Juliet. Muft die to-morrow! o injurious law, Prov. 'Tis pity of him. Exeunt. Ang⋅ W SCENE X. The Palace. Enter Angelo. HEN I would pray and think, I think and pray Whilft my intention, hearing not my tongue, Is't not the devil's creft? How now? who's there? Enter Servant. Serv. One Isabel, a fifter, afks access to you. Ang. Teach her the way. O heav'ns! why does my blood Thus muster to my heart, making both that Unable for itself, and difpoffeffing My other parts of neceffary fitnefs? So So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons; By which he should revive: and even fo SCENE XI. Enter Ifabella. Ifab. I am come to know your pleasure. Ang. That you might know it, would much better please me, Than to declare what 'tis. He cannot live. Ifab. Ev'n fo? — Heav'n keep you! Ang. Yet may he live a while; And, it may be, as long as you, or I: Ifab. Under your sentence? Ang. Yea. Ifab. When, I befeech you? that in his reprieve, Longer or fhorter, he may be fo fitted That his foul ficken not. Ang. Ha! fie, thefe filthy vices! 'twere as good To pardon him that hath from nature stol'n A man already made, as to remit Their faucy lewdnefs that do coin heav'n's image Falfely to take away a life true made, s to put mettle in reftrained means, To make a falfe one. Ifab. 'Tis fet down fo in heav'n, but not in earth. Ang. And fay you fo? then I fhall pose you quickly. [going. As As fhe that he hath stain'd? Ifab. Sir, believe this, I had rather give my body than my foul. Ang. I talk not of your foul; our compell'd fins Stand more for number than accoinpt. Ifab. How fay you? Ang. Nay, I'll not warrant that; for I can speak Against the thing I fay. Answer to this: I, now the voice of the recorded law, Ifab. Please you to do't, Ang. Pleas'd you to do't at peril of your foul, Ifab. That I do beg his life, if it be fin, Ang. Nay, but hear me: Your fenfe purfues not mine: either you're ignorant, Or feem fo craftily; and that's not good. Ifab. Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, But graciously to know I am no better. Ang. Thus wifdom wishes to appear most bright, When it doth tax itself: as these black masks Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder Than beauty could display'd. But mark me well: To be received plain I'll speak more gross; Your brother is to die. Ifab. So. Ang. And his offence is fo, as it appears Accountant to the law upon that pain. Ifab. True. Ang. Admit no other way to fave his life, Ifab. As much for my poor brother as myself; That longing I've been fick for, ere I'd yield Ang. Then muft your brother die. Ang. Were not you then as cruel as the sentence That you have flander'd fo? Ifab. An ignominious ransom and free pardon Are of two houses; lawful mercy, fure, Is nothing kin to foul redemption. Ang. You feem'd of late to make the law a tyrant, And rather prov'd the fliding of brother A merriment than a vice. Ifab. O, pardon me, your My lord; it very oft falls out, to have What we would have, we speak not what we mean : For his advantage that I dearly love. Ang. Ang. We are all frail. Ifab. Elfe let my brother die, If not a feodary but only he Owe and fucceed by weakness. Ang. Nay, women are frail too. Ifab. Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves; In profiting by them: nay, call us ten times frail; And credulous to false prints. Ang. I think it well; And from this teftimony of your own sex, (Since, I suppose, we're made to be no ftronger Than faults may fhake our frames) let me be bold; I do arreft your words: be that you are, That is, a woman; if you're more, you're none. you be one, as you are well exprefs'd If By all external warrants, fhow it now, By putting on the destin❜d livery. İfab. I have no tongue but one; gentle my lord, Ifab. My brother did love Juliet ; And you tell me that he fhall die for it. Ang. He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love. Ifab. I know, your virtue hath a licence in't, Which feems a little fouler than it is, To pluck on others. Ang. Believe me on mine honour, My words express my purpose. Ifab. Ha! little honour to be much believ'd, Or with an out-ftretch'd throat I'll tell the world Aloud |