Escal. Call that same Isabel here once again; [to an Attendant] I would speak with her: Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you shall see how I 'Il handle her. Lucio. Not better than he, by her own report. Escal. Say you? Lucio. Marry, sir, I think if you handled her privately she would sooner confess: perchance, publicly she 'll be ashamed. Re-enter Officers, with ISABELLA; the DUKE, in the Escal. I will go darkly to work with her. Lucio. That's the way; for women are light at midnight. Escal. Come on, mistress: [to ISABELLA] here 's a gentlewoman denies all that you have said. Lucio. My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with the provost. Escal. In very good time :-speak not you to him, till we call upon you. Lucio. Mum. Escal. Come, sir: Did you set these women on to slander lord Angelo? they have confessed you did. Duke. "T is false. Escal. How! know you where you are? Duke. Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne :Where is the duke? 't is he should hear me speak. Escal. The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak: Look you speak justly. Duke. souls, And put your trial in the villain's mouth, Lucio. This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of. To accuse this worthy man? but, in foul mouth, To call him villain? and then to glance from him Take him hence; to the rack with him :-We'll touze you Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose: Duke. Be not so hot; the duke Dare no more stretch this finger of mine, than he Nor here provincial: My business in this state Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble, As much in mock as mark. Escal. Slander to the state! Away with him to prison. Ang. What can you vouch against him, signior Lucio? Is this the man that you did tell us of? Lucio. "T is he, my lord. baldpate: Do you know me? Come hither, goodman Duke. I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice I met you at the prison, in the absence of the duke. Lucio. O did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke? Duke. Most notedly, sir. Lucio. Do you so, sir? And was the duke a flesh monger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be? Duke. You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make that my report: you, indeed, spoke so of him; and much more, much worse. Lucio. O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the nose for thy speeches? Duke. I protest I love the duke, as I love myself. Ang. Hark! how the villain would close now, after his treasonable abuses. Escal. Such a fellow is not to be talked withal :Away with him to prison :-Where is the provost? Away with him to prison; lay bolts enough upon him: let him speak no more :-Away with those giglots a too, and with the other confederate companion. [The Provost lays hands on the DUKE. Duke. Stay, sir; stay awhile. Ang. What! resists he? Help him, Lucio. Lucio. Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir : Why, you baldpated, lying rascal! you must be hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! show your sheepbiting face, and be hanged an hour! Will 't not off? [Pulls off the Friar's hood, and discovers the DUKE. Duke. Thou art the first knave that e'er made a duke. First, provost, let me bail these gentle three :- Lucio. This may prove worse than hanging. Duke. What you have spoke, I pardon; sit you down. [TO ESCALUS. We'll borrow place of him-Sir, by your leave: Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence, a Giglots-wantons. [TO ANG. Rely upon it till my tale be heard, And hold no longer out. Ang. O my dread lord, I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be undiscernible, When I perceive your grace, like power divine, But let my trial be mine own confession: Duke. Duke. Go take her hence, and marry her, instantly.Do you the office, friar; which consummate, Return him here again :-Go with him, provost. [Exeunt ANG., MARI., PETER, and Prov. Escal. My lord, I am more amaz'd at his dishonour, Than at the strangeness of it. Duke. Isab. O give me pardon, That I, your vassal, have employ'd and pain'd Your unknown sovereignty. Duke. You are pardon'd, Isabel : And now, dear maid, be you as free to us. Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart; a Passes is used, we believe, in the same sense as the somewhat obsolete word passages. It was the swift celerity of his death, Which I did think with slower foot came on, That brain'd my purpose: But peace be with him! Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort, Re-enter ANGELO, MARIANA, PETER, and Provost. Isab. I do, my lord. Duke. For this new-married man, approaching here. Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well-defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudg'd your brother, (Being criminal, in double violation Of sacred chastity, and of promise-breach Most audible, even from his proper tongue, Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and Measure still for Measure. Then, Angelo, thy fault's thus manifested : Which, though thou wouldst deny, denies thee vantage: We do condemn thee to the very block Where Claudio stoop'd to death, and with like haste; Away with him. Mari. O, my most gracious lord, Duke. It is your husband mock'd you with a hus- Consenting to the safeguard of your honour, I thought your marriage fit; else imputation, |