To undergo fuch ample grace and honour, It is lord Angelo. SCENE II. Enter Angelo. DUKE. Look where he comes. ANG. Always obedient to your grace's will, I come to know thy pleasure. DUKE. Angelo, There is a kind of character in thy life, As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, But to fine iffues; nor nature never lends The fmalleft fcruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddefs, fhe determines Both thanks and ufe. But I do bend my speech To one that can, my part in him advertise; Hold therefore Angelo: In our remove, be thou at full our felf. Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart; old Efcalus, ANG. Now, good my lord, Let there be fome more teft made of my metal, Before fo noble and so great a figure Be stampt upon it. DUKE. Come, no more evasion: We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice Of your commiffions. ANG. Yet give leave, my lord, That we may bring you fomething on the way. Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do As to your foul seems good. Give me your hand, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; ESCAL. I fhall defire you, Sir, to give me leave [Exit. A pow'r I have, but of what strength and nature ANG. "Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together, And we may foon our fatisfaction have Touching that point. ESCAL. I'll wait upon your honour. SCENE III. The street. Enter Lucio, and two gentlemen. [Exeunt. LUCIO. If the duke, with the other dukes, come not to compofition with the king of Hungary, why, then all the dukes fall upon the king. 1 GENT. Heav'n grant us its peace, but not the king of Hungary's! 2 GENT. Amen. LUCIO. Thou conclud❜st like the fanctimonious pirate, that went to fea with the ten commandments, but fcrap'd one out of the table. 2 GENT. Thou shalt not fteal?. LUCIO. Ay, that he raz'd. I GENT. Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and all the reft from their functions; they put forth to fteal. There's not a foldier of us all, that, in the thankf giving before meat, doth relish the petition well that prays for peace. 2 GENT. I never heard any foldier dislike it. LUCIO. I believe thee; for, I think, thou never wast where. grace was faid. 2 GENT. No? a dozen times at least. GENT. What? in meeter? Lucio. In any proportion, or in any language. LUCIO. Ay, why not? grace is grace, defpite of all controversy; as for example thou thyself art a wicked villain, defpite of all grace. I GENT. Well; there went but a pair of fheers between us? Lucio. I grant; as there may between the lifts and the velvet. Thou art the lift. I GENT. And thou the velvet; thou art good velvet; thou art a three-pil'd piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French velvet. Do I fpeak feelingly now? LUCIO. I think thou doft; and, indeed, with most painful feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own confeffion, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I live, forget to drink after thee. J GENT. I think, I have done myself wrong, have I not? 2 GENT. Yes, that thou haft; whether thou art tainted, or free. Lucio. Behold, behold, where madam Mitigation comes. as come to 2 GENT. To what I pray? I GENT. Judge. 2 GENT. To three thousand dollars a year. 1 GENT. Ay, and more. LUCIO. A French crown more. IGENT. Thou art always figuring diseases in me; But thou art full of error; I am found. Lucio. Nay, not as one would fay healthy; but so found, as things that are hollow; thy bones are hollow; impiety hath made a feaft of thee. SCENE V. Enter Bawd. I GENT. How now, which of your hips has the most profound sciatica ? BAWD. Well, well; there's one yonder arrested, and carry'd to prifon, was worth five thousand of you all. I GENT. Who's that, I pr'ythee? BAWD. Marry, Sir, that's Claudio; fignior Claudio. BAWD. Nay, but I know 'tis fo. I faw him arrested; faw him carried away; and, which is more, within thefe three days his head is to be chopt off. LUCIO. But, after all this fooling, I would not have it fo. Art thou fure of this? BAWD. I am too fure of it; and it is for getting madam Julietta with child. LUCIO. Believe me, this may be. He promifed to meet me two hours fince, and he was ever precife in promisekeeping. 2 GENT. Besides, you know, it draws fomething near to the speech we had to fuch a purpose. I GENT. But most of all agreeing with the proclamation. LUCIO. Away, let's go learn the truth of it. Manet Bawd. [Exe. BAWD. Thus, what with the war, what with the fweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am cu tom fhrunk. How now, what's the news with you? SCENE V. Enter Clown. CLOWN. Yonder man is carry'd to prifon. |