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Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Vincentio |
5 |
Of government the properties to unfold,
Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;
Since I am put to know that your own science
Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice
My strength can give you: then no more remains,
But that to your sufficiency [—]
[—] as your Worth is able,]
And let them work. The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions, and the terms
For common justice, you're as pregnant in
As art and practise hath enriched any
That we remember. There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,
I say, bid come before us Angelo.
[Exit an Attendant]
What figure of us Think you he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply,
Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own power: what think you of it?
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Vincentio |
33 |
Angelo,
There is a kind of character in thy life,
That to the observer doth thy history
Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech
To one that can my part in him advertise;
Hold therefore, Angelo:—
In our remove be thou at full ourself;
Mortality and mercy in Vienna
Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus,
Though first in question, is thy secondary.
Take thy commission.
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3 |
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.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Angelo |
70 |
Yet give leave, my lord,
That we may bring you something on the way.
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Vincentio |
72 |
My haste may not admit it;
Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do
With any scruple; your scope is as mine own
So to enforce or qualify the laws
As to your soul seems good. Give me your hand:
I'll privily away. I love the people,
But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
Through it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause and Aves vehement;
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Angelo |
83 |
The heavens give safety to your purposes!
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7 |
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.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
98 |
If the duke with the other dukes come not to
composition with the King of Hungary, why then all
the dukes fall upon the king.
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
101 |
Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of
Hungary's!
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
104 |
Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that
went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped
one out of the table.
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
109 |
Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and
all the rest from their functions: they put forth
to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in
the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition
well that prays for peace.
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
125 |
I grant; as there may between the lists and the
velvet. Thou art the list.
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
127 |
And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt
a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief
be a list of an English kersey as be piled, as thou
art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak
feelingly now?
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14 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
151 |
How now! which of your hips has the most profound sciatica?
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15 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Second Gentleman |
167 |
Besides, you know, it draws something near to the
speech we had to such a purpose.
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
169 |
But, most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.
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17 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
170 |
Away! let's go learn the truth of it.
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18 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Mistress Overdone |
172 |
Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what
with the gallows and what with poverty, I am
custom-shrunk.
[Enter POMPEY]
How now! what's the news with you?
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19 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Pompey |
183 |
No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have
not heard of the proclamation, have you?
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20 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Pompey |
186 |
All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.
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