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  Speaker 1: Acts one of the Law against Lovers by William Davenant.
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  Speaker 2: Duke of Savoy read by Alan.
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  Speaker 3: Mapstone, Angelo read by Ari L.
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  Speaker 4: Lipshiw escalus A Councilor read by.
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  Speaker 5: Todd Beatrice, read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 6: Balthazar read by David Warner.
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  Speaker 7: Julietta read by Amanda Friday, Viola read by Charlotte.
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  Speaker 8: Ducketts Servant Hangman. First page read by Repuens Elina Benedict read.
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  Speaker 9: By mb Luccio, read by Tricia G.
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  Speaker 10: Claud. Do You read by Lambda.
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  Speaker 11: Provost read by aug.
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  Speaker 5: Pang Friar Thomas read by Elizabeth Klett.
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  Speaker 12: Isabella read by Elizabeth Barr. Francisca read by Grace Garrett.
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  Speaker 13: Fool read by Beth.
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  Speaker 14: Thomas Made second servant read by Kapricia Page Jayla.
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  Speaker 15: Second page read by Christine G.
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by Michelle Eaton, Act one, Scene one, Enter
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  Speaker 1: Duke Angelo and attendance.
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  Speaker 2: I am sure in this your science does exceed the
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  Speaker 2: measures of advice and to your skill by deputation I
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  Speaker 2: resolved to leave a while my place and strength.
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  Speaker 3: Your Highness does amaze me with your trust.
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  Speaker 2: Your brother will be here tonight and brings his share
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  Speaker 2: of victory and fair renown. That victory gives me now
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  Speaker 2: free leisure to pursue my old design of traveler, whilst
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  Speaker 2: hiding what I am in fit disguise. I may compare
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  Speaker 2: the customs, prudent laws, and managements of foreign states with ours.
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  Speaker 3: Your Highness has a plenteous choice of men, whom you
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  Speaker 3: may here depute with more success than my abilities can promise.
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  Speaker 2: Here take your commission in which we have enabled you
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  Speaker 2: with all the several strengths and organs of my power.
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  Speaker 2: Your youth may bear that weight which tires my age.
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  Speaker 3: In this acceptance, Sir, I do, with some unwillingness, obey
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  Speaker 3: your pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Heaven does with us, as we with torches do not
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  Speaker 2: like them for themselves, but others use for If our
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  Speaker 2: virtues go not forth of us, it were alike as
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  Speaker 2: if we had them, not be thou at full our self.
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  Speaker 2: Whilst we are absent from our seat in.
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  Speaker 3: Turin, Sir, I could wish there were more trial of
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  Speaker 3: my metal made before so noble and so great a
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  Speaker 3: figure as your own be stamped on it.
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  Speaker 2: No, no more evasion. I have proceeded towards you with choice
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  Speaker 2: sufficiently prepared, and to Ascolovs good Eschelus. Your ceremony now
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  Speaker 2: of taking leave must needs be short. You know the
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  Speaker 2: purpose of my trust to Angelo, who here has my
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  Speaker 2: commission sealed.
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  Speaker 4: Your Highness, having been so long resolved to travel, could
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  Speaker 4: not leave a deputation of your power in better hands.
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  Speaker 2: Farewell, our hasterom hence is of import. You shall, as
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  Speaker 2: time and fit occasion serves, have letters from us, And
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  Speaker 2: I hope I know with equal care what does before
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  Speaker 2: you hear?
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  Speaker 3: Will not your Highness give us leave to bring you
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  Speaker 3: onward on the way.
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  Speaker 2: My haste permits it. Not. You need not on mine
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  Speaker 2: honor have do with scruple, for your scope is as
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  Speaker 2: mine own. So to enforce or qualify the laws as
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  Speaker 2: to your soul seems good. Give me your hand, I'll
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  Speaker 2: privately away. I love the people, but would not on
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  Speaker 2: a stage salute the crowd. I never relished their applause,
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  Speaker 2: nor think the prince has true discretion. Who affects it?
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  Speaker 2: Be kind still to your brother Benedict, and give him
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  Speaker 2: that respect which he hath by his sharing victory deserved
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  Speaker 2: once more.
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  Speaker 3: Farewell the heavens give safety to your purposes.
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  Speaker 4: Lead forth and bring you back in happiness.
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  Speaker 1: Exit, Duke.
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  Speaker 3: I shall desire you, Eschylus, to let me have free
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  Speaker 3: speech with you, for it concerns me much to see
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of my place. The Duke has left me power,
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  Speaker 3: but of what strength and nature it will prove? May
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  Speaker 3: happily require your friendship to consider my.
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  Speaker 4: Lord, if it shall please you to withdraw, you may
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  Speaker 4: command my secrecy and.
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  Speaker 1: Service, exellent, and to Beatrice julieta viola alphaza.
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  Speaker 5: Does Senor Benedict return tonight?
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  Speaker 6: We may expect him presently. He brings a share of
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  Speaker 6: comp quit with him and intends to make a modest
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  Speaker 6: entry here by stealth. But he is still as pleasant
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  Speaker 6: as you left him.
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  Speaker 5: How many has he killed and eaten in these wars?
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  Speaker 5: But pray how many has he killed? For I promised
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  Speaker 5: to eat all of his killing.
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  Speaker 6: He has done great service in these wars. Lady.
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  Speaker 5: Sure you had musty victual then, and he has helped
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  Speaker 5: to eat it. I know, sir, he is a valiant
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  Speaker 5: trencherman and has a good stomach.
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  Speaker 6: He is a good soldier lady, A.
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  Speaker 5: Good soldier to a lady. But what is he to
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  Speaker 5: a lord?
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  Speaker 6: A lord to a lord, a man to a man
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  Speaker 6: stuffed with all honorable virtues, He.
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  Speaker 5: Is indeed no less than a stuffed man. But for
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  Speaker 5: the stuffing, well, we are all mortal.
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  Speaker 7: Do not mistake my cousin Beatrice. Sir, there is a
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  Speaker 7: kind of a merry war between Count Benedict and her.
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  Speaker 7: They never meet, but there is a skirmish of wit
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  Speaker 7: between him.
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  Speaker 5: He got nothing by that in our last encounter, four
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  Speaker 5: of his five wits to go halting off. And now
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  Speaker 5: the whole man is governed by one. I pray, sir,
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  Speaker 5: who's his companion? Now? For he was wont every month
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  Speaker 5: to have a new sworn brother?
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  Speaker 6: Is it possible?
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  Speaker 5: Very possible? He wears his faith, but as the fashion
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  Speaker 5: of his hat, it still changes with the next block.
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  Speaker 6: Madam, the gentleman is not in your books.
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  Speaker 16: If he were, I've heard my sister say sh'd burn
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  Speaker 16: her study, small mistress.
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  Speaker 6: Have you learned that in your primer? This madam is
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  Speaker 6: a pretty bud of wit.
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  Speaker 16: But has some preckles, Sir, take heeds. You cannot gather me.
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  Speaker 5: But Senor Balthazar, I pray, who is Count Benedict's companion.
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  Speaker 6: At idle seasons? Madam, he is pleased to use no
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  Speaker 6: better company than mine.
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  Speaker 5: No, he will hang on you like a disease. He's
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  Speaker 5: sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker does run presently.
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  Speaker 5: Mad Heaven help you, Balthazar if you have caught the Benedict,
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  Speaker 5: for it will cost you more than a thousand pounds
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  Speaker 5: to be cured.
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  Speaker 6: I wish I may hold friendship with you.
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  Speaker 5: Lady, you have the wit, sir, to wish for yourself.
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  Speaker 7: You'll never run, mad cousin.
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  Speaker 5: Not till a hot January and tower.
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  Speaker 8: Servant, Madam, your guardian's brother, Count Benadick is newly entered.
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  Speaker 5: The man of war, having been fleshed in the last battle,
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  Speaker 5: will bear all before him. Let a sound a retreat
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  Speaker 5: and hide ourselves behind the hangings to mark his behavior.
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  Speaker 16: This is to let me hide myself.
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  Speaker 1: Too, Beatrice, Viola Julietta, step behind the hangings.
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  Speaker 6: Pray do with a bondraise from the sun. Madam. I'll
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  Speaker 6: leave you to your ambush and tower.
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  Speaker 1: Bennadeck askedclos my brother private in affairs of state.
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  Speaker 4: My lord. He is at this instant much reserved. But
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  Speaker 4: when I shall acquaint him you are here, he will
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  Speaker 4: dismiss his business to receive and welcome you.
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  Speaker 15: Senor Esclus, I thank you, But it is fit our
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  Speaker 15: private love should give freeway to service which concerns the
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  Speaker 15: public profit. I am, sir, in some trouble that I
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  Speaker 15: could not have the happiness of paying my obedience to
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  Speaker 15: his Highness there he went. Will he be absent long?
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  Speaker 4: That is unknown even to your brother Angelo, who is
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  Speaker 4: his full vice regent here and hath received commands to
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  Speaker 4: let you taste his power to every use that can
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  Speaker 4: procure you any benefit in memory of your last service,
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  Speaker 4: and Saluccio, my.
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  Speaker 9: Lord, you are most happily returned and met with all
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  Speaker 9: the joys we can express.
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  Speaker 15: Luccio, Luccio, I am much pleased to see you well.
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  Speaker 15: It gives me hope that I shall have but few
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  Speaker 15: sad evenings here. In turn, if the beauties which I
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  Speaker 15: loft be not quite withered, their voices cracked, and their
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  Speaker 15: lutes hung on willows.
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  Speaker 9: My Lord, I am not only hastened hither by my
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  Speaker 9: love to be the first that shall congratulate your good
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  Speaker 9: success abroad but to entreat your aid at home, if
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  Speaker 9: you will please, but to take leave of that grave
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  Speaker 9: magistrate awhile I shall deliver you a mess from mankind.
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  Speaker 15: How Lucio, that is of concern. Indeed, Signor, I shall
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  Speaker 15: beseech you to observe my brother's leisure that I may
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  Speaker 15: attend him.
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  Speaker 4: Your lordship is most welcome in.
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  Speaker 1: Tordan exits esclos.
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  Speaker 15: Now, Luccio speak your affair from that great commonwealth which
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  Speaker 15: sent you mankind.
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  Speaker 6: They are too many for you to inquire, particularly after
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  Speaker 6: their healths. Therefore, he may, without ceremony proceed.
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  Speaker 9: You have heard of the supreme power placed in Count Angelo,
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  Speaker 9: your brother. I have Luccio under your favor, Sir, I
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  Speaker 9: may say the beginning of his rule is not pleasing
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  Speaker 9: to the best sort of men. He deals very hardly
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  Speaker 9: with lovers.
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  Speaker 15: I'm sorry to hear that of a brother.
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  Speaker 9: My lord, I am more sorry to report it. He
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  Speaker 9: has already revived in old law which condemns any man
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  Speaker 9: to death who gets being unmarried a woman with child ha.
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  Speaker 15: Lucio, does he mean to govern like the tyrant Turk
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  Speaker 15: with eunuchs of his council?
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  Speaker 9: You must assuage the co of his wisdom, and put
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  Speaker 9: him in mind that men are frail.
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  Speaker 15: This business Balthuzar requires our care, for we having professed
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  Speaker 15: against the bonds of marriage, and he restraining the liberty
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  Speaker 15: of lovers, the good Duke, when he returns, will find
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  Speaker 15: no children left.
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  Speaker 10: In turn.
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  Speaker 9: For my part, Sir, I only fear the destruction of learning,
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  Speaker 9: For if there be no children, farewell grammar schools come.
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  Speaker 15: We must sit in council Balthazar, increase our party and
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  Speaker 15: still defy marriage.
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  Speaker 5: We cannot hear him. Juliet, let us.
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  Speaker 1: Enter, enter, Beatrice, julieta viola, My dear lady, disdain are
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  Speaker 1: you yet living?
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  Speaker 5: Can disdain die? When she has so fit food to
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  Speaker 5: feed it?
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  Speaker 15: As Benedict, I am beloved of all ladies, only you accepted,
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  Speaker 15: and I am sorry they must lose their size, for
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  Speaker 15: I have a hard heart and can love.
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  Speaker 5: None a happiness to women who would else be troubled
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  Speaker 5: with a most pernicious suitor. But I can answer your humor,
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  Speaker 5: for I had rather hear my dog bark at a
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  Speaker 5: crow than a man swear he loves me.
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  Speaker 15: Keep in that mind, lady, for then some of my
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  Speaker 15: friends may escape a predestinate scratched face.
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  Speaker 5: Scratching could not make it worse if it were such
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  Speaker 5: a face as Benedict's.
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  Speaker 15: You are a rare parrot, teacher.
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  Speaker 5: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast
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  Speaker 5: of yours.
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  Speaker 15: Would my horse have the speed of your tongue? But
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  Speaker 15: keep your way I've.
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  Speaker 5: Done, Juliet. He always ends with a jade's trick.
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  Speaker 7: The gentleman's wit is tired after spurring.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, welcome home, my lord. Have you brought his pendance
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  Speaker 16: and find fans from the walls?
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  Speaker 15: What, my sweet bud, you've grown to a blossom.
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  Speaker 16: My sister has promised me that I shall be a woman,
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  Speaker 16: and that you shall make love to me when you're
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  Speaker 16: old enough to have a wife.
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  Speaker 15: This is not a chip of the old block, but
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  Speaker 15: will prove a smart twig of the young branch.
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  Speaker 1: Enteres close, unservant.
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  Speaker 4: Lord Angelo, expect you, sir, and this fair company.
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  Speaker 1: Exit, Beatrice, Benedict, Balthazar, Julietta close viola.
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  Speaker 8: Signor Claudio, now under an arrest, desires to speak with you.
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  Speaker 9: How under arrest the governor's house is no proper place
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  Speaker 9: for a prisoner's visit. Pray favor me so much as
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  Speaker 9: to tell him that I'll come down to receive his commands.
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  Speaker 1: Exit servant, Luccio, answer provost Claudio.
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  Speaker 10: Officers, Thus, can the demigod authority make us paid on
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  Speaker 10: for our offense by weight?
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  Speaker 1: Answer Luccio, Claudio?
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  Speaker 9: How now? From whence comes this restraint?
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  Speaker 10: From too much liberty? As sure fate as the father
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  Speaker 10: of a fast? Soe liberty by the immoderate use turns
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  Speaker 10: to restraint. Our nature does purs you an evil thirst?
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  Speaker 10: And when we drink we die?
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  Speaker 9: If I could speak as wisely under arrest, I would
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  Speaker 9: send for some of my creditors. Yet, to say truth,
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  Speaker 9: I had rather enjoy the foppery of freedom than the
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  Speaker 9: wise more of imprisonment. What is thy offense? Claudio?
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  Speaker 10: To speak of it? But to offend again?
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  Speaker 9: What is it murder?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 9: I believed? Is that which the precise call incountenance?
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  Speaker 10: You may call it so?
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  Speaker 6: And Balthasar, I am told Claudio is arrested.
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  Speaker 9: Tis too true? Balthazar?
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  Speaker 6: What is his crime?
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  Speaker 9: Lord Angelo has taught us so much modesty that I
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  Speaker 9: am ashamed to name it.
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  Speaker 6: What is there a maid with child by him?
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  Speaker 9: No? But I fear there is a woman with made
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  Speaker 9: by him?
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  Speaker 11: Signor I shall offend. If you stay here, be pleased
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  Speaker 11: to go.
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  Speaker 10: Rovos, allow me but a few words more.
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  Speaker 9: Pray Claudio, speak your mind. We are your friends.
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  Speaker 10: I grieve to tell you, gentlemen, that I've got possession
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  Speaker 10: of Julietta's bed. She is my wife by sacred woves
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  Speaker 10: and by a contract sealed with the form of witnesses.
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  Speaker 10: But be the ceremony lack of marriage, and that unhappily
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  Speaker 10: we did only for the assurance of a dowry remaining
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  Speaker 10: in the coffers of her friends, from whom we thought
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  Speaker 10: it fit to hide o our love till time had
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  Speaker 10: mastered their consent to it. But so it happens that
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  Speaker 10: our of stolen pleasure is now writ with characters too
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  Speaker 10: gross in juliet with childs. Perhaps tis so, and the
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  Speaker 10: new deputy awakens all the endolor penalties which have been
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  Speaker 10: nineteen years hundred, and makes me feel the long neglected
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  Speaker 10: punishment by such a law as three days after arrest
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  Speaker 10: requires the forfeit of my head.
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  Speaker 9: Thy head stands now so slightly on thy shoulders that
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  Speaker 9: a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it off.
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  Speaker 6: Lucio, you are a stranger to Lord Angelo, but I
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  Speaker 6: will know the sadness of his soul. And I was
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  Speaker 6: told in passing to you hither that Juliet is arrested
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  Speaker 6: in his house and forced from the protection of the
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  Speaker 6: Lady Beatrice, his fair ward.
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  Speaker 9: I like it not send quickly to the Duke and
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  Speaker 9: then appeal to him.
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  Speaker 10: I have done so, but he is not to be found.
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  Speaker 10: I pretty Lucio, lend me their assistance this game my sister.
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  Speaker 10: Should the cloister enter and there receive her approbation, acquaint
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  Speaker 10: her with the danger, I am in implore her in
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  Speaker 10: my name that she make friends to the strict deputy.
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  Speaker 10: She must herself, as say him. I have great open that,
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  Speaker 10: for in her youth there is a sweet and speechless
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  Speaker 10: dialect such as moves men, and well she can persuade.
