No Fear Shakespeare: Measure for Measure: Act 4 Scene 4

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Original Text	Modern Text
A room in ANGELO ’s house.	A room in ANGELO ’s house.
Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS	Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS
ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.	ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
ANGELO In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to madne pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and 5 redeliver our authorities there[?]	ANGELO In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to madne pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and redeliver our authorities there[?]
ESCALUS I guess not.	ESCALUS I guess not.
ANGELO And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?	ANGELO And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?
ESCALUS 10 He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand against us.	ESCALUS He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand against us.
ANGELO Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes 15 i’ the morn; I’ll call you at your house: give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.	ANGELO Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes i’ the morn; I’ll call you at your house: give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.
ESCALUS I shall, sir. Fare you well.	ESCALUS I shall, sir. Fare you well.
ANGELO Good night.	ANGELO Good night.
Exit ESCALUS	Exit ESCALUS
20 This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings. A deflower’d maid! And by an eminent body that enforced The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, 25 How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, 30 Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge, By so receiving a dishonour’d life With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not a reference to Romans 7:15 we would, and we would not.	This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings. A deflower’d maid! And by an eminent body that enforced The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge, By so receiving a dishonour’d life With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not a reference to Romans 7:15 we would, and we would not.
Exit	Exit

Original Text	Modern Text
A room in ANGELO ’s house.	A room in ANGELO ’s house.
Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS	Enter ANGELO and ESCALUS
ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.	ESCALUS Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
ANGELO In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to madne pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and 5 redeliver our authorities there[?]	ANGELO In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to madne pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and redeliver our authorities there[?]
ESCALUS I guess not.	ESCALUS I guess not.
ANGELO And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?	ANGELO And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?
ESCALUS 10 He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand against us.	ESCALUS He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand against us.
ANGELO Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes 15 i’ the morn; I’ll call you at your house: give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.	ANGELO Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes i’ the morn; I’ll call you at your house: give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.
ESCALUS I shall, sir. Fare you well.	ESCALUS I shall, sir. Fare you well.
ANGELO Good night.	ANGELO Good night.
Exit ESCALUS	Exit ESCALUS
20 This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings. A deflower’d maid! And by an eminent body that enforced The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, 25 How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, 30 Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge, By so receiving a dishonour’d life With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not a reference to Romans 7:15 we would, and we would not.	This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant And dull to all proceedings. A deflower’d maid! And by an eminent body that enforced The law against it! But that her tender shame Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; For my authority bears of a credent bulk, That no particular scandal once can touch But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge, By so receiving a dishonour’d life With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not a reference to Romans 7:15 we would, and we would not.
Exit	Exit