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Measure For Measure

  1. 1 Enter Isabella and Mariana.
  2. 2 ISABELLA.
  3. 3 To speak so indirectly I am loath;
  4. 4 I would say the truth, but to accuse him so
  5. 5 That is your part; yet I am advised to do it,
  6. 6 He says, to veil full purpose.
  7. 7 MARIANA.
  8. 8 Be ruled by him.
  9. 9 ISABELLA.
  10. 10 Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
  11. 11 He speak against me on the adverse side,
  12. 12 I should not think it strange, for ’tis a physic
  13. 13 That’s bitter to sweet end.
  14. 14 MARIANA.
  15. 15 I would Friar Peter—
  16. 16 Enter Friar Peter.
  17. 17 ISABELLA.
  18. 18 O, peace, the friar is come.
  19. 19 FRIAR PETER.
  20. 20 Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
  21. 21 Where you may have such vantage on the Duke
  22. 22 He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded.
  23. 23 The generous and gravest citizens
  24. 24 Have hent the gates, and very near upon
  25. 25 The Duke is entering. Therefore hence, away.
  26. 26 [_Exeunt._]