{"product_id":"measure-for-measure-isbn-9780451527158","title":"Measure for Measure","description":"Called away on business, Duke Vincentio leaves Vienna in the hands of his trusted minister Angelo. But as Angelo abuses his new power, he has no idea that the duke is hiding in the shadows, observing each and every dastardly deed in this dark comedy. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis title in the Signet Classics Shakespeare series includes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• An overview of William Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater\u003cbr\u003e• A special introduction to the play by the editor, S. Nagarajan\u003cbr\u003e• A note on the sources from which Shakespeare derived \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Dramatic criticism from G. Wilson Knight, Mary Lascelles, Marcia Riefer Poulsen, and others\u003cbr\u003e• A stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Text, notes, and commentaries printed in the clearest, most readable format\u003cbr\u003e• Recommended readingsMeasure for Measure - William Shakespeare - Edited by S. Nagarajan       William Hazlitt: \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Characters of Shakespeare?s Plays\u003cbr\u003eWalter Pater: ?Measure for Measure?\u003cbr\u003eG. Wilson Knight: ?Measure for Measure? and the Gospels\u003cbr\u003eMary Lascelles: \u003ci\u003eFrom\u003c\/i\u003e Shakespeare?s ?Measure for Measure?\u003cbr\u003eMarcia Reifer Poulsen: ?Instruments of Some More Mightier Member?: The Constriction of Female Power in ?Measure for Measure?\u003cbr\u003eS. Nagarajan: ?Measure for Measure? on Stage and Screen\u003cp\u003eNEWLY ADDED ESSAY: \u003cbr\u003eRuth Nevo: Complex Sexuality\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e (1564–1616) was a poet, playwright, and actor who is widely regarded as one of the most influential writers in the history of the English language. Often referred to as the Bard of Avon, Shakespeare's vast body of work includes comedic, tragic, and historical plays; poems; and 154 sonnets. His dramatic works have been translated into every major language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.Act 1 Scene 1 running scene 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Duke, Escalus, Lords [and Attendants]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE Escalus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCALUS My lord.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE Of government the properties to unfold\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWould seem in me t'affect speech and discourse,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince I am put to know that your own science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExceeds, in that, the lists of all advice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy strength can give you. Then no more remains\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut that to your sufficiency as your worth is able,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd let them work. The nature of our people,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur city's institutions, and the terms\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor common justice, you're as pregnant in\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs art and practice hath enrichèd any\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat we remember. There is our commission, Hands him a paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom which we would not have you warp. Call hither,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI say, bid come before us Angelo. [Exit an Attendant]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat figure of us think you he will bear?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor you must know, we have with special soul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElected him our absence to supply;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLent him our terror, dressed him with our love,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd given his deputation all the organs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf our own power. What think you of it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCALUS If any in Vienna be of worth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo undergo such ample grace and honour,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is Lord Angelo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE Look where he comes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Angelo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANGELO Always obedient to your grace's will,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI come to know your pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE Angelo,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a kind of character in thy life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat to th'observer doth thy history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAre not thine own so proper as to waste\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeaven doth with us as we with torches do,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot light them for themselves: for if our virtues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDid not go forth of us, 'twere all alike\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touched\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut to fine issues, nor nature never lends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe smallest scruple of her excellence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut, like a thrifty goddess, she determines\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHerself the glory of a creditor,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoth thanks and use. But I do bend my speech\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo one that can my part in him advertise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHold therefore, Angelo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn our remove be thou at full ourself:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMortality and mercy in Vienna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLive in thy tongue and heart. Old Escalus,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough first in question, is thy secondary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake thy commission. Offers a paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANGELO Now, good my lord,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet there be some more test made of my mettle,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore so noble and so great a figure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBe stamped upon it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE No more evasion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe have with a leavened and preparèd choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProceeded to you: therefore take your honours. Angelo takes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur haste from hence is of so quick condition paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat it prefers itself and leaves unquestioned\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMatters of needful value. We shall write to you,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs time and our concernings shall importune,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow it goes with us, and do look to know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat doth befall you here. So, fare you well:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo th'hopeful execution do I leave you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf your commissions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANGELO Yet give leave, my lord,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat we may bring you something on the way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE My haste may not admit it,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor need you, on mine honour, have to do\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith any scruple. Your scope is as mine own,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo to enforce or qualify the laws\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs to your soul seems good. Give me your hand,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI'll privily away. I love the people,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut do not like to stage me to their eyes:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough it do well, I do not relish well\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir loud applause and aves vehement,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNor do I think the man of safe discretion\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat does affect it. Once more, fare you well.