: Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends Enter Isabella and Mariana. Ifab. To fpeak so indirectly I am loth: I'd say the truth; but to accufe him fo, Mari. Be rul'd by him. 4 Isab. Besides, he tells me, that if peradventure He speak againft me on the adverse side, Mari. I would Friar Peter Ifab. Oh, peace, the Friar is come. Enter Peter. [Exeunt. Peter. Come, I have found you out a stand most fit, Where you may have such vantage on the Duke, He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets founded! The generous and gravest citizens Have hent the gates, and very near upon The Duke is entring: therefore hence, away. (Exeunt. 5 to vail full old edit. Theob. emend. .. ACT ACT V. SCENE I. The STREET. Enter Duke, Varrius, Lords, Angelo, Escalus, Lucio, and Citizens, at several doors. M DUKE. Y very worthy cousin, fairly met; Our old and faithful friend, we're glad to see you. Duke. Many and hearty thanks be to you both: Ang. You make my bonds still greater. To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, SCENE Enter Peter and Isabella. II. : Peter. Now is your time: speak loud and kneel before him. Isab. Justice, O royal Duke! vail your regard Upon a wrong'd, I'd fain have faid, a maid: VOL. I. Oh Oh worthy prince, dishonour not your eye Duke. Relate your wrongs; in what, by whom? be brief: Ifab. Oh worthy Duke, You bid me feek redemption of the devil: Ang. My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm: Ifab. Course of justice! Ang. And the will speak most bitterly, and strange. That Angelo's forsworn: is it not strange? Duke. Nay, ten times strange. Duke. Away with her: poor foul, Ifab. Oh, I conjure thee, Prince, as thou believ'st There is another comfort than this world, That I am touch'd with madness. Make not impossible That which but seems unlike; 'tis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground, May feem as fhy, as grave, as just, as absolute As Angelo; ev'n so may Angelo, In all his dressings, caracts, titles, forms, Duke. By mine 'honour, Ifab. Gracious Duke, 1. Harp not on that; and do not banish reason Duke. Many 'not mad Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say? Ifab. I am the sister of one Claudio, Condemn'd upon the act of fornication, To lose his head; condemn'd by Angelo: I, in probation of a sisterhood, Was sent to by my brother; As then the messenger, one Lucio being Lucio. That's I, an't like your Grace: I came to her from Claudio, and defir'd her To try her gracious fortune with lord Angelo, For her poor brother's pardon. Isab. That's he indeed. Duke. You were not bid to speak. [To Lucio. Lucio. No, my good lord, nor wish'd to hold my peace. Duke. I wish you now then; Pray you, take note of it: and when you have A business for your self, pray heav'n you then Lucio. I warrant your honour, Sir. Duke. The warrant's for your self; "be sure take heed to't. Isab. This gentleman told something of my tale. Lucio. Right. 6 honesty, 7 that are not mad & one Lucio 9 take heed to't. Duke. It may be right, but you are in the wrong To fpeak before your time. Proceed. Ifab. I went To this pernicious caitiff Deputy. Duke. That's fomewhat madly spoken, The phrafe is to the matter. Duke. Mend again: 'the matter then; proceed. How I perfuaded, how I pray'd and kneel'd, Duke. This is most likely ! Isab. Oh that it were as like as it is true! [thou speak'st; Or elfe thou art fuborn'd against his honour Stands without blemish; it imports no reason, Offended, he would have weigh'd thy brother by In countenance! Heav'n fhield your Grace from woe, the matter; proceed. As |