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  Speaker 9: I wish she may. I would be loath that any
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  Speaker 9: of my friends should foolishly play away their lives at
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  Speaker 9: a game of tic tac.
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  Speaker 10: We will both to her presently come officers Away and
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  Speaker 10: Duke and Friar Thomas.
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  Speaker 2: No, Holy Father, throw away that thought loves too tender
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  Speaker 2: to dwell in my old bosom. I desire you to
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  Speaker 2: give me secret harbor for a design more wrinkled than
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  Speaker 2: the aims of giddy youth can have.
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  Speaker 5: May your grace speak of it.
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  Speaker 2: None, Holy Father better knows than you how I have
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  Speaker 2: ever liked a life retired, and still have, weary of assemblies,
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  Speaker 2: been where witless youth comes dressed to be adored. I
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  Speaker 2: have delivered to Lord Angelo, a man of strictness, firm abstinence,
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  Speaker 2: my absolute power and place here in Turin, and he
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  Speaker 2: believes me traveling to Spain. Now, pious, sir, you will
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  Speaker 2: demand of me why I did this.
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  Speaker 5: I fain would know.
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  Speaker 2: We have strict statutes and chastising laws, which I have
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  Speaker 2: suffered nineteen years to sleep, even like an overgrown lion
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  Speaker 2: in a cave that goes not out to pray, but
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  Speaker 2: as fond fathers bind up the threatening rod and stick
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  Speaker 2: it in their children's sight for terror more than use,
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  Speaker 2: till it, in time becomes more marked than feared. So
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  Speaker 2: our decrees, dead to infliction to themselves, are dead and
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  Speaker 2: forward liberty does justice strike as infants beat the nurse.
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  Speaker 5: This tied up justice, sir, you might have soon let loose,
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  Speaker 5: which would have seemed more dreadful than an Angelo.
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  Speaker 2: Too dreadful, sir, for since it was my fault to
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  Speaker 2: give the people scope. It may seem tyranny to punish
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  Speaker 2: them for what I bid them act. We do no
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  Speaker 2: less than bid unlawful actions to be done, when evil
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  Speaker 2: deeds have their permissive pass.
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  Speaker 5: I am convinced I have.
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  Speaker 2: On Angelo imposed the unpleasant power of punishing who may,
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  Speaker 2: within the ambush of my name strike home and to
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  Speaker 2: behold how he does rule, I will, as if I
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  Speaker 2: were a brother of your order, visit both Prince and people. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, supply me with the habit, and instruct me
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  Speaker 2: how I may in person a true friar scene. I
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  Speaker 2: can allow you no more reasons for this action now
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  Speaker 2: than that Lord Angelo stands at a guard with envy,
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  Speaker 2: and do scarce confess that his blood clothes the man
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  Speaker 2: seems singular. But we shall see if power change purpose
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  Speaker 2: what our seemers.
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  Speaker 1: Be excillent, enter Isabella and Francisca Anon.
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  Speaker 12: But have you nons no further privilege? Are not these
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  Speaker 12: large enough? They are? I speak not as desiring more,
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  Speaker 12: but rather wishing a more strict restraint. Were on the
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  Speaker 12: sisterhood vowed to Saint Clair.
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  Speaker 9: Ho peace be in this place.
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  Speaker 1: Luccio balpazar within.
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  Speaker 12: Who is it that does call? It is a man's voice.
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  Speaker 12: Gentle Isabella, pray turn the key and know his business
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  Speaker 12: of him? You may, I may not. You are yet unsworn.
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  Speaker 12: When you are vowed you must not speak with men.
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  Speaker 12: But in the presence of the prioress. Then if you speak,
• 18:54
  Speaker 12: you must not show your face, or if you show
• 18:56
  Speaker 12: your face, you must not.
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  Speaker 9: Speak O the sisterhood.
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  Speaker 12: He calls again. I pray you answer him peace and prosperity.
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  Speaker 12: Who is that calls?
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  Speaker 1: Enter Luccio alphasar.
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  Speaker 9: Hail virgin, Please you befriend us so as to permit
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  Speaker 9: us to the sight of Isabel, a novice of this
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  Speaker 9: place and sister to young Claudio, her unhappy brother.
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  Speaker 12: Why her unhappy brother? Let me ask the rather, since
• 19:22
  Speaker 12: I now must make it known, I am that Isabella
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  Speaker 12: and his.
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  Speaker 9: Sister gentle and fair. Your brother kindly greets you.
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  Speaker 6: We cannot. Lucio come too suddenly with sorrows to a
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  Speaker 6: mind prepared tis fit you tell her that her brother
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  Speaker 6: is in prison.
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  Speaker 9: I me for what for that which cannot be excused?
• 19:41
  Speaker 9: And yet perhaps if he were tried by judges not
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: much older than himself would have an easy punishment he has,
• 19:49
  Speaker 9: I hope unwillingly got his friend with child.
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  Speaker 12: Sir, make me not your scorn.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: I would not, though tis my familiar sin to jest
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: with maids, play with all urgent. So I hold you
• 20:02
  Speaker 9: as a thing enshrined, and to be talked with as
• 20:04
  Speaker 9: a saint in all sincerity.
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  Speaker 12: You hurt the good in mocking me.
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  Speaker 6: Believe what he has said is truth.
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  Speaker 12: Someone with child by him my cousin, Juliet?
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  Speaker 9: Is she your cousin?
• 20:16
  Speaker 12: Adoptedly schoolmates change their names?
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  Speaker 17: She it is?
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  Speaker 12: Let him marry her.
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  Speaker 6: Married, they are in the sight of heaven, though not
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: with such apparent forms as makes the law approve and
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  Speaker 6: witness it.
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  Speaker 9: The Duke is very strangely gone from Hence, and with
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: full force of his authority, Lord Angelo now rules a
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: man whose blood is very snow broth, one who never
• 20:40
  Speaker 9: feels the wanton motions of the sense, but does rebate
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: and blunt his natural edge with morals. Lady. He studies
• 20:47
  Speaker 9: much and fasts to.
• 20:49
  Speaker 6: Frighten libertines who long have escaped and silently have run
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: by a sleeping face of hideous law as mice by
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: lions steal. Lord Andelow has hastily awaken a dreadful act
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: under whose heavy sense your brother's life falls into desperate forfeit.
• 21:06
  Speaker 9: All hope is gone unless you have the grace by
• 21:09
  Speaker 9: moving prayers to soften Angelo.
• 21:12
  Speaker 12: Does he so sternly seek his life?
• 21:15
  Speaker 9: He has already sentenced him, And as I hear the
• 21:18
  Speaker 9: provost has a warrant for his execution.
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  Speaker 12: Alas, what poor abilities have I to do him good?
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: Make trial of what power you have my power?
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Alas I doubt, go to Lord Angelo, and let him
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: know when virgins sue, men give like gods, but when
• 21:35
  Speaker 9: they weep and kneel, no power has then so much
• 21:38
  Speaker 9: of devil in it as not to yield.
• 21:41
  Speaker 12: I'll see what I can do, but speedily I will
• 21:44
  Speaker 12: about it straight, not staying longer than to give the
• 21:47
  Speaker 12: mother notice of my business. I humbly thank you. Commend
• 21:51
  Speaker 12: me to my brother. Soon at night I'll send him
• 21:54
  Speaker 12: a certain word of my success.
• 21:56
  Speaker 9: We take our leaves.
• 21:58
  Speaker 12: Heaven guide you, gentlemen, And so prepare to Angelo my way,
• 22:03
  Speaker 12: as if Saint Clair did prompt me how to pray.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Axcient end of Act one, Act two of the Law
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  Speaker 1: too Scene one enter Angelo Benedict.
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  Speaker 15: But for ill doings, Sir, must Claudio die.
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  Speaker 3: The law appoints that he who gets a child unlawfully
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: must die.
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  Speaker 15: But must the men be requited with death for giving
• 22:48
  Speaker 15: life to another.
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  Speaker 3: We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: it up to fright our birds of prey, and let
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: it keep one's shape till custom makes it not their
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: terror but their perch.
• 22:58
  Speaker 15: Cal Sir, your own of action to a compt had
• 23:02
  Speaker 15: time concured with place or place with wishing, and had
• 23:05
  Speaker 15: the resolution of your blood found means to tain the
• 23:07
  Speaker 15: effect of your own purpose, perhaps in some hot season
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  Speaker 15: of your life, even you, Sir, would have erred in
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: that for which you censure him.
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  Speaker 3: Tis one thing to be tempted, Benedict, another thing to fall.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I not deny the jury passing on a prisoner's life.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: guiltier than him. They try What knows the law? Whether
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: thieves pass on thieves, you cannot lessen his offense, because
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: I have offended too. But tell me at that time
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: when I, who censure him, do so offend, and my
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: own judgment then shall be a pattern for my death. Brother,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: he must die, Sir.
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  Speaker 15: When I heard you had the place of justice, I
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: did not think your gravity didn't mean to swagger with
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: her broadsword? Can name justice become so soon, so notable
• 23:56
  Speaker 15: a cutter?
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: You have leave to be pleasant, But I pray, listen
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  Speaker 3: to Eschylus, he'll give you counsel.
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  Speaker 1: Exit and enter Esculos.
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  Speaker 15: Good, Eschylus, I should have found you out. Is there
• 24:09
  Speaker 15: no means to save poor Claudio's life?
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  Speaker 4: Your brother has given order to the provost to see
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: his execution punctually performed by nine tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 15: A short warning for a terrible long journey.
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  Speaker 4: A confessor will be sent to prepare him.
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  Speaker 15: I'm told, Senor Escylus, you have counsel.
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  Speaker 4: For me, my lord, I'll not presume to call it mine.
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  Speaker 4: Tis from your brother, who does well advise that you
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: would please to think of marriage. You know the lady
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: Beatrice was his ward, and now her wardship is expired.
• 24:39
  Speaker 15: Mary, what to beget boys for the headsman?
• 24:42
  Speaker 11: Good?
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  Speaker 4: My lord, leaving your severity. You needs must think her
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: beauty worth your praise.
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: She's too low for a high praise and too little
• 24:50
  Speaker 15: for a great praise. But thus far all comment her.
• 24:53
  Speaker 15: Were she other than she is, she was then unhandsome
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  Speaker 15: and being no other. But as she is, I do
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  Speaker 15: not like her.
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  Speaker 4: My proposal deserves a steady answer.
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  Speaker 15: My brother, Sir, and I walk several ways. He takes
• 25:08
  Speaker 15: care to destroy un lawful lovers, and I'll endeavor to
• 25:11
  Speaker 15: prevent the increase of lawful cuckolds.
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  Speaker 4: None of the beauteous sex can have more virtue than
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: they are.
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  Speaker 15: Beatrice, Sir, I sincerely allow your opinion. She is yet
• 25:22
  Speaker 15: very exceedingly virtuous, and has a laziness towards love. But Sir,
• 25:27
  Speaker 15: she has too much wit, and great wits will not
• 25:30
  Speaker 15: long lie idle.
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  Speaker 4: You have too much mirth to have suspicion, as.
• 25:34
  Speaker 15: I will not do ladies so much wrong to mistrust any,
• 25:38
  Speaker 15: so I'll do myself the right to trust none.
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  Speaker 4: This suits not with your brother's purpose.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: And to Luccio bowed Faiza welcome.
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  Speaker 15: Are either of you inclined to marriage?
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  Speaker 6: Hell marriage? It is a loose vanninnies. Do you think
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: I will have a recheat winded on my forehead, or
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: hang my bugle invisible, Baldric.
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  Speaker 9: If I hey, ever, Mary, let my knives be picked
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  Speaker 9: out with the pen of a ballad maker and hang
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: me up from the door of a brothel for the
• 26:07
  Speaker 9: sign of blind Cupid.
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  Speaker 15: You see, Senor Esclis, my brother makes so many enemies
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  Speaker 15: to propagation, that if the Duke's stay long, you may
• 26:14
  Speaker 15: chance find a dominion without subjects.
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  Speaker 9: If he have any, they will need no governor, for
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: they will all be old enough to govern themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Enter Beatrice viola.
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  Speaker 15: Here comes the lady April, whose fair face is always
• 26:28
  Speaker 15: incident in some foul weather.
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  Speaker 5: I wonder you will still be talking, Benedict. Nobody marks you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 15: I mean to drink opium before I come in your company,
• 26:38
  Speaker 15: that you may excuse my follies with saying I talk
• 26:41
  Speaker 15: in my sleep.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Where is Lord Angelo, Madam?
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: He is retired?
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: What to his prayers? As executioners kneel down and ask
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: pardon before they handle the axe?
• 26:52
  Speaker 15: Hall and ningbole, and the storm begins.
• 26:54
  Speaker 5: Heaven, send the good duke here again? Do you not hear,
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: Senor Eschylus, of the mutiny in town?
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  Speaker 12: No?
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  Speaker 4: Madam, is there a mutiny?
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: All the midwives, nurses and milkwomen are up in arms
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: because the governor has made a law against lovers.
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  Speaker 15: True. The law is that none who have not been
• 27:12
  Speaker 15: bound prentices to hymon shall set up in the trade
• 27:14
  Speaker 15: of making children.
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  Speaker 4: Madam, you will marry and have your freedom.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Marry, yes, if you will fashion me a man of
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: a middle constitution between Lord Angelo's Carthusian Gravity and his
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: brother Benedict. The one is too like a state image
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: and says nothing, and the other two like a country
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: lady's eldest son evermore talking.
• 27:39
  Speaker 15: Nay, you but persecute my brother, and I am satisfied.
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  Speaker 5: Senor Eschylus, is not my wordship out, yes, madam. And
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: this house where the governor lives mine own, Madam, it
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: is methinks my guardian is but a rude tenant, how dursty,
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: with unmanly power, force my cousin Juliet from me.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: Lady. It was the law that used that force.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: The law is she not married by such vows as
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: will stand firm in heaven. That's the substantial part which
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: carries the effect. And must she then be punished for
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: neglect of form? Must conscience be made good by compliment.
• 28:17
  Speaker 15: My brother will have men behave themselves to heaven as
• 28:19
  Speaker 15: boys do to their pens. They must not say grace
• 28:22
  Speaker 15: without making their legs.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: I am glad benedict to hear yours sometimes in the right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 15: I am in the right, Lady, only as often as
• 28:30
  Speaker 15: you are in the wrong.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Pray, Senor Eschylus, desire my guardian to let the divines
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: govern the civilians. I would have my cousin's spiritual marriage
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: stand good in conscience, though tis bad in law. She
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: must not be locked up within thick walls and iron grates.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: A woodbine arbor will prove strong enough to hold a
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: lady when she has grown so weak as to be
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: in love.
• 28:52
  Speaker 16: Pray, sister, why is Juliet's in prison?
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: Peace viola, You are too young to know she played
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: with a bearded baby mistress contrary to law.
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  Speaker 16: Alas poor Juliet. I'll sing no more to the governors,
• 29:05
  Speaker 16: and he lets her out.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Sir, the deputy drinks too much vinegar. It makes his
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: disposition sour.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Hooray, Madam tell him so, No, sir.
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: You statesmen, manage your discourse amongst yourselves by signs. I
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: am not mute enough to understand your mysteries. Come, Viola,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I'll write.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: To the Duke Excillant Beatrice Viola.
• 29:29
  Speaker 15: This would make a rare wife. Was she not a woman?
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: You were? The men? And she with the maids, will
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: quickly forbid all baines if we do.
• 29:37
  Speaker 9: Not bring ill poesies of wedding rings out of fashion.
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: Let's not be numbered with the.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Wits Accient And to Angelo and Provost?
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: What is your business? Provost?
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: Is it your will? Claudio shall die tomorrow?
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Did I not say he should? Had you not order?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Why do you ask again?
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: Lest I might be too rash under your good correction.
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: I have seen when after execution the wise judge has
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: his rash doom repented.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: Do you your office or else give it up, and
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: you shall well be spared.
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  Speaker 11: I crave your Excellency's pardon. What shall be done with
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: the weeping Juliet?
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Dispose of her to some apartment in the prison, where
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Claudio may not see.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Her, and to servant.
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: Here is a sister of the man condemned desires access
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: to you?
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Already is his sister? Come, she has the reputation Provost
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: of a virtuous maid.
• 30:35
  Speaker 11: Aye, my good Lord, a very virtuous maid, and to
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: be shortly of a sisterhood.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Let her be admitted exit servant. Provost take care that
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: Juliet be removed at distance from her lover and to
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: Luccio Isabella.
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: Heaven still preserve your excellences.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: Stay here a while You're welcome. What's your will?
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: I am a.
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: Woeful suitor to your excellence? If you and Goodness will
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: vouchsafe to hear me?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: What is your suit?
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: There is a vice which most I do abhor, and
• 31:07
  Speaker 12: most desire that it should meet rebuke for which I
• 31:10
  Speaker 12: would not plead.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: But that I must well come to the matter.
• 31:14
  Speaker 12: I have a brother is condemned to die. I would
• 31:17
  Speaker 12: beseech you to condemn the fault and not my brother.
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: Heaven give thee moving graces.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Is not each fault condemned? Ere it be done. I
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: were the very cipher of authority. If I should find
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: the fault whose fine stands in record, and yet forgive
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: the actor, Oh just, but.
• 31:34
  Speaker 12: Yet severe law. I had a brother, then.
• 31:38
  Speaker 9: Heaven keep you, sir, Give it not over so to
• 31:42
  Speaker 9: him again, kneel down before him? Ye are too cold?
