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A room in a prison.
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A room in a prison.
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Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost
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Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost
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DUKE VINCENTIO Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.
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PROVOST I am the provost. What’s your will, good friar?
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PROVOST I am the provost. What’s your will, good friar?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
5 Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.
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PROVOST I would do more than that, if more were needful.
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PROVOST I would do more than that, if more were needful.
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Enter JULIET
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Enter JULIET
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10 Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister’d her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
15 Than die for this.
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Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister’d her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
Than die for this.
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DUKE VINCENTIO When must he die?
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DUKE VINCENTIO When must he die?
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PROVOST As I do think, to-morrow.
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PROVOST As I do think, to-morrow.
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To JULIET
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To JULIET
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I have provided for you: stay awhile,
And you shall be conducted.
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I have provided for you: stay awhile,
And you shall be conducted.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 20 Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
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JULIET I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
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JULIET I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Or hollowly put on.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Or hollowly put on.
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JULIET 25 I’ll gladly learn.
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JULIET I’ll gladly learn.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Love you the man that wrong’d you?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Love you the man that wrong’d you?
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JULIET Yes, as I love the woman that wrong’d him.
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JULIET Yes, as I love the woman that wrong’d him.
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DUKE VINCENTIO So then it seems your most offenceful act
Was mutually committed?
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DUKE VINCENTIO So then it seems your most offenceful act
Was mutually committed?
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JULIET 30 Mutually.
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JULIET Mutually.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
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JULIET I do confess it, and repent it, father.
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JULIET I do confess it, and repent it, father.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
35 Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
But as we stand in fear,—
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
But as we stand in fear,—
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JULIET I do repent me, as it is an evil,
And take the shame with joy.
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JULIET I do repent me, as it is an evil,
And take the shame with joy.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 40 There rest.
Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
And I am going with instruction to him.
Grace go with you, Benedicite!
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DUKE VINCENTIO There rest.
Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
And I am going with instruction to him.
Grace go with you, Benedicite!
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Exit
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Exit
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JULIET Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
45 That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror!
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JULIET Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror!
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PROVOST ’Tis pity of him.
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PROVOST ’Tis pity of him.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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A room in a prison.
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A room in a prison.
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Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost
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Enter, severally, DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as a friar, and Provost
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DUKE VINCENTIO Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Hail to you, provost! so I think you are.
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PROVOST I am the provost. What’s your will, good friar?
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PROVOST I am the provost. What’s your will, good friar?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
5 Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Bound by my charity and my blest order,
I come to visit the afflicted spirits
Here in the prison. Do me the common right
To let me see them and to make me know
The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
To them accordingly.
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PROVOST I would do more than that, if more were needful.
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PROVOST I would do more than that, if more were needful.
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Enter JULIET
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Enter JULIET
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10 Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister’d her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
15 Than die for this.
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Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine,
Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
Hath blister’d her report: she is with child;
And he that got it, sentenced; a young man
More fit to do another such offence
Than die for this.
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DUKE VINCENTIO When must he die?
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DUKE VINCENTIO When must he die?
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PROVOST As I do think, to-morrow.
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PROVOST As I do think, to-morrow.
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To JULIET
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To JULIET
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I have provided for you: stay awhile,
And you shall be conducted.
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I have provided for you: stay awhile,
And you shall be conducted.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 20 Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
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JULIET I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
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JULIET I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Or hollowly put on.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
And try your penitence, if it be sound,
Or hollowly put on.
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JULIET 25 I’ll gladly learn.
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JULIET I’ll gladly learn.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Love you the man that wrong’d you?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Love you the man that wrong’d you?
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JULIET Yes, as I love the woman that wrong’d him.
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JULIET Yes, as I love the woman that wrong’d him.
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DUKE VINCENTIO So then it seems your most offenceful act
Was mutually committed?
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DUKE VINCENTIO So then it seems your most offenceful act
Was mutually committed?
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JULIET 30 Mutually.
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JULIET Mutually.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
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JULIET I do confess it, and repent it, father.
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JULIET I do confess it, and repent it, father.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
35 Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
But as we stand in fear,—
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent,
As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven,
Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
But as we stand in fear,—
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JULIET I do repent me, as it is an evil,
And take the shame with joy.
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JULIET I do repent me, as it is an evil,
And take the shame with joy.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 40 There rest.
Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
And I am going with instruction to him.
Grace go with you, Benedicite!
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DUKE VINCENTIO There rest.
Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow,
And I am going with instruction to him.
Grace go with you, Benedicite!
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Exit
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Exit
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JULIET Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
45 That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror!
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JULIET Must die to-morrow! O injurious love,
That respites me a life, whose very comfort
Is still a dying horror!
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PROVOST ’Tis pity of him.
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PROVOST ’Tis pity of him.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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