Clo. Come; fear not you: good counsellors lack no clients though you change your place, you need not change your trade; I'll be your tapster still. Courage; there will be pity taken on you: you that have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you will be considered. Bawd. What's to do here, Thomas Tapster? Let's withdraw. Clo. Here comes signior Claudio, led by the provost to prison and there's madam Juliet. [Exeunt. SCENE III. The same. Enter Provost, CLAUDIO, JULIET, and Officers; Lucio, and two Gentlemen. Claud. Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world? Bear me to prison, where I am committed. Prov. I do it not in evil disposition, But from lord Angelo by special charge. Claud. Thus can the demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down for our offence by weight.The words of heaven ;-on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, so; yet still 'tis just." Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio? whence comes this restraint? Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty: So every scope by the immoderate use, Lucio. If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors: And yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment.-What's thy offence, Claudio? The words of heaven, &c.] Alluding to Rom. ix. 15.--"I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy."-HENLEY. ravin-] Devour voraciously. Claud. What, but to speak of would offend again. Lucio. What is it? murder? Claud. No. Lucio. Lechery? Claud. Call it so. Prov. Away, sir; you must go. Claud. One word, good friend :—Lucio, a word with you. [Takes him aside. Lucio. A hundred, if they'll do you any good. Is lechery so looked after? Claud. Thus stands it with me:-Upon a true contract, I got possession of Julietta's bed; You know the lady; she is fast my wife, Save that we do the denunciation lack Of outward order: this we came not to, From whom we thought it meet to hide our love, But it chances, The stealth of our most mutual entertainment, With character too gross, is writ on Juliet. Claud. Unhappily even so. And the new deputy now for the duke,— A horse whereon the governor doth ride, He can command, lets it straight feel the spur : Or in his eminence that fills it up, I stagger in:-But this new governor Which have, like unscour'd armour, hung by the wall And none of them been worn; and, for a name, -propagation—].e. Payment-from the Italian pagare. Their marriage was secret, that they might have time to conciliate the favour of Julietta's friends and not risk the payment of her dower. glimpse of newness-] i. e. Sudden flash of new command. Now puts the drowsy and neglected act Freshly on me :-'tis surely, for a name. Lucio. I warrant, it is: and thy head stands so tickle" on thy shoulders, that a milk-maid, if she be in love, may sigh it off. Send after the duke and appeal to him. Claud. I have done so, but he's not, to be found. I pr'ythee, Lucio, do me this kind service: Acquaint her with the danger of my state; Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous art And well she can persuade. Lucio. I pray, she may as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition; as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack.' I'll to her. Claud. I thank you, good friend Lucio. Claud. Come, officer, away. SCENE IV. A monastery. Enter DUKE and Friar THOMAS. [Exeunt. Duke. No; holy father; throw away that thought; Believe not that the dribbling dart of love Can pierce a complete bosom: why I desire thee To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose tickle]-for ticklish. her approbation]i. e. Enter on her probation or noviciate. tick-tack]-is a game at tables.-"Jouer au tric-trac" is used in France in the sense in which Lucio here employs the phrase tick-tack.-MALONE. dribbling] Falling weekly like a drop of water.-To dribble is to drop. and wrinkled than the aims and ends More grave Fri. May your grace speak of it? Duke. My holy sir, none better knows than you And held an idle price to haunt assemblies, (A man of stricture, and firm abstinence,) You will demand of me, why I do this? Fri. Gladly, my lord. Duke. We have strict statutes, and most biting laws, That goes not out to prey: Now, as fond fathers Becomes more mock'd, than fear'd; so our decrees, Fri. It rested in your grace To unloose this tied-up justice, when you pleas'd: Duke. I do fear, too dreadful : Sith 'twas my fault to give the people scope, b bravery keeps.] i. e. Foppery resides. liberty-] Licentiousness. eThe baby beats her nurse,] This allusion is borrowed from an old print, entitled the world turned upside down, in which the baby is represented as so employed.--STEEVENS. Sith-] i. e. Since. For what I bid them do: For we bid this be done, And not the punishment. Therefore, indeed, my father, Who may, in the ambush of my name, strike home, To do it slander: And to behold his sway, I will, as 'twere a brother of your order, Visit both prince and people: therefore, I pr'ythee, Like a true friar. More reasons for this action, Is more to bread than stone: Hence shall we see, If power change purpose, what our seemers be. [Exeunt. SCENE V. A Nunnery. Enter ISABELLA and FRANCISCA. Isab. And have you nuns no farther privileges? Fran. Are not these large enough? Isab. Yes, truly; I speak not as desiring more; [Within. Who's that which calls? Turn you the key, and know his business of him; When you have vow'd, you must not speak with men, e fight,]-is the old reading-sight was introduced by Mr. Pope.-the duke is speaking metaphorically in military terms; and the old reading which I have restored is evidently the true one. 1 Stands at a guard-] Stands on his defence.-M. MASON. |