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Measure for Measure
[I, 4] |
Lucio |
378 |
For that which, if myself might be his judge,
He should receive his punishment in thanks:
He hath got his friend with child.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 4] |
Lucio |
434 |
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. Go to Lord Angelo,
And let him learn to know, when maidens sue,
Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel,
All their petitions are as freely theirs
As they themselves would owe them.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Elbow |
530 |
Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman
cardinally given, might have been accused in
fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
626 |
If he took you a box o' the ear, you might have your
action of slander too.
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Provost |
747 |
Lest I might be too rash:
Under your good correction, I have seen,
When, after execution, judgment hath
Repented o'er his doom.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Isabella |
804 |
Yes; I do think that you might pardon him,
And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Isabella |
809 |
But might you do't, and do the world no wrong,
If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse
As mine is to him?
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Isabella |
833 |
Alas, alas!
Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy. How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Angelo |
1054 |
That you might know it, would much better please me
Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Angelo |
1083 |
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,
Pronounce a sentence on your brother's life:
Might there not be a charity in sin
To save this brother's life?
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Isabella |
1373 |
O you beast!
O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch!
Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?
Is't not a kind of incest, to take life
From thine own sister's shame? What should I think?
Heaven shield my mother play'd my father fair!
For such a warped slip of wilderness
Ne'er issued from his blood. Take my defiance!
Die, perish! Might but my bending down
Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed:
I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,
No word to save thee.
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Vincentio |
1394 |
Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and
by have some speech with you: the satisfaction I
would require is likewise your own benefit.
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1643 |
What, I prithee, might be the cause?
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14 |
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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15 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Provost |
2201 |
This shall be done, good father, presently.
But Barnardine must die this afternoon:
And how shall we continue Claudio,
To save me from the danger that might come
If he were known alive?
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 4] |
Angelo |
2326 |
Good night.
[Exit ESCALUS]
This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid!
And by an eminent body that enforced
The law against it! But that her tender shame
Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no;
For my authority bears of a credent bulk,
That no particular scandal once can touch
But it confounds the breather. He should have lived,
Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense,
Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge,
By so receiving a dishonour'd life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived!
A lack, when once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.
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17 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Vincentio |
2845 |
It is your husband mock'd you with a husband.
Consenting to the safeguard of your honour,
I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
For that he knew you, might reproach your life
And choke your good to come; for his possessions,
Although by confiscation they are ours,
We do instate and widow you withal,
To buy you a better husband.
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Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Lucio |
2950 |
'Faith, my lord. I spoke it but according to the
trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I
had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
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