• 31:46
  Speaker 12: Must he needs die?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Virgin?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: No remedy?
• 31:49
  Speaker 12: Yes, I believe that you might pardon him, and neither
• 31:53
  Speaker 12: Heaven nor man would at the mercy grieve.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: I will not do it. You can, then, if you would,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: that which I should not do, I cannot do.
• 32:01
  Speaker 12: But you may do it, sir, and do the world
• 32:04
  Speaker 12: no hurt. And would your heart were touched with such
• 32:08
  Speaker 12: remorse as mine?
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: As to him he's sentenced, tis too late.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: You are too tame.
• 32:14
  Speaker 12: Too late, I, who have spoke a word, may call
• 32:18
  Speaker 12: the meaning back. No ceremony, no ornament, which to the
• 32:22
  Speaker 12: great belongs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
• 32:26
  Speaker 12: the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, become them with
• 32:30
  Speaker 12: so beautiful a grace as mercy does. If he had
• 32:35
  Speaker 12: been as you, and you as he, you might have
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: erred like him, But he, like you, would not have
• 32:40
  Speaker 12: been so stern.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: I pray be gone, would Heaven if you.
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: Were Isabel, that I a while might have your power
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: to let you see how soon the sorrow of a
• 32:50
  Speaker 12: sister's tears should cleanse the foulness of a brother's fault.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: That is the vain touch it boldly, Your brother is
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: a forfeit of the law, and you but waste your words.
• 33:00
  Speaker 12: Alas alas all souls were forfeit once, and he who
• 33:06
  Speaker 12: might the vantage best have took found out the remedy.
• 33:10
  Speaker 12: What would you do if he who on the utmost
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: top of heights on judges sits should judge you as
• 33:16
  Speaker 12: you are?
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Be you content, fair maid? It was the law, not
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: I condemned your brother, were he my kinsman or my son?
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: It should be with him thus? And he must die
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: to morrow?
• 33:27
  Speaker 12: To morrow, Oh that sudden, spare him, spare him. He
• 33:33
  Speaker 12: is not prepared even for our kitchens. Wi a fowl
• 33:37
  Speaker 12: of season kill? Shall we serve heaven with less respect
• 33:40
  Speaker 12: than we would minister to our gross selves? My lord,
• 33:44
  Speaker 12: in mercy speak, who is it that has died for
• 33:47
  Speaker 12: this offense? Too many have committed it?
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: Well said?
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: The law has not been dead, though it had slept
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: those many had not dared to act that crime. If
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: he who first the edict did in fringe had answered
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: for his deed. Tis now awake, takes note of what
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: is done, and prophet like looks in a glass which
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: shows what future ills might by remissness be in progress.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: Hatched.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Yet show some pity, I show it most when I
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: most justice show for I commiserate. Then, even those whom
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I shall never know, and whose offenses, if they were forgiven,
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: might afterwards destroy them, and also do him right, who
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: punished for one pleasing crime lives not to act another.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Be satisfied. Your brother dies tomorrow, So you, my.
• 34:35
  Speaker 12: Lord, must the first that ere the sentence gave, and
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: he the first that suffers. It tis excellent to have
• 34:41
  Speaker 12: a giant strength, but tyrannus to use it like a giant.
• 34:45
  Speaker 9: Well said again.
• 34:47
  Speaker 12: If men could thunder as great Jove does Jovenaer would
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: quiet be for every choleric petty officer would use his
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: magazine in heaven for thunder we nothing should but thunder here,
• 34:59
  Speaker 12: sweet Heaven. Thou rather with thy stiff and sulfurous bolt,
• 35:03
  Speaker 12: dost split the naughty and obdurate oak than the soft myrtle.
• 35:07
  Speaker 12: Oh but man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority,
• 35:13
  Speaker 12: most ignorant of what he thinks himself assured, does, in
• 35:17
  Speaker 12: his glassy essence, like an angry ape, play such fantastic
• 35:21
  Speaker 12: tricks before high Heaven, as would make angels laugh if
• 35:24
  Speaker 12: they were mortal and had spleens like us.
• 35:26
  Speaker 9: To him, he will relent. I feel him coming.
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: Pray heaven she gained him.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Why do you use this passion before me?
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: Authority, though it does air like others, yet has a
• 35:38
  Speaker 12: kind of medicine in itself which skins the top of
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: every vice. Knock at your bosom, sir, and ask your
• 35:45
  Speaker 12: heart if it contains no crime resembling my poor brother's fault,
• 35:49
  Speaker 12: And then if it confess a natural guiltiness such as
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: his is, let it not sound a sentence from your
• 35:54
  Speaker 12: tongue against my brother's life.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: She speaks such sense as with my reason, breeds such
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  Speaker 3: images as she has excellently formed. Farewell, gentle, my lord,
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  Speaker 3: turn back, I will bethink me come again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 12: Hark how I'll bribe you?
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  Speaker 10: Good?
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  Speaker 8: My lord?
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  Speaker 12: Turn back?
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  Speaker 3: How bribe me I.
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  Speaker 12: With such gifts that Heaven shall share with you.
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  Speaker 9: You had marred all else.
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  Speaker 12: With early prayers that shall be up at heaven, and
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  Speaker 12: enter there before the morning's casement opens to the world.
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  Speaker 12: The prayers are fasting.
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  Speaker 3: Maids, well, come to me tomorrow, enough away.
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  Speaker 12: Aught that is good, be near your excellence.
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  Speaker 3: I thank you.
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  Speaker 12: At what hour shall I tend you?
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  Speaker 3: At any time ere noon?
• 36:39
  Speaker 12: The Angel still preserve you excellent?
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: All but Angelo.
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: From all but from thy virtue made I love her
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: virtue but temptation, Oh, thou false and cunning guide, who,
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: in disguise of virtue shape leads us through heaven to hell.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: No vicious beauty could with practiced art subdue like virgin innocence.
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  Speaker 1: My heart exit and to duke in disguise of a friar,
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  Speaker 1: and provost, Hail to you.
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  Speaker 2: Provost, so I think you are.
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  Speaker 11: I am the proverst what your will, good Father.
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  Speaker 2: Bound by my charity and my blessed orders, I come
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  Speaker 2: to visit the afflicted minds in prison. Here do me
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  Speaker 2: the common right to let me see them, and to
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: let me know the nature of their crimes, that I
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: may minister accordingly to their relief.
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  Speaker 11: I would do more than that, if more were needful.
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  Speaker 1: And to Julietta, look.
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  Speaker 11: Here comes one who, in the flames of youth has
• 37:43
  Speaker 11: blistered her fair fame. She is with child, and he
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  Speaker 11: that got it sentenced.
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  Speaker 2: When must he die?
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  Speaker 11: As I believe tomorrow, I'll go in and prepare him
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  Speaker 11: for your visit. In the meantime, bestow your counsel here.
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  Speaker 2: Exit vast repent you, fair one of the sin you carry.
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  Speaker 7: I bear my punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Most patiently, I'll teach you how you shall arraign your
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: conscience and try your penitence.
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  Speaker 7: I'll gladly learn.
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  Speaker 2: Loved you the man that wronged you.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, as I love the woman that wronged him.
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  Speaker 2: So then it seems you mutually have sinned.
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  Speaker 7: We mutually have seined against the law, and I repent
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: for it. But I am as much afflicted at my ignorance,
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: not knowing twas a sin when I transgressed, as at
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: the sin itself.
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  Speaker 2: If daughter, you repent that sin because it brings you shame.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: It is a common and an erring grief, which looks
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: more at ourselves than towards heaven. Not sparing heaven for love,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: but fear.
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  Speaker 7: As tis an evil. I repent and grieve, not for
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: the shame, because you think it is deserved.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Their rest. Your partner, as I hear, must die tomorrow,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: and I am going with instructions to him school with you.
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  Speaker 1: Exit must die tomorrow.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, injurious love, it respites me a life whose very
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: best is still a dying horror.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Enter, Claudio Luccio Balthazar Claudio.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: To carry a longer with you now, were but to
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: lose that time which we must husband for your benefit.
• 39:23
  Speaker 6: No care is wanting in your sister, nor in us.
• 39:26
  Speaker 9: Our lawyers make good merchandise of women. The head of
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: a man pays for a maiden head.
• 39:32
  Speaker 10: There is no wreck so painful in this prison and
• 39:35
  Speaker 10: that which stretches me, Queen Hope and doubt. All I
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: desire is certainty.
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: When I leave this wanton world to meet death, I'll
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: ride post to him on a hobby horse and fence
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: against his dirt with a fool's bible.
• 39:50
  Speaker 10: By all your loyal friendship, Baldassarre, let Juliet be protected
• 39:54
  Speaker 10: with your care and courage from injudious tongues.
• 39:57
  Speaker 6: I will deserve your trust.
• 39:59
  Speaker 10: Pray, serve her with the noble tendernance in all that
• 40:04
  Speaker 10: her affliction shall require.
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: I need not such a strict command. Away, Let's leave
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: him to his meditations.
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  Speaker 9: Remember, Claudio, this wicked world does homage to rich fools
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: and witty men want money and to Provost.
• 40:20
  Speaker 11: A father deserves to speak with.
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  Speaker 1: You, Excillent Claudio.
• 40:24
  Speaker 9: Provost methinks it is too late for Claudio to expect
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: a reprieve.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: Hope is so familiar an acquaintance that though she states
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: with us all day, Yet we are loth to part
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: with her at night?
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: Where is Benedict.
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: Gone to Beatrice? She just now sent for him.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: We shall never outface the world with our invectives against marriage,
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: For I find sexes will meet, though mountains and rough
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: seas make a long space between them. Our design on
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: Benedict and Beatrice must be pursued.
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Let's to the governors, and in a way I'll tell
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: thee how we ought to manage it.
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  Speaker 1: Exitent, Enter Angelo.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: My weighty office I can value now, but as an
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: idle plume worn in the wind.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Enter Servant.
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: The sister Sir of CLOUDI desires success.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: Show her the way into the gallery.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Exit Servant.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Why does my blood, thus flowing to my heart, make
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: it unable for itself, whilst then it dispossesses other parts
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: of that which they, in lesser streams would useful make?
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: So deal officious throngs with him who swoons, They come
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: to help him, and they stop the air by which
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: he should revive. And so the numerous subjects to a
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: well wished king quit their own home and, in rude fondness,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: to his presence crowd, where their unwelcome love does an
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: offense and an oppression prove.
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  Speaker 1: Exit end of Act Too, Act three of the Law
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: against Lovers by William Davenant. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act three,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one, Enter Isabella Angelo.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: I'm come to know your pleasure, that you might know
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: it would much better please me than to demand what
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: is Your brother cannot live.
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  Speaker 12: Even so Heaven, keep your excellence.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Stay a little, for he perhaps may live awhile nay,
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: and as long as you or I, since none can
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: know their own appointed ends, Yet he must die.
• 42:46
  Speaker 12: Under your sentence. Yes, when I beseech you that in
• 42:51
  Speaker 12: his reprieve longer or shorter, he may be so fitted
• 42:54
  Speaker 12: that his soul may not suffer with his body.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: He had a filthy vice. It were as good to
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: pardon him that has from nature stolen a man already made,
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  Speaker 3: as to permit their saucy sweetness who Heaven's image, coin
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: and stamps, which are forbid, that is.
• 43:09
  Speaker 12: Set down in heaven but not on earth.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: How say you so? Then I shall quickly pose you,
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: which had you rather that the most just law should
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: take your brother's life, or to redeem him, give up
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: your precious self to such a blemish as she permitted
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: whom he stained.
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  Speaker 12: I'll rather give my body than my soul.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: I talk not of your soul. Are compelled? Sins do
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: more for numbers stand than for account, How say you, sir? Nay,
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: I'll not warrant that, for I can speak against the thing.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I say. Answer to this, I now the voice of
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: the recorded law, pronounce a sentence on your brother's life.
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: Might there not be a charity in sin to save
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: this brother's life?
• 43:51
  Speaker 12: Please you to do it. I'll take it as a
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: peril to my soul. It is no sin at all,
• 43:57
  Speaker 12: but charity.
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: You doing it at peril of your soul. Make equal
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: poise of sin and charity that I do.
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  Speaker 12: Beg his life. If it be sin, Heaven, let me
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  Speaker 12: bear it. If it be sin for you to grant
• 44:10
  Speaker 12: my suit, I'll make it still my prayer to have
• 44:12
  Speaker 12: it added to the faults of mine and not to
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  Speaker 12: your account.
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  Speaker 3: Nay, but hear me, your sense pursues not mine. Sure
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: you are ignorant, or seem so craftily, and that's not good.
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  Speaker 12: Let me be ignorant, and nothing good but graciously to
• 44:27
  Speaker 12: know I am no better.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Thus wisdom wishes to appear most bright when it does
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: tax itself, as a black mask often proclaims a covered
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: beauty more than beauty does itself when openly displayed. But
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: mark me, Isabel, or if I may more plainly be received,
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: I'll speak more home. Your brother is to die, so
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: and his offense is such as it appears accountant to
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: the law. True admit no other way could save his life,
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: as I subscribe, not that nor any other, unless by
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: way of question, but that you, finding yourself desired of
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  Speaker 3: such a man whose credit with the judge could free
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: your brother, must either yield the treasures of your youth,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: or else must let him die. What would you do
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  Speaker 3: as much for.
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  Speaker 12: My poor brother as for Isabel the impression of sharp whips,
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  Speaker 12: I gladly would as rubies ware and strip myself even
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: for a grave, as for a bed ere, I would
• 45:22
  Speaker 12: yield my honor up to shame.
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  Speaker 3: Then must your brother die and.
• 45:26
  Speaker 12: Tour the cheaper way? Better it were a brother die
• 45:30
  Speaker 12: awhile than a sister by redeeming him, should die forever?
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  Speaker 3: Are you then as cruel as that sentence which you
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: have slandered.
• 45:37
  Speaker 12: So ignoble ransom. No proportion bears to pardon freely given,
• 45:42
  Speaker 12: and lawful mercy is not at all akin to foul redemption.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: You seemed of late to make the law a tyrant,
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: and so your brother's guiltiness excused, as if it rather
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: might be styled a recreation than a vice.
• 45:54
  Speaker 12: Oh pardon me, my lord. Often it falls out that
• 45:58
  Speaker 12: pleaders speak not what they mean, and hope to get
• 46:00
  Speaker 12: what they would have. I sometimes may excuse the thing
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  Speaker 12: I hate for his advantage whom I dearly love. We
• 46:07
  Speaker 12: are all frail, else let my brother die.
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  Speaker 3: Nay, women are frail too, ay.
• 46:14
  Speaker 12: As the glasses where they see themselves, which are as
• 46:17
  Speaker 12: easily broke as they make forms. Women, help Heaven, pray
• 46:22
  Speaker 12: call us ten times frail, for we are soft as
• 46:25
  Speaker 12: our complexions are, and soon a bad impression.
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  Speaker 3: Take and from this testimony of your own sex. Since
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: I suppose we are not made so strong, but that
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: our faults may shake our frames, Let me be bold
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: to arrest your words. Be what you are, that is
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: a woman. If you are more, you are none. If
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: you be one, as you are well expressed by all
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: external warrants, show it now, I.
• 46:50
  Speaker 12: Have no tongue but one. Gentle, my lords, let me
• 46:53
  Speaker 12: entreat you speak the former language.
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  Speaker 3: Plainly conceive. I love you.
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  Speaker 12: My brother did love Julie. You tell me he shall
• 47:02
  Speaker 12: die for it.
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  Speaker 3: He shall not, Isabel. If you give me love.
• 47:05
  Speaker 12: Your power, may your discretion lescense give and make you
• 47:08
  Speaker 12: seem much fower than you are to draw on others.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Believe me on mine honor. My words express my purpose.
• 47:15
  Speaker 12: Ha little honor to be much believed. Your purpose is pernicious.
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: Now discerned, I will proclaim thee Angelo look for it.
• 47:25
  Speaker 12: Sign me a present pardon from my brother, or I
• 47:27
  Speaker 12: will tell the world aloud, what man thou art?
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: Who will believe you? Isabel? My unsoiled name, austerity of life,
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: my word against you, and my place in the state
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: will sow your accusation overweigh that you'll be stifled in
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: your own report. And now I give my sense you'll
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: race the reins yields to my passion. Or your brother
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: must not only die, but your unkindness shall draw out
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: his death to lingering pains. Tomorrow answer me, or by
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: that love which now does guide me, I will be
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: a tyrant to him exit to.
• 48:03
  Speaker 12: Whom shall I complain If I tell this, who will
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: believe it? I'll to my brother straight that he may
• 48:11
  Speaker 12: know false Angelo's request, and then prepare for his eternal rest.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Exit and Benedict and Beatrice several ways I was told, lady,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: you would.
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: Speak with me, I would, and I would not.
• 48:28
  Speaker 15: Then I'll stay or I will not stay.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: To someone to me, nay, I know you are but
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: an indifferent man. Yet now by chance I rather am
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: inclined that you should stay.
• 48:39
  Speaker 15: And tis a greater chance that our inclinations should so
• 48:42
  Speaker 15: soon meet, for I will stay.
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: Your brother is a proper prince. He rules with a
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: rawd in's hand instead of a scepter, like a country
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: schoolmaster in a church. He keeps a large palace with
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: no attendance, and is fit to have none but boys
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: for his subjects as ill as he governs.
