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that [1] => serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they [2] => say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she [3] => professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => How know you that? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => My wife, sir, whom I detest before heaven and your honour,-- ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => How? thy wife? ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,-- ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Dost thou detest her therefore? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as [1] => she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's house, [2] => it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => How dost thou know that, constable? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman [1] => cardinally given, might have been accused in [2] => fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => By the woman's means? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, sir, by Mistress Overdone's means: but as she [1] => spit in his face, so she defied him. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Sir, if it please your honour, this is not so. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable [1] => man; prove it. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Do you hear how he misplaces? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, she came in great with child; and longing, [1] => saving your honour's reverence, for stewed prunes; [2] => sir, we had but two in the house, which at that very [3] => distant time stood, as it were, in a fruit-dish, a [4] => dish of some three-pence; your honours have seen [5] => such dishes; they are not China dishes, but very [6] => good dishes,-- ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Go to, go to: no matter for the dish, sir. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in [1] => the right: but to the point. As I say, this [2] => Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and [3] => being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for [4] => prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said, [5] => Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the [6] => rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very [7] => honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could [8] => not give you three-pence again. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => No, indeed. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very well: you being then, if you be remembered, [1] => cracking the stones of the foresaid prunes,-- ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => Ay, so I did indeed. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be [1] => remembered, that such a one and such a one were past [2] => cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very [3] => good diet, as I told you,-- ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => All this is true. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Why, very well, then,-- ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, you are a tedious fool: to the purpose. What [1] => was done to Elbow's wife, that he hath cause to [2] => complain of? Come me to what was done to her. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Sir, your honour cannot come to that yet. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => No, sir, nor I mean it not. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's [1] => leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth [2] => here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose [3] => father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas, [4] => Master Froth? ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => All-hallond eve. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir, [1] => sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in [2] => the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight [3] => to sit, have you not? ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => I have so; because it is an open room and good for winter. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This will last out a night in Russia, [1] => When nights are longest there: I'll take my leave. [2] => And leave you to the hearing of the cause; [3] => Hoping you'll find good cause to whip them all. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship. [1] => Now, sir, come on: what was done to Elbow's wife, once more? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit ANGELO ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Once, sir? there was nothing done to her once. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => I beseech you, sir, ask him what this man did to my wife. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => I beseech your honour, ask me. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Well, sir; what did this gentleman to her? ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I beseech you, sir, look in this gentleman's face. [1] => Good Master Froth, look upon his honour; 'tis for a [2] => good purpose. Doth your honour mark his face? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Ay, sir, very well. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Nay; I beseech you, mark it well. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Well, I do so. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Doth your honour see any harm in his face? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Why, no. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst [1] => thing about him. Good, then; if his face be the [2] => worst thing about him, how could Master Froth do the [3] => constable's wife any harm? I would know that of [4] => your honour. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => He's in the right. Constable, what say you to it? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => First, an it like you, the house is a respected [1] => house; next, this is a respected fellow; and his [2] => mistress is a respected woman. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By this hand, sir, his wife is a more respected [1] => person than any of us all. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Varlet, thou liest; thou liest, wicked varlet! the [1] => time has yet to come that she was ever respected [2] => with man, woman, or child. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Sir, she was respected with him before he married with her. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is [1] => this true? ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O thou caitiff! O thou varlet! O thou wicked [1] => Hannibal! I respected with her before I was married [2] => to her! If ever I was respected with her, or she [3] => with me, let not your worship think me the poor [4] => duke's officer. Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or [5] => I'll have mine action of battery on thee. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your [1] => action of slander too. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't [1] => your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff? ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, officer, because he hath some offences in him [1] => that thou wouldst discover if thou couldst, let him [2] => continue in his courses till thou knowest what they [3] => are. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, I thank your worship for it. Thou seest, thou [1] => wicked varlet, now, what's come upon thee: thou art [2] => to continue now, thou varlet; thou art to continue. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Where were you born, friend? ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => Here in Vienna, sir. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Are you of fourscore pounds a year? ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => Yes, an't please you, sir. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => So. What trade are you of, sir? ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPHEY [LINE] => Tapster; a poor widow's tapster. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Your mistress' name? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPHEY [LINE] => Mistress Overdone. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Hath she had any more than one husband? ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Nine, sir; Overdone by the last. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nine! Come hither to me, Master Froth. Master [1] => Froth, I would not have you acquainted with [2] => tapsters: they will draw you, Master Froth, and you [3] => will hang them. Get you gone, and let me hear no [4] => more of you. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FROTH [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank your worship. For mine own part, I never [1] => come into any room in a tap-house, but I am drawn [2] => in. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, no more of it, Master Froth: farewell. [1] => Come you hither to me, Master tapster. What's your [2] => name, Master tapster? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit FROTH ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Pompey. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => What else? ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Bum, sir. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you; [1] => so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the [2] => Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey, [3] => howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you [4] => not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live. ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How would you live, Pompey? by being a bawd? What [1] => do you think of the trade, Pompey? is it a lawful trade? ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => If the law would allow it, sir. ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall [1] => not be allowed in Vienna. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Does your worship mean to geld and splay all the [1] => youth of the city? ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => No, Pompey. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, sir, in my poor opinion, they will to't then. [1] => If your worship will take order for the drabs and [2] => the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There are pretty orders beginning, I can tell you: [1] => it is but heading and hanging. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you head and hang all that offend that way but [1] => for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a [2] => commission for more heads: if this law hold in [3] => Vienna ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it [4] => after three-pence a bay: if you live to see this [5] => come to pass, say Pompey told you so. ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your [1] => prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find [2] => you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; [3] => no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey, [4] => I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd [5] => Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall [6] => have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well. ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank your worship for your good counsel: [1] => but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall [2] => better determine. [3] => Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade: [4] => The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade. ) [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master [1] => constable. How long have you been in this place of constable? ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Seven year and a half, sir. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thought, by your readiness in the office, you had [1] => continued in it some time. You say, seven years together? ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => And a half, sir. ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, it hath been great pains to you. They do you [1] => wrong to put you so oft upon 't: are there not men [2] => in your ward sufficient to serve it? ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, sir, few of any wit in such matters: as they [1] => are chosen, they are glad to choose me for them; I [2] => do it for some piece of money, and go through with [3] => all. ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look you bring me in the names of some six or seven, [1] => the most sufficient of your parish. ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => To your worship's house, sir? ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To my house. Fare you well. [1] => What's o'clock, think you? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit ELBOW ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Justice [LINE] => Eleven, sir. ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I pray you home to dinner with me. ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Justice [LINE] => I humbly thank you. ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It grieves me for the death of Claudio; [1] => But there's no remedy. ) ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Justice [LINE] => Lord Angelo is severe. ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is but needful: [1] => Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; [2] => Pardon is still the nurse of second woe: [3] => But yet,--poor Claudio! There is no remedy. [4] => Come, sir. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. Another room in the same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Provost and a Servant [1] => Enter ANGELO [2] => Re-enter Servant [3] => Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO [4] => Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost [5] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight [1] => I'll tell him of you. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray you, do. [1] => I'll know [2] => His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas, [3] => He hath but as offended in a dream! [4] => All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he [5] => To die for't! ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Servant ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Now, what's the matter. Provost? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order? [1] => Why dost thou ask again? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Lest I might be too rash: [1] => Under your good correction, I have seen, [2] => When, after execution, judgment hath [3] => Repented o'er his doom. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to; let that be mine: [1] => Do you your office, or give up your place, [2] => And you shall well be spared. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I crave your honour's pardon. [1] => What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet? [2] => She's very near her hour. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dispose of her [1] => To some more fitter place, and that with speed. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here is the sister of the man condemn'd [1] => Desires access to you. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Hath he a sister? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid, [1] => And to be shortly of a sisterhood, [2] => If not already. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, let her be admitted. [1] => See you the fornicatress be removed: [2] => Let have needful, but not lavish, means; [3] => There shall be order for't. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Servant ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => God save your honour! ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stay a little while. [1] => You're welcome: what's your will? ) [STAGEDIR] => To ISABELLA ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am a woeful suitor to your honour, [1] => Please but your honour hear me. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Well; what's your suit? ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is a vice that most I do abhor, [1] => And most desire should meet the blow of justice; [2] => For which I would not plead, but that I must; [3] => For which I must not plead, but that I am [4] => At war 'twixt will and will not. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Well; the matter? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have a brother is condemn'd to die: [1] => I do beseech you, let it be his fault, [2] => And not my brother. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Condemn the fault and not the actor of it? [1] => Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done: [2] => Mine were the very cipher of a function, [3] => To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, [4] => And let go by the actor. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O just but severe law! [1] => I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour! ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) [1] => again, entreat him; [2] => Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown: [3] => You are too cold; if you should need a pin, [4] => You could not with more tame a tongue desire it: [5] => To him, I say! ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Must he needs die? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Maiden, no remedy. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes; I do think that you might pardon him, [1] => And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I will not do't. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => But can you, if you would? