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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Measure for Measure
[I, 4]

(stage directions)

348

[Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA]

2

Measure for Measure
[I, 4]

Francisca

356

It is a man's voice. Gentle Isabella,
Turn you the key, and know his business of him;
You may, I may not; you are yet unsworn.
When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men
But in the presence of the prioress:
Then, if you speak, you must not show your face,
Or, if you show your face, you must not speak.
He calls again; I pray you, answer him.

3

Measure for Measure
[I, 4]

Lucio

367

Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses
Proclaim you are no less! Can you so stead me
As bring me to the sight of Isabella,
A novice of this place and the fair sister
To her unhappy brother Claudio?

4

Measure for Measure
[I, 4]

Isabella

372

Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
The rather for I now must make you know
I am that Isabella and his sister.

5

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

771

[Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO]

6

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Angelo

773

Stay a little while.
[To ISABELLA]
You're welcome: what's your will?

7

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

796

[Aside to ISABELLA] Give't not o'er so: to him
again, entreat him;
Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown:
You are too cold; if you should need a pin,
You could not with more tame a tongue desire it:
To him, I say!

8

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

813

[Aside to ISABELLA] You are too cold.

9

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

829

[Aside to ISABELLA]
Ay, touch him; there's the vein.

10

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

852

[Aside to ISABELLA] Ay, well said.

11

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

874

[Aside to ISABELLA] That's well said.

12

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

889

[Aside to ISABELLA] O, to him, to him, wench! he
will relent;
He's coming; I perceive 't.

13

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

899

[Aside to ISABELLA] Art avised o' that? more on 't.

14

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

916

[Aside to ISABELLA] You had marr'd all else.

15

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Lucio

925

[Aside to ISABELLA] Go to; 'tis well; away!

16

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

934

[Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost]

17

Measure for Measure
[II, 4]

Angelo

1037

Teach her the way.
[Exit Servant]
O heavens!
Why does my blood thus muster to my heart,
Making both it unable for itself,
And dispossessing all my other parts
Of necessary fitness?
So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons;
Come all to help him, and so stop the air
By which he should revive: and even so
The general, subject to a well-wish'd king,
Quit their own part, and in obsequious fondness
Crowd to his presence, where their untaught love
Must needs appear offence.
[Enter ISABELLA]
How now, fair maid?

18

Measure for Measure
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1271

[Enter ISABELLA]

19

Measure for Measure
[III, 1]

Claudio

1390

O hear me, Isabella!

20

Measure for Measure
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1422

[Exit Provost. ISABELLA comes forward]