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The moated grange at ST. LUKE ’s.
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The moated grange at ST. LUKE ’s.
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Enter MARIANA and a Boy
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Enter MARIANA and a Boy
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BOY (sings) Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
5 But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
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BOY (sings) 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;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
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MARIANA Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still’d my brawling discontent.
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MARIANA Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still’d my brawling discontent.
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Exit Boy
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Exit Boy
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Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
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Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
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10 I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
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I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
15 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
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MARIANA You have not been inquired after:
20 I have sat here all day.
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MARIANA You have not been inquired after:
I have sat here all day.
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Enter ISABELLA
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Enter ISABELLA
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DUKE VINCENTIO I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
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MARIANA I am always bound to you.
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MARIANA I am always bound to you.
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Exit
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Exit
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DUKE VINCENTIO 25 Very well met, and well come.
What is the news from this good deputy?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Very well met, and well come.
What is the news from this good deputy?
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ISABELLA He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard back’d;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
30 That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
35 To call upon him.
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ISABELLA He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard back’d;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
To call upon him.
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DUKE VINCENTIO But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
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DUKE VINCENTIO But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
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ISABELLA I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t:
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
40 The way twice o’er.
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ISABELLA I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t:
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
The way twice o’er.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Are there no other tokens
Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Are there no other tokens
Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
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ISABELLA No, none, but only a repair i’ the dark;
And that I have possess’d him my most stay
45 Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
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ISABELLA No, none, but only a repair i’ the dark;
And that I have possess’d him my most stay
Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis well borne up.
50 I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis well borne up.
I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
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Re-enter MARIANA
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Re-enter MARIANA
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I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
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I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
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ISABELLA I do desire the like.
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ISABELLA I do desire the like.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 55 Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
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MARIANA Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
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MARIANA Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
60 The vaporous night approaches.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.
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MARIANA Will’t please you walk aside?
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MARIANA Will’t please you walk aside?
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Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
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DUKE VINCENTIO O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
65 Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
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DUKE VINCENTIO O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
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Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Welcome, how agreed?
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Welcome, how agreed?
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ISABELLA She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
70 If you advise it.
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ISABELLA She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.
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DUKE VINCENTIO It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too.
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DUKE VINCENTIO It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too.
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ISABELLA Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
75 ‘Remember now my brother.’
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ISABELLA Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
‘Remember now my brother.’
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MARIANA Fear me not.
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MARIANA Fear me not.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, ’tis no sin,
80 Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, ’tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Modern Text |
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The moated grange at ST. LUKE ’s.
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The moated grange at ST. LUKE ’s.
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Enter MARIANA and a Boy
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Enter MARIANA and a Boy
|
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BOY (sings) Take, O, take those lips away,
That so sweetly were forsworn;
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
5 But my kisses bring again, bring again;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
|
BOY (sings) 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;
Seals of love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.
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MARIANA Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still’d my brawling discontent.
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MARIANA Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away:
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still’d my brawling discontent.
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Exit Boy
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Exit Boy
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Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
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Enter DUKE VINCENTIO disguised as before
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10 I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
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I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish
You had not found me here so musical:
Let me excuse me, and believe me so,
My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
|
|
DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
15 To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
|
DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm
To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired
for me here to-day? much upon this time have
I promised here to meet.
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MARIANA You have not been inquired after:
20 I have sat here all day.
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MARIANA You have not been inquired after:
I have sat here all day.
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Enter ISABELLA
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Enter ISABELLA
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DUKE VINCENTIO I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
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DUKE VINCENTIO I do constantly believe you. The time is come even
now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may
be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
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MARIANA I am always bound to you.
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MARIANA I am always bound to you.
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Exit
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Exit
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DUKE VINCENTIO 25 Very well met, and well come.
What is the news from this good deputy?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Very well met, and well come.
What is the news from this good deputy?
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ISABELLA He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard back’d;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
30 That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
35 To call upon him.
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ISABELLA He hath a garden circummured with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard back’d;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There have I made my promise
Upon the heavy middle of the night
To call upon him.
|
|
DUKE VINCENTIO But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
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DUKE VINCENTIO But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
|
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ISABELLA I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t:
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
40 The way twice o’er.
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ISABELLA I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t:
With whispering and most guilty diligence,
In action all of precept, he did show me
The way twice o’er.
|
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DUKE VINCENTIO Are there no other tokens
Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Are there no other tokens
Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
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ISABELLA No, none, but only a repair i’ the dark;
And that I have possess’d him my most stay
45 Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
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ISABELLA No, none, but only a repair i’ the dark;
And that I have possess’d him my most stay
Can be but brief; for I have made him know
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
I come about my brother.
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis well borne up.
50 I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
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DUKE VINCENTIO ’Tis well borne up.
I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth!
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Re-enter MARIANA
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Re-enter MARIANA
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I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
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I pray you, be acquainted with this maid;
She comes to do you good.
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ISABELLA I do desire the like.
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ISABELLA I do desire the like.
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DUKE VINCENTIO 55 Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
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DUKE VINCENTIO Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
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MARIANA Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
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MARIANA Good friar, I know you do, and have found it.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
60 The vaporous night approaches.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Take, then, this your companion by the hand,
Who hath a story ready for your ear.
I shall attend your leisure: but make haste;
The vaporous night approaches.
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MARIANA Will’t please you walk aside?
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MARIANA Will’t please you walk aside?
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Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Exeunt MARIANA and ISABELLA
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DUKE VINCENTIO O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
65 Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
|
DUKE VINCENTIO O place and greatness! millions of false eyes
Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report
Run with these false and most contrarious quests
Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit
Make thee the father of their idle dreams
And rack thee in their fancies.
|
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Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Re-enter MARIANA and ISABELLA
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Welcome, how agreed?
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Welcome, how agreed?
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ISABELLA She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
70 If you advise it.
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ISABELLA She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
If you advise it.
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DUKE VINCENTIO It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too.
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DUKE VINCENTIO It is not my consent,
But my entreaty too.
|
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ISABELLA Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
75 ‘Remember now my brother.’
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ISABELLA Little have you to say
When you depart from him, but, soft and low,
‘Remember now my brother.’
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MARIANA Fear me not.
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MARIANA Fear me not.
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DUKE VINCENTIO Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, ’tis no sin,
80 Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.
|
DUKE VINCENTIO Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
He is your husband on a pre-contract:
To bring you thus together, ’tis no sin,
Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go:
Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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