That lying by the violet, in the sun, Shall we desire to raise the sanctuary, Such sense that my sense breeds with it.- Fare When judges steal themselves. What? do I love you well. Isab. Gentle my lord, turn back. her, That I desire to hear her speak again, Ang. I will bethink me:- come again to-mor- And feast upon her eyes? What is 't I dream on? O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, row. Isab. Hark how I'll bribe you: Good my lord, With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous turn back. Is that temptation, that doth goad us on Ang. How bribe me? To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet, Isab. Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall With all her double vigor, art and nature, share with you. Lucio. You had marred all else. Isab. Not with fond shekels of the tested gold, Ang. Well: come to me to-morrow. [Aside to ISABELLA. Isab. At what hour to-morrow Shall I attend your lordship? Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid When men were fond, I smiled, and wondered Enter DUKE, habited like a Friar, and Provost. Duke. Bound by my charity and my blesséd or- [Aside. I come to visit the afflicted spirits [Exeunt LUCIO, ISABELLA, and Provost. From thee; even from thy virtue! What's this? what's this? Is this her fault, or mine? Here in the prison: do me the common right Prov. I would do more than that, if more were needful. Enter JULIET. Look, here comes one; a gentlewoman of mine, The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most? Who, falling in the flames of her own youth, Ha! Not she; nor doth she tempt: but it is I, Hath blistered her report: She is with child; And he that got it, sentenced; a young man I have provided for you; stay a while, [To JULIET. As if I did but only chew his name; And you shall be conducted. And in my heart the strong and swelling evil Duke. Repent you, fair one, of the sin you Of my conception: The state, whereon I studied, carry? Is like a good thing, being often read, Juliet. I do; and bear the shame most pa- Grown feared and tedious; yea, my gravity, tiently. Wherein (let no man hear me) I take pride, Duke. I'll teach you how you shall arraign your Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume, Duke. Then was your sin of heavier kind than Desires access to you. Enter ANGELO. Ang. Teach her the way. [Exit Servant. So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons; Ang. Yet may he live a while; and it may be, Ang. When I would pray and think, I think As long as you, or I : yet he must die. and pray Isab. Under your sentence? Ang. Yea. Isab. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, Isab. When, I beseech you? that in his re- But graciously to know I am no better. prieve, Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted That his soul sicken not. Ang. Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright, When it doth tax itself: as these black masks Ang. Ha! Fy, these filthy vices! It were as Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder Isab. 'Tis set down so in heaven, but not in (As I subscribe not that, nor any other, earth. Ang. Say you so? then I shall poze you quickly. Isab. Sir, believe this, I had rather give my body than my soul. Ang. I talk not of your soul: our cómpelled sins Stand more for number than accompt. Isab. How say you? But in the loss of question), that you, his sister, Isab. As much for my poor brother as myself: Ang. Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can And strip myself to death, as to a bed Ang. Pleased you to do 't, at peril of your soul, That you have slandered so? I something do excuse the thing I hate, Else let my brother die, If not a feodary, but only he, Owe and succeed by weakness. Ang. Nay, women are frail too. I will proclaim thee, Angelo; look for 't: Ang. Who will believe thee, Isabel? My unsoiled name, the austereness of my life, Isab. Ay, as the glasses where they view them- Will so your accusation overweigh, you be one (as you are well expressed By all external warrants), shew it now, By putting on the destined livery. That you shall stifle in your own report, And smell of calumny. I have begun, That banish what they sue for; redeem thy bro- By yielding up thy body to my will: [Exit. Isab. To whom shall I complain? Did I tell this, Isab. I have no tongue but one: gentle my Who would believe me? O perilous mouths, lord, Let me intreat you speak the former language. Ang. Plainly conceive, I love you. That bear in them one and the self-same tongue, Isab. My brother did love Juliet; and you tell Hooking both right and wrong to the appetite, To follow as it draws! I'll to my brother: To such abhorred pollution. Then Isabel live chaste, and brother die : I'll tell him yet of Angelo's request, And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest. [Exit. Duke. So then you hope of pardon from Lord Dreaming on both for all thy blesséd youth Becomes as agéd, and doth beg the alms Angelo? I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing Claud. I humbly thank you. That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, And seeking death, find life: Let it come on. Servile to all the skiey influences That do this habitation where thou keep'st And yet runn'st toward him still thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bear'st Are nursed by baseness: thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm: thy best of rest is sleep, self; For thou exist'st on many a thousand grains tain; For thy complexion shifts to strange affects, Enter ISABELLA. Isab. What, ho! Peace here; grace and good company! Prov. Who's there? come in: the wish deserves Duke. Dear sir, ere long I'll visit you again. Isab. My business is a word or two with Claudio. Duke. Provost, a word with you. Prov. As many as you please. Yet hear them. [Exeunt DUKE and Provost. Lord Angelo having affairs to heaven, Claud. Is there no remedy? |