PERSONS REPRESENTED. VINCENTIO, the Duke. Appears, Act. I. sc. 1; sc. 4. Act II. sc. 3. Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2. Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 2. Two other like Gentlemen. Appear, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3. Provost. Appears, Act. I. sc. 3. Act. II. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3. Act. III. sc. 1; sc. 2. ISABELLA, sister to Claudio. Appears, Act. I. sc. 5. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1. MARIANA, betrothed to Angelo. Appears, Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6. Act V. sc. 1. JULIET, beloved of Claudio. Appears, Act. I. sc. 3. Act. II. sc. 3. FRANCISCA, a nun. Appears, Act. I. sc. 5. MISTRESS OVERDONE, a bawd. Act V. sc. 1. Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2. Lords, Gentlemen, Guards, Officers, and other Attendants. SCENE, VIENNA. THIS Comedy was first printed in the folio collection of 1623. The original edition is divided into acts and scenes. characters as we have printed them. It also gives the enumeration of It has been recently ascertained that Measure for Measure' was presented at Court by the King's Players (the company to which Shakspere belonged) in 1604. MEASURE FOR MEASURE. ACT I. SCENE I.—An Apartment in the Duke's Palace. Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, Lords, and Attendants. DUKE. Escalus, ESCAL. My lord. DUKE. Of government the properties to unfold, My strength can give you: Then, no more remains: Our city's institutions, and the terms For common justice, you are as pregnant in, As art and practice hath enriched any That we remember: There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp.-Call hither, [Exit an Attendant. What figure of us think you he will bear? For you must know, we have with special soul Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love; |