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1

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.

2

Measure for Measure
[I, 1]

Escalus

87

I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
To look into the bottom of my place:
A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.

3

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Mistress Overdone

187

And what shall become of those in the city?

4

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Pompey

188

They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too,
but that a wise burgher put in for them.

5

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Mistress Overdone

190

But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be
pulled down?

6

Measure for Measure
[I, 2]

Mistress Overdone

193

Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!
What shall become of me?

7

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.

8

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?

9

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Elbow

628

Marry, I thank your good worship for it. What is't
your worship's pleasure I shall do with this wicked caitiff?

10

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Escalus

662

Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you;
so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the
Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey,
howsoever you colour it in being a tapster, are you
not? come, tell me true: it shall be the better for you.

11

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Escalus

671

But the law will not allow it, Pompey; nor it shall
not be allowed in Vienna.

12

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Escalus

687

Thank you, good Pompey; and, in requital of your
prophecy, hark you: I advise you, let me not find
you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever;
no, not for dwelling where you do: if I do, Pompey,
I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd
Caesar to you; in plain dealing, Pompey, I shall
have you whipt: so, for this time, Pompey, fare you well.

13

Measure for Measure
[II, 1]

Pompey

694

I thank your worship for your good counsel:
[Aside]
but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall
better determine.
Whip me? No, no; let carman whip his jade:
The valiant heart is not whipt out of his trade.

14

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Provost

744

Is it your will Claudio shall die tomorrow?

15

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Angelo

751

Go to; let that be mine:
Do you your office, or give up your place,
And you shall well be spared.

16

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Provost

754

I crave your honour's pardon.
What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet?
She's very near her hour.

17

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Angelo

766

Well, let her be admitted.
[Exit Servant]
See you the fornicatress be removed:
Let have needful, but not lavish, means;
There shall be order for't.

18

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Isabella

845

To-morrow! O, that's sudden! Spare him, spare him!
He's not prepared for death. Even for our kitchens
We kill the fowl of season: shall we serve heaven
With less respect than we do minister
To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you;
Who is it that hath died for this offence?
There's many have committed it.

19

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Isabella

915

Ay, with such gifts that heaven shall share with you.

20

Measure for Measure
[II, 2]

Isabella

917

Not with fond shekels of the tested gold,
Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor
As fancy values them; but with true prayers
That shall be up at heaven and enter there
Ere sun-rise, prayers from preserved souls,
From fasting maids whose minds are dedicate
To nothing temporal.