Lords, Officers, Citizens, Boy, and Attendants. SCENE - Vienna 1 This play was first printed in the First Folio. It was there divided into Acts and Scenes. At the end of the text "The Scene scribed as "Vienna," and "The Names of all the Actors at length. was dewere given DUKE SCALUS. ESCAL. My lord. 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 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 4 to affect speech] to love talk for its own sake. 5 I am put to know] Cf. 2 Hen. VI, III, i, 43: "Had I been first put [i. e., 10 For common justice, you 're as pregnant in 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? Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love, DUKE. Look where he comes. Enter ANGELO ANG. Always obedient to your Grace's will, I come to know your pleasure. 7-10 then no more remains . . . work] This is obscure, and it is usually assumed that some words have accidentally dropped out. Theobald inserted in the dotted spaces you add Due diligency, for which Spedding substituted I add Commission ample. The meaning obviously is: Nothing more remains for me to tell you except to commit my authority to your own fit knowledge, with which your moral worth is on a level, and to let the principles or properties of government work out their way. 11-12 the terms justice] the technical language of the courts. 13 art and practice] Cf. Hen. V, I, i, 51 : “art and practic part of life.” 17 figure of us] resemblance to us. 18 with special soul] out of my special affection for him. Cf. Tempest, III, i, 44: “With so full soul." 20 30 40 There is a kind of character in thy life, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues 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 Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech Hold therefore, Angelo: In our remove be thou at full ourself; Mortality and mercy in Vienna 31 thine own so proper] so exclusively thine own property. 36-37 Spirits... issues] The soul is not endowed with nobleness, but for realising noble purposes. 39-41 she determines . . . use] she allots to herself the creditor's splendid advantages both of gratitude for service rendered and of interest on the loan. 42 can . . . advertise] can give instruction as to the part of deputy which I bestow on him. Advertise is accented on the second syllable. 44 In our remove] On our withdrawal. 45 Mortality and mercy] Power of capital punishment and of granting pardon. Live in thy tongue and heart: old Escalus, ANG. Now, good my lord, Let there be some more test made of my metal, Be stamp'd upon it. We have with a leaven'd and prepared choice 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 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: 47 Though... secondary] Though he was first under consideration for this post, [Escalus] now thy subordinate. 52 leaven'd] well fermented, mature. 55 prefers... unquestion'd] takes precedence of everything else, and leaves undiscussed. 50 60 |