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Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Vincentio |
59 |
No more evasion:
We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice
Proceeded to you; therefore take your honours.
Our haste from hence is of so quick condition
That it prefers itself and leaves unquestion'd
Matters of needful value. We shall write to you,
As time and our concernings shall importune,
How it goes with us, and do look to know
What doth befall you here. So, fare you well;
To the hopeful execution do I leave you
Of your commissions.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Mistress Overdone |
201 |
What's to do here, Thomas tapster? let's withdraw.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Pompey |
202 |
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to
prison; and there's Madam Juliet.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 3] |
Vincentio |
297 |
My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever loved the life removed
And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
You will demand of me why I do this?
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Provost |
487 |
Here, if it like your honour.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Elbow |
502 |
If it Please your honour, I am the poor duke's
constable, and my name is Elbow: I do lean upon
justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good
honour two notorious benefactors.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Elbow |
537 |
Prove it before these varlets here, thou honourable
man; prove it.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
548 |
No, indeed, sir, not of a pin; you are therein in
the right: but to the point. As I say, this
Mistress Elbow, being, as I say, with child, and
being great-bellied, and longing, as I said, for
prunes; and having but two in the dish, as I said,
Master Froth here, this very man, having eaten the
rest, as I said, and, as I say, paying for them very
honestly; for, as you know, Master Froth, I could
not give you three-pence again.
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
572 |
Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honour's
leave. And, I beseech you, look into Master Froth
here, sir; a man of four-score pound a year; whose
father died at Hallowmas: was't not at Hallowmas,
Master Froth?
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
578 |
Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,
sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in
the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight
to sit, have you not?
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
583 |
Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths.
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
618 |
Which is the wiser here? Justice or Iniquity? Is
this true?
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Froth |
638 |
Here in Vienna, sir.
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14 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Servant |
760 |
Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
Desires access to you.
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15 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 3] |
Vincentio |
967 |
Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 3] |
Provost |
973 |
I would do more than that, if more were needful.
[Enter JULIET]
Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister'd her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
Than die for this.
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17 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Isabella |
1267 |
[Within] What, ho! Peace here; grace and good company!
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18 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Vincentio |
1480 |
This forenamed maid hath yet in her the continuance
of her first affection: his unjust unkindness, that
in all reason should have quenched her love, hath,
like an impediment in the current, made it more
violent and unruly. Go you to Angelo; answer his
requiring with a plausible obedience; agree with
his demands to the point; only refer yourself to
this advantage, first, that your stay with him may
not be long; that the time may have all shadow and
silence in it; and the place answer to convenience.
This being granted in course,—and now follows
all,—we shall advise this wronged maid to stead up
your appointment, go in your place; if the encounter
acknowledge itself hereafter, it may compel him to
her recompense: and here, by this, is your brother
saved, your honour untainted, the poor Mariana
advantaged, and the corrupt deputy scaled. The maid
will I frame and make fit for his attempt. If you
think well to carry this as you may, the doubleness
of the benefit defends the deceit from reproof.
What think you of it?
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Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1517 |
O heavens! what stuff is here
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20 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1693 |
No might nor greatness in mortality
Can censure 'scape; back-wounding calumny
The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong
Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?
But who comes here?
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