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANGELO The heavens give safety to your purposes!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCALUS Lead forth and bring you back in happiness!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE I thank you. Fare you well. Exit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCALUS I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo have free speech with you; and it concerns me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo look into the bottom of my place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA power I have, but of what strength and nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am not yet instructed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eANGELO 'Tis so with me. Let us withdraw together,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd we may soon our satisfaction have\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTouching that point.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESCALUS I'll wait upon your honour. Exeunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAct 1 Scene 2 running scene 2\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Lucio and two other Gentlemen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary's!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN Amen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN 'Thou shalt not steal'?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Ay, that he razed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN I never heard any soldier dislike it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where grace was said.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN No? A dozen times at least.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN What, in metre?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO In any proportion or in any language.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN I think, or in any religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy: as for example, thou thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN Well, there went but a pair of shears between us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO I grant, as there may between the lists and the velvet. Thou art the list.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN I think I have done myself wrong, have I not?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Bawd [Mistress Overdone]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes! I have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to-\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN To what, I pray?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Judge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN To three thousand dolours a year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN Ay, and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO A French crown more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN Thou art always figuring diseases in me, but thou art full of error, I am sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN How now! Which of your To Mistress Overdone\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ehips has the most profound sciatica?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Well, well. There's one yonder arrested and carried to prison was worth five thousand of you all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN Who's that, I pray thee?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Marry, sir, that's Claudio, Signior Claudio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN Claudio to prison? 'Tis not so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Nay, but I know 'tis so. I saw him arrested, saw him carried away, and, which is more, within these three days his head to be chopped off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO But, after all this fooling, I would not have it so. Art thou sure of this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE I am too sure of it. And it is for getting Madam Julietta with child.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Believe me, this may be: he promised to meet me two hours since, and he was ever precise in promise-keeping.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND GENTLEMAN Besides, you know, it draws something near to the speech we had to such a purpose.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST GENTLEMAN But most of all agreeing with the proclamation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Away! Let's go learn the truth of it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExeunt [Lucio and Gentlemen]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Thus, what with the war, what with the sweat, what with the gallows and what with poverty, I am custom-shrunk.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Clown [Pompey]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow now? What's the news with you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY Yonder man is carried to prison.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Well, what has he done?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY A woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE But what's his offence?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE What, is there a maid with child by him?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY No, but there's a woman with maid by him. You have not heard of the proclamation, have you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE What proclamation, man?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be plucked down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE And what shall become of those in the city?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY They shall stand for seed: they had gone down too, but that a wise burgher put in for them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE But shall all our houses of resort in the suburbs be pulled down?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY To the ground, mistress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth! What shall become of me?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY Come, fear you not: good counsellors lack no clients. Though you change your place, you need not change your trade: I'll be your tapster still. Courage! There will be pity taken on you; you that have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you will be considered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMISTRESS OVERDONE What's to do here, Thomas tapster? Let's withdraw.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOMPEY Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the provost to prison, and there's Madam Juliet. Exeunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAct 1 Scene 3 running scene 2 continues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Provost, Claudio, Juliet, Officers; Lucio and the two Gentlemen [follow]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to th'world?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBear me to prison, where I am committed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROVOST I do it not in evil disposition,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut from Lord Angelo by special charge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Thus can the demigod Authority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMake us pay down for our offence by weight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe words of heaven; on whom it will, it will,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn whom it will not, so. Yet still 'tis just.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs surfeit is the father of much fast,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo every scope by the immoderate use\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurns to restraint. Our natures do pursue,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike rats that ravin down their proper bane,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thirsty evil, and when we drink we die.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO 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 of freedom as the morality of imprisonment. What's thy offence, Claudio?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO What but to speak of would offend again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO What, is't murder?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO No.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Lechery?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Call it so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePROVOST Away, sir. You must go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO One word, good friend. Lucio, a word with you.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO A hundred, if they'll do you any good.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs lechery so looked after?