• 48:59
  Speaker 15: If my design thrive against the fetters of marriage, as
• 49:02
  Speaker 15: his does against the liberty of lovers, his rule may
• 49:05
  Speaker 15: last to the end of the world, for there will
• 49:06
  Speaker 15: be no next generation.
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: Would I might trust you, Benedict.
• 49:10
  Speaker 15: Madam, you believe me to have some honor? If you
• 49:14
  Speaker 15: have most secretly invented a new dressing. Can you think
• 49:17
  Speaker 15: I'll reveal the fashion before you wear.
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: It, notwithstanding your seeming indisposition to inventions of fashion. Yet
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: there be those in Turinn who have intercepted packets between
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: you and tailors of Paris. Well, though these are but
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: light correspondents, Yet I would trust you in matter of weight.
• 49:35
  Speaker 15: I hope, lady, you have no plot upon me. I'll
• 49:38
  Speaker 15: marry no woman.
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: I did not think you had been so well natured
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: as to prevent the having any of your breed. Marry you?
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: What should I do with you? Dress you in my
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: old gown, and make you my waiting gentlewoman.
• 49:51
  Speaker 15: A waiting woman with a beard.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: I shall ne'er endo a husband with a beard. I
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: had rather lie in woolen.
• 49:57
  Speaker 15: Though you disguise matrimonial pretensions with pretty scorn, Yet I
• 50:01
  Speaker 15: am glad I have a beard for my own defense.
• 50:03
  Speaker 15: And though fashion makes me have much, and that you
• 50:06
  Speaker 15: shall believe me a lover of fashions, yet mine shall
• 50:08
  Speaker 15: grow to a very bush for my greater security. But
• 50:12
  Speaker 15: pray preceed your matter of weight.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: I will trust you not as a man of love,
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: but a man of arms.
• 50:19
  Speaker 15: Had your own peril and mort encourage you. I will
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: declare that though I'm very loath to come within the
• 50:24
  Speaker 15: narrow compass of a wedding ring. Yet I owe every
• 50:27
  Speaker 15: fair lady a good turn. But to the business.
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: In brief, you must renew familiarity with your brother and
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: steal the use of his signet to seal Julietta's pardon
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: and her liberty, and Claudio's too. This done, they shall
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: practice their escape arland ever mine, and you signor may
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: shift for yourself.
• 50:45
  Speaker 15: This is but betraying an ill brother for a good purpose.
• 50:49
  Speaker 15: I'll do it if I can.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: You shall give me the signet, for I'll have all
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: in my own management.
• 50:54
  Speaker 15: No, though I rob my brother of the signet, you
• 50:57
  Speaker 15: shall not rob me of the danger.
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: Then I'll proceed, eat no further bad as you please.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: You would have the honor.
• 51:03
  Speaker 15: Of the business tis due to my sex.
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: Fare you well, sir. Yet you may come again in
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: hour hence to receive an ill look.
• 51:11
  Speaker 15: Now that one mark right me much forre you can
• 51:13
  Speaker 15: look no better than you used to do.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Exit Benedict at one door, Enter Viola at another.
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  Speaker 8: Sister.
• 51:21
  Speaker 16: I've got verses. Signor Luccio made them he and Balthizaro
• 51:25
  Speaker 16: with Then.
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: Is Luccio become a man of meter. That's the next
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: degree upward to the giddy station of a foolish lover.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: They are composed into a song too, sing it viola,
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: Wake all.
• 51:37
  Speaker 9: The dead, What ho, what ho?
• 51:39
  Speaker 16: How soundly they sleep? Whose pillows lie low? They might
• 51:42
  Speaker 16: not poor lovers who walk above on decks of the
• 51:46
  Speaker 16: world and storms of love. No whisper now nor glance
• 51:50
  Speaker 16: can pass through wickeds, all through panes of glass. For
• 51:55
  Speaker 16: our windows and doors, our shirts and bads lie close.
• 51:58
  Speaker 16: In the church and in the judge, in every grave,
• 52:02
  Speaker 16: make room, make room. The world's it's ending. We come,
• 52:05
  Speaker 16: we come. The state is now Love's foe. Love's vote
• 52:10
  Speaker 16: has seized his arm, his quiver and bow, has pinioned
• 52:13
  Speaker 16: his wings, and fetted his feet, because he made way
• 52:16
  Speaker 16: for lovers to meet. But oh, such chances. Judge grows old,
• 52:21
  Speaker 16: hearts cruel grow when blood grows cold. No man being young,
• 52:25
  Speaker 16: this process would draw, Oh Heaven, that love should be
• 52:29
  Speaker 16: subject to law. Lovers go woo the dead. The dead
• 52:33
  Speaker 16: lie too in a grave, in to bed to beds.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Enter Luccio, Balthazar.
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  Speaker 5: Signor Luccio, you are ground so desperate as to write verses.
• 52:43
  Speaker 9: Very little business, much love and no money makes up
• 52:46
  Speaker 9: a parcel poet. But the verses are not mine?
• 52:50
  Speaker 5: Whose are they?
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: Balthazar knows the author.
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: Not better than you, who had them from him?
• 52:56
  Speaker 9: Pray, Madame, let him tell you.
• 52:58
  Speaker 6: Excuse me, Sir, I am as cheery of getting my
• 53:01
  Speaker 6: friend the ill name of a poet as you are.
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: Why, gentlemen, you will not make a secret of telling
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: the hour of the day when your watches are ready
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: to strike. Pray, whose are the verses?
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: Madame? The authour's name is Benedick?
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: Is it possible? I am glad he lies bare under
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: the lash of the wits. There are now no such
• 53:22
  Speaker 5: tormentors in turn as the wits, poor Benedict. They'll have
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: him on the rack ere night. Why they will draw
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: a strong line to the subtle weakness of a spinner's thread.
• 53:31
  Speaker 6: I fear he will be quickly liable to a greater
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: torment than any that the wits can inflict.
• 53:37
  Speaker 9: Madame, we are your vowed servants. We cannot choose, but
• 53:40
  Speaker 9: tell you, Ah, Belthazar, you made the first discovery. You
• 53:45
  Speaker 9: may speak it.
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  Speaker 6: Madam, tis not civil to lengthen your expectation.
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: He is in love, in love that were a sudden change,
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: and would show more of the moon in him than
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: is in a mad woman. Good Balthazar, with Whomucio.
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: Was related, I laughing when he found it and swore
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: then he would.
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: Tell you keep your oath. Luccio, who is that has
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: caught him?
• 54:08
  Speaker 9: Nay, Madame, you now impose upon me.
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: Let me entreat you.
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: Why then, as sure as you can love no lover,
• 54:15
  Speaker 9: he loves you.
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: This sounds like fiction and design. Good balthisar He is
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: but newly gone from hence, go seek him out and
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: bring him back. Your friendship may prevail with him.
• 54:28
  Speaker 9: It will be get more mirth than belongs to a
• 54:31
  Speaker 9: Morris in the month of May.
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: But I beseech you no word to our discovery.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Exit Balthasar Sior.
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: You may trust me, perhaps, Luccio, you cannot think it
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: strange that I believe you of my party and fitter
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: for my trust than Balthazar.
• 54:47
  Speaker 9: Oh, no, Madame, I have been trusted by young lady zir.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: Now are you sure Benedict loves me? He has no
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: fashion of a lover in public.
• 54:56
  Speaker 9: Poor man. He has two contrary extremes of love madness.
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: He is in company as fantastical as of fencer after
• 55:03
  Speaker 9: his victory in a prize, but in private he will
• 55:07
  Speaker 9: sigh more than an old Dutch pilot that has lost
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: his ship.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: I shall have rare diversion of his fit holds.
• 55:14
  Speaker 9: It is not good to just away men's lives.
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: I see you are serious, but will you swear it?
• 55:20
  Speaker 9: If you can endure the coarseness of swearing, I've been
• 55:23
  Speaker 9: unlucky at play in my time, and shall quickly swear
• 55:27
  Speaker 9: like a losing gamester.
• 55:28
  Speaker 5: Stay, sir, you may take up the fool's commodity of
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: belief without engaging of bothes. I know you are a
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: man of excellent temper.
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: Madame, I swear by, I pray, sir, hold nay, if
• 55:40
  Speaker 9: you would put me to it.
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: Luccio, you must dissuade him from his love, and I
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: must trust you. I have but one heart, and that
• 55:48
  Speaker 5: is already disposed.
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: Of, Madame. All lovers compared to Benedict are but lamentable
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: courtiers in old clothes.
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: Truly, he was wont to be merry.
• 55:58
  Speaker 9: Ere he felt love. His heart was as sound as
• 56:00
  Speaker 9: any bell, and his tongue was the clapper. For what
• 56:04
  Speaker 9: his heart thought, his tongue would speak. Take heed. You
• 56:07
  Speaker 9: must not lose.
• 56:08
  Speaker 5: Him, Luccio, my heart is designed to.
• 56:11
  Speaker 9: Another, Madame. May I be bold to inquire to whom
• 56:16
  Speaker 9: you know?
• 56:16
  Speaker 5: The man?
• 56:17
  Speaker 9: Be he what he will? He must show as ugly
• 56:20
  Speaker 9: as a toll man sitting on a low stool before
• 56:22
  Speaker 9: a chimney. Compared to Benedick.
• 56:25
  Speaker 5: You ought not to say so when I name.
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: Him, Madame, I dare justify my friend.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: I shall be angry if you compare him to him
• 56:32
  Speaker 5: whom I can name. Suppose it is signor Luccio.
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: Madame, I confess comparisons are somewhat odious?
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: Oh are they?
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: So?
• 56:42
  Speaker 5: I pray? Let me advise you not to lessen yourself,
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: though I perceive you cannot choose but make much of
• 56:48
  Speaker 5: your friend.
• 56:49
  Speaker 9: Sits the wind on that side. I must hoist sail
• 56:52
  Speaker 9: with top and top gallant.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: But are you not tied, sir by some deep vow
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: to woo for Benedick? I am very tender and spows.
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: Will you believe me, Madame?
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: Without oaths? I beseech you.
• 57:05
  Speaker 9: He knows as much the matter of this visit as
• 57:08
  Speaker 9: I do. The Great Turk's particular inclination to red herring.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: Are you in earnest?
• 57:13
  Speaker 9: Balthazar and I were only over officious to serve him.
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: Nor he is not in love, no more than a
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: man that goes continually.
• 57:21
  Speaker 9: To see to make discoveries.
• 57:23
  Speaker 5: Then it appears a little strange that you made this
• 57:25
  Speaker 5: hearty address for him.
• 57:27
  Speaker 9: On my honor, Madame. It was to get some opportunity
• 57:30
  Speaker 9: to move for myself.
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: And do you think him no extraordinary wit?
• 57:34
  Speaker 9: So so a modest wit, somewhat out of countenance being
• 57:38
  Speaker 9: laughed at? For then he grows as melancholy as a
• 57:41
  Speaker 9: lodge in a war.
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: In right, I used to laugh at him, And then
• 57:45
  Speaker 5: there's a partridge wing saved at sight. For the fool
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: will eat no supper. Madame, I see you know him,
• 57:51
  Speaker 5: Signor Luccio, be kind to yourself.
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: Exit Luccio.
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: If thou wern't anything but Luccio, I would hug thee
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: to death. Some men in collar rail against fortune. But
• 58:03
  Speaker 9: I adore her. She has made her sale of my
• 58:06
  Speaker 9: mother's smock. I would the poets would send us a
• 58:10
  Speaker 9: dozen such goddesses.
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: Nto Balthazar, I have been seeking Benedict, and I am
• 58:16
  Speaker 6: told now he's gone up the back stairs and is
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: in private with the Deputy Wesley.
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: Lady Beatrice, Balthazar, trouble not yourself, For men may often
• 58:26
  Speaker 9: lose their labor. How so, Benedict is not the man
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: she aims at.
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: He's very singular and eminent. But I confess this angling
• 58:36
  Speaker 6: for ladies is a very subtle sport.
• 58:39
  Speaker 9: They are fishes of fantastical paletts, and will sometime sooner
• 58:43
  Speaker 9: bite at a worm than at a mayfly.
• 58:46
  Speaker 6: She has a full fortune twelve thousand crowns a year.
• 58:49
  Speaker 9: He will be safe from creditors that has her, and
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: too viola.
• 58:54
  Speaker 16: Senor Luccio, my sister would speak with you.
• 58:57
  Speaker 9: Exit, Balthazar, I must even retire from business. You see,
• 59:01
  Speaker 9: I cannot rest for ladies.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I pray put the matter home eccient several ways. And
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: to Duke in Fry's habit, Claudio and.
• 59:12
  Speaker 10: Provost Father, I thank you. I am not a bit
• 59:17
  Speaker 10: small patty Deans, the crowd will strive for life.
• 59:21
  Speaker 12: And to Isabella, what ho graced well within?
• 59:25
  Speaker 11: Who's there?
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: The wish deserves a welcome, Dear sir, how long I'll
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: visit you.
• 59:31
  Speaker 10: Again, most resident, sir, I thank you.
• 59:35
  Speaker 12: My business is a word or two with Claudia.
• 59:38
  Speaker 11: You are welcome. Look signor here's your sister, provost a word,
• 59:44
  Speaker 11: as many as you please, bring.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Me where I concealed. May hear them speak.
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: Accillent, Duke Provost.
• 59:52
  Speaker 10: Now, sister, what's the comfort.
• 59:55
  Speaker 12: To such as earthly comforts? Used to be? Lord and
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 12: low having affairs to Heaven intends you for his swift ambassador.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 12: Therefore your best appointment make with speed tomorrow you set on.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 10: Is there no remedy?
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 12: Yes, brother, you may live. There is a devilish mercy
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 12: in the judge. If you'll implore it, that will free
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 12: your life, but fetter you till death. Perpetual durance tis
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 12: worse than close restraint, and painful too, beyond all tortures
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 12: which afflict the body. For tis a rack invented.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: For the mind.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 10: But of what nature is it?
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 12: Tis such as, should you give it your consent, would
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 12: leave you stripped of all the wreaths of warm, all
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 12: ornaments my father's valor gained, and show you naked to
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 12: the scornful world.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 10: Acquaint me with my doom.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 12: If I could fear thee Claudio, I should weep lest
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 12: thou a shameful life shouldst entertain. And six or seven
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 12: short winters more respect than a perpetual honor, darest thou die.
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 12: The sense of death is most an apprehension, and the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 12: small beetle, when we tread on it in corporal sufferance
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 12: finds a pang as great as when a giant dies.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 10: Why give you me this shame? Think you I can
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 10: a resolution fetch from tenderness. If I must die, I
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 10: will welcome darkness as a shining bride.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 12: There spoke my brother. There my father's grave, uttered a
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 12: cheerful voice. Yes, you must die. You are too noble
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 12: to conserve a life by wretched remedies. Our outward saint does,
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 12: in his gracious looks, disguise the devil his filth. Within
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 12: being cast, it would appear a pond as foul as hell.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 10: The princely Angelou, Oh, he.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 12: Is uglier than the frightful fiend. By pencils of our
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 12: cloistered virgins drawn, speak Claudia. Could you think you might
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 12: on earth be guiltless made by him? If I would heaven,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 12: which never injured us foul.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 10: Offend infernal Angelou? Can this be true?
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 12: Yes? He would clear you from your blood ackist crimes
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 12: by making me much blacker than himself. This night's the
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 12: time when he would have me do what I abhor
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 12: to name, or else you must be dead tomorrow.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 10: Thou shalt not do it.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 12: Oh worry, but my life, I would, for your deliverance
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 12: throw it down most frankly, Claudio.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 10: Thanks dear Isabel.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 12: Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 10: Has he religion in him? Sure he thinks it is
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 10: no sin or of the deadly seven. He does believe it.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 12: Is the least, which is the least if.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 10: It were damnable? He being wise, why would you, for
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 10: a momentary taste of lust eternally be fed with fire?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 12: But Isabel, what says my brother.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 10: Death is a fearful thing, and living.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 12: Shame more hateful. Sure you have studied what it is to.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 10: Die, Oh sister, tis to go? We know not with her?
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 10: We lie in the silent die weakness, and we wrought
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 10: where long our motion is not stopped. For though in
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 10: my graves none walk upright proudly to face the stars,
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 10: yet there we move again when our corruption makes those
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 10: worms in whom we crawl. Perhaps the spirit which is
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 10: the future life dwells salmnder like, unharmed in fire or
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 10: else with wandering winds, is blown about the world. But
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 10: if condemned like those whom our insert and thoughts imagines howling.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 10: Then the most loath and the most wearied life which
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 10: age or ache, want or imprisonment can lay on nature
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 10: is a paradise to what we fear of death. Alas, alas,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 10: sweet sister, I would live. We're not the ransom of
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 10: my life, much more than all your honor and virtue
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 10: to by which you are maintained can ever be without undoing.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 12: Both prepare yourself. Your line of life is short.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 10: I am prepared. But sister, if your brother you did
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 10: ever love, or if our mother's pity, may your patent
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 10: be the Juliet in your tender bossom dwell who has
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 10: no blemish. If such loss as innocent antiquity allowed, were
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 10: now a force, or if religion here in Turin did
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 10: not most subsist by public form than private use.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 12: You want authority to tax the law. Let your submission,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 12: your last virtue be.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 10: Will you be good to Juliet?
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 12: I will invite her to my breast and to a
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 12: cloistered shade. Were we with mutual grieful mourn and sad
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 12: remembrance of our loss.
