Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Duke._ 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 5 Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice My strength can give you: then no more remains, But that to your sufficiency . . . . . . ....
_Duke._ Many and hearty thankings to you both. We have made inquiry of you; and we hear 5 Such goodness of your justice, that our soul Cannot but yield you forth to public thank...
16. SCENE I. _A room in the prison._Duke._ Be absolute for death; either death or life 5 Shall thereby be the sweeter. Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a...
9. SCENE I. _A hall in ANGELO'S house._Ang._ We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror.
17. SCENE II. _The street before the prison._Elb._ Nay, if there be no remedy for it, but that you will needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall have all the world drink brown and white bastard.
22. SCENE II. _A room in the prison._Prov._ Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me 5 a direct answer. To-morrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common executioner, who i...
10. SCENE II. _Another room in the same._Prov._ Pray you, do. [_Exit Servant._] I'll know His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas, He hath but as offended in a dream! All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he 5...
14. SCENE IV. _A room in ANGELO'S house._Ang._ When I would pray and think, I think and pray To several subjects. Heaven hath my empty words; Whilst my invention, hearing not my tongue, Anchors on Isabel: Heaven in my...
3. SCENE II. _A street._First 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 thank...
24. SCENE III. _Another room in the same._Pom._ I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old customers. First, her...
7. SCENE IV. _A nunnery._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 vow'd, you must not speak wi...
1. SCENE I. _An apartment in the DUKE'S palace._Duke._ 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 5 Exceeds, in that, the lists of al...
19. SCENE I. _The moated grange at ST LUKE'S.Take, O, take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn: But my kisses bring again, bring again; 5 Seals...
5. SCENE III. _A monastery._Duke._ 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 pu...
18. SCENE II.] om. Ff. SCENE IV. Pope.Enter ... Pompey] Enter Elbow, Clowne, Officers. Ff. 5: _usuries_] _usancies_ Collier MS. 7: Punctuated as in Hanmer. Ff place a semicolon after _law_. Pope a full stop. Warburt...
12. SCENE III. _A room in a prison._Duke._ Bound by my charity and my blest order, I come to visit the afflicted spirits Here in the prison. Do me the common right 5 To let me see them, and to make me know The na...
15. SCENE IV.] SCENE X. Pope.2: _empty_] om. Seymour conj. 3: _invention_] _intention_ Pope. 4: _Heaven_] _Heaven's_ Rowe. _Heaven is_ Capell. 5: _his_] _its_ Pope. 9: _fear'd_] _scar'd_ Hanmer. _sear_ Heat...
4. SCENE II.] SCENE III. Pope.12: First Gent. _Why, 'twas_] 1. Gent. _Why? 'twas_ Ff. First Gent. _Why?_ Luc. _'Twas_ Singer. 15: _before_] _after_ Hanmer. See note (II). _do_] _doth_ Hanmer. _does_ Warburto...
26. SCENE IV. _A room in ANGELO'S house._Ang._ In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and redeliver our autho...
11. SCENE II.] SCENE VI. Pope.1: _he will_] _he'll_ Pope. 4: _but as offended_] _offended but as_ Grant White. 5: _sects_] _sorts_ S. Walker conj. _of this_] _o' th'_ Hanmer. 9: _dost thou_] om. Hanmer. 12:...
2. SCENE I. Lords and Attendants.] Singer. Lords. Ff. and Attendants.Capell. 5: _put_] _not_ Pope. _apt_ Collier MS. 7, 8: _remains, But that_] _remains; Put that_ Rowe. 8, 9: _But that to your sufficiency ..._] _But that to your sufficiency you...
25. SCENE III.] SCENE VIII. Pope.5: _paper_] _pepper_ Rowe. 11: _Dizy_] F2 F3 F4. _Dizie_ F1. _Dizzy_ Pope. _Dicey_ Steevens conj. 14: _Forthlight_] Ff. _Forthright_ Warburton. 15: _Shooty_] F2 F3 F4. _Shootie_...
23. SCENE II.] SCENE V. Pope.2-4: Printed as verse in Ff. 37-42: Abhor. _Sir,.......thief_] Abhor. ***Clown.*** _Sir, it is a mystery._ Abhor. _Proof.--_ Clown. _Every ... thief_ (42) Hanmer. Pom. _Proof .....
20. SCENE I. Enter M.] Ff. M. discovered sitting. Steevens.5, 6: F4 omits the refrain in l. 6. Rowe omits it in both lines. 6: _but_] _though_ Fletcher's version. 13: _it_] _is_ Warburton. 17: _meet_] _meet one_ Hanmer. 19: Enter I.] Tr...
6. SCENE III.] SCENA QUARTA Ff. SCENE VII. Pope.3: _bosom_] _breast_ Pope. 10: _and witless_] F2 F3 F4. _witless_ F1. _with witless_ Edd. conj. _keeps_] _keep_ Hammer. 12: _stricture_] _strictness_ Davenant's version. _strict...
30. SCENE VI. _Street near the city-gate._Isab._ To speak so indirectly I am loath: I would say the truth; but to accuse him so, That is your part: yet I am advised to do it; He says, to veil full purpose.
8. SCENE IV.] SCENA QUINTA Ff. SCENE VIII. Pope.5: _sisterhood, the votarists_] _sister votarists_ Pope. 27: _For that which_] _That for which_ Malone conj. 30: _make me not your story_] _mock me not:--your story_ Malone. _ma...
28. SCENE V. _Fields without the town._Duke._ These letters at fit time deliver me: [_Giving letters._ The provost knows our purpose and our plot. The matter being afoot, keep your instruction, And hold you ever to...
27. SCENE IV.] SCENE XII. Pope.A room ... house.] Capell. The palace. Rowe. 2, sqq.: Angelo's speeches in this scene Collier prints as verse. 5: _redeliver_] Capell. _re-liver_] F1. _deliver_ F2 F3 F4. 13: A...
13. SCENE III.] SCENE IX. Pope. Act III. SCENE I. Johnson conj.7: _crimes that I may_] _several crimes that I May_ Seymour conj. 9: Enter JULIET] Transferred by Dyce to line 15. 11: _flaws_] F3 F4. _flawes_ F1 F2. _flames_ Warburton (after...
21. SCENE IV. Pope.31. SCENE VI.] SCENE XIV. Pope.29. SCENE V.] SCENE XIII. Pope.