132: SCENE III. Pope.
186: _you_] _ye_ F4.
194: _hang_] _hang on_ Heath conj.
198: SCENE IV. Pope.
207: _in_] F1. om. F2 F3 F4.
214: _nor_] _and_ Pope.
216: _splay_] _spay_ Steevens.
221: _the knaves_] F1. _knaves_ F2 F3 F4.
222: _are_ F2 F3 F4. _is_ F1.
225: _year_] Ff. _years_ Rowe.
226: _year_] F1 _years_ F2 F3 F4.
227: _bay_] _day_ Pope.
234: _Pompey_] om. F4.
237: [Aside] Staunton.
241: SCENE V. Pope.
245: _your_] Pope. _the_ Ff.
260: _home_] F1. _go home_ F2 F3 F4.
267: _There is_] _There's_ Pope.
SCENE II. _Another room in the same._
_Enter PROVOST and a _Servant_._
_Serv._ He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight:
I'll tell him of you.
_Prov._ Pray you, do. [_Exit Servant._] I'll know
His pleasure; may be he will relent. Alas,
He hath but as offended in a dream!
All sects, all ages smack of this vice; and he 5
To die for 't!
_Enter ANGELO._
_Ang._ Now, what's the matter, provost?
_Prov._ Is it your will Claudio shall die to-morrow?
_Ang._ Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
Why dost thou ask again?
_Prov._ Lest I might be too rash:
Under your good correction, I have seen, 10
When, after execution, Judgement hath
Repented o'er his doom.
_Ang._ Go to; let that be mine:
Do you your office, or give up your place,
And you shall well be spared.
_Prov._ I crave your honour's pardon.
What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet? 15
She's very near her hour.
_Ang._ Dispose of her
To some more fitter place, and that with speed.
_Re-enter _Servant_._
_Serv._ Here is the sister of the man condemn'd
Desires access to you.
_Ang._ Hath he a sister?
_Prov._ Ay, my good lord; a very virtuous maid, 20
And to be shortly of a sisterhood,
If not already.
_Ang._ Well, let her be admitted. [_Exit Servant._
See you the fornicatress be removed:
Let her have needful, but not lavish, means;
There shall be order for 't.
_Enter ISABELLA and LUCIO._
_Prov._ God save your honour! 25
_Ang._ Stay a little while. [_To Isab._]
You're welcome: what's your will?
_Isab._ I am a woeful suitor to your honour,
Please but your honour hear me.
_Ang._ Well; what's your suit?
_Isab._ There is a vice that most I do abhor,
And most desire should meet the blow of justice; 30
For which I would not plead, but that I must;
For which I must not plead, but that I am
At war 'twixt will and will not.
_Ang._ Well; the matter?
_Isab._ I have a brother is condemn'd to die:
I do beseech you, let it be his fault, 35
And not my brother.
_Prov._ [_Aside_] Heaven give thee moving graces!
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