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: Your promise is now registered in heaven. Bear her. This
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 10: fatal pledge of our first woves gives her a ring
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 10: farewell to cloistral kindness. Both retire, may ever live aboud
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 10: the age of power and injuries of.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: Love exit, and the Duke steps.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: In vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word?
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 12: What is your will?
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: I would some satisfaction crave of that in which you
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: likewise may benefits.
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 12: My sorrow's father, hasten me away. I must beseech you
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 12: to be brief.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: The hand which made you fair has made you good.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: The assault which Angelo has to your virtue given chance
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: to my knowledge, brings I have or heard you, and
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: with much astonishment I gaze on the image you have
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: made of Angelo?
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 12: How is the noble Duke deceived in such a substitute?
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 12: Whose wickedness I will proclaim to all the world.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Your accusation he will soon avoid by saying it was
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: but a trial of your virtue made Therefore I wish
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: you would conceal his horrid purpose till fit time shall
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: serve you. At the Duke's return, do you conceive my council?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 12: Good father, I'm obliged to follow it.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: Where lodge you, virtuous maid?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 12: The Sisterhood of Saint Clair will soon inform you. I
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 12: lodge in the apartment for probation.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: There i'll attend you daughter Grace, preserve.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: You excient several ways, enter Benedicck and Beatrice at several doors,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: and viola with her.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: Oh, sir, you are a very princely lover. You cannot
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: woo but by ambassadors and made chance to marry by proxy.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 15: Your wit flows so fast that I'll not stem the tide.
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 15: I'll cast anchor in consulting your cabin how to avoid danger.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 15: The rocks are very near us.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 5: How now afraid of the deputies ghostdare he be dead?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 5: My sister shall lead you through the dark.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 15: There is the pardon signed for Juliet and for Claudio too.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: I thank you, Benedicck. Give it me.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 15: You are as nimble as a quarrel. But the knots
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: are not so soon cracked.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: Unless I have it. I'll take back my thanks if it.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 15: Be possible to fix quicksilver, stay but a little?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: What would you say?
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 15: Eschylus is in the plot and was brought to it
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 15: with more fears than a ferred alderman to an insurrection apprentices.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 5: Senor Eschylus could his gravity venture to change his gold
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: chain for a halter.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 15: I was fain to pretend hourly correspondence with the absent Duke,
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 15: which gained me his respect. I assured him of promotion,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 15: and then he grew willing to betray his friend and
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 15: fellow statesman, My brother, For men of that tribe are
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 15: very loving, but especially to themselves. He surprised the signet
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 15: and counterfeited the hand.
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: Give it me. I longed to be about it.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 15: Call little patience, you would make yourself ready without your glass.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: These male conspirators are so tedious.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 15: I must convey it to the provst and engage his secrecy.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 5: Make haste. You must not stay so long as to
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 5: be civil to him.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 15: At parting, my coach attends me at the gate.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, I forgot your Two confederates have been here and
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 5: brought verses from.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 15: You verses and from me.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 5: Yes, and they wooed for you. But Luccio was soon
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: persuaded to speak for himself. He says, you are a
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: mere country wit.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 15: I'll dip him in this plot till he grows solemn
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 15: with business. If it were fit to be malicious that Kate,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 15: if Luccio should have his cockscomb cut off for foolish treason.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Exciant several ways, and to esclos meeting Benedict.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 4: My lord, the warrant for the pardon?
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 11: Have you it?
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 15: Why ask you?
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 6: Sir?
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 4: Still wear it in your hand and watch it there?
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 15: I keep it tween my finger and my thumb, as
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 15: close as a catched flea. Are you afraid it will
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 15: skip from me?
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: The matter is of dreadful consequence.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 15: Fear nothing, sir. The world would still run swiftly round,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 15: but for you state cripples. We make it hold with
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 15: your politic steps of too much caution.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: If your brother, the Deputy, circumvent me, you'll secure me
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: by the duke.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 15: You shall add a lease of my life to your own.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 15: Be resolute, I'm.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: In haste, excellent several ways, Enter Jayla, julieta viola knocking.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 16: Within, Cousin, Juliet, are you here?
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: Jayla opens the door, Enter viola.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 16: This bell looks like a man built in pump water?
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 16: Is he married?
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: Are you not frighted with this dismal place? How does
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 7: your sister speak? Does she not blush when she remembers me?
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 16: I bring you good news, cousin, I would not meet
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 16: that man in the dark. Does he dwell here to
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 16: lock up children who are in prison for crying?
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 7: Tell me your happy news, dear Viola.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 16: Nay I can tell you, Nan, yet tis very good.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 16: You shall hear them all tomorrow.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow is the last in most s calendar.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 16: I have heard more than I can speak. You shall
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 16: come forth and lie with me and dream all night
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 16: of new dressings, and dance all day.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 7: Would I had ne'er outlived this innocence?
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 16: Do your judges dwell here? Were I that man? I
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 16: would walk in the dark and write them that.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 7: Man does do you hurt? Let us retire? Had I
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: been withered at her beauty spring and stayed from growing
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 7: at her growth of mind? I had not known the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 7: cruel nor the kind. Those who outlive her years do
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 7: but improve the knowledge of those griefs which grow with love.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. End of Act three, Act four of the Law
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: against Lovers by William Davenant. This is a LibriVox recording.
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• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: to Benedict Luccio, Balthazar.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 15: Luccio, you broke from our confederacy against marriage, and then
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 15: wooed in my behalf, and afterwards for yourself.
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  Speaker 9: Do but hear me.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 15: Excuses are like weak reserves after a battle is lost.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 9: Let me be heard. For if poor Truth have a
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: tongue of her own and must not use it, why
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 9: then she may retire into a corner and weep out
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 9: her eyes.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 15: What can you say?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 9: I meant no more love to the lady Beatrice than
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 9: I do to woo an arrested widow with a serenade
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: at a prison grate. Balthazar knows my heart.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 6: I know several of your hearts. Men are not in
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 6: the fashion unless they have change of everything.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: I ever thought her a mermaid, how so from the
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: breasts downwards she's as cold as a fish.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 15: Well, Luccio, I'll come none but the four winds to
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 15: a compte for what is past, look sirh Thus, I
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 15: blow away your offenses. But you must be stad city
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 15: now and diligent. I told you my design for Claudio's preservation.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 15: The Provost was your uncle's creature, and by him preferred.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 6: The Provost will make good out trust and every character
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: of gratitude.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 15: You must engage him. Luccio, and discern by what pretext
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 15: or obstacle the friar proceeds so far to interrupt our hopes.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 9: I'll bind the provos to your service in his own shackles,
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 9: And concerning the friar, I'll straight confess him, and you
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 9: shall know all be sudden and successful.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: Go exit, Luccio, and to Beatrice and Page.
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 5: Oh are you come? I would have cried you as
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 5: a lost thing, but that I knew I should have
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 5: the ill luck to find you again.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 15: You trip it too fast. You need not be so
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 15: swift to meet misfortune. I have just now a letter
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 15: from the Provost, who either suspects the truth of the
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 15: pardon because I enjoined him to secrecy, or else is
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 15: led by a friar to some fresh design.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 5: Are we circumvented by a friar? Rather than not vex
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 5: that friar, I'll invent a new sect and preach in
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 5: a hat and feather.
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 15: To strange that men of their discretion should come abroad
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 15: in old fashioned gowns and dressed with abominable negligence.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: Business makes them great Slovens, and they love to be busy.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 15: Never observe the right seasons when they are necessary for
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 15: though we are content with their company when we are
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 15: all in dying, yet methinks they should not trouble us
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 15: with their good counsel when we are young and in
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 15: good health.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 6: Alas poor bookman they were breeding.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 5: Can we not separate the wicked provost from this scrupulous friar.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 15: I have sent Luccio to him.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 5: Benedict, we will cast off the serious faces of conspirators
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 5: and appear to the Deputy as merry and as gay
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: as nature. In the spring, this house shall be all carnival,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 5: all masquerade.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 15: Good. We will laugh him out of politics till he
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 15: make paper kites of Machiavell's books and play with his
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 15: pages in the fields.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 6: And shall we sing and dance.
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 5: Till the old senators lead forth the burgher's widows and
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 5: cry out for a pavin page, call Vile with her castanettos,
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 5: and bid Bernardo bring his guitar.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Exit page.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 15: My brother will not endure this habitation.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 6: He'd rather go to sea and dwell in a gun.
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 15: Room, or lie around like a sexton's dog beneath the
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 15: great bell, and a.
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: Steeple viola strikes the castagnettos.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 5: Within hark Viola has tained the alarm.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 15: Those castignettos sound like a concert of squirrels cracking of nuts.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: And to viola dancing a saraband a while with castagnetos.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: Shall we stand idle in seasons of business? You have
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: feathers on your head, Benedict, have you none at your heels?
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 15: I am lady, so very a kid at capering that
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 15: you may make gloves of my skin. Bathers are call
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 15: for more music.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 6: Not for me, sir, I can dance at the mid
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 6: tolling of a bell.
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: They dance after the dance.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 4: Answer, esculos, have you no apprehension of the deputy? Are
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 4: you insensible?
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: Do you suspect we are insensible by our want of motion?
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 15: You should provide my brother, deputy of politicians, quilted captic
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 15: over his ears. Tw will preserve him from noise.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: These politic men should keep company with their fellow foxes
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 5: in deep holes.
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: Heil verse so angry that he'll lay the punishments of
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 6: your's side and pistol us with his own hand.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 4: This signor is not the right way to meet your
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 4: brother's temper.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 15: Signor. My meaning is to avoid the way where I
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 15: may meet my brother. I'll prove a very crab to
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 15: him for still as he proceeds, I propose to go backward.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 4: I hope you'll be cautious about the pardon pray, mingle.
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 15: So much curage with your wisdom as may bring you
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 15: into the possibility of sleep again.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 4: Sir, I more than beseech you not to provoke your
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: brother's gravity with fantastical noises.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 15: Believe me we are politic, and do it to this
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 15: guy's that melancholy which belongs to design, that may do well.
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 15: Go up and retire with him. If you stay here,
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 15: he'll take you for a man of mirth, and then
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 15: you'll lose his favor.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 5: Exit escolos tis fit benedict. You seek Luccio out to
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 5: learn quickly the Provost's resolution. I'll go change my scene
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 5: to the garden terrace under your brother's window, that I
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 5: may torment him with new noises.
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 16: Shall I fetch the great girls that make the bone
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 16: lace to sing out of tune to their bobbins.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 5: Do viola, let them be long lean wenches.
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 16: And we'll hang a dozen cages of parrots at his
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 16: window to tell him what's the clock?
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Excell in several ways, and to Luccio, am Provost.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 9: I'd speak with that friar who obstructs the pardon his business.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 11: With Gloria being done, he shall attend you.
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: And to fool in a shackle.
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 9: For what a prisoner I thought fooling had been free.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 13: Falling is free before the one eyes. But truly, Signor,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 13: a fool can no more suffer a fool than one
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 13: of the wits can endure another wit.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 11: You SAIDA are committed for the worst kind of fooling.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 11: You have brought both sexes together.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 9: A bod alas poor fool. Instead of being in jest,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 9: you have been in earnest.
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 13: I deal with persons of quality, with whom I thought
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 13: fit to be mannerly. Was it civil to let them meet?
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 13: To no purpose?
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 11: You have been civil.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 13: Indeed, all deeds must submit to interpretation. For my part,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 13: to prevent all animosities and heart burnings between young men
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 13: and women, I brought them lovingly together.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 9: A bad in a fool's coat.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 11: Mistress mitigation gave him the liberty.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 9: Tis a villainous new disguise for the good old cause,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 9: how does mother midnight what she grows rich?
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 13: Signor? She's eaten up all her beef now and is
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 13: herself in the tub.
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 9: Powdered to make her last tis not a mess, but prithee,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 9: what mean those keys at thy girdle I.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 11: Have preferred him? He's an under Jaila.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 9: You've but changed your dwelling, Fool. Your office is the same,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: for you are wont to keep doors and to Duke.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 11: Look to your prisoners. Genor Luccio, I shall leave you
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 11: with his reverend father, excient Provost, fool.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 9: Good day father, and.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: To you, sir, a long and a good life.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 9: Father. I aim at no different things. If it be
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 9: short and sweet, I'm satisfied.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: I mean you, sir, Nay, I'm not now.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 9: Prepared for confession. Besides, I'm in great haste. You must
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 9: needs prevail with the Provost to let the pardon pass.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: Some hours after the date of the pardon, an order
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 2: came hither for execution, which had proceeded too. If Friar
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: Thomas had not, by help of the Deputy's confessor, got
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: to reprieve till tomorrow.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 9: The absent Duke was a true friend to love. It seems,
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 9: you know the Duke no him, Yes, Friar very well,
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 9: I had the honor to be of his counsel. But
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 9: I mean sir in midnight matters. He was about once
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 9: to raise a charitable foundation, not for lousy learning or
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 9: such cripples as creep from lost battles, but for poor
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 9: diseased lovers.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: I did not think he had been amorous.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 9: Who he yes as far as to your beggar of
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 9: fifty and he used to put a ducket in her
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 9: clack dish?
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: Is possible? He was not sure in his youth this
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: way inclined.
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 9: No, he began to steer the right course about forty
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 9: but good man, he repented the lost time of his youth.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: Virtue's defensive armor must be strong to scape the merry
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 2: and malicious tongue.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: Exit And to Jayla Isabella.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 12: Good friend, be courteous and let juliet know my name
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 12: is Isabella, and I come to serve her. Will you
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 12: so much favor me? There's for your pains.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: You must stay here till I shall send her to exit.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 12: Jailah A prison is too good a den for this
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 12: rude beast.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 1: Enter Julietta. Isabella salutes her.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 12: Have comfort, sister. I must call you so, though the
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 12: uncivil law will not allow you. Yet that name I
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 12: am not worthy of it, since you have spoke so
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 12: humbly of yourself, you must and shall be comforted. Perhaps
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 12: like conscience, love, when satisfied within, may oft defend the law,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 12: And yet not sin.
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 7: I find the greatest love is an offense. For greatest
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 7: love is greatest confidence. When trusting those who for our
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 7: credence woo, we trust them with our love and honor too.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 12: I come to bring your sorrow some relief. And would
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 12: your crime not lesson but your grief?
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 5: How can I.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 7: Lose that honor which I gave to him? Who can
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 7: and will that honor save?
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 12: When you your honor did to Claudio give cousining yourself, you
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 12: did our sex deceive. Honor is a public treasure, and
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 12: tis fit law should in public form dispose of it.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 7: Oh Isabella, you are cruel, grown sister.
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 12: You gave much more than was your own.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 7: I loved too much, Yet for your brother's sake, who
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 7: had that love? You my excuse should make.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 12: My mother's life? Did fair example give how after death
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 12: we might unpunished live? She dying, did my childhood then
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 12: assign to Claudio's care? He leaves you now to mine?
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 7: Oh heaven, you mean that Claudio still must die? And
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 7: I am now become a legacy.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 12: My friends are suing for your liberty, and that you
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 12: may secure from penance.
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 7: Be what need I for the shame of penance? Care
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 7: no blush e'er died the paleness of despair.
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 12: Do not, with weeping vainly quench your eyes. Tears are
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 12: to heaven a useful sacrifice, where every drive moves mercy,
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 12: But they gain on earth no more remorse than common reign.
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 7: Is there no means your brother's life to save.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 12: None that I would afford or he would have. Yet
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 12: can I not affirm that there is none?
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 7: Oh, call back hope, which fos does from us.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 12: Run, sister, you call in vain, for when you know
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 12: how wicked now Saint Angelo does grow, you will rejoice
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 12: that death makes Claudio free, and think your bonds more
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 12: safe than liberty.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: Is Angelo as wicked as severe?
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 12: I'm more his kindness now than anger fear to.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 7: What would tyrant force kindly persuade.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 12: He gently treats than rudely does invade. I dare not
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 12: give his purposed sin a name. It is too hard
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 12: a word for untaught shame.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 7: False image of refined authority.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 12: Unless I yield my brother is to die just now
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 12: I left the guards drawn up, who wait for execution
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 12: at the prison gate?
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 7: Oh Isabel, why are we useful? Made too weak to
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 7: in force and artless to persuade? Nor you nor I
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 7: can any help afford to your dear brother and my
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 7: plight in Lord? Yet you have means, but must not
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 7: have the will by evil to prevent a greater ill?
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 12: Have I the means? Your grief misleads your tongue.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: She is going out.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 7: I would do Claudio good, and you no wrong. Your
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 7: virtue is severe. Hear me, but speak, my heart will
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 7: ouse out to my bosom.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 12: Break speak clearly. Then you are not understood.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 7: May none do ill?
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 8: That?
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 7: So they may do good? Nature no greater gift than
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 7: life can give by virtue.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 12: We are nature long outlive.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 7: Can it be virtue to let Claudio die?
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 12: His life should not be saved by infamy loathed?
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 7: Infamy consists of evils grown so impudent as covet to
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 7: be known. But those seem least, which bashfully we shun
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 7: at first, and then for good intent are done.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 12: Sister, you argue wildly in your grief. You are too
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 12: good to seek a bad relief for Claudio. Therefore, look
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 12: for no reply.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 7: I look for none, yet would not have him die
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 7: going out.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 12: You seemed to intimate the bashfulness at evil doing makes
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 12: the evil less, that when we good intend, by doing ill,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 12: we bring necessity to excuse our will, and that our faults,
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 12: when hidden by our shame, pass free from blemish if
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 12: they escape from blame.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 7: Forget my words, how could they be but weak when
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 7: grief did make those thoughts which fear did speak.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 12: Suppose I can a likely wade devise that you, assisted
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 12: aptly by disguise, may take to night my place with Angelo.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 12: The means is not remote. What will you do?
