_Hold therefore, Angelo, our place and power:_ Grant White. 45: _Mortality_] _Morality_ Pope. 51: _upon it_] _upon 't_ Capell. _No more_] _Come, no more_ Pope. 52: _leaven'd and prepared_] Ff. _leven'd and prepar'd_ Rowe. _prepar'd and leaven'd_ Pope. _prepar'd and level'd_ Warburton. _prepar'd unleaven'd_ Heath conj. 56: _to you_] om. Hanmer. 61: _your commissions_] F1. _your commission_ F2 F3 F4. _our commission_ Pope. 66: _laws_] _law_ Pope. 76: [Exit.] F2. [Exit. (after line 75) F1. 84: _your_] _you_ F2. SCENE II. _A street._ _Enter LUCIO and two _Gentlemen_._ _Lucio._ If the duke, with the other dukes, come not to composition with the King of Hungary, why then all the dukes fall upon the king. _First Gent._ Heaven grant us its peace, but not the King of Hungary's! 5 _Sec. Gent._ Amen. _Lucio._ Thou concludest like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandments, but scraped one out of the table. _Sec. Gent._ 'Thou shalt not steal'? 10 _Lucio._ Ay, that he razed. _First Gent._ Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and all the rest from their functions: they put forth to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition well that 15 prays for peace. _Sec. Gent._ I never heard any soldier dislike it. _Lucio._ I believe thee; for I think thou never wast where grace was said. _Sec. Gent._ No? a dozen times at least. 20 _First Gent._ What, in metre? _Lucio._ In any proportion or in any language. _First Gent._ I think, or in any religion. _Lucio._ Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a wicked 25 villain, despite of all grace. _First Gent._ Well, there went but a pair of shears between us. _Lucio._ I grant; as there may between the lists and the velvet. Thou art the list. 30 _First Gent._ And thou the velvet: thou art good velvet; thou'rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a list of an English kersey, as be piled, as thou art piled, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now? _Lucio._ I think thou dost; and, indeed, with most painful 35 feeling of thy speech: I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I live, forget to drink after thee. _First Gent._ I think I have done myself wrong, have I not? 40 _Sec. Gent._ Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free. _Lucio._ Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes! I have purchased as many diseases under her roof as come to-- 45 _Sec. Gent._ To what, I pray? _Lucio._ Judge. _Sec. Gent._ To three thousand dolours a year. _First Gent._ Ay, and more.