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Thus stands it with me: upon a true contract\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI got possession of Julietta's bed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou know the lady, she is fast my wife,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSave that we do the denunciation lack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf outward order. This we came not to\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly for propagation of a dower\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRemaining in the coffer of her friends,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom whom we thought it meet to hide our love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTill time had made them for us. But it chances\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stealth of our most mutual entertainment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith character too gross is writ on Juliet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO With child, perhaps?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Unhappily, even so.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd the new deputy now for the duke -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether it be the fault and glimpse of newness,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr whether that the body public be\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA horse whereon the governor doth ride,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho, newly in the seat, that it may know\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe can command, lets it straight feel the spur:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether the tyranny be in his place,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr in his eminence that fills it up,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI stagger in - but this new governor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAwakes me all the enrollèd penalties\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich have, like unscoured armour, hung by th'wall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo long that nineteen zodiacs have gone round\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd none of them been worn; and, for a name,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow puts the drowsy and neglected act\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFreshly on me. 'Tis surely for a name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO I warrant it is: and thy head stands so tickle on thy shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO I have done so, but he's not to be found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis day my sister should the cloister enter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd there receive her approbation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcquaint her with the danger of my state,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImplore her, in my voice, that she make friends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo the strict deputy: bid herself assay him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have great hope in that, for in her youth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a prone and speechless dialect,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuch as move men. Beside, she hath prosperous art\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen she will play with reason and discourse,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd well she can persuade.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. I'll to her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO I thank you, good friend Lucio.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLUCIO Within two hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCLAUDIO Come, officer, away! Exeunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAct 1 Scene 4 running scene 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Duke and Friar Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE No, holy father, throw away that thought:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBelieve not that the dribbling dart of love\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCan pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo give me secret harbour hath a purpose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf burning youth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRIAR THOMAS May your grace speak of it?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE My holy sir, none better knows than you\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow I have ever loved the life removed,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd held in idle price to haunt assemblies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhere youth and cost and witless bravery keeps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have delivered to Lord Angelo -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA man of stricture and firm abstinence -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy absolute power and place here in Vienna,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd he supposes me travelled to Poland,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor so I have strewed it in the common ear,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so it is received. Now, pious sir,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou will demand of me why I do this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRIAR THOMAS Gladly, my lord.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE We have strict statutes and most biting laws,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhich for this fourteen years we have let slip,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEven like an o'ergrown lion in a cave\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat goes not out to prey. Now, as fond fathers,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaving bound up the threat'ning twigs of birch,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly to stick it in their children's sight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor terror, not to use, in time the rod\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBecomes more mocked than feared: so our decrees,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDead to infliction, to themselves are dead,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd liberty plucks justice by the nose,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGoes all decorum.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFRIAR THOMAS It rested in your grace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo unloose this tied-up justice when you pleased:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd it in you more dreadful would have seemed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThan in Lord Angelo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDUKE I do fear, too dreadful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSith 'twas my fault to give the people scope,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor what I bid them do, for we bid this be done,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen evil deeds have their permissive pass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd not the punishment. Therefore indeed, my father,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have on Angelo imposed the office,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho may in th'ambush of my name strike home,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd yet my nature never in the fight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo do in slander. And to behold his sway,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI will, as 'twere a brother of your order,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisit both prince and people: therefore, I prithee,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSupply me with the habit and instruct me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow I may formally in person bear me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike a true friar. More reasons for this action\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt our more leisure shall I render you;\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly, this one: Lord Angelo is precise,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat his blood flows, or that his appetite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf power change purpose, what our seemers be. Exeunt","brand":"Signet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304931840229,"sku":"NP9780451527158","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780451527158.jpg?v=1767732479","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/measure-for-measure-isbn-9780451527158","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}