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 7: I am amazed and apprehend you not.
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 12: Your sudden ignorance is strangely got. I now am going
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 12: to the deputy to make to his request my life
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 12: last reply. And I perhaps may promise willingness, but on
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 12: conditions made for my access with bashful privacy, retired from
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 12: light from every witness too, But secret knight whose thickest curtains,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 12: shall amure the room where for my promised person you
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 12: may come. Thus, Claudio's life, you save and lose no fame,
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 12: for where none sees, we cannot feel our shame Ascribe
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 12: to dire necessity, the ill, the good of it belongs
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 12: then to your will. Quickly resolve, and I'll prepare your way.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 7: Ere I will Claudio in my self betray. I will
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 7: the torment of his death, endure his sickness more becomes
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 7: him than the cure.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 12: How, Juliet, can you righteously refuse the expedient which you
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 12: plead that I should use? Go chide the passion which
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 12: you would have me do, that which, though ill in both,
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 12: seems least in you. The good or ill redemption of
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 12: his life does less concern his sister than his wife.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 7: Alas we know not what is good or ill.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 12: Perhaps we should not learn that fatal skill. The serpent
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 12: todd at first. Sister away will more for patience than
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 12: for knowledge.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: Pray excellent several ways. And to Balthazar, Beatrice, Jayla Page.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 5: Where's Viola? Have I lost her? That scarecrow makes a
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 5: very bird of her.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 6: She's run upstairs, Madam, to inform your cousin, Juliet, of
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 6: your being here.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: Methinks this fellow looks not only ill, but saucily ill.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 5: How so, Madam, tis impudence to show so bad a
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: face and good company. Friend, I'll reward you The sooner
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: the better you shall wear my colors boy when he
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 5: comes abroad, bid my lackeys be careful to cudgel him.
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 1: I thank you, Exit Jailah, enter Viola.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 16: My cousin Juliette has locked herself in a chamber. I
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 16: saw her through the key, weeping right nurse, when she
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 16: lost her wedding ring.
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 5: Juliette. I cannot but pity thy private friendship, but am
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 5: more vexed at our public enemy.
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 6: Thy judge your tears, madam, show more pity than anger.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: No, sir, great storms do you oft? Begin with rain?
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: And to Benedict.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 15: I saw your coach at the prison gate, lady, and
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 15: thought you'd been arrested on suspicion of love, which now
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 15: has made high treason. Natural bodies by the body politic.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 5: I should marvel, Benedict, how you had the face to
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 5: come within sight of my sex. But that ill faces
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 5: being common are no cause of wonder.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 15: Mine's a politic face, and few of that sort are
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 15: held handsome, so politic that it will hardly be seduced
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 15: to make another in these dangerous times.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 5: So politic as i'd have you walk only at night
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 5: and with a dark lantern. Before you, that though you
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 5: see others, none may see you. You are one of
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 5: those whom I think unlucky.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 15: This gloomy place presents you with strange visions. Your coach
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 15: attends you. I pray change the scene.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 5: Whither to see your brother's guards drawn up for Claudio's execution.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 5: Alas poor women, they get much by you men.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 15: Truly it is thought they might get more, For men
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 15: are always civilly willing, though never blamed. But patience, and
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 15: we shall have write when we are heard heard.
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, may she who henceforth listens to your sighing sex
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 5: have her ass ears in public board as Love's known slave.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 5: And where for pendants Morris bells as his fantastic fool.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 15: No whispering the platonic way.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: Platonic way, my cousin has platoted profoundly, has she not
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 5: the name of mischief? Make friends with yourself and not
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 5: with us. Let every damon of you choose his pitheis,
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 5: and tattle romantic philosophy together like bearded god gossips.
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 15: Though such conversation might breed peace in a palace, yet
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 15: would make but a thin.
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 5: Court discourse all day, lolling like lazy, ill bred wits
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 5: with your right legs or your left knees, defining love
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 5: till he become as raw as if he were dissected
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 5: by anatomists. Give balls and serenades to your dear selves.
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 15: That weres we are taught by the old proverb to
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 15: be merry and wise, and to Luccio.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 9: We shall be more troubled with this fiddling friar than
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 9: with ten lay fools. He has so infected the provost
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 9: with good counsel that there is no hope from him.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: The guards are doubled at the prison gate, and Claudio
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 9: is to die at break of day.
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 5: Where's now your valor, Sir? Is furious benedict like beasts
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 5: of prey, courageous only in the field, and with familiar tameness,
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 5: creeps in towns beneath the anger of your feeder's law, Jaylor,
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 5: where are you bring me to my cousin?
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: Exit Beatrice Viola.
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 15: She's raised to a most amiable humor. How's your time,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 15: Luccio to make love to her?
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 9: I am now for the platonic way of billing, like
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 9: meek turtles without the noise of passion.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 6: We Lucia, who are parcel lovers, should mourn like turtles
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 6: over a bottle. In these days of persecution.
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 15: Signors prepared to offend the laws, I find I must
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 15: gro rude and make bold with my.
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Brother excellent Omnis, and to provost duke.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 11: The guards. Thus doubled at the prison gate, confirms my
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 11: doubt that Signor Benedict did counterfeit the pardon which he brought.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 2: You have another prisoner here, condemned to die.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 11: The wicked Bernardine has long been a most painful and
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 11: a watchful rubber. But now, in the short remainder of
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 11: his life, he leisurely consumes in sleep.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 2: Is he so careless before death?
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 11: He minds not what he's past or present or to come.
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 2: He wants advice.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 11: We oft have wakened him as if he were to
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 11: go to execution, and shared him too, as seeming warrant,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 11: But he seemed.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 13: Not moved, and to fool the hangman waits to dispatch
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 13: his business with your.
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 11: Worship, Sidda. His business is with you.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 13: My worship will hardly be at leisure for him.
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: Call him in and to hang man.
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 11: This fellow early in the morning is to help you
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 11: and your execution. He cannot plead a quality above your service.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 11: He has been a noted.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 8: Bored a bad fie on him. He'll disgrace our mystery.
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 13: Sir, by a good favor. For surely, sir, you would
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 13: have a good favor had you not a hanging. Look
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 13: do you call your trade a mystery?
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 11: Yes?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 8: You will find it?
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 13: So what mystery then should be in hanging? If I
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 13: were to be hanged? I cannot imagine.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 8: It is a mystery that you must be hanged. You
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 8: can find it out, provide.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 11: Your blocking acts and called Bernardine.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Exit, hangman?
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: What horrid instruments are used by power?
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 13: Mister Bernardine? You must rise and be hanged, mister Bernardine, within.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 5: Curse on your throat? Who makes that noise? What are you?
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 13: Your friend? The hangman? You must be so good as
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 13: to rise and be put to death?
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 5: Away, you rogue? I am sleepy.
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 11: Tell him he must wake.
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 13: Pray, mister Bernadeine, awake till you are executed, and sleep afterwards.
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 11: Go in and fetch him out.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 13: He's coming, sir, for I hear his straw Russell.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: And swered Bernardine, Oh, now, fool, what's the news with you?
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 13: Truly, sir, I would desire you to clap close to
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 13: your prayers for the warrants come.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 5: You are a rogue. I've been drinking all night, and
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: I'm not fitted for the warrant.
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 13: The better for he that drinks all night and is
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 13: hanged very good times in the morning may sleep the
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 13: sadlier all the next day.
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 11: Look, sir, here comes your ghostly father. Do you think
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 11: we just.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 2: Now induce sir? By my charity and hearing how hastily
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 2: you are to depart? I am come to advise you,
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: comfort you, and pray with you.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 5: Friar not I I've been drinking hard all night. I
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 5: will have more time to prepare me, or they shall
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 5: beat out my brains with billets. I'll not die today.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 2: Oh sir, you must, and therefore I beseech you look
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 2: forward on the journey you shall go.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 5: I'll not die till I have slept for any man's persuasion.
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 16: But hear you not a word.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 5: If you have anything to speak, come to my ward,
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 5: for I'll not thence today.
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: Excellent Bernardine fold think you're this prisoner?
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: Nature did never make a thing more wretched. He is
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: unfit to live or die for want of common charity
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: to transport him in the mind he is. Let him
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: have more time and be restrained from every nourishment, but
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 2: sleep till I have made him fit for death.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: And to Jayla, Sir, a messenger at the prison gate
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: knocks hard and says that he must speak with you.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 11: Here come father, if it please you, let's retire excient.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 1: And to Claudio and fool.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 10: Building the door there unheard, and see thou art man,
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 10: do in an ill disguise, and shouldst support thy billing worthily?
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 13: Why truly, sir, though I have had a couple of
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 13: ill callings, yet I would live as well as I
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 13: could by both.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 10: Thou hast to sell and been to shame, and no
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 10: art but an officer to cruelty. There take this gold.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 10: It is a thousand grounds. Wilt thou not run a
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 10: little hazard for much happiness? The venture is not great,
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 10: and it may probably produce at once thy freedom and support.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 13: Sir. Mine is but a thin summer skin, tis often
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 13: been cut and slashed with whipping. I would very faint
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 13: sleep hole in it.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 10: Now have courage, friend, tis gold.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 13: My granddame left me nothing at her death but a
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 13: good old proverb that's touch and take. And I may
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 13: say it has been a lucky proverb to me, what would.
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 8: You have me?
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: Do?
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 10: I have within a pageous habit packed up close prithee
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 10: conveyed by your friend the jailer to Julieta, whose escape
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 10: in that disguise I newly had contrived by correspondence with
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 10: an officer who has the foremost station of the gods
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 10: without and has been a servant to my father. If
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 10: thou hast any tenderness, do this that she may escape
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 10: from public penance.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 13: But how shall I escape, sir? For I shall do
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 13: penance without a sheet or a shirt. For my kind
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 13: to you to the hangman will strip me stark naked
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 13: when I'm swinging though the wind blow northerly.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 10: The love for their offense can doom thee, but to
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 10: fetters during life and after that, gold me purchase the release.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 13: A sow whipping may come into the bargain, but tis
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 13: a poor back that cannot sometimes pay for the maintenance
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 13: of the belly.
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 10: I'll do it, pray, lose no time I have, but
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 10: little left.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 13: Have you no more gold? Sure you might escape too, friend.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 10: I have given you all I have. Nor could my
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 10: greater plenty work for my liberty, for my confederate dash
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 10: not to undertake to make the passage clear for more
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 10: than one, or if he could, I want disguise for two.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 13: If you could get out, sir, then you escape from death.
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 10: And she, by freedom, escapes from dreadful shame of doing penance, pray,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 10: dispute it not knocking with Then what hand is that?
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 10: If you prove faithful now you will gain forgiveness for
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 10: your past offenses?
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 13: My golden guests returned? How are you straight into the
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 13: closet of my breaches? Much in all its good, innocent
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 13: gold has been led to your charge.
• 1:37:06
  Speaker 1: Puts up the bag and looks through the keyhole.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 13: It is the lady Juliet's mind. I'll let her in
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 13: and bear the habit to her mistress.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 14: Exit fool, Enter maid, my lady, with this letter, Sir
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 14: sends you her dearest prayers and love.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 10: Heaven value both so much as they are praised by me.
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: Reads the latter to.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 10: Provoses wives in pity of your distress, or perhaps out
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 10: of love to your person, or rather, as I hope,
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 10: out of respect to your virtue. As device means for
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 10: your escape, she has by large gifts prevailed with my
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 10: keeper to leave your passage free to my chamber. I
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 10: beseech you, with efficacy of my last breath, to make
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 10: use of this occasion and to hasten hither your way
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 10: to liberty must be out of my window from whence
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 10: my small engine. She will wrench the bars.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 14: You find leisure to consider, sir, of that which my
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 14: lady is so well resolved.
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 10: The Provos's wife, will she facilitate your lady's liberty with mine?
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 14: She says she cannot undertake so far.
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 10: Then I will refuse her courtesy.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 14: My lady sends you this request in tears. Will you
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 14: deny it her?
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 10: If my escape I am from a chamber, make the
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 10: law will lay the guilt of it on her, And
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 10: she reminds behind to bad the punishment she.
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 14: Hath agreed to that condition with the provost wife.
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 10: Your lady makes me an unkindly quest.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 14: Have you the heart to judge it?
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 12: So?
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 10: Can she be ignorant that the rigid lord does judge
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 10: it in a prisoner forfeiture of life, to help another
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 10: prisoner to escape who is condemned to die.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 14: That forfeture she cheerfully will pay. But has so governed
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 14: me with desperate vows that I lack courage to refuse
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 14: to bring this message to you?
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 10: How powerful fatal Juliet is thy low? Yet must it
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 10: not more valiant than mine? Tell her I have newly
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 10: sent her a request more just than that which she
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 10: has sent by you. It will be brought her with
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 10: the present, too, which if unkindly she denies to dike
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 10: she does by example my denial.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: Make excellent several ways, Enter Angelo, servant.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: Attend her in, and then wait you at.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: Distance, Exit Servant, Oh love.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 3: How much thy borrowed shapes disguise even to themselves, the valiant.
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: And the wise, Enter Isabella.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: Had you not feared the approach of Claudio's fate, which
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: shows you are to him compassionate, though not to me,
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 3: I had not seen you here, he may your pity
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 3: thank and I your fear.
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 12: My Lord, I hardly could myself forgive for suing still
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 12: to have my brother live, but that a higher hope
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 12: directs my aim, which saving his frail life, would yours reclaim?
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 3: How desperate all your hopeful visits prove you bring me
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 3: counsel still instead of love, and would in storms of
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 3: passion make me wise? Bid pilots preach to winds when
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: tempests rise.
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 12: But yet as tempests are by showers a laid, so
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 12: may your anger by my tears be swayed.
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 3: You must, by yielding, teach me to relent, make haste.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 3: The mourner's tears are almost spent. Courtiers to tyrant death,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 3: who basely wait to do that tyrant honor whom they hate,
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 3: inviting formal fools to see his feast, to which your
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 3: brother is the unwilling guest, and the absolving priest must
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: say the grace Knight's progress done, Claudio begins his race.
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 12: And with the morning's wings your cruel doom, he shall
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 12: convey where you must tremble and come before that judgehose
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 12: power you you so ill, as if like lot were
• 1:40:58
  Speaker 12: subject to your will, the cruel there shall wish they
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 12: had been just, and that their seeming love had not
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 12: been lost.
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 3: These useless sayings were from cloisters brought you cannot teach
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 3: so soon as you were taught. You must example to
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 3: my mercy. Give first save my life, and then let
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 3: Claudio live.
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 12: Have you no words, but what are only good? Because
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 12: their ill is quickly understood, Dispose of Claudio's life, whilst
• 1:41:25
  Speaker 12: cruel you seem dead by being deaf to all that sue,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 12: till by long custom for a giving none, you are
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 12: so averse to all forgiveness grown that in your own
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 12: behalf you shall deny to hear of absolution when you die.
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 3: How Isabel, from calms of bashfulness, even such as suppliant
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 3: saints to heaven, express when patience makes herself a sacrifice,
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 3: can you to storms of execration? Rise?
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: Isabella is going out?
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 3: Leave me not full of evil? Wonder?
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: Stay?
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 12: Can it be good to hear what you would say?
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: He steps in and reaches a cabinet.
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 3: In this behold nature's reserves of light. When the lost
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 3: day yields to advancing night, When that black goddess fine
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 3: in frosts appears, then starry jewels bright as though she
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 3: wears the wealth of many parents who did spare in
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 3: plenteous peace, and get by prosperous war of that which.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 12: Evil life may get. You make a wonder in a
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 12: monstrous boast, which death from you is certainly will take
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 12: as tis already by your parents lost.
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 3: Be in this world like other mortals. Wise, and take
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 3: this treasure as your beauty's prize. Wealth draws a curtain
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: or the face of shame, restores lost beauty, and recovers fame.
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 12: Catch fools and nets without a covert lade can I,
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 12: who see the treason be betrayed going out?
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: Stay Isabel, stay but a moment's space. You know me
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 3: not by knowing but my face. My heart does differ
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: from my looks and tongue to know you much. I
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 3: have deceived you long?
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 12: Have you more shapes, or would you new devise?
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: I'll now at once cast off my whole disguise. Keep
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 3: still your virtue, which is dignified and has new value
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 3: got by being tried. Claud, you shall longer live than
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: I can do. Who was his judge, but am condemned
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: by you. The Marshal of the guards keeps secretly his
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: pardon sealed, nor meant I he should die.
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 12: By shifting your disguise, you seem much more in borrowed
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 12: darkness than you were before.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: Forgive me, who till now thought I should find too
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 3: many of your beauteous sex, too kind. I strove as
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: jealous lovers, curious, grow vainly to learn what I was
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 3: loth to know, and of your virtue I was doubtful,
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 3: grown as men judge women's frailties by their own. But
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: since you fully have endured the test and are not
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 3: only good, but prove the best of all your sex,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 3: submissively I woo to be your lover and your husband too?
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 12: Can I win free? Be and by your words subdued?
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 12: Whose actions have my brother's life pursued?
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: I never meant to take your brother's life. But if
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: in trial how to choose a wife, I have too diffident,
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 3: too curious been, I'll pardon ask for folly. As for sin,
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 3: I loved you ere. Your precious beauties were in your
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 3: probation shaded in Saint Clair, and when with sacred sisterhood confined,
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 3: A double enterprise perplexed my mind by Claudio's danger to
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 3: provoke you forth from that blessed shade, and then to
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 3: try your worth.
