Ay, my lord, the same: Madam, you have done me wrong,

Have I, Malvolio? no.

Notorious wrong.
Oli.
Mal. Lady, you have. Pray you peruse that letter.
You must not now deny it is your hand,
Write from it, if you can, in hand, or phrase;
Or say, 'tis not your seal, nor your invention:
You can say none of this: Well, grant it then,
And tell me, in the modesty of honor,

Why you have given me such clear lights of favor;
Bade me come smiling, and cross-gartered to you,
To put on yellow stockings, and to frown
Upon sir Toby, and the lighter people:
And, acting this in an obedient hope,
Why have you suffer'd me to be imprison'd,
Kept in a dark house, visited by the priest,
And made the most notorious geck, and gull,
That e'er invention play'd on! tell me why.

Oli. Alas, Malvolio, this is not my writing,
Though I confess much like the character:
But out of question, tis Maria's hand.
And now I do bethink me, it was she

First told me, thou wast mad; then cain'st in smiling,
And in such forms which here were presuppos'd
Upon thee in the letter. Prythee, be content:
This practice hath most shrewdly pass'd upon thee;
But when we know the grounds and authors of it,
Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge
Of thine own cause.

Fub.
Good madam, hear me speak;
And let no quarrel, nor no brawl to come,
Taint the condition of this present hour,
Which I have wonder'd at. In hope it shall not,
Most freely I confess, myself and Toby
Set this device against Malvolio here,
Upon some stubborn and uncourteous parts
We had conceived against him Maria writ
The letter, at sir Toby's great importance ;
In recompense whereof, he hath married her.
How with a sportful malice it was follow'd,
1 Fool.
⚫ Importunity.

May rather pluck on laughter than revenge;
If that the injuries be justly weigh'd,
That have on both sides past.

O.i. Alas, poor fool! how have they baffled thee! Cio. Why, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. I was one, sir, in this interlude; one sir To pas, sir; but that's all one: - - By the Lord, font. I um not mad ;- But do you remember? Mu tam, why laugh you at such a burrren rascal? an you smile not, he's gagg'd: And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Mal. I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.

Exit.

Oli. He hath been most notoriously abused.
Duke. Pursue him, and entreat him to a peace.—
He hath not told us of the captain yet;
When that is known and golden time convents,
A solemn combination shall be made
Of our dear souls:- Mean time, sweet sister,
We will not part from hence.-Cesario, come,
For so you shall be while you are a man:
But, when in other habits you are seen,
Orsino's mistress, and his fancy's queen. [Excunt
SONG.

Clo. When that I was and a little tiny boy,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
A foolish thing was but a toy,
For the rain it ruineth every day.

But when I came to man's estate,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
'Gainst knave and thief men shut their gate
For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came, alas! to wire,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
By swaggering could I never thrive,
For the rain it raineth every day.

But when I came unto my bed,

When hey, ho, the wind and the rain,
With toss-pots still had trunken head,
For the rain it raineth every day.

A great while ago the world begun,
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain.
But that's all one, our play is done,
And we'll strive to please you every day

Shall serve.

¡CENE I.—An Apartment in the Duke's Palace.

Enter Duke, ESCALUS, and Lords.

Duke. Escalus,

Fr. My lord.

Duke. Of government the properties to unfold, Would seem in me t' affect speech and discourse, ince I am put to know, that your own science reeds 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, arcity's institutions, and the terms

or common justice, y' are as pregnant in
Aart and practice hath enriched any

That we remember: There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp.

hither,

Sr. bid come before us, Angelo.-
What figure of us think you he will bear!

you must know, we have with special soul ected him our absence to supply; ent him our terror, drest him with our love, given his deputations all the organs ur own power: What think you of it? Ese. If any in Vienna be of worth undergo such ample grace and honor, tis lord Angelo.

Dike

Enter ANGELO.

Call

Look, where he comes. Ang. Always obedient to your grace's will, me to know your pleasure.

Angelo,

here is a kind of character in thy life,

at, to th, bserver, doth thy history

uly unf1:-Thyself, and thy belongings, e not the own so proper, as to waste

yself on thy virtues, them on thee. eventh with us, as we with torches do, lihem for themselves: for if our virtues id not forth of us, 'twere all alike

6

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.

