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Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Claudio |
216 |
From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:
As surfeit is the father of much fast,
So every scope by the immoderate use
Turns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,
Like rats that ravin down their proper bane,
A thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 3] |
Vincentio |
290 |
No, holy father; throw away that thought;
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
Of burning youth.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 3] |
Vincentio |
326 |
I do fear, too dreadful:
Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,
'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
For what I bid them do: for we bid this be done,
When evil deeds have their permissive pass
And not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,
I have on Angelo imposed the office;
Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home,
And yet my nature never in the fight
To do in slander. And to behold his sway,
I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,
Visit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,
Supply me with the habit and instruct me
How I may formally in person bear me
Like a true friar. More reasons for this action
At our more leisure shall I render you;
Only, this one: Lord Angelo is precise;
Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses
That his blood flows, or that his appetite
Is more to bread than stone: hence shall we see,
If power change purpose, what our seemers be.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
457 |
Ay, but yet
Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,
Than fall, and bruise to death. Alas, this gentleman
Whom I would save, had a most noble father!
Let but your honour know,
Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,
That, in the working of your own affections,
Had time cohered with place or place with wishing,
Or that the resolute acting of your blood
Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose,
Whether you had not sometime in your life
Err'd in this point which now you censure him,
And pull'd the law upon you.
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5 |
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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6 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 3] |
Juliet |
998 |
I do confess it, and repent it, father.
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7 |
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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8 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Provost |
1417 |
What's your will, father
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Isabella |
1479 |
Show me how, good father.
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Isabella |
1510 |
I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Elbow |
1523 |
Come your way, sir. 'Bless you, good father friar.
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1524 |
And you, good brother father. What offence hath
this man made you, sir?
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Escalus |
1723 |
Good even, good father.
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14 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 1] |
Vincentio |
1862 |
O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
[Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA]
Welcome, how agreed?
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15 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 1] |
Isabella |
1870 |
She'll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 2] |
Provost |
1954 |
Who can do good on him?
Well, go, prepare yourself.
[Knocking within]
But, hark, what noise?
Heaven give your spirits comfort!
[Exit CLAUDIO]
By and by.
I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
For the most gentle Claudio.
[Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before]
Welcome father.
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17 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 2] |
Provost |
2086 |
Pardon me, good father; it is against my oath.
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18 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Abhorson |
2162 |
Look you, sir; here comes your ghostly father: do
we jest now, think you?
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19 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Provost |
2188 |
Here in the prison, father,
There died this morning of a cruel fever
One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate,
A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head
Just of his colour. What if we do omit
This reprobate till he were well inclined;
And satisfy the deputy with the visage
Of Ragozine, more like to Claudio?
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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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