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 12: She that can credit give to things so strange, and
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 12: can comply with such a sudden change, has mighty faith
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 12: and kindness too, so strong that the extreme cannot continue long.
• 1:44:45
  Speaker 12: I am so pleased with Claudio's liberty that the example
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 12: shall preserve me free.
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 3: Was I, when bad so quickly understood and cannot be believed?
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 3: When I am good.
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 12: In favor of my sex and not of you. I
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 12: wish your love so violent and try true, that those
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  Speaker 12: who shall hereafter curious be to seek that frailty which
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  Speaker 12: they would not see, may, by your punishment, become afraid
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  Speaker 12: to use those nets which you ignobly laid.
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  Speaker 3: Ah Isabel, you blamed my cruelty. Will you, when I
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  Speaker 3: show mercy cruel be.
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  Speaker 12: You might have met a weaker breast than mine, which
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  Speaker 12: had approached to parley, would incline how little honor then
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  Speaker 12: you had obtained. If where but little was you that
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  Speaker 12: had stained? Had you been great of mind, you would
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  Speaker 12: have strove to have hid or helped the weaknesses of love,
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  Speaker 12: and not have used temptations to the frail or power
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  Speaker 12: where twas dishonor to prevail. You will, if now your
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  Speaker 12: love dissembled, be deceive yourself in not deceiving me. If
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  Speaker 12: it be true, you shall not be believed, lest you
• 1:45:51
  Speaker 12: should think me apt to be deceived.
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  Speaker 3: Exit, break heart, farewell. The cruel and the just fools
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 3: seek belief where they have bred distrust. Because she doubts
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  Speaker 3: my virtue, I must die. Who did with vicious arts
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  Speaker 3: her virtue?
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  Speaker 1: Try Exit end of Act four, Act five of the
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  Speaker 1: Law against Lovers by William Davenant. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act five,
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  Speaker 1: Scene one. Enter, Duke and Isabella.
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  Speaker 2: You told me, daughter that the Marshal has your brother's
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  Speaker 2: pardons sealed, and I shall watch all means to keep
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 2: him safe. Lest Angelo should turn his clemency into revenge.
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  Speaker 2: Do not the assurance of his freedom, boy, with hazard
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  Speaker 2: of a virgin's liberty.
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  Speaker 12: I shall, with patience follow your instruction.
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  Speaker 2: Night shady curtains are already drawn, and you shall hear
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  Speaker 2: strange news before the dawn.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Duke, Enter Francisca.
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  Speaker 12: Is the good Father gone, yes, sister, and has left
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  Speaker 12: my breast in peace?
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  Speaker 1: A bell rings?
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  Speaker 12: This bell does nightly warn us ere we sleep to
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  Speaker 12: appease offend heaven. Let us go pray that the world's
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  Speaker 12: crimes may vanish with the day.
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  Speaker 1: Excitent, Enter benedict esclos beatrice, viola luccio, singing chorus. Within.
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  Speaker 4: Your brother, Sir has an unquiet mind, tis late, and
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  Speaker 4: he would take his rest.
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  Speaker 16: We'll sing him to sleep.
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  Speaker 15: Shall he who should live lean with care of the
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  Speaker 15: whole commonwealth grow fat with sleep like a greenland bear.
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  Speaker 4: Rulers are but mortal and should have rest.
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  Speaker 15: A statesman should take a nap in his chair, only
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 15: dream of sleep.
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  Speaker 5: These great tame lions of the law, who make offenders
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: of the week should still seem watchful, and like wild lions,
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  Speaker 5: sleep with their eyes open.
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  Speaker 4: Is night a season for singing?
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  Speaker 16: We'll sing like nightingales a nice thing at nights?
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  Speaker 4: Take heed for the grand watch does walk the round.
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  Speaker 5: Seor when did you hear of nightingales taken by the watch?
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  Speaker 9: Madam? We'll sing. The governor may come if he please,
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  Speaker 9: and sigh to the chorus.
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  Speaker 4: I'll bear no part, sir, in your song, nor in
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 4: your punishment.
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  Speaker 1: Exit es close.
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  Speaker 17: Our ruler has got the vertigo of state. The world
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  Speaker 17: turns round in his politic pate. He steers in the
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  Speaker 17: sea where his course cannot last, and bears too much
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  Speaker 17: sail for the strength of his mast.
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  Speaker 5: Let him he can.
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  Speaker 18: Yet charm me fitting the margin lines. Gever will fight
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  Speaker 18: as with an oultree, shall hit him sure.
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  Speaker 5: Angelone knows love's parties. Strong love melts like soft wax.
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  Speaker 5: The hearts of the young, and none are so old,
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  Speaker 5: but they think on the taste and weep with remembrance
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  Speaker 5: of kindnesses past.
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  Speaker 18: Let him he can like man, yet love charm me
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  Speaker 18: fitting the Margi lines, Gever will fight as with an aultree,
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  Speaker 18: shall hit him.
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  Speaker 15: Loving the wisest is hell the mad fit, and man
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  Speaker 15: is in fools is reckoned for wit the wise, while
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  Speaker 15: you love just this fool's wisdom price which when they
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  Speaker 15: can't gain, they seem to spies.
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  Speaker 18: Lend him he can like man, yet love the child
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  Speaker 18: Me fitting the mart line will fight as with an oldrick,
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  Speaker 18: shall hit him.
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  Speaker 16: Cold cowards or perils of angeritution, two dangers of.
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  Speaker 5: Love they leave when they run.
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  Speaker 16: The valiant and frolic did follow the boy when he
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 16: led them a dance from Greece to Old Troy, lending him.
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  Speaker 18: He can like man, yet love the child me fitting
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  Speaker 18: the mart line will fight as with an old trick,
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  Speaker 18: shall hit him.
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  Speaker 6: And Balthazar behind the garden of the Augustin's your friends attend.
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  Speaker 6: You must be sudden if you'd be successful.
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  Speaker 15: I come bid Lucco in a whisper to retire and
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  Speaker 15: to expect my orders at Saint Lawrence Gate. Lady, though
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  Speaker 15: you deny sleep to my brother, yet you may do
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 15: well to allow a little of it to yourself. It
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  Speaker 15: grows late and violin and thinks begins to lose an
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  Speaker 15: eye with watching in your service.
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  Speaker 16: I love watching and dancing too, in moonshine nights, like any.
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  Speaker 5: Fairy can whispers hide your business, Benedict. When you are
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 5: such a weather cock that with but looking on you,
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  Speaker 5: I can quickly find where the wind sits well, I
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  Speaker 5: wish you some danger, that you may get the more.
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  Speaker 1: Honor excellent several ways, enter Angelo, esclos.
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  Speaker 3: It is not just I should rebuke them for their
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  Speaker 3: harmony of mind, that were to show their rage and
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 3: envious malice of the devil which quarrels with the good,
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 3: because they have that happiness which she can ne'er enjoy.
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  Speaker 4: My Lord, I find you sick for want of rest,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 4: and grieve to hear you say the cause of your
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 4: disease is in yourself.
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  Speaker 3: No sickness, Eschylus, can be more dangerous than mine, of
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  Speaker 3: which the cause is known. To that physician who enjoins
• 1:52:09
  Speaker 3: me to despair of cure, Your.
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  Speaker 19: Words amaze me, and to first servant to arms, my lord,
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  Speaker 19: to alms the ancient citizens awaked in terror by the
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  Speaker 19: insulting youth, who, in loud throngs, march through the streets
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  Speaker 19: to the parade.
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  Speaker 3: Hence, coward thou art frightened by thy dream.
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  Speaker 1: Exit servant, And to second servant.
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  Speaker 14: Ahm oh, my lord, your brother is revolted, heading a
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  Speaker 14: body of disbanded officers. He's in skirmish with your guards
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  Speaker 14: to rescue Claudio from the law.
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  Speaker 3: My brother grown, my public enemy. This iteration sounds like truth.
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 3: I was just now sending to declare Claudia's pardon and
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 3: to hasten his and Juliet's liberty.
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  Speaker 4: You purposed well, but your performance was too slow.
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  Speaker 5: And to first servant, tis said, the marshal of your
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  Speaker 5: gods is slain.
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  Speaker 3: That's a surprise of fortune, for he had Claudio's pardon,
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  Speaker 3: and had he shown it might perhaps have quenched the mutiny.
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  Speaker 3: My armor and command my guard of Switzer's to march
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  Speaker 3: and to make good the pass which leads to Saint
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 3: Jago's port. Haste Eschylus, and bid Montano make a sally
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  Speaker 3: from the citadel.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. Several ways, enter duke, provost, lock.
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  Speaker 2: Up your prisoners, and secure the gates.
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  Speaker 11: I didn't suspect by Luccio's menacings that Benedict would Claudio
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 11: liberty attempt by farce, and therefore did baride for opposition
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  Speaker 11: to attend this sault forty selected from regards without I
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  Speaker 11: have drawn in.
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  Speaker 2: Are they answered?
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  Speaker 11: They are on board us. Senor does command them.
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  Speaker 2: The expedient, which in haste I have prescribed, will in
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 2: extremity be fit to use. Though when you threaten it,
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  Speaker 2: men may think you cruel.
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  Speaker 11: Father, all strictly follow your advice.
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 2: Offer a parley from the battlements. Be careful, valiant provost
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  Speaker 2: of your charge, and Heaven take care of you.
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  Speaker 11: I'll through the post and lead you out. Your function
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 11: will protect.
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  Speaker 1: You, excient And to Benedict Balthazar, officers.
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  Speaker 15: Remove the marshal strait where surgeons may attend his wound,
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 15: which is not mortal, though his loss of blood deprive
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 15: him of his speech.
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  Speaker 6: A squadron of the gods at our approach, retired into
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 6: the prison to make good the gates against assault.
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 15: Their sudden fear begot by policy. Rather to make conditions
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 15: for themselves than for the place.
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  Speaker 6: The prost will be obstinate.
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  Speaker 15: It may be safer for him to preserve his courage.
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  Speaker 9: For some other use and to Luccio, Duke Father Fox.
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  Speaker 9: The Friar is stolen out of his hall and is
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  Speaker 9: going to make a visit to the geese of his parish.
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  Speaker 15: Luccio, let him pass.
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  Speaker 9: If you give quarter to the enemies of lovers, you
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 9: will be followed in your next war by none but
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 9: decrepit old soldiers. The youth will all forsake you.
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  Speaker 15: I'll hand him straight. We must, in reference to his function,
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  Speaker 15: make him free.
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  Speaker 2: Peaste with your lordship.
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  Speaker 9: Take care of lovers in your orisons, and the rather,
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 9: because praying for them you pray for the Duke. Remember
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  Speaker 9: that Friar.
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  Speaker 2: If air I see the Duke, Sir, he shall know
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  Speaker 2: how much he is obliged to you.
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  Speaker 1: Luccio, be steadfast in your station, Excillent, Duke Luccio, provost
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  Speaker 1: from the battlements.
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  Speaker 8: Look up.
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  Speaker 15: The provist does relent. He seems inclined to parley.
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  Speaker 11: May fortune serve the valiant Benedict in all attempts, But
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  Speaker 11: when he does invade the forts of law where justice
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  Speaker 11: would secure the trophies of her victories.
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  Speaker 15: Provest I think your greeting well, and wish your courage
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 15: more success than you and your resistance. Now are like
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 15: to find. You are too wise to talk of law
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 15: to those who mean to justify their actions by their swords.
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  Speaker 11: My Lord, some honor I have gotten in the face
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 11: of enemies, and will not lose it in the sight
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 11: of friends.
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 15: You must give Claudio and Julietta liberty, and then your
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 15: other prisoners, and yourself shall, undisturbed, be at your own dispose.
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  Speaker 11: Claudio, by sentence is condemned, and sure my office does
• 1:56:30
  Speaker 11: engage my honor to make good the sentence of the
• 1:56:33
  Speaker 11: law provost.
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 6: We come not here to make a war like women
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 6: with vain words.
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 15: Accept of peace by yielding that which I would gain
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 15: by a request, or else, expect the worst event of force.
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  Speaker 11: Your force I will oppose, And when my temper is
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 11: too much provoked, perhaps the extremity may make me show
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 11: you such an object as will hurt your eyes.
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  Speaker 9: Enter, Luccio, my lord, retire to face your brother's power,
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 9: which now is doubled by a sally from the citadel.
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 15: Make good the passage at Saint Lawrence's Gate. And whilst
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 15: my squadron does advance you, Batha's arm must march a
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 15: distance with the.
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 11: Rear Usino range. Your parisans tis now our time to
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 11: make a sally.
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: Too excient clashing of arms within and to Beatrice viola lackey.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 5: Sister, sister, Come, we not hide ourselves, fear nothing vile
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 5: antill you are in love. But then our faces we
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 5: like Woodcock's hide, whilst foolish fear, which is in women's shame,
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 5: makes us but tempt the fowler to give aim. Enter
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  Speaker 5: first page, Madam, all's our own well speak. You were
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 5: one of those messengers who lost his wages by his diligence,
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 5: running so fast to bring good news that he wanted
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 5: breath to utter it.
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 8: Count Benedict's a most substantial man. Would the sun whereup
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 8: that his friends might see how his stands to it
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 8: whilst his enemies fly from him.
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 5: He is a substance fit to stand in the sun
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 5: to make a shadow, and being the substance, Luccio must
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 5: be the shadow. If Benedict fly first, Luccio will not
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 5: fail to follow him.
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  Speaker 8: There is no end of Count Benedict's.
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 5: Valor valiant without end, that is stout to no purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Enter second page, Oh, Madam, Count Benedict is lost.
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  Speaker 5: How this foolish boy was ever given to lying Lackye
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  Speaker 5: go out and bring me truth, such truth as I
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 5: shall like, or else return no.
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  Speaker 15: More, Madame, all the maids.
• 1:58:42
  Speaker 5: Oh peace, your intelligence comes from the laundry.
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  Speaker 16: Well, I fear the news may be true. Then they
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 16: know what they say.
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: Carlo tell it me, page and viola whisper.
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  Speaker 5: My eyes are not prophetical. Perhaps they melt too soon, lost,
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 5: Valiant Benedick, lost by thy noble kindness for my sake, who,
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 5: whilst I pitied Claudio in his danger, had of thy
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 5: safety no indulgent care enter.
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  Speaker 1: Both the czar.
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  Speaker 6: Madame, pardon my haste, which is as rude as any
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 6: unseasonable visit.
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 5: Tell me I pray the business of this night.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 6: Count Benedick began it with success. Who to redeem unhappy
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 6: Claudio from the arms of death and Juliet from the
• 1:59:30
  Speaker 6: shame of public penance, did assault the guards attending near
• 1:59:33
  Speaker 6: the prison gate, and at the first encounter did disperse
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  Speaker 6: that force.
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  Speaker 5: This is no wonder for an honor's game, where many
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: throw at the last great stake life, as if twere
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 5: but light gold. Young gamesters oft are lucky.
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 6: The provost offered parley, but denied to yield the prisoners
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 6: and the cause which made him obstinate grew quickly evident
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  Speaker 6: by old montanoza sally from the citadel and Angelou's advance
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  Speaker 6: with all his wits. These were by valiant benedicck repulsed.
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 5: I am not sorry now that I have his picture,
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 5: for the vain gentleman will quickly grow so altered by
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 5: success that without his image I should hardly know him.
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  Speaker 6: Lord Angelo would have retired into the citadel. But in
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 6: the strife of that retreat, Brave Benedic received a wound.
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  Speaker 5: A wound. Excuse me, bouthassar, if I assume the feeling
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  Speaker 5: of your friendship to him and pity him for your sake.
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  Speaker 6: The wound was slight, and rather served to augment his
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 6: courage than to waste his strength.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll allow him courage, pray.
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 6: Proceed with many shouts saluted. He again summoned the provost,
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 6: who enraged out resistance of his sally from the prison,
• 2:00:47
  Speaker 6: licensed his anger even to cruelty, for as a dire
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: expedient to prevent the occasion of a new assault, he
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  Speaker 6: doomed young Claudio to endure the bloody axe, and from
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 6: the battlements showed us his head.
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  Speaker 5: Enough, how your story goes to dismal to be heard
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  Speaker 5: dead Claudio, yet is more happy than living. Juliet, pray
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  Speaker 5: be brief if you have any other sorrows to reveal.
• 2:01:12
  Speaker 6: The cruel Provost. Having thus provoked Count Benedict, he straight
• 2:01:16
  Speaker 6: prepares to storm the prison, and the sault was scarce
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 6: begun when suddenly our sovereign Duke breaks forth from the
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 6: dark cloud of that disguise in which it seems he
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 6: hath remained concealed in Turin.
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 5: The Duke in town.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 6: Most visibly in person and in power, for by his
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 6: high command, Victorious Bendick is now with Congrad Angelo, and
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 6: both are prisoners to the provost.
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 5: Sudden and strange.
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 6: Lord Angelo is kept from visitants to make him ignorant
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 6: of what is past, and by the strictness of the
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 6: guards to Benedict tis whispered and suspected that he will
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 6: be sentenced for rebellion.
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  Speaker 5: I ale to the Duke, he is full of clemency,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 5: a prince whom my forgiving does reclaim and tenderly preserved
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 5: for noble use, many whom rigid justice by exemplar death
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 5: would make forever useless to the world.