Ang.

Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my metal, Before so noble and so great a figure Be stamp'd upon it.

Duke.

No more evasion:

We have with a leaven'd and prepar'd choice
Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors.
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 th' hopeful execution do I leave you
Of your commissions.

Ang.
Yet, give leave, my lord,
That we may bring you something on the way.
Duke. My haste may not admit it;

Nor need you, on mine honor, 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 hands
I'll privily away; I love the people,

But do not like to stage me to their eyes:
Though it do well, I do not relish well
Their loud applause, and ares vehement:
Nor do I think the man of safe discretion
That does affect it. Once more, fare you well.
Ang. The heavens give safety to your purposes

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2 Gent. Amen.

Lucio. Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the ten commandments, but scraped one out of the table.

2 Gent. Thou shalt not steal? Lucio. Ay, that he razed.

1 Gent. 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, doth relish the petition well that prays for peace.

2 Gent. I never heard any soldier dislike it. Lucio. I believe thee; for, I think, thou never wast where grace was said.

2 Gent. No? a dozen times at least. 1 Gent. What? in metre?

Lucio. In any proportion, or in any language. 1 Gent. I think, or in any religion. Lucio. Ay! why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all grace.

1 Gent. Well, there went but a pair of sheers between us.

Lucio. I grant; as there may between the lists and the velvet: thou art the list.

1 Gent. And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet: thou art a three-pil'd piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil d. for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?

Lucio. I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I live, forget to drink after thee.

1 Gent. I think I have done myself wrong; have I not?

2 Gent. Yes, that thou hast; whether thou art tainted, or free.

Lucio. Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes! I have purchased as many diseases under her roof, as come to

2 Gent. To what, I pray?

1 Gent. Judge.

2 Gent. To three thousand dollars a year.

1 Gent. Ay, and more.

Lucio. A French crown more.

1 Gent. Thou art always figuring diseases in me: but thou art full of error; I am sound.

Lucio. Nay, not as one would say, healthy, but so sound, as things that are hollow: thy bones are hollow; impiety has made a feast of thee.

Lucio But, after all this foeling, I would not have it so: art thou sure of this!

Bawd. I am too sure of it; and it is for getting Madam Julietta with child.

Lucio. Believe me, this may be: he promised tow meet me two hours since; and he was ever precise in promise-keeping.

2 Gent. Besides, you know, it draws something near to the speech we had to such a purpose.

1 Gent. But most of all, agreeing with the proclamation.

Lucio. Away; let's go learn the truth of it. [Exeunt Lucio and Gentlemer. Bard. Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat; what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk. How now! what's the news with you?

Enter Clown.

Clown. Yonder man is carried to prison.
Bawd. Well; what has he done!
Clown. A woman.

Bawd. But what's his offence?

Clown. Groping for trouts in a peculiar river. Bawd. What, is there a maid with child by him' Clown. No; but there's a woman with maid by him you have not heard of the proclamation, have you?

Bawd. What proclamation, man?

Clown. All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be pluck'd down.

Bawd. And what shall become of those in the city?

down too, but that a wise burgher put in for them. Clown. They shall stand for seed: they had gere Bawd. But, shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be pulled down?

Clown. To the ground, mistress.

Bawd. Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth: what shall become of me?

lack no clients. Though you change your place. Clown. Come, fear not you; good counsello ster still. Courage; there will be pity taken on your you need not change your trade; I'll be your tip service, you will be considered. you that have worn your eyes almost out i th

let's withdraw. Bawd. What's to do here? Thomas Tapster.

Clown. Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to prison: and there's madam Juliet.

SCENE III- The same

[Exeur!

Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio? whence come this restraint?

Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, lib erty:

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.

Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest I would send for certain of my creditors: And yet to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery ot freedom, as the morality of imprisonment.-What thy offence, Claudio?

Claud. What, but to speak of would offend again
Lucio. What is it? murder?
Claud. No.

Lucio. Lechery? Claud. Call it so.

