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Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
645 |
Hath she had any more than one husband?
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Vincentio |
1455 |
She should this Angelo have married; was affianced
to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between
which time of the contract and limit of the
solemnity, her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea,
having in that perished vessel the dowry of his
sister. But mark how heavily this befell to the
poor gentlewoman: there she lost a noble and
renowned brother, in his love toward her ever most
kind and natural; with him, the portion and sinew of
her fortune, her marriage-dowry; with both, her
combinate husband, this well-seeming Angelo.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Lucio |
1578 |
Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the
due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he
doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born.
Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison,
Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you
will keep the house.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 1] |
Vincentio |
1878 |
Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, 'tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn's to reap, for yet our tithe's to sow.
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Mariana |
2576 |
Pardon, my lord; I will not show my face
Until my husband bid me.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Mariana |
2590 |
My lord; I do confess I ne'er was married;
And I confess besides I am no maid:
I have known my husband; yet my husband
Knows not that ever he knew me.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Mariana |
2598 |
Now I come to't my lord
She that accuses him of fornication,
In self-same manner doth accuse my husband,
And charges him my lord, with such a time
When I'll depose I had him in mine arms
With all the effect of love.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Vincentio |
2606 |
No? you say your husband.
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Mariana |
2611 |
My husband bids me; now I will unmask.
[Unveiling]
This is that face, thou cruel Angelo,
Which once thou sworest was worth the looking on;
This is the hand which, with a vow'd contract,
Was fast belock'd in thine; this is the body
That took away the match from Isabel,
And did supply thee at thy garden-house
In her imagined person.
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Mariana |
2843 |
O my most gracious lord,
I hope you will not mock me with a husband.
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11 |
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] |
Mariana |
2869 |
Isabel,
Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;
Hold up your hands, say nothing; I'll speak all.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad: so may my husband.
O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?
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