No Fear Shakespeare: Measure for Measure: Act 3 Scene 2 Page 10

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ESCALUS One that, above all other strifes, contended especially to know himself.	ESCALUS Someone who, above everything else, truly wanted to know himself.
DUKE VINCENTIO What pleasure was he given to?	DUKE VINCENTIO What sort of things did he enjoy?
ESCALUS 225Rather rejoicing to see another merry, than merry at any thing which professed to make him rejoice: a gentleman of all temperance. But leave we him to his events, with a prayer they may prove prosperous; and let me desire to know how you find Claudio 230prepared. I am made to understand that you have lent him visitation.	ESCALUS He enjoyed seeing someone else happy more than doing something that made himself happy—an even-tempered man. But let’s leave him to his affairs, with a prayer that they’ll be prosperous, and tell me how Claudio is. I understand you’ve visited him.
DUKE VINCENTIO He professes to have received no sinister measure from his judge, but most willingly humbles himself to the determination of justice: yet had he framed 235to himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving promises of life; which I by my good leisure have discredited to him, and now is he resolved to die.	DUKE VINCENTIO He claims to have received no unfair treatment from his judge, but willingly yields to the law’s verdict. Out of human weakness, he’d formed many deceptive hopes about a reprieve. But gradually I showed him these made no sense, and now he is ready to die.
ESCALUS You have paid the heavens your function, and the 240prisoner the very debt of your calling. I have laboured for the poor gentleman to the extremest shore of my modesty: but my brother justice have I found so severe, that he hath forced me to tell him he is indeed Justice.	ESCALUS You have fulfilled your duty to both God and the prisoner. I pleaded for the poor man as much as I could, without giving offense, but my fellow judge is so severe, I swear, he’s like Justice itself.