-Lucio, a word [Takes aside

Prov. Away, sir; you must go.
C'aud. One word, good friend
with you.
The sweating si 'kness.

Lucio. A hundred, if they'll do you any good. Is lechery so took'd after!

Curud. Thus stands it with me:- - Upou a true contract,

I got possession of Julietta's bed;

You know the lady; she is fast my wife,
Save that we do the denunciation fack
Of outward order: this we came not to,
Day for propagation of a dower
Remaining in the coffer of her friends;

From whom we thought it meet to hide our love,
Tiltune had made them for us. But it chances,

The stealth of our most mutual intercourse,
With character too gross, is writ on Juliet.
Lucio. With child, perhaps?

Claud. Unhappily, even so.

And the new deputy now for the duke,

Whether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,

Ur whether that the body public be

A horse where on the governor doth ride,
Who newly in the seat, that it may know

He can command, let's it straight fee. the spur:
Whether the tyranny be in his place,

fit in his eminence that fills it up,

I stagger in: - But this new governor
Awakes me all the unrolled penalties,

Which have, like unscoured armor, hung by the wall

So long, that nineteen zodiacs have gone round,
And none of them been worn; and for a name,
Now puts the drowsy and neglected act
Freshly on me:-'tis, surely, for a name.

Lucio. I warrant, it is: and thy head stands so ticale on thy shoulders, that a milk-maid, if she be love, may sigh it off. Send after the duke, and appeal to him.

Curd. I have done so, but he's not to be found. I pr'ythee, Lucio, do me this kind service: This day my sister should the cloister enter, And there receive her approbation: Acquaint her with the danger of my state; ladore her, in my voice, that she inake friends

the stric deputy: bid herself assay him; I have great hope in that: for in her youth There is a prone and speechless dialect, Such as moves men: beside, she hath prosperous art When she will play with reason and discourse, And well she can persuade.

Luc. I pray, she may: as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under nevous imposition; as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost a game of tick-tack. I'll to her. Claud. I thank you, good friend Lucio. Lucio. Within two hours,

Claud. Come, oflicer, away.

SCENE IV. A Monastery.

Enter Duke and Friar THOMAS.

[Excunt.

Juke. No; holy father; throw away that thought; Bel eve not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom: why I desire thee To give me secret harbor, hath a purpose More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends of taraing youth.

Fri.

May your grace speak of it!
Duke. My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever lov'd the life remov'd;
Aid held in idle price to haunt assemblies,
Where youth and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
I have deliver'd to lord Angelo

A man of stricture and firm abstinence)
My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
Aad he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
For so I bave strew'd it in the common ear,
And so it is receiv'd: Now, plous sir,
I will demand of me, why I do this?
Fri. Gladly, my lord.

Duke. We have strict statutes, and most biting laws.

The needful bits and curbs for headstrong steeds.)
Watch for these fourteen years we have let sleep;
Even like an o er-grown lion in a cave,

That goes not out to prey: Now, as fond fathers
Having bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch,
Only to stick it in their children's sight,
For terres, not to use; in time the rod

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 homa, And yet my nature never in the sight,

To do it slander: And to behold his sway,

I will, as 'twere a brother of your order,

Visit both prince and people: therefore, I pr'ythee,
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.
[Exeunt

SCENE V. A Nunnery.

Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA.

Isab. And have you nuns no further privileges? Fran. Are not these large enough!

Isab. Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more; But rather wishing a more strict restraint Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of saint Clare. Lucio. Ho! Peace be in this place! [Within Ivab. Who's that which calls! Fran. 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 vowed, you must not speak with

men,

But in the presence of the prioress:
Or if you show your face, you must not speak.
Then, if you speak, you must not show your face;
He calls again; I pray you answer him.

[Exit FRANCISCA. Isab. Peace and prosperity! Who is't that calls? Enter LUCIO.

Lucio. 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?

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

Lucio. Gentle and fair, your brother kindly greets you:

Not to be weary with you, he's in prison.
Isab. Woe me! For what?

Lucio. For that which if myself might be his

judge,

He should receive his punishment in thanks:
He hath got his friend with child.

Isab. Sir, make me not your story.
Lucio.

It is true.