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  Speaker 6: Tis fit you hastened to him.
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  Speaker 5: In his own arms. He bred my infancy. He ever
• 2:02:12
  Speaker 5: yielded to me when I sued for men who had
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 5: no other plea to get their pardon but their misery.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 5: And sure he'll not deny me when in tears I
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 5: kneel for valiant Benedict.
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: Excellent and duke in his own habit esculos provost Friar
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 1: Thomas attendants.
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  Speaker 2: In favor of that power which I did leave in
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 2: Angelo's possession as my substitute. I have relieved him from
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 2: his brother's fury. But Angelo, in his short government disfigured
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 2: and disgraced that fair resemblance which he wore of me
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 2: by many blemishes.
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  Speaker 4: Though your accustomed clemency should give him leave to use
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 4: his eloquence in owens devents, yet he would silence it
• 2:02:59
  Speaker 4: and hope for no relief. But from your greatest.
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 2: Mercy, Provost, he is your prisoner now with Benedict. Take
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  Speaker 2: care they do not meet.
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  Speaker 11: Sah, they're severed under watchful gods.
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  Speaker 2: Tis well, go do what further I enjoined you.
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  Speaker 11: I humbly beg your highness pardon for my ignorance of
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  Speaker 11: what you are. When you are pleased to make your
• 2:03:22
  Speaker 11: visits in disguise.
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  Speaker 2: You need no pardon, but have merited my thanks and favor.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: Exit Provost.
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 5: Is it your Highness's will that I attend you.
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 2: I've left your habits, but will never forsake your company
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 2: nor counsel. Father. Now you must make haste and do
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 2: as I directed.
• 2:03:44
  Speaker 5: I shall be diligent in both of your commands.
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: Exit Friar Thomas.
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 2: You Eschlus complain of being wronged by having been made
• 2:03:53
  Speaker 2: ignorant of all these evils past. I left you not
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 2: to sleep away your time.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 4: If you've to dave me not your pardon, I shall,
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 4: with shame receive my punishment. Though it is better to
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 4: be ignorant than to be guilty.
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: And to Beatrice Vola two pages Lackey.
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 5: As virtuous virgins, by their vows to Heaven have brought
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 5: you here, so may their prayers preserve you long amongst us.
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 2: I thank you beauteous maid, but I perceive affliction in
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 2: your eyes. Whence does it come?
• 2:04:28
  Speaker 5: I am a lowly suitor to your Highness.
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 2: I hope you are not so unfortunate as to desire
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 2: a benefit which I unwillingly shall grant.
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 5: If no offenders were then sovereign power would have no
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 5: use of mercy. Though Benedict has much offended, yet forgive
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 5: that valor which by yours was bred, and let him
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 5: not be lost, who was misled?
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 2: Your heart is altered since I saw you last. Cant
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 2: Benedict in his affliction, now prevail and be petitioned for
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 2: by you, who scorned him when he did in triumph
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 2: sue this riddle, I will leave to Eschulus. Give me
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 2: a quick account of it. I shall consider and take
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 2: care of your request excellent.
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: Several ways, enter Angelo friar Thomas.
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 3: In the perplexity of fight, when I was forced to
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 3: a retreat, I did suppose my brother to procure the
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 3: people to his side, had published but in artifice the
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 3: Duke's return.
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 5: The Duke is certainly in town, and has, during the
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 5: time of your vice regency, remained here in disguise. He
• 2:05:34
  Speaker 5: did converse with Isabella and continually received from her true
• 2:05:37
  Speaker 5: knowledge of her griefs. And by what art you have
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 5: evicted her?
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 3: Oh father, I am lost?
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 5: Could you suppose you were your brother's prisoner here.
• 2:05:47
  Speaker 3: In the dark midst of our encounter? I was led
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 3: to that.
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 5: Mistake twas a mistake, indeed, for Benedict's your fellow prisoner
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 5: now and under strict command.
• 2:05:57
  Speaker 3: I know him noble, though by passion urge to this
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 3: outrageous violence against my ill disposed authority, And had he
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 3: now been free, I easily should have hoped his favor
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 3: with the Duke might have procured my peace and pardon too.
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 3: But in my strict restraint, how father, did you get
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 3: this visit?
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 5: By an especial leave to comfort you?
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: Enter Provost?
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 5: The Provost has perhaps occasion of concernment with you.
• 2:06:23
  Speaker 1: I'll take leave awhile exit Friar my.
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 11: Lord, with blushes, I appear in the presence of your
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 11: most unhappy fortune, ashamed of my authority. But tis your
• 2:06:36
  Speaker 11: highness will that you should now be subject to my power,
• 2:06:40
  Speaker 11: who have been long governed by yours.
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 3: You will be civil to me, Provost. If you think
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 3: I am contented with this charge, you.
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 11: Are so well prepared for grief that I may now
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 11: ask leave to tell you he whom you did hastily
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 11: condemned was with despatch as fatal as your sentence executed.
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 11: Who can you mean the unhappy claudio.
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 3: Is he executed? The Marshal had his pardon sealed.
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 11: The marshal, who is now in hope of cure, was
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 11: by his wound last night in the first charge, deprived
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 11: of speech. So, by the law of destiny, your purposed
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 11: remedy against your law was known too late for to
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 11: divert the fury of the assault by taking from his
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 11: friends that hope which was the cause of strife. I
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 11: did appoint him for the axe, and from our battlements
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 11: showed them his head.
• 2:07:34
  Speaker 3: All my sinister stars have met at once in consultation
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 3: how to ruin me a moment.
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 11: Ere his death. A friar who was official here didn't
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 11: marry him to Juliet. And therefore now I come to
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 11: know how farre you, by your plentiful estate, will please
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 11: to give subsistence to his mourning widow. You know that
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 11: his possessions and her dowry he dying guilty by the
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 11: sentence of the law a both confiscate to the Duke.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 3: My bosom is too narrow for this grief. I give
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 3: her all I have.
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 4: Er escolos, my lord, I grieve to tell you that
• 2:08:12
  Speaker 4: the Duke, as a reward to Isabel's virtue for her sufferings,
• 2:08:17
  Speaker 4: has already by his promise, given her the intended confiscation
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 4: of your lands and treasure.
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 3: Tis righteously bestowed. But where alas she having all, is
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 3: Juliet's recompense, Let's leave him signor to.
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: His thoughts exit provost.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 3: How wisely fate ordained for human kind calamity, which is
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 3: the perfect glass, wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 3: How justly it created life, but short for being incident
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 3: to many griefs, had it been destined to continue, long
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 3: fate to please fools had done the wise great wrong.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 12: And to Isabella, I come, my lord, to see you
• 2:08:59
  Speaker 12: in a cl lips you did too hurtful to mine
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 12: eyes appear when with your glory you did fill your sphere.
• 2:09:06
  Speaker 3: Is it revenge that hath this visit bred? Or are
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 3: you hither by compassion led.
• 2:09:11
  Speaker 12: With no revenge nor pity? I comply, but come perhaps
• 2:09:15
  Speaker 12: in curiosity, as in a great eclipse, the curious run
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 12: to inform themselves exactly of the Sun. For when his
• 2:09:23
  Speaker 12: light is lessened, they see more of his unevenness than
• 2:09:26
  Speaker 12: they saw before.
• 2:09:27
  Speaker 3: The spots in him only imagined be But all reported
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 3: stains are true in.
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 12: Me, as your confession of the worst of you seems
• 2:09:36
  Speaker 12: now to utter more than does seem true. So of
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 12: the best of you, which is your love? Perhaps you
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 12: told much more than you could prove.
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 3: In an ill season. You require a test to assure
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 3: you of that love which I professed. When I can
• 2:09:51
  Speaker 3: offer nothing that is fit to be a pledge to
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 3: make you credit it, Since all I had is by
• 2:09:56
  Speaker 3: the Duke, as due to injured virtue freely given to you.
• 2:10:01
  Speaker 12: Take back your wealth improperly consigned to me, who prize
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 12: no wealth.
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 3: But of the mind, How Isabel would you a present
• 2:10:09
  Speaker 3: make of such a gift as you disdain to take?
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 6: It?
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 3: Would more worthy of your bounty prove to keep such
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 3: trifles and to give me love? But I would have
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 3: what you can never give. Claudio is dead, whose life
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 3: should make me live?
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 12: I shall redeem you now from half your fear. I
• 2:10:27
  Speaker 12: must be gone, but Claudio shall appear.
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: Exit.
• 2:10:32
  Speaker 3: What may this mean? Virgin so soft as she can
• 2:10:36
  Speaker 3: never pleasure take in cruelty? Heaven often wonders, does propitious
• 2:10:40
  Speaker 3: grow fortune no faster ebbs than it can flow?
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 1: Enter Claudio? Julietta.
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 10: Let those who lost their youth retire to grieves death's clousets.
• 2:10:52
  Speaker 10: But will that be privacy, Yet there is never use
• 2:10:55
  Speaker 10: of thoughts. Let us thank Heaven that we have life,
• 2:11:00
  Speaker 10: since we together may enjoy it From.
• 2:11:03
  Speaker 7: A wild tempest where we both were lost. Heavin lands
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 7: us strangely on a flowery coast.
• 2:11:09
  Speaker 10: Since none could thus recovered be by Heaven. Were not
• 2:11:12
  Speaker 10: the crimes which lost them quite forgiven? Let us express
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 10: a kind forgiveness to.
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 7: Honor would that without religion?
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 3: Do are you the mortal substances of forms which you
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 3: resemble Claudio and Julietta. Yet, like immortal angels, can so
• 2:11:29
  Speaker 3: much of good forgiveness?
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 10: Speak what hact hath Angelus severely done for which his
• 2:11:34
  Speaker 10: brother Benedict hath not by kindness ample satisfaction given?
• 2:11:39
  Speaker 3: How is this wonder to be understood?
• 2:11:42
  Speaker 15: Enter Benedeck, the prophest brother has the happy purpose deceived
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 15: us by the death of Bernardine. Let us embrace a
• 2:11:50
  Speaker 15: mutually exchange forgiveness.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 3: Sure our offenses to each other will admit excuse, since
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 3: the authority of mighty Love did sway us both. This
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 3: meeting has much comfort in it, though it be in prison.
• 2:12:03
  Speaker 1: And to Beatrice Viola.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 5: Where is the rebel, No rebel, lady, to your power?
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 5: If you had erred that way, you'd never been forgiven.
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 5: But you may offend your prince as often as you please.
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 5: There's your pardon.
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: Gives him a paper sealed.
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 15: I hope you will not undo me. How so, sir,
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 15: I'm afraid tis a license for marriage.
• 2:12:26
  Speaker 5: No, sir, plays that end, so begin to be out
• 2:12:30
  Speaker 5: of fashion.
• 2:12:31
  Speaker 15: Do you not see your cousin Juliet She has been
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 15: advised by a bold, dramatic poet of the next cloister
• 2:12:37
  Speaker 15: to enter her tragic comedy with him in the old way.
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: Beatrice salutes Julietta.
• 2:12:43
  Speaker 5: Alas poor cousin love has led the a dance through
• 2:12:47
  Speaker 5: a break of thorns and briars.
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 7: Madam, take heed, though he be blind, he may find
• 2:12:53
  Speaker 7: the way to lead you too.
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 16: Warrant ye. I'll run from that foolish boy, and then
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 16: let him try to overtake me.
• 2:13:00
  Speaker 1: I shout within to the Duke, the Duke, and to
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 1: Duke Isabella Esculos, Provost Fry Thomas Guards attendants, Balthasar Luccio
• 2:13:12
  Speaker 1: behind the rest.
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 2: The motive which last caused my visits to this prison
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 2: was to give good counsel and to reclaim the ill advised.
• 2:13:22
  Speaker 2: But now I come to countenance the reclaimed. I can
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 2: relate your latter's story, Angelo, and am not ignorant, benedict
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 2: of yours, But in remembrance of your former merits, I
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: forget your late attempts.
• 2:13:37
  Speaker 3: Your Highness makes an hourly conquest of our hearts, and
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 3: we must humbly bow in thankfulness for your continual clemency.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 2: The eye of power does not alone observe the heights,
• 2:13:48
  Speaker 2: but lower regions of the world. I have a convert
• 2:13:52
  Speaker 2: here whom I would see.
• 2:13:54
  Speaker 11: Carl Bernardine.
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 15: Is he alive?
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 2: I am more willingly appeased, because the fury of the
• 2:14:00
  Speaker 2: last encounter has not lost me any of my subject's lives.
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 2: The marshals free from danger of his wound. And as
• 2:14:10
  Speaker 2: the military sword has not prevailed so far as life,
• 2:14:13
  Speaker 2: so justice with contritions satisfied, did she up hers and.
• 2:14:19
  Speaker 1: To jailah fool Bernardine.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 6: There's no harm yet.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 9: I hope we shall all escape.
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 2: The provost, whose fidelity I shall reward. Did in the
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 2: storm preserve from rack this penitent, and from the battlements
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 2: deceived you with the head of one who a natural
• 2:14:39
  Speaker 2: sickness died in the prison.
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 9: Under your Highness's favor I suspected a far off that
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 9: twas not Bernardine's by a small word upon his left eyelid.
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 2: You were not bid to speak.
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 9: No aunt, please your Highness, nor wish to hold my peace.
• 2:14:55
  Speaker 6: Lucio, you will be talking.
• 2:14:56
  Speaker 2: Remember Bernardine your vows to heaven, and so behave yourself
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 2: in future life. Then I shall ne'er repent my mercy.
• 2:15:07
  Speaker 5: I am Your Highness is deer for this life and
• 2:15:10
  Speaker 5: for the occasion of that happiness which may succeed it
• 2:15:14
  Speaker 5: after death.
• 2:15:15
  Speaker 2: Is there not father in this company one too much
• 2:15:20
  Speaker 2: troubled with a liberal tongue. Who hath traduced me to
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: a brother of your cloister?
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, and here behold the man who I father.
• 2:15:31
  Speaker 5: I know you not, no, sir, but I know you.
• 2:15:36
  Speaker 9: I shall be glad, Sir, of your acquaintance, for my
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 9: confessor is lately dead.
• 2:15:40
  Speaker 2: But Luccio, you perhaps would know me too. Should I
• 2:15:44
  Speaker 2: again put on the habit which I wore when boldly
• 2:15:48
  Speaker 2: to my face you did traduce me in this prison.
• 2:15:51
  Speaker 9: If your Highness forgiving now so many will pardon me too,
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 9: I'll hereafter hang a padlock at my lips, and this
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 9: good father shall keep the key of it.
• 2:16:01
  Speaker 2: Your slanders, Luccio cannot do me harm. Be sorrowful, and
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 2: be forgiven.
• 2:16:08
  Speaker 6: Thy mother hath bewitched thee the right way, for no
• 2:16:11
  Speaker 6: sword can pierce thee.
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: Think me not singular, because I did myself a wild depose.
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 2: For many monarchs have their thrones forsaken for a cloistral life.
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 2: And I perhaps may really that habit take which I
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 2: have worn, but in disguise.
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 3: That were to undo the world by leaving it.
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 15: Whilst so you seek imagined happiness, we all shall find
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 15: essential misery.
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 2: My resolutions are not soon removed. I am old and
• 2:16:43
  Speaker 2: weary of authority. But ere I leave it quite. Since
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 2: I have no successes of my own, Let me dispose
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 2: of best advantages to those whom I esteem, who may
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 2: enjoy my power. Lend me cha Isabella, your fair hand,
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: which with your heart I dedicate to Angelo. He now
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: sufficiently that virtue knows, which he, too much, too curiously,
• 2:17:12
  Speaker 2: has tried.
• 2:17:14
  Speaker 12: I have so long your counsel followed with success. As
• 2:17:17
  Speaker 12: I am taught not to suspect much happiness, will still
• 2:17:20
  Speaker 12: attend the obedience which does yield to your command.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 3: I fear my joys are grown too great to last.
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 2: I have a good occasion, Benedict, to thank you now
• 2:17:31
  Speaker 2: for your successful toils and victory in the Millan war,
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 2: for which in ample recompense I give you but the
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 2: heart which I perceive you had before. The witty war,
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 2: which you so long have had with virtuous beatrice, now
• 2:17:50
  Speaker 2: must gently end in joyful triumphs of a nuptial peace.
• 2:17:55
  Speaker 5: Take heed, our quarrel begin again, and the end of
• 2:17:59
  Speaker 5: this long treaty will but bring the war home to
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 5: your own doors.
• 2:18:03
  Speaker 15: I'll venture tis but providing good store of cradles for
• 2:18:07
  Speaker 15: barracados to line my chamber.
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 2: Be happy, Claudio, in your faithful Juliet. The persecutions of
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 2: your loves are past.
• 2:18:16
  Speaker 10: They feel not joy who have not sorrow felt we
• 2:18:21
  Speaker 10: through afflictions make of a wed to heaven fool.
• 2:18:24
  Speaker 9: I've a mind to marry your grandmother.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 13: She stays for you in the church, and will prove
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 13: a sweetbread fellow, for she has not been buried above
• 2:18:31
  Speaker 13: a month.
• 2:18:32
  Speaker 2: Provist open your prison gates and make your prisoners free.
• 2:18:39
  Speaker 2: The story of this day, when tis the future age
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 2: is told, will seem a moral drawn from a poetic dream.
• 2:18:48
  Speaker 1: And of act five and of the Law against Lovers
• 2:18:55
  Speaker 1: by William Davenant,