To let me see them; and to make me know Prov. I would do more than that if more were needful. Enter JULIET. Look, here comes one; a gentlewoman of mine, Than die for this. Duke. When must he die? Prov. As I do think, to-morrow.— I have provided for you; stay a while, And you shall be conducted. [TO JULIET. Duke. Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry? Juliet. I do; and bear the shame most patiently. Duke. I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. Juliet. I'll gladly learn. Duke. Love you the man that wrong'd you? Juliet. Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him. Duke. So then, it seems, your most offenceful act Was mutually committed? Juliet. Mutually. Duke. Then was your sin of heavier kind than his. Juliet. I do confess it, and repent it, father. Duke. 'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent, As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,— Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not Heaven; Showing, we would not spare Heaven, as we love it, But as we stand in fear, Juliet. I do repent me, as it is an evil; And take the shame with joy. There rest. Duke. Your partner, as hear, must die to-morrow, And I am going with instruction to him.- [Exit. Juliet. Must die to-morrow! O, injurious love, That respites me a life, whose very comfort Is still a dying horror! Prov. "T is pity of him. [Exeunt. SCENE IV.-A Room in Angelo's House. Enter ANGELO. a Ang. When I would pray and think, I think and pray And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil Enter Servant. One Isabel, a sister, How now, who's there? Serv. Desires access to you. Ang. Teach her the way. O Heavens! [Exit Serv. a Invention-imagination. b Boot-advantage. • Case-outside. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart, And dispossessing all my other parts Of necessary fitness? So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons; Enter ISABELLA. How now, fair maid? Isab. I am come to know your pleasure. Ang. That you might know it would much better please me, Than to demand what 't is. Your brother cannot live. Isab. Even so.-Heaven keep your honour! [Retiring. Ang. Yet may he live a while; and, it may be, As long as you, or I : yet he must die. Isab. Under your sentence? Ang. Yea. Isab. When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve, Longer, or shorter, he may be so fitted, That his soul sicken not. Ang. Ha! Fie, these filthy vices! It were as good To pardon him that hath from nature stolen A man already made, as to remit Their saucy sweetness, that do coin Heaven's image In stamps that are forbid: 't is all as easy As to put mettle in restrained means, To make a false one. Isab. "T is set down so in heaven, but not in earth. Ang. Say you so? then I shall poze you quickly. a The general-the people. Which had you rather, That the most just law Isab. Ang. I talk not of your soul: Our compell'd sins Stand more for number than for accompt. Isab. How say you? Ang. Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak Against the thing I say. Answer to this ; I, now the voice of the recorded law, To save this brother's life? Isab. Please you to do 't, I'll take it as a peril to my soul, It is no sin at all, but charity. Ang. Pleas'd you to do 't, at peril of your soul, Were equal poise of sin and charity. Isab. That I do beg his life, if it be sin, Heaven let me bear it! you granting of my suit, To have it added to the faults of mine, And nothing of your answer.a Ang. Nay, but hear me: Your sense pursues not mine: either you are ignorant, Or seem so, craftily; and that's not good. Isab. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no better. Ang. Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright, a Your answer-for you to answer. Isab. So. appears Ang. And his offence is so, as it Accountant to the law upon that pain. Isab. True. Ang. Admit no other way to save his life, Isab. As much for my poor brother as myself: The impression of keen whips I 'd wear as rubies, That longing had been sick for, ere I'd yield Ang. Then must your brother die. Should die for ever. Ang. Were not you then as cruel as the sentence That you have slander'd so? Isab. Ignomy in ransom, and free pardon, Are of two houses: lawful mercy Is nothing kin to foul redemption. Ang. You seem'd of late to make the law a tyrant; And rather prov'd the sliding of your brother A merriment, than a vice. Isab. O, pardon me, my lord; it oft falls out, To have what we would have, we speak not what we meau: |