I would not-though 'tis my familiar sin
With maids to seem the lapwing, and to jest,
Tongue far from heart-play with all virgins so.
I hold you as a thing ensky'd, and sainted;
By your renouncement an immortal spirit;
And to be talked with in sincerity,
As with a saint.

Isah. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Lucio. Do not believe it. Fewness and truth,' 'tis thus:

Your brother and his lover have embraced:
As those that feed grow full; as blossoming time,
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings

Do not make a jest of me.

1 In few and true words.

Isub. O, let him marry her! Lucio. This is the point. The duke is very strangely gone from hence; Bore many gentlemen, myself being one, In hand, and hope of action: but we do learn By those that know the very nerves of state, His givings-out were of an infinite distance From his true-meant design. Upon his place, And with full line of his authority, Governs lord Angelo; a man, whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense; But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge With profits of the mind, study and fast. He (to give fear to use and liberty, Which have, for long, run by the hideous law, As mice by lions) hath pick'd out an act, Under whose heavy sense your brothers life Falls into forfeit! he arrests him on it; And follows close the rigor of the statute,

Assay the power you have. Isub. My power! Alas! I doubt,— Lucio. Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt: Go to lord Angelo, And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, Men give like gods; but when they weep and kneel All their petitions are as freely theirs As they themselves would owe them. Isab. I'll see what I can do. Lucio.

But speedily

Isab. I will about it straight: No longer staying but to give the mother Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you: Commend me to my brother: soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success. Lucio. I take my leave of you. Isab.

Good sir, adieu

[Exeunt

SCENE I-A Hall in Angelo's House.

other Attendants.

man,

Whom I would save, had a most noble father.
Let but your honor know,

(Whom I believe to be most straight in virtue,)
That, in the working of your own affections,
Had time coher'd 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 some time in your life
Err'd in this point which now you censure him,
And pull'd the law upon you.

Ang. 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus,
Another thing to fall. I not deny,

The jury, passing on the prisoners life,
May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two

Enter ELBOW, FROTH, Clown, Officers, &c. Elb. Come, bring them away: if these be good people in a common weal,s that do nothing but us their abuses in common houses, I know no law bring them away.

Ang. How now, sir! what's your name? and what's the matter?'

Elb. If it please your honor. I am the poor duke constable, and my name is Elbow; I do lean upor justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honor two notorious benefactors.

Ang. Benefactors? Well; what benefactors are they are they not malefactors?

what they are: but precise villains they are, that Elb. If it please your honor, I know not wel world, that good christians ought to have. am sure of; and void of all profanation in the

Escal. This comes off well; here's a wise officer Ang. Go to: what quality are they of! Elbow is your name? Why dost thou not speak, Elbow Člo. He cannot, sir; he's out at elbow.

Ang. What are you, sir?

Elb. He, sir? a tapster, sir; parcel bawd: one that serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as

justice,

That justice seizes. What know the laws,

That thieves do pass on thieves? 'Tis very pregnant,
The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it,
Because we see it; but what we do not see,
We tread upon and never think of it.
You may not so extenuate his offence,
For I have had such faults; but rather tell me,
When I that censure him, do so offend,
Let mine own judgment pattern out my death,
And nothing come in partial. Sir, he must die.
Escal. Be it as your wisdom will.
Ang.
Where is the provost?
Prov. Here, if it like your honor.
Ang.

See that Claudio
Be executed by nine to-morrow morning:
Bring him his confessor, let him be prepared:
For that's the utmost of his pilgrimage.
[Exeunt ANGELO and Provost.
Escal. Well, heaver forgive him; and forgive us
all!
Breeding plenty Tilling.

a Because.

she professess a hot-house, which, I think, is a very

ill house too.

Escal. Dost thou detest her therefore?

Elb. I say, sir, I will detest myself also, as well as she, that this house, if it be not a bawd's bee it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house. Escal. How dost thou know that, constable Elb. Marry, sir, by my wife; who, if she had been a woman cardinally given, might have been accused in fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there.

Escal. By the woman's means?

Elb. Ay, sir, by mistress Over-done's means: but 1 Sentenced Have. Thickets, thorny