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Look, what I will not, that I cannot do. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But might you do't, and do the world no wrong, [1] => If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse [2] => As mine is to him? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => He's sentenced; 'tis too late. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word. [1] => May call it back again. Well, believe this, [2] => No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, [3] => Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, [4] => The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, [5] => Become them with one half so good a grace [6] => As mercy does. [7] => If he had been as you and you as he, [8] => You would have slipt like him; but he, like you, [9] => Would not have been so stern. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Pray you, be gone. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would to heaven I had your potency, [1] => And you were Isabel! should it then be thus? [2] => No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge, [3] => And what a prisoner. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) [1] => Ay, touch him; there's the vein. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your brother is a forfeit of the law, [1] => And you but waste your words. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, alas! [1] => Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; [2] => And He that might the vantage best have took [3] => Found out the remedy. How would you be, [4] => If He, which is the top of judgment, should [5] => But judge you as you are? O, think on that; [6] => And mercy then will breathe within your lips, [7] => Like man new made. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be you content, fair maid; [1] => It is the law, not I condemn your brother: [2] => Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son, [3] => It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him! [1] => He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens [2] => We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven [3] => With less respect than we do minister [4] => To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you; [5] => Who is it that hath died for this offence? [6] => There's many have committed it. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept: [1] => Those many had not dared to do that evil, [2] => If the first that did the edict infringe [3] => Had answer'd for his deed: now 'tis awake [4] => Takes note of what is done; and, like a prophet, [5] => Looks in a glass, that shows what future evils, [6] => Either new, or by remissness new-conceived, [7] => And so in progress to be hatch'd and born, [8] => Are now to have no successive degrees, [9] => But, ere they live, to end. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Yet show some pity. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I show it most of all when I show justice; [1] => For then I pity those I do not know, [2] => Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall; [3] => And do him right that, answering one foul wrong, [4] => Lives not to act another. Be satisfied; [5] => Your brother dies to-morrow; be content. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So you must be the first that gives this sentence, [1] => And he, that suffer's. O, it is excellent [2] => To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous [3] => To use it like a giant. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Could great men thunder [1] => As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, [2] => For every pelting, petty officer [3] => Would use his heaven for thunder; [4] => Nothing but thunder! Merciful Heaven, [5] => Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt [6] => Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak [7] => Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, [8] => Drest in a little brief authority, [9] => Most ignorant of what he's most assured, [10] => His glassy essence, like an angry ape, [11] => Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven [12] => As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, [13] => Would all themselves laugh mortal. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) [1] => will relent; [2] => He's coming; I perceive 't. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We cannot weigh our brother with ourself: [1] => Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them, [2] => But in the less foul profanation. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Thou'rt i' the right, girl; more o, that. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That in the captain's but a choleric word, [1] => Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Why do you put these sayings upon me? ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because authority, though it err like others, [1] => Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, [2] => That skins the vice o' the top. Go to your bosom; [3] => Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know [4] => That's like my brother's fault: if it confess [5] => A natural guiltiness such as is his, [6] => Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue [7] => Against my brother's life. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => Such sense, that my sense breeds with it. Fare you well. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Gentle my lord, turn back. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I will bethink me: come again tomorrow. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Hark how I'll bribe you: good my lord, turn back. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => How! bribe me? ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not with fond shekels of the tested gold, [1] => Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor [2] => As fancy values them; but with true prayers [3] => That shall be up at heaven and enter there [4] => Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls, [5] => From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate [6] => To nothing temporal. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Well; come to me to-morrow. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to ISABELLA ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Heaven keep your honour safe! ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => For I am that way going to temptation, [2] => Where prayers cross. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => At what hour to-morrow [1] => Shall I attend your lordship? ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => At any time 'fore noon. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => 'Save your honour! ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => From thee, even from thy virtue! [1] => What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine? [2] => The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? [3] => Ha! [4] => Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I [5] => That, lying by the violet in the sun, [6] => Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, [7] => Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be [8] => That modesty may more betray our sense [9] => Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, [10] => Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary [11] => And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie! [12] => What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo? [13] => Dost thou desire her foully for those things [14] => That make her good? O, let her brother live! [15] => Thieves for their robbery have authority [16] => When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her, [17] => That I desire to hear her speak again, [18] => And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on? [19] => O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, [20] => With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous [21] => Is that temptation that doth goad us on [22] => To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet, [23] => With all her double vigour, art and nature, [24] => Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid [25] => Subdues me quite. Even till now, [26] => When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A room in a prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost [1] => Exit [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Hail to you, provost! so I think you are. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => I am the provost. What's your will, good friar? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bound by my charity and my blest order, [1] => I come to visit the afflicted spirits [2] => Here in the prison. Do me the common right [3] => To let me see them and to make me know [4] => The nature of their crimes, that I may minister [5] => To them accordingly. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would do more than that, if more were needful. [1] => Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine, [2] => Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth, [3] => Hath blister'd her report: she is with child; [4] => And he that got it, sentenced; a young man [5] => More fit to do another such offence [6] => Than die for this. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter JULIET ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => When must he die? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As I do think, to-morrow. [1] => I have provided for you: stay awhile, [2] => And you shall be conducted. ) [STAGEDIR] => To JULIET ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry? ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => I do; and bear the shame most patiently. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, [1] => And try your penitence, if it be sound, [2] => Or hollowly put on. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => I'll gladly learn. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Love you the man that wrong'd you? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So then it seems your most offenceful act [1] => Was mutually committed? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => Mutually. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Then was your sin of heavier kind than his. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => I do confess it, and repent it, father. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent, [1] => As that the sin hath brought you to this shame, [2] => Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven, [3] => Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it, [4] => But as we stand in fear,-- ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do repent me, as it is an evil, [1] => And take the shame with joy. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There rest. [1] => Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow, [2] => And I am going with instruction to him. [3] => Grace go with you, Benedicite! ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => JULIET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Must die to-morrow! O injurious love, [1] => That respites me a life, whose very comfort [2] => Is still a dying horror! ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => 'Tis pity of him. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANGELO [1] => Exit [2] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When I would pray and think, I think and pray [1] => To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words; [2] => Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, [3] => Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my mouth, [4] => As if I did but only chew his name; [5] => And in my heart the strong and swelling evil [6] => Of my conception. The state, whereon I studied [7] => Is like a good thing, being often read, [8] => Grown fear'd and tedious; yea, my gravity, [9] => Wherein--let no man hear me--I take pride, [10] => Could I with boot change for an idle plume, [11] => Which the air beats for vain. O place, O form, [12] => How often dost thou with thy case, thy habit, [13] => Wrench awe from fools and tie the wiser souls [14] => To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood: [15] => Let's write good angel on the devil's horn: [16] => 'Tis not the devil's crest. [17] => How now! who's there? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Servant ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Servant [LINE] => One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Teach her the way. [1] => O heavens! [2] => Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, [3] => Making both it unable for itself, [4] => And dispossessing all my other parts [5] => Of necessary fitness? [6] => So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons; [7] => Come all to help him, and so stop the air [8] => By which he should revive: and even so [9] => The general, subject to a well-wish'd king, [10] => Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness [11] => Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love [12] => Must needs appear offence. [13] => How now, fair maid? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Servant [1] => Enter ISABELLA ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I am come to know your pleasure. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That you might know it, would much better please me [1] => Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Even so. Heaven keep your honour! ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be, [1] => As long as you or I yet he must die. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Under your sentence? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Yea. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve, [1] => Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted [2] => That his soul sicken not. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good [1] => To pardon him that hath from nature stolen [2] => A man already made, as to remit [3] => Their saucy sweetness that do coin heaven's image [4] => In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easy [5] => Falsely to take away a life true made [6] => As to put metal in restrained means [7] => To make a false one. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => 'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in earth. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly. [1] => Which had you rather, that the most just law [2] => Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him, [3] => Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness [4] => As she that he hath stain'd? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, believe this, [1] => I had rather give my body than my soul. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I talk not of your soul: our compell'd sins [1] => Stand more for number than for accompt. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => How say you? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak [1] => Against the thing I say. Answer to this: [2] => I, now the voice of the recorded law, [3] => Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life: [4] => Might there not be a charity in sin [5] => To save this brother's life? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Please you to do't, [1] => I'll take it as a peril to my soul, [2] => It is no sin at all, but charity. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pleased you to do't at peril of your soul, [1] => Were equal poise of sin and charity. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I do beg his life, if it be sin, [1] => Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit, [2] => If that be sin, I'll make it my morn prayer [3] => To have it added to the faults of mine, [4] => And nothing of your answer. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, but hear me. [1] => Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant, [2] => Or seem so craftily; and that's not good. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, [1] => But graciously to know I am no better. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright [1] => When it doth tax itself; as these black masks [2] => Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder [3] => Than beauty could, display'd. But mark me; [4] => To be received plain, I'll speak more gross: [5] => Your brother is to die. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => So. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And his offence is so, as it appears, [1] => Accountant to the law upon that pain. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => True. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Admit no other way to save his life,-- [1] => As I subscribe not that, nor any other, [2] => But in the loss of question,--that you, his sister, [3] => Finding yourself desired of such a person, [4] => Whose credit with the judge, or own great place, [5] => Could fetch your brother from the manacles [6] => Of the all-building law; and that there were [7] => No earthly mean to save him, but that either [8] => You must lay down the treasures of your body [9] => To this supposed, or else to let him suffer; [10] => What would you do? ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As much for my poor brother as myself: [1] => That is, were I under the terms of death, [2] => The impression of keen whips I'ld wear as rubies, [3] => And strip myself to death, as to a bed [4] => That longing have been sick for, ere I'ld yield [5] => My body up to shame. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Then must your brother die. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And 'twere the cheaper way: [1] => Better it were a brother died at once, [2] => Than that a sister, by redeeming him, [3] => Should die for ever. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Were not you then as cruel as the sentence [1] => That you have slander'd so? ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ignomy in ransom and free pardon [1] => Are of two houses: lawful mercy [2] => Is nothing kin to foul redemption. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant; [1] => And rather proved the sliding of your brother [2] => A merriment than a vice. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out, [1] => To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean: [2] => I something do excuse the thing I hate, [3] => For his advantage that I dearly love. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => We are all frail. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Else let my brother die, [1] => If not a feodary, but only he [2] => Owe and succeed thy weakness. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Nay, women are frail too. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; [1] => Which are as easy broke as they make forms. [2] => Women! Help Heaven! men their creation mar [3] => In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail; [4] => For we are soft as our complexions are, [5] => And credulous to false prints. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think it well: [1] => And from this testimony of your own sex,-- [2] => Since I suppose we are made to be no stronger [3] => Than faults may shake our frames,--let me be bold; [4] => I do arrest your words. Be that you are, [5] => That is, a woman; if you be more, you're none; [6] => If you be one, as you are well express'd [7] => By all external warrants, show it now, [8] => By putting on the destined livery. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have no tongue but one: gentle my lord, [1] => Let me entreat you speak the former language. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Plainly conceive, I love you. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My brother did love Juliet, [1] => And you tell me that he shall die for it. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know your virtue hath a licence in't, [1] => Which seems a little fouler than it is, [2] => To pluck on others. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Believe me, on mine honour, [1] => My words express my purpose. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha! little honour to be much believed, [1] => And most pernicious purpose! Seeming, seeming! [2] => I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for't: [3] => Sign me a present pardon for my brother, [4] => Or with an outstretch'd throat I'll tell the world aloud [5] => What man thou art. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who will believe thee, Isabel? [1] => My unsoil'd name, the austereness of my life, [2] => My vouch against you, and my place i' the state, [3] => Will so your accusation overweigh, [4] => That you shall stifle in your own report [5] => And smell of calumny. I have begun, [6] => And now I give my sensual race the rein: [7] => Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite; [8] => Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, [9] => That banish what they sue for; redeem thy brother [10] => By yielding up thy body to my will; [11] => Or else he must not only die the death, [12] => But thy unkindness shall his death draw out [13] => To lingering sufferance. Answer me to-morrow, [14] => Or, by the affection that now guides me most, [15] => I'll prove a tyrant to him. As for you, [16] => Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, [1] => Who would believe me? O perilous mouths, [2] => That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, [3] => Either of condemnation or approof; [4] => Bidding the law make court'sy to their will: [5] => Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, [6] => To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother: [7] => Though he hath fallen by prompture of the blood, [8] => Yet hath he in him such a mind of honour. [9] => That, had he twenty heads to tender down [10] => On twenty bloody blocks, he'ld yield them up, [11] => Before his sister should her body stoop [12] => To such abhorr'd pollution. [13] => Then, Isabel, live chaste, and, brother, die: [14] => More than our brother is our chastity. [15] => I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request, [16] => And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest. ) ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A room in the prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before, CLAUDIO, and Provost [1] => Enter ISABELLA [2] => Exeunt DUKE VINCENTIO and Provost [3] => Re-enter DUKE VINCENTIO [4] => Walks apart [5] => Re-enter Provost [6] => Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward [7] => Exeunt severally ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => So then you hope of pardon from Lord Angelo? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The miserable have no other medicine [1] => But only hope: [2] => I've hope to live, and am prepared to die. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be absolute for death; either death or life [1] => Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: [2] => If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing [3] => That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, [4] => Servile to all the skyey influences, [5] => That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, [6] => Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool; [7] => For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun [8] => And yet runn'st toward him still. Thou art not noble; [9] => For all the accommodations that thou bear'st [10] => Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant; [11] => For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork [12] => Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep, [13] => And that thou oft provokest; yet grossly fear'st [14] => Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself; [15] => For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains [16] => That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not; [17] => For what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get, [18] => And what thou hast, forget'st. Thou art not certain; [19] => For thy complexion shifts to strange effects, [20] => After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor; [21] => For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, [22] => Thou bear's thy heavy riches but a journey, [23] => And death unloads thee. Friend hast thou none; [24] => For thine own bowels, which do call thee sire, [25] => The mere effusion of thy proper loins, [26] => Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum, [27] => For ending thee no sooner. Thou hast nor youth nor age, [28] => But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, [29] => Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth [30] => Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms [31] => Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich, [32] => Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty, [33] => To make thy riches pleasant. What's yet in this [34] => That bears the name of life? Yet in this life [35] => Lie hid moe thousand deaths: yet death we fear, [36] => That makes these odds all even. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I humbly thank you. [1] => To sue to live, I find I seek to die; [2] => And, seeking death, find life: let it come on. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Most holy sir, I thank you. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => My business is a word or two with Claudio. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => And very welcome. Look, signior, here's your sister. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Provost, a word with you. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => As many as you please. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Bring me to hear them speak, where I may be concealed. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Now, sister, what's the comfort? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, [1] => As all comforts are; most good, most good indeed. [2] => Lord Angelo, having affairs to heaven, [3] => Intends you for his swift ambassador, [4] => Where you shall be an everlasting leiger: [5] => Therefore your best appointment make with speed; [6] => To-morrow you set on. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Is there no remedy? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => None, but such remedy as, to save a head, [1] => To cleave a heart in twain. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => But is there any? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, brother, you may live: [1] => There is a devilish mercy in the judge, [2] => If you'll implore it, that will free your life, [3] => But fetter you till death. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Perpetual durance? ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, just; perpetual durance, a restraint, [1] => Though all the world's vastidity you had, [2] => To a determined scope. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => But in what nature? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In such a one as, you consenting to't, [1] => Would bark your honour from that trunk you bear, [2] => And leave you naked. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Let me know the point. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, I do fear thee, Claudio; and I quake, [1] => Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, [2] => And six or seven winters more respect [3] => Than a perpetual honour. Darest thou die? [4] => The sense of death is most in apprehension; [5] => And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, [6] => In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great [7] => As when a giant dies. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why give you me this shame? [1] => Think you I can a resolution fetch [2] => From flowery tenderness? If I must die, [3] => I will encounter darkness as a bride, [4] => And hug it in mine arms. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There spake my brother; there my father's grave [1] => Did utter forth a voice. Yes, thou must die: [2] => Thou art too noble to conserve a life [3] => In base appliances. This outward-sainted deputy, [4] => Whose settled visage and deliberate word [5] => Nips youth i' the head and follies doth emmew [6] => As falcon doth the fowl, is yet a devil [7] => His filth within being cast, he would appear [8] => A pond as deep as hell. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => The prenzie Angelo! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, 'tis the cunning livery of hell, [1] => The damned'st body to invest and cover [2] => In prenzie guards! Dost thou think, Claudio? [3] => If I would yield him my virginity, [4] => Thou mightst be freed. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => O heavens! it cannot be. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, he would give't thee, from this rank offence, [1] => So to offend him still. This night's the time [2] => That I should do what I abhor to name, [3] => Or else thou diest to-morrow. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Thou shalt not do't. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, were it but my life, [1] => I'ld throw it down for your deliverance [2] => As frankly as a pin. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Thanks, dear Isabel. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes. Has he affections in him, [1] => That thus can make him bite the law by the nose, [2] => When he would force it? Sure, it is no sin, [3] => Or of the deadly seven, it is the least. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Which is the least? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it were damnable, he being so wise, [1] => Why would he for the momentary trick [2] => Be perdurably fined? O Isabel! ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => What says my brother? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Death is a fearful thing. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => And shamed life a hateful. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; [1] => To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; [2] => This sensible warm motion to become [3] => A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit [4] => To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside [5] => In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; [6] => To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, [7] => And blown with restless violence round about [8] => The pendent world; or to be worse than worst [9] => Of those that lawless and incertain thought [10] => Imagine howling: 'tis too horrible! [11] => The weariest and most loathed worldly life [12] => That age, ache, penury and imprisonment [13] => Can lay on nature is a paradise [14] => To what we fear of death. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Alas, alas! ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet sister, let me live: [1] => What sin you do to save a brother's life, [2] => Nature dispenses with the deed so far [3] => That it becomes a virtue. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O you beast! [1] => O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! [2] => Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice? [3] => Is't not a kind of incest, to take life [4] => From thine own sister's shame? What should I think? [5] => Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair! [6] => For such a warped slip of wilderness [7] => Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance! [8] => Die, perish! Might but my bending down [9] => Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed: [10] => I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death, [11] => No word to save thee. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Nay, hear me, Isabel. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, fie, fie, fie! [1] => Thy sin's not accidental, but a trade. [2] => Mercy to thee would prove itself a bawd: [3] => 'Tis best thou diest quickly. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => O hear me, Isabella! ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => What is your will? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and [1] => by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I [2] => would require is likewise your own benefit. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be [1] => stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you awhile. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Son, I have overheard what hath passed between you [1] => and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to [2] => corrupt her; only he hath made an essay of her [3] => virtue to practise his judgment with the disposition [4] => of natures: she, having the truth of honour in her, [5] => hath made him that gracious denial which he is most [6] => glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I [7] => know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to [8] => death: do not satisfy your resolution with hopes [9] => that are fallible: tomorrow you must die; go to [10] => your knees and make ready. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love [1] => with life that I will sue to be rid of it. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold you there: farewell. [1] => Provost, a word with you! ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit CLAUDIO ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => What's your will, father ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me [1] => awhile with the maid: my mind promises with my [2] => habit no loss shall touch her by my company. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => In good time. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good: [1] => the goodness that is cheap in beauty makes beauty [2] => brief in goodness; but grace, being the soul of [3] => your complexion, shall keep the body of it ever [4] => fair. The assault that Angelo hath made to you, [5] => fortune hath conveyed to my understanding; and, but [6] => that frailty hath examples for his falling, I should [7] => wonder at Angelo. How will you do to content this [8] => substitute, and to save your brother? ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am now going to resolve him: I had rather my [1] => brother die by the law than my son should be [2] => unlawfully born. But, O, how much is the good duke [3] => deceived in Angelo! If ever he return and I can [4] => speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or [5] => discover his government. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That shall not be much amiss: Yet, as the matter [1] => now stands, he will avoid your accusation; he made [2] => trial of you only. Therefore fasten your ear on my [3] => advisings: to the love I have in doing good a [4] => remedy presents itself. I do make myself believe [5] => that you may most uprighteously do a poor wronged [6] => lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from [7] => the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious [8] => person; and much please the absent duke, if [9] => peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of [10] => this business. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do [1] => anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. Have [1] => you not heard speak of Mariana, the sister of [2] => Frederick the great soldier who miscarried at sea? ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She should this Angelo have married; was affianced [1] => to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between [2] => which time of the contract and limit of the [3] => solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, [4] => having in that perished vessel the dowry of his [5] => sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the [6] => poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and [7] => renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most [8] => kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of [9] => her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her [10] => combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Can this be so? did Angelo so leave her? ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them [1] => with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole, [2] => pretending in her discoveries of dishonour: in few, [3] => bestowed her on her own lamentation, which she yet [4] => wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears, [5] => is washed with them, but relents not. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What a merit were it in death to take this poor maid [1] => from the world! What corruption in this life, that [2] => it will let this man live! But how out of this can she avail? ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is a rupture that you may easily heal: and the [1] => cure of it not only saves your brother, but keeps [2] => you from dishonour in doing it. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Show me how, good father. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance [1] => of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that [2] => in all reason should have quenched her love, hath, [3] => like an impediment in the current, made it more [4] => violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his [5] => requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with [6] => his demands to the point; only refer yourself to [7] => this advantage, first, that your stay with him may [8] => not be long; that the time may have all shadow and [9] => silence in it; and the place answer to convenience. [10] => This being granted in course,--and now follows [11] => all,--we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up [12] => your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter [13] => acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to [14] => her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother [15] => saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana [16] => advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid [17] => will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you [18] => think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness [19] => of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof. [20] => What think you of it? ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The image of it gives me content already; and I [1] => trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily [1] => to Angelo: if for this night he entreat you to his [2] => bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will [3] => presently to Saint Luke's: there, at the moated [4] => grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that [5] => place call upon me; and dispatch with Angelo, that [6] => it may be quickly. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father. ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The street before the prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter, on one side, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before; on the other, ELBOW, and Officers with POMPEY [1] => Enter LUCIO [2] => Exit [3] => Enter ESCALUS, Provost, and Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE [4] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will [1] => needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we [2] => shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => O heavens! what stuff is here ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Twas never merry world since, of two usuries, the [1] => merriest was put down, and the worser allowed by [2] => order of law a furred gown to keep him warm; and [3] => furred with fox and lamb-skins too, to signify, that [4] => craft, being richer than innocency, stands for the facing. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And you, good brother father. What offence hath [1] => this man made you, sir? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, he hath offended the law: and, sir, we [1] => take him to be a thief too, sir; for we have found [2] => upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have [3] => sent to the deputy. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, sirrah! a bawd, a wicked bawd! [1] => The evil that thou causest to be done, [2] => That is thy means to live. Do thou but think [3] => What 'tis to cram a maw or clothe a back [4] => From such a filthy vice: say to thyself, [5] => From their abominable and beastly touches [6] => I drink, I eat, array myself, and live. [7] => Canst thou believe thy living is a life, [8] => So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet, [1] => sir, I would prove-- ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if the devil have given thee proofs for sin, [1] => Thou wilt prove his. Take him to prison, officer: [2] => Correction and instruction must both work [3] => Ere this rude beast will profit. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He must before the deputy, sir; he has given him [1] => warning: the deputy cannot abide a whoremaster: if [2] => he be a whoremonger, and comes before him, he were [3] => as good go a mile on his errand. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That we were all, as some would seem to be, [1] => From our faults, as faults from seeming, free! ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => His neck will come to your waist,--a cord, sir. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I spy comfort; I cry bail. Here's a gentleman and a [1] => friend of mine. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, noble Pompey! What, at the wheels of [1] => Caesar? art thou led in triumph? What, is there [2] => none of Pygmalion's images, newly made woman, to be [3] => had now, for putting the hand in the pocket and [4] => extracting it clutch'd? What reply, ha? What [5] => sayest thou to this tune, matter and method? Is't [6] => not drowned i' the last rain, ha? What sayest [7] => thou, Trot? Is the world as it was, man? Which is [8] => the way? Is it sad, and few words? or how? The [9] => trick of it? ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Still thus, and thus; still worse! ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How doth my dear morsel, thy mistress? Procures she [1] => still, ha? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Troth, sir, she hath eaten up all her beef, and she [1] => is herself in the tub. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be [1] => so: ever your fresh whore and your powdered bawd: [2] => an unshunned consequence; it must be so. Art going [3] => to prison, Pompey? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Yes, faith, sir. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell: go, say I [1] => sent thee thither. For debt, Pompey? or how? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => For being a bawd, for being a bawd. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the [1] => due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he [2] => doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born. [3] => Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison, [4] => Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you [5] => will keep the house. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear. [1] => I will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage: If [2] => you take it not patiently, why, your mettle is the [3] => more. Adieu, trusty Pompey. 'Bless you, friar. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => And you. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Come your ways, sir; come. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => You will not bail me, then, sir? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar? [1] => what news? ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ELBOW [LINE] => Come your ways, sir; come. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to kennel, Pompey; go. [1] => What news, friar, of the duke? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and Officers ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => I know none. Can you tell me of any? ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other [1] => some, he is in Rome: but where is he, think you? ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from [1] => the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born [2] => to. Lord Angelo dukes it well in his absence; he [3] => puts transgression to 't. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => He does well in 't. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in [1] => him: something too crabbed that way, friar. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; [1] => it is well allied: but it is impossible to extirp [2] => it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put [3] => down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and [4] => woman after this downright way of creation: is it [5] => true, think you? ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => How should he be made, then? ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some report a sea-maid spawned him; some, that he [1] => was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is [2] => certain that when he makes water his urine is [3] => congealed ice; that I know to be true: and he is a [4] => motion generative; that's infallible. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the [1] => rebellion of a codpiece to take away the life of a [2] => man! Would the duke that is absent have done this? [3] => Ere he would have hanged a man for the getting a [4] => hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing [5] => a thousand: he had some feeling of the sport: he [6] => knew the service, and that instructed him to mercy. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I never heard the absent duke much detected for [1] => women; he was not inclined that way. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => O, sir, you are deceived. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => 'Tis not possible. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and [1] => his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the [2] => duke had crotchets in him. He would be drunk too; [3] => that let me inform you. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => You do him wrong, surely. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the [1] => duke: and I believe I know the cause of his [2] => withdrawing. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => What, I prithee, might be the cause? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be locked within the [1] => teeth and the lips: but this I can let you [2] => understand, the greater file of the subject held the [3] => duke to be wise. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Wise! why, no question but he was. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Either this is the envy in you, folly, or mistaking: [1] => the very stream of his life and the business he hath [2] => helmed must upon a warranted need give him a better [3] => proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own [4] => bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the [5] => envious a scholar, a statesman and a soldier. [6] => Therefore you speak unskilfully: or if your [7] => knowledge be more it is much darkened in your malice. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Sir, I know him, and I love him. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Love talks with better knowledge, and knowledge with [1] => dearer love. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Come, sir, I know what I know. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I can hardly believe that, since you know not what [1] => you speak. But, if ever the duke return, as our [2] => prayers are he may, let me desire you to make your [3] => answer before him. If it be honest you have spoke, [4] => you have courage to maintain it: I am bound to call [5] => upon you; and, I pray you, your name? ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Sir, my name is Lucio; well known to the duke. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He shall know you better, sir, if I may live to [1] => report you. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => I fear you not. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, you hope the duke will return no more; or you [1] => imagine me too unhurtful an opposite. But indeed I [2] => can do you little harm; you'll forswear this again. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll be hanged first: thou art deceived in me, [1] => friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if [2] => Claudio die to-morrow or no? ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Why should he die, sir? ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why? For filling a bottle with a tundish. I would [1] => the duke we talk of were returned again: the [2] => ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with [3] => continency; sparrows must not build in his [4] => house-eaves, because they are lecherous. The duke [5] => yet would have dark deeds darkly answered; he would [6] => never bring them to light: would he were returned! [7] => Marry, this Claudio is condemned for untrussing. [8] => Farewell, good friar: I prithee, pray for me. The [9] => duke, I say to thee again, would eat mutton on [10] => Fridays. He's not past it yet, and I say to thee, [11] => he would mouth with a beggar, though she smelt brown [12] => bread and garlic: say that I said so. Farewell. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No might nor greatness in mortality [1] => Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny [2] => The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong [3] => Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? [4] => But who comes here? ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Go; away with her to prison! ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good my lord, be good to me; your honour is accounted [1] => a merciful man; good my lord. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Double and treble admonition, and still forfeit in [1] => the same kind! This would make mercy swear and play [2] => the tyrant. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it please [1] => your honour. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MISTRESS OVERDONE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, this is one Lucio's information against me. [1] => Mistress Kate Keepdown was with child by him in the [2] => duke's time; he promised her marriage: his child [3] => is a year and a quarter old, come Philip and Jacob: [4] => I have kept it myself; and see how he goes about to abuse me! ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be [1] => called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to; [2] => no more words. [3] => Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered; [4] => Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished [5] => with divines, and have all charitable preparation. [6] => if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be [7] => so with him. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt Officers with MISTRESS OVERDONE ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So please you, this friar hath been with him, and [1] => advised him for the entertainment of death. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Good even, good father. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Bliss and goodness on you! ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Of whence are you? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not of this country, though my chance is now [1] => To use it for my time: I am a brother [2] => Of gracious order, late come from the See [3] => In special business from his holiness. ) ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => What news abroad i' the world? ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => None, but that there is so great a fever on [1] => goodness, that the dissolution of it must cure it: [2] => novelty is only in request; and it is as dangerous [3] => to be aged in any kind of course, as it is virtuous [4] => to be constant in any undertaking. There is scarce [5] => truth enough alive to make societies secure; but [6] => security enough to make fellowships accurst: much [7] => upon this riddle runs the wisdom of the world. This [8] => news is old enough, yet it is every day's news. I [9] => pray you, sir, of what disposition was the duke? ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One that, above all other strifes, contended [1] => especially to know himself. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => What pleasure was he given to? ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at [1] => any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a [2] => gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to [3] => his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous; [4] => and let me desire to know how you find Claudio [5] => prepared. I am made to understand that you have [6] => lent him visitation. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He professes to have received no sinister measure [1] => from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself [2] => to the determination of justice: yet had he framed [3] => to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many [4] => deceiving promises of life; which I by my good [5] => leisure have discredited to him, and now is he [6] => resolved to die. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have paid the heavens your function, and the [1] => prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have [2] => laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest [3] => shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I [4] => found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him [5] => he is indeed Justice. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If his own life answer the straitness of his [1] => proceeding, it shall become him well; wherein if he [2] => chance to fail, he hath sentenced himself. ) ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I am going to visit the prisoner. Fare you well. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Peace be with you! [1] => He who the sword of heaven will bear [2] => Should be as holy as severe; [3] => Pattern in himself to know, [4] => Grace to stand, and virtue go; [5] => More nor less to others paying [6] => Than by self-offences weighing. [7] => Shame to him whose cruel striking [8] => Kills for faults of his own liking! [9] => Twice treble shame on Angelo, [10] => To weed my vice and let his grow! [11] => O, what may man within him hide, [12] => Though angel on the outward side! [13] => How may likeness made in crimes, [14] => Making practise on the times, [15] => To draw with idle spiders' strings [16] => Most ponderous and substantial things! [17] => Craft against vice I must apply: [18] => With Angelo to-night shall lie [19] => His old betrothed but despised; [20] => So disguise shall, by the disguised, [21] => Pay with falsehood false exacting, [22] => And perform an old contracting. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt ESCALUS and Provost ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. The moated grange at ST. LUKE's. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter MARIANA and a Boy [1] => Boy sings [2] => Enter ISABELLA [3] => Exit [4] => Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( ) [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take, O, take those lips away, [1] => That so sweetly were forsworn; [2] => And those eyes, the break of day, [3] => Lights that do mislead the morn: [4] => But my kisses bring again, bring again; [5] => Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away: [1] => Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice [2] => Hath often still'd my brawling discontent. [3] => I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish [4] => You had not found me here so musical: [5] => Let me excuse me, and believe me so, [6] => My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit Boy [1] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm [1] => To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. [2] => I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired [3] => for me here to-day? much upon this time have [4] => I promised here to meet. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have not been inquired after: [1] => I have sat here all day. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do constantly believe you. The time is come even [1] => now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may [2] => be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => I am always bound to you. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very well met, and well come. [1] => What is the news from this good deputy? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath a garden circummured with brick, [1] => Whose western side is with a vineyard back'd; [2] => And to that vineyard is a planched gate, [3] => That makes his opening with this bigger key: [4] => This other doth command a little door [5] => Which from the vineyard to the garden leads; [6] => There have I made my promise [7] => Upon the heavy middle of the night [8] => To call upon him. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => But shall you on your knowledge find this way? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have ta'en a due and wary note upon't: [1] => With whispering and most guilty diligence, [2] => In action all of precept, he did show me [3] => The way twice o'er. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Are there no other tokens [1] => Between you 'greed concerning her observance? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, none, but only a repair i' the dark; [1] => And that I have possess'd him my most stay [2] => Can be but brief; for I have made him know [3] => I have a servant comes with me along, [4] => That stays upon me, whose persuasion is [5] => I come about my brother. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis well borne up. [1] => I have not yet made known to Mariana [2] => A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth! [3] => I pray you, be acquainted with this maid; [4] => She comes to do you good. ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter MARIANA ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I do desire the like. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Do you persuade yourself that I respect you? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Good friar, I know you do, and have found it. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take, then, this your companion by the hand, [1] => Who hath a story ready for your ear. [2] => I shall attend your leisure: but make haste; [3] => The vaporous night approaches. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Will't please you walk aside? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O place and greatness! millions of false eyes [1] => Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report [2] => Run with these false and most contrarious quests [3] => Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit [4] => Make thee the father of their idle dreams [5] => And rack thee in their fancies. [6] => Welcome, how agreed? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She'll take the enterprise upon her, father, [1] => If you advise it. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is not my consent, [1] => But my entreaty too. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Little have you to say [1] => When you depart from him, but, soft and low, [2] => 'Remember now my brother.' ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Fear me not. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all. [1] => He is your husband on a pre-contract: [2] => To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin, [3] => Sith that the justice of your title to him [4] => Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go: [5] => Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A room in the prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter Provost and POMPEY [1] => Enter ABHORSON [2] => Exit [3] => Re-enter Provost [4] => Re-enter Provost [5] => Exit Messenger [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Come hither, sirrah. Can you cut off a man's head? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a [1] => married man, he's his wife's head, and I can never [2] => cut off a woman's head. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a [1] => direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio [2] => and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common [3] => executioner, who in his office lacks a helper: if [4] => you will take it on you to assist him, it shall [5] => redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have [6] => your full time of imprisonment and your deliverance [7] => with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a [8] => notorious bawd. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind; [1] => but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I [2] => would be glad to receive some instruction from my [3] => fellow partner. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => What, ho! Abhorson! Where's Abhorson, there? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Do you call, sir? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sirrah, here's a fellow will help you to-morrow in [1] => your execution. If you think it meet, compound with [2] => him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if [3] => not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He [4] => cannot plead his estimation with you; he hath been a bawd. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => A bawd, sir? fie upon him! he will discredit our mystery. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go to, sir; you weigh equally; a feather will turn [1] => the scale. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray, sir, by your good favour,--for surely, sir, a [1] => good favour you have, but that you have a hanging [2] => look,--do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Ay, sir; a mystery ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and [1] => your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, [2] => using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery: [3] => but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I [4] => should be hanged, I cannot imagine. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Sir, it is a mystery. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Proof? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Every true man's apparel fits your thief: if it be [1] => too little for your thief, your true man thinks it [2] => big enough; if it be too big for your thief, your [3] => thief thinks it little enough: so every true man's [4] => apparel fits your thief. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Are you agreed? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I will serve him; for I do find your hangman is [1] => a more penitent trade than your bawd; he doth [2] => oftener ask forgiveness. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe [1] => to-morrow four o'clock. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Come on, bawd; I will instruct thee in my trade; follow. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do desire to learn, sir: and I hope, if you have [1] => occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find [2] => me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness I owe you [3] => a good turn. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call hither Barnardine and Claudio: [1] => The one has my pity; not a jot the other, [2] => Being a murderer, though he were my brother. [3] => Look, here's the warrant, Claudio, for thy death: [4] => 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to-morrow [5] => Thou must be made immortal. Where's Barnardine? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exeunt POMPEY and ABHORSON [1] => Enter CLAUDIO ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour [1] => When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones: [2] => He will not wake. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who can do good on him? [1] => Well, go, prepare yourself. [2] => But, hark, what noise? [3] => Heaven give your spirits comfort! [4] => By and by. [5] => I hope it is some pardon or reprieve [6] => For the most gentle Claudio. [7] => Welcome father. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Knocking within [1] => Exit CLAUDIO [2] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The best and wholesomest spirts of the night [1] => Envelope you, good Provost! Who call'd here of late? ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => None, since the curfew rung. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Not Isabel? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => No. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => They will, then, ere't be long. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => What comfort is for Claudio? ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => There's some in hope. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => It is a bitter deputy. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so, not so; his life is parallel'd [1] => Even with the stroke and line of his great justice: [2] => He doth with holy abstinence subdue [3] => That in himself which he spurs on his power [4] => To qualify in others: were he meal'd with that [5] => Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous; [6] => But this being so, he's just. [7] => Now are they come. [8] => This is a gentle provost: seldom when [9] => The steeled gaoler is the friend of men. [10] => How now! what noise? That spirit's possessed with haste [11] => That wounds the unsisting postern with these strokes. ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Knocking within [1] => Exit Provost [2] => Knocking within ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There he must stay until the officer [1] => Arise to let him in: he is call'd up. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Have you no countermand for Claudio yet, [1] => But he must die to-morrow? ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => None, sir, none. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As near the dawning, provost, as it is, [1] => You shall hear more ere morning. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Happily [1] => You something know; yet I believe there comes [2] => No countermand; no such example have we: [3] => Besides, upon the very siege of justice [4] => Lord Angelo hath to the public ear [5] => Profess'd the contrary. [6] => This is his lordship's man. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter a Messenger ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => And here comes Claudio's pardon. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Giving a paper ) [1] => My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this [2] => further charge, that you swerve not from the [3] => smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or [4] => other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it, [5] => it is almost day. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => I shall obey him. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => For which the pardoner himself is in. [2] => Hence hath offence his quick celerity, [3] => When it is born in high authority: [4] => When vice makes mercy, mercy's so extended, [5] => That for the fault's love is the offender friended. [6] => Now, sir, what news? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I told you. Lord Angelo, belike thinking me remiss [1] => in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted [2] => putting-on; methinks strangely, for he hath not used it before. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Pray you, let's hear. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reads ) [1] => 'Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let [2] => Claudio be executed by four of the clock; and in the [3] => afternoon Barnardine: for my better satisfaction, [4] => let me have Claudio's head sent me by five. Let [5] => this be duly performed; with a thought that more [6] => depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail [7] => not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.' [8] => What say you to this, sir? ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in the [1] => afternoon? ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A Bohemian born, but here nursed un and bred; one [1] => that is a prisoner nine years old. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How came it that the absent duke had not either [1] => delivered him to his liberty or executed him? I [2] => have heard it was ever his manner to do so. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His friends still wrought reprieves for him: and, [1] => indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord [2] => Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => It is now apparent? ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Most manifest, and not denied by himself. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hath he born himself penitently in prison? how [1] => seems he to be touched? ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A man that apprehends death no more dreadfully but [1] => as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and fearless [2] => of what's past, present, or to come; insensible of [3] => mortality, and desperately mortal. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => He wants advice. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He will hear none: he hath evermore had the liberty [1] => of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he [2] => would not: drunk many times a day, if not many days [3] => entirely drunk. We have very oft awaked him, as if [4] => to carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming [5] => warrant for it: it hath not moved him at all. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => More of him anon. There is written in your brow, [1] => provost, honesty and constancy: if I read it not [2] => truly, my ancient skill beguiles me; but, in the [3] => boldness of my cunning, I will lay myself in hazard. [4] => Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is [5] => no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath [6] => sentenced him. To make you understand this in a [7] => manifested effect, I crave but four days' respite; [8] => for the which you are to do me both a present and a [9] => dangerous courtesy. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Pray, sir, in what? ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => In the delaying death. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A lack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, [1] => and an express command, under penalty, to deliver [2] => his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case [3] => as Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By the vow of mine order I warrant you, if my [1] => instructions may be your guide. Let this Barnardine [2] => be this morning executed, and his head born to Angelo. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Angelo hath seen them both, and will discover the favour. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, death's a great disguiser; and you may add to it. [1] => Shave the head, and tie the beard; and say it was [2] => the desire of the penitent to be so bared before his [3] => death: you know the course is common. If any thing [4] => fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good [5] => fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead [6] => against it with my life. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Were you sworn to the duke, or to the deputy? ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => To him, and to his substitutes. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You will think you have made no offence, if the duke [1] => avouch the justice of your dealing? ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => But what likelihood is in that? ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not a resemblance, but a certainty. Yet since I see [1] => you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor [2] => persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go [3] => further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. [4] => Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the [5] => duke: you know the character, I doubt not; and the [6] => signet is not strange to you. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => I know them both. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The contents of this is the return of the duke: you [1] => shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you [2] => shall find, within these two days he will be here. [3] => This is a thing that Angelo knows not; for he this [4] => very day receives letters of strange tenor; [5] => perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering [6] => into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what [7] => is writ. Look, the unfolding star calls up the [8] => shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement how these [9] => things should be: all difficulties are but easy [10] => when they are known. Call your executioner, and off [11] => with Barnardine's head: I will give him a present [12] => shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you [13] => are amazed; but this shall absolutely resolve you. [14] => Come away; it is almost clear dawn. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. Another room in the same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter POMPEY [1] => Enter ABHORSON [2] => Enter BARNARDINE [3] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before [4] => Exit [5] => Exeunt ABHORSON and POMPEY [6] => Re-enter Provost [7] => Re-enter Provost [8] => Exit [9] => Enter ISABELLA [10] => Enter LUCIO [11] => Exit ISABELLA [12] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house [1] => of profession: one would think it were Mistress [2] => Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old [3] => customers. First, here's young Master Rash; he's in [4] => for a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, [5] => ninescore and seventeen pounds; of which he made [6] => five marks, ready money: marry, then ginger was not [7] => much in request, for the old women were all dead. [8] => Then is there here one Master Caper, at the suit of [9] => Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of [10] => peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a [11] => beggar. Then have we here young Dizy, and young [12] => Master Deep-vow, and Master Copperspur, and Master [13] => Starve-lackey the rapier and dagger man, and young [14] => Drop-heir that killed lusty Pudding, and Master [15] => Forthlight the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the [16] => great traveller, and wild Half-can that stabbed [17] => Pots, and, I think, forty more; all great doers in [18] => our trade, and are now 'for the Lord's sake.' ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Sirrah, bring Barnardine hither. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master Barnardine! you must rise and be hanged. [1] => Master Barnardine! ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => What, ho, Barnardine! ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) [1] => noise there? What are you? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your friends, sir; the hangman. You must be so [1] => good, sir, to rise and be put to death. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Tell him he must awake, and that quickly too. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray, Master Barnardine, awake till you are [1] => executed, and sleep afterwards. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Go in to him, and fetch him out. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => He is coming, sir, he is coming; I hear his straw rustle. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Is the axe upon the block, sirrah? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Very ready, sir. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => How now, Abhorson? what's the news with you? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap into your [1] => prayers; for, look you, the warrant's come. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You rogue, I have been drinking all night; I am not [1] => fitted for 't. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => POMPEY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, the better, sir; for he that drinks all night, [1] => and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the [2] => sounder all the next day. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ABHORSON [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do [1] => we jest now, think you? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, induced by my charity, and hearing how hastily [1] => you are to depart, I am come to advise you, comfort [2] => you and pray with you. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Friar, not I I have been drinking hard all night, [1] => and I will have more time to prepare me, or they [2] => shall beat out my brains with billets: I will not [3] => consent to die this day, that's certain. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, sir, you must: and therefore I beseech you [1] => Look forward on the journey you shall go. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I swear I will not die to-day for any man's [1] => persuasion. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => But hear you. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BARNARDINE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not a word: if you have any thing to say to me, [1] => come to my ward; for thence will not I to-day. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unfit to live or die: O gravel heart! [1] => After him, fellows; bring him to the block. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Now, sir, how do you find the prisoner? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A creature unprepared, unmeet for death; [1] => And to transport him in the mind he is [2] => Were damnable. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here in the prison, father, [1] => There died this morning of a cruel fever [2] => One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, [3] => A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head [4] => Just of his colour. What if we do omit [5] => This reprobate till he were well inclined; [6] => And satisfy the deputy with the visage [7] => Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio? ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, 'tis an accident that heaven provides! [1] => Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on [2] => Prefix'd by Angelo: see this be done, [3] => And sent according to command; whiles I [4] => Persuade this rude wretch willingly to die. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This shall be done, good father, presently. [1] => But Barnardine must die this afternoon: [2] => And how shall we continue Claudio, [3] => To save me from the danger that might come [4] => If he were known alive? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let this be done. [1] => Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio: [2] => Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting [3] => To the under generation, you shall find [4] => Your safety manifested. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => I am your free dependant. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Quick, dispatch, and send the head to Angelo. [1] => Now will I write letters to Angelo,-- [2] => The provost, he shall bear them, whose contents [3] => Shall witness to him I am near at home, [4] => And that, by great injunctions, I am bound [5] => To enter publicly: him I'll desire [6] => To meet me at the consecrated fount [7] => A league below the city; and from thence, [8] => By cold gradation and well-balanced form, [9] => We shall proceed with Angelo. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Provost ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Here is the head; I'll carry it myself. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Convenient is it. Make a swift return; [1] => For I would commune with you of such things [2] => That want no ear but yours. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => I'll make all speed. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Within ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The tongue of Isabel. She's come to know [1] => If yet her brother's pardon be come hither: [2] => But I will keep her ignorant of her good, [3] => To make her heavenly comforts of despair, [4] => When it is least expected. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Ho, by your leave! ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The better, given me by so holy a man. [1] => Hath yet the deputy sent my brother's pardon? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath released him, Isabel, from the world: [1] => His head is off and sent to Angelo. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Nay, but it is not so. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is no other: show your wisdom, daughter, [1] => In your close patience. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => O, I will to him and pluck out his eyes! ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => You shall not be admitted to his sight. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Unhappy Claudio! wretched Isabel! [1] => Injurious world! most damned Angelo! ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This nor hurts him nor profits you a jot; [1] => Forbear it therefore; give your cause to heaven. [2] => Mark what I say, which you shall find [3] => By every syllable a faithful verity: [4] => The duke comes home to-morrow; nay, dry your eyes; [5] => One of our convent, and his confessor, [6] => Gives me this instance: already he hath carried [7] => Notice to Escalus and Angelo, [8] => Who do prepare to meet him at the gates, [9] => There to give up their power. If you can, pace your wisdom [10] => In that good path that I would wish it go, [11] => And you shall have your bosom on this wretch, [12] => Grace of the duke, revenges to your heart, [13] => And general honour. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I am directed by you. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This letter, then, to Friar Peter give; [1] => 'Tis that he sent me of the duke's return: [2] => Say, by this token, I desire his company [3] => At Mariana's house to-night. Her cause and yours [4] => I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you [5] => Before the duke, and to the head of Angelo [6] => Accuse him home and home. For my poor self, [7] => I am combined by a sacred vow [8] => And shall be absent. Wend you with this letter: [9] => Command these fretting waters from your eyes [10] => With a light heart; trust not my holy order, [11] => If I pervert your course. Who's here? ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Good even. Friar, where's the provost? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Not within, sir. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see [1] => thine eyes so red: thou must be patient. I am fain [2] => to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for [3] => my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set [4] => me to 't. But they say the duke will be here [5] => to-morrow. By my troth, Isabel, I loved thy brother: [6] => if the old fantastical duke of dark corners had been [7] => at home, he had lived. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, the duke is marvellous little beholding to your [1] => reports; but the best is, he lives not in them. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Friar, thou knowest not the duke so well as I do: [1] => he's a better woodman than thou takest him for. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Well, you'll answer this one day. Fare ye well. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, tarry; I'll go along with thee [1] => I can tell thee pretty tales of the duke. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have told me too many of him already, sir, if [1] => they be true; if not true, none were enough. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => I was once before him for getting a wench with child. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Did you such a thing? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, marry, did I but I was fain to forswear it; [1] => they would else have married me to the rotten medlar. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Sir, your company is fairer than honest. Rest you well. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, I'll go with thee to the lane's end: [1] => if bawdy talk offend you, we'll have very little of [2] => it. Nay, friar, I am a kind of burr; I shall stick. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. A room in ANGELO's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS [1] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other. ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions [1] => show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be [2] => not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and [3] => redeliver our authorities there ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I guess not. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his [1] => entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, [2] => they should exhibit their petitions in the street? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of [1] => complaints, and to deliver us from devices [2] => hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand [3] => against us. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes [1] => i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give [2] => notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet [3] => him. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I shall, sir. Fare you well. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good night. [1] => This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant [2] => And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid! [3] => And by an eminent body that enforced [4] => The law against it! But that her tender shame [5] => Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, [6] => How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; [7] => For my authority bears of a credent bulk, [8] => That no particular scandal once can touch [9] => But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, [10] => Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, [11] => Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge, [12] => By so receiving a dishonour'd life [13] => With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! [14] => A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, [15] => Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit ESCALUS ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Fields without the town. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER [1] => Exit [2] => Enter VARRIUS [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These letters at fit time deliver me [1] => The provost knows our purpose and our plot. [2] => The matter being afoot, keep your instruction, [3] => And hold you ever to our special drift; [4] => Though sometimes you do blench from this to that, [5] => As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house, [6] => And tell him where I stay: give the like notice [7] => To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus, [8] => And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate; [9] => But send me Flavius first. ) [STAGEDIR] => Giving letters ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => It shall be speeded well. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste: [1] => Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends [2] => Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius. ) ) ) ) [5] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE VI. Street near the city gate. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA [1] => Enter FRIAR PETER [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To speak so indirectly I am loath: [1] => I would say the truth; but to accuse him so, [2] => That is your part: yet I am advised to do it; [3] => He says, to veil full purpose. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Be ruled by him. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure [1] => He speak against me on the adverse side, [2] => I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic [3] => That's bitter to sweet end. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => I would Friar Peter-- ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => O, peace! the friar is come. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, [1] => Where you may have such vantage on the duke, [2] => He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded; [3] => The generous and gravest citizens [4] => Have hent the gates, and very near upon [5] => The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away! ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. The city gate. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => MARIANA veiled, ISABELLA, and FRIAR PETER, at their stand. Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, VARRIUS, Lords, ANGELO, ESCALUS, LUCIO, Provost, Officers, and Citizens, at several doors [1] => FRIAR PETER and ISABELLA come forward [2] => Re-enter Officers with ISABELLA; and Provost with the DUKE VINCENTIO in his friar's habit [3] => Pulls off the friar's hood, and discovers DUKE VINCENTIO [4] => Exeunt ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER and Provost [5] => Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, FRIAR PETER, and Provost [6] => Kneeling [7] => Exit Provost [8] => Re-enter Provost, with BARNARDINE, CLAUDIO muffled, and JULIET [9] => Unmuffles CLAUDIO [10] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My very worthy cousin, fairly met! [1] => Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => ANGELO [1] => ESCALUS ) [LINE] => Happy return be to your royal grace! ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Many and hearty thankings to you both. [1] => We have made inquiry of you; and we hear [2] => Such goodness of your justice, that our soul [3] => Cannot but yield you forth to public thanks, [4] => Forerunning more requital. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => You make my bonds still greater. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, your desert speaks loud; and I should wrong it, [1] => To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, [2] => When it deserves, with characters of brass, [3] => A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time [4] => And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand, [5] => And let the subject see, to make them know [6] => That outward courtesies would fain proclaim [7] => Favours that keep within. Come, Escalus, [8] => You must walk by us on our other hand; [9] => And good supporters are you. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Justice, O royal duke! Vail your regard [1] => Upon a wrong'd, I would fain have said, a maid! [2] => O worthy prince, dishonour not your eye [3] => By throwing it on any other object [4] => Till you have heard me in my true complaint [5] => And given me justice, justice, justice, justice! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Relate your wrongs; in what? by whom? be brief. [1] => Here is Lord Angelo shall give you justice: [2] => Reveal yourself to him. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O worthy duke, [1] => You bid me seek redemption of the devil: [2] => Hear me yourself; for that which I must speak [3] => Must either punish me, not being believed, [4] => Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here! ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm: [1] => She hath been a suitor to me for her brother [2] => Cut off by course of justice,-- ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => By course of justice! ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => And she will speak most bitterly and strange. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most strange, but yet most truly, will I speak: [1] => That Angelo's forsworn; is it not strange? [2] => That Angelo's a murderer; is 't not strange? [3] => That Angelo is an adulterous thief, [4] => An hypocrite, a virgin-violator; [5] => Is it not strange and strange? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Nay, it is ten times strange. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is not truer he is Angelo [1] => Than this is all as true as it is strange: [2] => Nay, it is ten times true; for truth is truth [3] => To the end of reckoning. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Away with her! Poor soul, [1] => She speaks this in the infirmity of sense. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O prince, I conjure thee, as thou believest [1] => There is another comfort than this world, [2] => That thou neglect me not, with that opinion [3] => That I am touch'd with madness! Make not impossible [4] => That which but seems unlike: 'tis not impossible [5] => But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, [6] => May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute [7] => As Angelo; even so may Angelo, [8] => In all his dressings, characts, titles, forms, [9] => Be an arch-villain; believe it, royal prince: [10] => If he be less, he's nothing; but he's more, [11] => Had I more name for badness. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By mine honesty, [1] => If she be mad,--as I believe no other,-- [2] => Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, [3] => Such a dependency of thing on thing, [4] => As e'er I heard in madness. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O gracious duke, [1] => Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason [2] => For inequality; but let your reason serve [3] => To make the truth appear where it seems hid, [4] => And hide the false seems true. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Many that are not mad [1] => Have, sure, more lack of reason. What would you say? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am the sister of one Claudio, [1] => Condemn'd upon the act of fornication [2] => To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo: [3] => I, in probation of a sisterhood, [4] => Was sent to by my brother; one Lucio [5] => As then the messenger,-- ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That's I, an't like your grace: [1] => I came to her from Claudio, and desired her [2] => To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo [3] => For her poor brother's pardon. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => That's he indeed. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => You were not bid to speak. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my good lord; [1] => Nor wish'd to hold my peace. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wish you now, then; [1] => Pray you, take note of it: and when you have [2] => A business for yourself, pray heaven you then [3] => Be perfect. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => I warrant your honour. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => The warrants for yourself; take heed to't. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => This gentleman told somewhat of my tale,-- ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Right. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It may be right; but you are i' the wrong [1] => To speak before your time. Proceed. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I went [1] => To this pernicious caitiff deputy,-- ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => That's somewhat madly spoken. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon it; [1] => The phrase is to the matter. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Mended again. The matter; proceed. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In brief, to set the needless process by, [1] => How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd, [2] => How he refell'd me, and how I replied,-- [3] => For this was of much length,--the vile conclusion [4] => I now begin with grief and shame to utter: [5] => He would not, but by gift of my chaste body [6] => To his concupiscible intemperate lust, [7] => Release my brother; and, after much debatement, [8] => My sisterly remorse confutes mine honour, [9] => And I did yield to him: but the next morn betimes, [10] => His purpose surfeiting, he sends a warrant [11] => For my poor brother's head. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => This is most likely! ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => O, that it were as like as it is true! ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By heaven, fond wretch, thou knowist not what thou speak'st, [1] => Or else thou art suborn'd against his honour [2] => In hateful practise. First, his integrity [3] => Stands without blemish. Next, it imports no reason [4] => That with such vehemency he should pursue [5] => Faults proper to himself: if he had so offended, [6] => He would have weigh'd thy brother by himself [7] => And not have cut him off. Some one hath set you on: [8] => Confess the truth, and say by whose advice [9] => Thou camest here to complain. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And is this all? [1] => Then, O you blessed ministers above, [2] => Keep me in patience, and with ripen'd time [3] => Unfold the evil which is here wrapt up [4] => In countenance! Heaven shield your grace from woe, [5] => As I, thus wrong'd, hence unbelieved go! ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know you'ld fain be gone. An officer! [1] => To prison with her! Shall we thus permit [2] => A blasting and a scandalous breath to fall [3] => On him so near us? This needs must be a practise. [4] => Who knew of Your intent and coming hither? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick? ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I know him; 'tis a meddling friar; [1] => I do not like the man: had he been lay, my lord [2] => For certain words he spake against your grace [3] => In your retirement, I had swinged him soundly. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Words against me? this is a good friar, belike! [1] => And to set on this wretched woman here [2] => Against our substitute! Let this friar be found. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But yesternight, my lord, she and that friar, [1] => I saw them at the prison: a saucy friar, [2] => A very scurvy fellow. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Blessed be your royal grace! [1] => I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard [2] => Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman [3] => Most wrongfully accused your substitute, [4] => Who is as free from touch or soil with her [5] => As she from one ungot. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We did believe no less. [1] => Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know him for a man divine and holy; [1] => Not scurvy, nor a temporary meddler, [2] => As he's reported by this gentleman; [3] => And, on my trust, a man that never yet [4] => Did, as he vouches, misreport your grace. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => My lord, most villanously; believe it. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, he in time may come to clear himself; [1] => But at this instant he is sick my lord, [2] => Of a strange fever. Upon his mere request, [3] => Being come to knowledge that there was complaint [4] => Intended 'gainst Lord Angelo, came I hither, [5] => To speak, as from his mouth, what he doth know [6] => Is true and false; and what he with his oath [7] => And all probation will make up full clear, [8] => Whensoever he's convented. First, for this woman. [9] => To justify this worthy nobleman, [10] => So vulgarly and personally accused, [11] => Her shall you hear disproved to her eyes, [12] => Till she herself confess it. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good friar, let's hear it. [1] => Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo? [2] => O heaven, the vanity of wretched fools! [3] => Give us some seats. Come, cousin Angelo; [4] => In this I'll be impartial; be you judge [5] => Of your own cause. Is this the witness, friar? [6] => First, let her show her face, and after speak. ) [STAGEDIR] => ISABELLA is carried off guarded; and MARIANA comes forward ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face [1] => Until my husband bid me. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => What, are you married? ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => No, my lord. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Are you a maid? ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => No, my lord. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => A widow, then? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Neither, my lord. ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are [1] => neither maid, widow, nor wife. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Silence that fellow: I would he had some cause [1] => To prattle for himself. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Well, my lord. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married; [1] => And I confess besides I am no maid: [2] => I have known my husband; yet my husband [3] => Knows not that ever he knew me. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => He was drunk then, my lord: it can be no better. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too! ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Well, my lord. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => This is no witness for Lord Angelo. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now I come to't my lord [1] => She that accuses him of fornication, [2] => In self-same manner doth accuse my husband, [3] => And charges him my lord, with such a time [4] => When I'll depose I had him in mine arms [5] => With all the effect of love. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Charges she more than me? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Not that I know. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => No? you say your husband. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo, [1] => Who thinks he knows that he ne'er knew my body, [2] => But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel's. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => This is a strange abuse. Let's see thy face. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My husband bids me; now I will unmask. [1] => This is that face, thou cruel Angelo, [2] => Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on; [3] => This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract, [4] => Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body [5] => That took away the match from Isabel, [6] => And did supply thee at thy garden-house [7] => In her imagined person. ) [STAGEDIR] => Unveiling ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Know you this woman? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Carnally, she says. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Sirrah, no more! ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Enough, my lord. ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I must confess I know this woman: [1] => And five years since there was some speech of marriage [2] => Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off, [3] => Partly for that her promised proportions [4] => Came short of composition, but in chief [5] => For that her reputation was disvalued [6] => In levity: since which time of five years [7] => I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her, [8] => Upon my faith and honour. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Noble prince, [1] => As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, [2] => As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue, [3] => I am affianced this man's wife as strongly [4] => As words could make up vows: and, my good lord, [5] => But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house [6] => He knew me as a wife. As this is true, [7] => Let me in safety raise me from my knees [8] => Or else for ever be confixed here, [9] => A marble monument! ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I did but smile till now: [1] => Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice [2] => My patience here is touch'd. I do perceive [3] => These poor informal women are no more [4] => But instruments of some more mightier member [5] => That sets them on: let me have way, my lord, [6] => To find this practise out. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ay, with my heart [1] => And punish them to your height of pleasure. [2] => Thou foolish friar, and thou pernicious woman, [3] => Compact with her that's gone, think'st thou thy oaths, [4] => Though they would swear down each particular saint, [5] => Were testimonies against his worth and credit [6] => That's seal'd in approbation? You, Lord Escalus, [7] => Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains [8] => To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived. [9] => There is another friar that set them on; [10] => Let him be sent for. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR PETER [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Would he were here, my lord! for he indeed [1] => Hath set the women on to this complaint: [2] => Your provost knows the place where he abides [3] => And he may fetch him. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go do it instantly. [1] => And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin, [2] => Whom it concerns to hear this matter forth, [3] => Do with your injuries as seems you best, [4] => In any chastisement: I for a while will leave you; [5] => But stir not you till you have well determined [6] => Upon these slanderers. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Provost ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, we'll do it throughly. [1] => Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that [2] => Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit DUKE ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Cucullus non facit monachum:' honest in nothing [1] => but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most [2] => villanous speeches of the duke. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We shall entreat you to abide here till he come and [1] => enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a [2] => notable fellow. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => As any in Vienna, on my word. ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her. [1] => Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you [2] => shall see how I'll handle her. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit an Attendant ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Not better than he, by her own report. ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Say you? ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, I think, if you handled her privately, [1] => she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly, [2] => she'll be ashamed. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => I will go darkly to work with her. ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => That's the way; for women are light at midnight. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come on, mistress: here's a gentlewoman denies all [1] => that you have said. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with [1] => the provost. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In very good time: speak not you to him till we [1] => call upon you. ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Mum. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander [1] => Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => 'Tis false. ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => How! know you where you are? ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Respect to your great place! and let the devil [1] => Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne! [2] => Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak. ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak: [1] => Look you speak justly. ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Boldly, at least. But, O, poor souls, [1] => Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox? [2] => Good night to your redress! Is the duke gone? [3] => Then is your cause gone too. The duke's unjust, [4] => Thus to retort your manifest appeal, [5] => And put your trial in the villain's mouth [6] => Which here you come to accuse. ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of. ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, thou unreverend and unhallow'd friar, [1] => Is't not enough thou hast suborn'd these women [2] => To accuse this worthy man, but, in foul mouth [3] => And in the witness of his proper ear, [4] => To call him villain? and then to glance from him [5] => To the duke himself, to tax him with injustice? [6] => Take him hence; to the rack with him! We'll touse you [7] => Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose. [8] => What 'unjust'! ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be not so hot; the duke [1] => Dare no more stretch this finger of mine than he [2] => Dare rack his own: his subject am I not, [3] => Nor here provincial. My business in this state [4] => Made me a looker on here in Vienna, [5] => Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble [6] => Till it o'er-run the stew; laws for all faults, [7] => But faults so countenanced, that the strong statutes [8] => Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop, [9] => As much in mock as mark. ) ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Slander to the state! Away with him to prison! ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What can you vouch against him, Signior Lucio? [1] => Is this the man that you did tell us of? ) ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, goodman baldpate: [1] => do you know me? ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I [1] => met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke. ) ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke? ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Most notedly, sir. ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a [1] => fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be? ) ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make [1] => that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and [2] => much more, much worse. ) ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the [1] => nose for thy speeches? ) ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => I protest I love the duke as I love myself. ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hark, how the villain would close now, after his [1] => treasonable abuses! ) ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Such a fellow is not to be talked withal. Away with [1] => him to prison! Where is the provost? Away with him [2] => to prison! lay bolts enough upon him: let him [3] => speak no more. Away with those giglots too, and [4] => with the other confederate companion! ) ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To Provost ) ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => What, resists he? Help him, Lucio. ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir! Why, you [1] => bald-pated, lying rascal, you must be hooded, must [2] => you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! [3] => show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour! [4] => Will't not off? ) ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou art the first knave that e'er madest a duke. [1] => First, provost, let me bail these gentle three. [2] => Sneak not away, sir; for the friar and you [3] => Must have a word anon. Lay hold on him. ) [STAGEDIR] => To LUCIO ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => This may prove worse than hanging. ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To ESCALUS ) [1] => We'll borrow place of him. [2] => Sir, by your leave. [3] => Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence, [4] => That yet can do thee office? If thou hast, [5] => Rely upon it till my tale be heard, [6] => And hold no longer out. ) [STAGEDIR] => To ANGELO ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my dread lord, [1] => I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, [2] => To think I can be undiscernible, [3] => When I perceive your grace, like power divine, [4] => Hath look'd upon my passes. Then, good prince, [5] => No longer session hold upon my shame, [6] => But let my trial be mine own confession: [7] => Immediate sentence then and sequent death [8] => Is all the grace I beg. ) ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come hither, Mariana. [1] => Say, wast thou e'er contracted to this woman? ) ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => I was, my lord. ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go take her hence, and marry her instantly. [1] => Do you the office, friar; which consummate, [2] => Return him here again. Go with him, provost. ) ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I am more amazed at his dishonour [1] => Than at the strangeness of it. ) ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come hither, Isabel. [1] => Your friar is now your prince: as I was then [2] => Advertising and holy to your business, [3] => Not changing heart with habit, I am still [4] => Attorney'd at your service. ) ) [132] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, give me pardon, [1] => That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd [2] => Your unknown sovereignty! ) ) [133] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You are pardon'd, Isabel: [1] => And now, dear maid, be you as free to us. [2] => Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart; [3] => And you may marvel why I obscured myself, [4] => Labouring to save his life, and would not rather [5] => Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power [6] => Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid, [7] => It was the swift celerity of his death, [8] => Which I did think with slower foot came on, [9] => That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him! [10] => That life is better life, past fearing death, [11] => Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort, [12] => So happy is your brother. ) ) [134] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => I do, my lord. ) [135] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For this new-married man approaching here, [1] => Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd [2] => Your well defended honour, you must pardon [3] => For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,-- [4] => Being criminal, in double violation [5] => Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach [6] => Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,-- [7] => The very mercy of the law cries out [8] => Most audible, even from his proper tongue, [9] => 'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!' [10] => Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; [11] => Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE. [12] => Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested; [13] => Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage. [14] => We do condemn thee to the very block [15] => Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste. [16] => Away with him! ) ) [136] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my most gracious lord, [1] => I hope you will not mock me with a husband. ) ) [137] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is your husband mock'd you with a husband. [1] => Consenting to the safeguard of your honour, [2] => I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, [3] => For that he knew you, might reproach your life [4] => And choke your good to come; for his possessions, [5] => Although by confiscation they are ours, [6] => We do instate and widow you withal, [7] => To buy you a better husband. ) ) [138] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my dear lord, [1] => I crave no other, nor no better man. ) ) [139] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Never crave him; we are definitive. ) [140] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Gentle my liege,-- ) [141] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You do but lose your labour. [1] => Away with him to death! [2] => Now, sir, to you. ) [STAGEDIR] => To LUCIO ) [142] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part; [1] => Lend me your knees, and all my life to come [2] => I'll lend you all my life to do you service. ) ) [143] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Against all sense you do importune her: [1] => Should she kneel down in mercy of this fact, [2] => Her brother's ghost his paved bed would break, [3] => And take her hence in horror. ) ) [144] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Isabel, [1] => Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me; [2] => Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all. [3] => They say, best men are moulded out of faults; [4] => And, for the most, become much more the better [5] => For being a little bad: so may my husband. [6] => O Isabel, will you not lend a knee? ) ) [145] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => He dies for Claudio's death. ) [146] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ISABELLA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Most bounteous sir, [1] => Look, if it please you, on this man condemn'd, [2] => As if my brother lived: I partly think [3] => A due sincerity govern'd his deeds, [4] => Till he did look on me: since it is so, [5] => Let him not die. My brother had but justice, [6] => In that he did the thing for which he died: [7] => For Angelo, [8] => His act did not o'ertake his bad intent, [9] => And must be buried but as an intent [10] => That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects; [11] => Intents but merely thoughts. ) [STAGEDIR] => Kneeling ) [147] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARIANA [LINE] => Merely, my lord. ) [148] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your suit's unprofitable; stand up, I say. [1] => I have bethought me of another fault. [2] => Provost, how came it Claudio was beheaded [3] => At an unusual hour? ) ) [149] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => It was commanded so. ) [150] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Had you a special warrant for the deed? ) [151] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => No, my good lord; it was by private message. ) [152] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For which I do discharge you of your office: [1] => Give up your keys. ) ) [153] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pardon me, noble lord: [1] => I thought it was a fault, but knew it not; [2] => Yet did repent me, after more advice; [3] => For testimony whereof, one in the prison, [4] => That should by private order else have died, [5] => I have reserved alive. ) ) [154] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => What's he? ) [155] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => His name is Barnardine. ) [156] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would thou hadst done so by Claudio. [1] => Go fetch him hither; let me look upon him. ) ) [157] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ESCALUS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sorry, one so learned and so wise [1] => As you, Lord Angelo, have still appear'd, [2] => Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood. [3] => And lack of temper'd judgment afterward. ) ) [158] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANGELO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am sorry that such sorrow I procure: [1] => And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart [2] => That I crave death more willingly than mercy; [3] => 'Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it. ) ) [159] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Which is that Barnardine? ) [160] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => This, my lord. ) [161] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There was a friar told me of this man. [1] => Sirrah, thou art said to have a stubborn soul. [2] => That apprehends no further than this world, [3] => And squarest thy life according. Thou'rt condemn'd: [4] => But, for those earthly faults, I quit them all; [5] => And pray thee take this mercy to provide [6] => For better times to come. Friar, advise him; [7] => I leave him to your hand. What muffled fellow's that? ) ) [162] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Provost [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is another prisoner that I saved. [1] => Who should have died when Claudio lost his head; [2] => As like almost to Claudio as himself. ) ) [163] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To ISABELLA ) [1] => Is he pardon'd; and, for your lovely sake, [2] => Give me your hand and say you will be mine. [3] => He is my brother too: but fitter time for that. [4] => By this Lord Angelo perceives he's safe; [5] => Methinks I see a quickening in his eye. [6] => Well, Angelo, your evil quits you well: [7] => Look that you love your wife; her worth worth yours. [8] => I find an apt remission in myself; [9] => And yet here's one in place I cannot pardon. [10] => You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward, [11] => One all of luxury, an ass, a madman; [12] => Wherein have I so deserved of you, [13] => That you extol me thus? ) [STAGEDIR] => To LUCIO ) [164] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the [1] => trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I [2] => had rather it would please you I might be whipt. ) ) [165] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Whipt first, sir, and hanged after. [1] => Proclaim it, provost, round about the city. [2] => Is any woman wrong'd by this lewd fellow, [3] => As I have heard him swear himself there's one [4] => Whom he begot with child, let her appear, [5] => And he shall marry her: the nuptial finish'd, [6] => Let him be whipt and hang'd. ) ) [166] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I beseech your highness, do not marry me to a whore. [1] => Your highness said even now, I made you a duke: [2] => good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold. ) ) [167] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Upon mine honour, thou shalt marry her. [1] => Thy slanders I forgive; and therewithal [2] => Remit thy other forfeits. Take him to prison; [3] => And see our pleasure herein executed. ) ) [168] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LUCIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marrying a punk, my lord, is pressing to death, [1] => whipping, and hanging. ) ) [169] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DUKE VINCENTIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Slandering a prince deserves it. [1] => She, Claudio, that you wrong'd, look you restore. [2] => Joy to you, Mariana! Love her, Angelo: [3] => I have confess'd her and I know her virtue. [4] => Thanks, good friend Escalus, for thy much goodness: [5] => There's more behind that is more gratulate. [6] => Thanks, provost, for thy care and secrecy: [7] => We shill employ thee in a worthier place. [8] => Forgive him, Angelo, that brought you home [9] => The head of Ragozine for Claudio's: [10] => The offence pardons itself. Dear Isabel, [11] => I have a motion much imports your good; [12] => Whereto if you'll a willing ear incline, [13] => What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine. [14] => So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show [15] => What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Officers with LUCIO ) ) ) ) ) )