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HERMIONE	He'll stay my lord.
First Officer	If he did not care whether he had their love or no, he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than can render it him; and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
BENVOLIO	Away, begone; the sport is at the best.
LUCIO	I warrant your honour.
ANGELO	I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.
CAPULET	Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.
CAMILLO	I may not answer.
ABHORSON	Go in to him, and fetch him out.
TRANIO	Master, for my hand, Both our inventions meet and jump in one.
LEONTES	At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken By any understanding pate but thine? For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in More than the common blocks: not noted, is't, But of the finer natures? by some severals Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes Perchance are to this business purblind? say.
Well, I must do't	Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd, Which quired with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath received an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness.
KING HENRY VI	Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough.
Second Citizen	One word, good citizens.
Second Senator	Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you have, I am one that, telling true under him, must say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.
VINCENTIO	'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.
Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort	For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George! 3 KING HENRY VI
COMINIUS	As I guess, Marcius, Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates, Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius, Their very heart of hope.
'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well	I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.
Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt	The pleasure that some fathers feed upon, Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;
To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey	But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,
BAPTISTA	I'll after him, and see the event of this.
First Lord	What fit is this, good lady?
KING RICHARD III	Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.
AUTOLYCUS	Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with conscience take it.
That's I, an't like your grace	I came to her from Claudio, and desired her To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo For her poor brother's pardon.
FERDINAND	No, as I am a man.
This will I do, and this I will advise you	First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?
QUEEN MARGARET	So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!
Both Tribunes	Hail sir!
Staying for thine to keep him company	Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.
Provost	I shall obey him.
ELBOW	Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--
ANGELO	Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly. Which had you rather, that the most just law Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him, Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness As she that he hath stain'd?
PRINCE	We still have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?
Gentleman	My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.
QUEEN ELIZABETH	My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne
See you the fornicatress be removed	Let have needful, but not lavish, means; There shall be order for't.
DUKE OF AUMERLE	Where is the duke my father with his power?
VALERIA	In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then. Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o' door. and go along with us.
BRUTUS	Say, you ne'er had done't-- Harp on that still--but by our putting on; And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to the Capitol.
SICINIUS	When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--
Second Musician	Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.
CORIOLANUS	So then the Volsces stand but as at first, Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road. Upon's again.
Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of	I pray you stand good father to me now, Give me Bianca for my patrimony.
KING RICHARD II	Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect Hath from the number of his banish'd years Pluck'd four away. Six frozen winter spent, Return with welcome home from banishment.
PETRUCHIO	Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?
Herald	Give way there, and go on!
CLIFFORD	Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life. As for the brat of this accursed duke, Whose father slew my father, he shall die.
Third Messenger	The news I have to tell your majesty Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters, Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd; And he himself wander'd away alone, No man knows whither.
Too far in years to be a pupil now	What is thy sentence then but speechless death, Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?
QUEEN	My legs can keep no measure in delight,
KING EDWARD IV	Take heed you dally not before your king; Lest he that is the supreme King of kings Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end.
ISABELLA	I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.
ALONSO	No, no, he's gone.
KATHARINA	Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, Whither away, or where is thy abode? Happy the parents of so fair a child; Happier the man, whom favourable stars Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!
CORIOLANUS	Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?
YORK	And therefore is he idle?
Provost	No.
PROSPERO	Come, follow. Speak not for him.
Send for the county; go tell him of this	I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.
DERBY	I do beseech you, either not believe The envious slanders of her false accusers; Or, if she be accused in true report, Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.
SICINIUS	We charge you, that you have contrived to take From Rome all season'd office and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical; For which you are a traitor to the people.
VOLUMNIA	He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee And tread upon his neck.
PETRUCHIO	Who brought it?
Provost	Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.
DORCAS	Is it true too, think you?
ESCALUS	Go; away with her to prison!
LADY ANNE	No! why? When he that is my husband now Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse, When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands Which issued from my other angel husband And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd; O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face, This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed, For making me, so young, so old a widow! And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed; And be thy wife--if any be so mad-- As miserable by the life of thee As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death! Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again, Even in so short a space, my woman's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words And proved the subject of my own soul's curse, Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest; For never yet one hour in his bed Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep, But have been waked by his timorous dreams. Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick; And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.
BIONDELLO	You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?
Or something hath the nothing that I grieve	'Tis in reversion that I do possess; But what it is, that is not yet known; what I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.
My last good deed was to entreat his stay	What was my first? it has an elder sister, Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace! But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Nay, let me have't; I long.
ESCALUS	Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.
Instead whereof let this supply the room	Measure for measure must be answered.
LUCIO	Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born. Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison, Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you will keep the house.
GLOUCESTER	Alas, why would you heap these cares on me? I am unfit for state and majesty; I do beseech you, take it not amiss; I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
And like her most whose merit most shall be	Which on more view, of many mine being one May stand in number, though in reckoning none, Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about Through fair Verona; find those persons out Whose names are written there, and to them say, My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.
Second Citizen	You shall ha' it, worthy sir.
AEdile	Very well.
DION	I shall report, For most it caught me, the celestial habits, Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice! How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly It was i' the offering!
Nurse	Faith, here it is. Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing, That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth. Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the county. O, he's a lovely gentleman! Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first: or if it did not, Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were, As living here and you no use of him.
BUCKINGHAM	I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay I shall return before your lordship thence.
CATESBY	O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!
LEONTES	A gross hag And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd, That wilt not stay her tongue.
First Senator	Then, worthy Marcius, Attend upon Cominius to these wars.
Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys	You were pretty lordings then?
GREMIO	Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.
LUCIO	A hundred, if they'll do you any good. Is lechery so look'd after?
MONTAGUE	Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself; And now will I be Edward's champion.
ESCALUS	That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to; no more words. Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered; Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished with divines, and have all charitable preparation. if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be so with him.
GREEN	Besides, our nearness to the king in love Is near the hate of those love not the king.
CORIOLANUS	Traitor! how now!
RICHMOND	God and your arms be praised, victorious friends, The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.
BIANCA	The more fool you, for laying on my duty.
And take the great-grown traitor unawares	Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry. 3 KING HENRY VI
KING RICHARD III	Well, but what's o'clock?
SICINIUS	Be-mock the modest moon.
VIRGILIA	But had he died in the business, madam; how then?
ISABELLA	But might you do't, and do the world no wrong, If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse As mine is to him?
CLARENCE	My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.
GLOUCESTER	I go; and if you plead as well for them As I can say nay to thee for myself, No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.

HERMIONE

He'll stay my lord.

First Officer

If he did not care whether he had their love or no, he waved indifferently 'twixt doing them neither good nor harm: but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than can render it him; and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.

BENVOLIO

Away, begone; the sport is at the best.

LUCIO

I warrant your honour.

ANGELO

I will bethink me: come again tomorrow.

CAPULET

Go, nurse, go with her: we'll to church to-morrow.

CAMILLO

I may not answer.

ABHORSON

Go in to him, and fetch him out.

TRANIO

Master, for my hand, Both our inventions meet and jump in one.

LEONTES

At the queen's be't: 'good' should be pertinent But, so it is, it is not. Was this taken By any understanding pate but thine? For thy conceit is soaking, will draw in More than the common blocks: not noted, is't, But of the finer natures? by some severals Of head-piece extraordinary? lower messes Perchance are to this business purblind? say.

Well, I must do't

Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! my throat of war be turn'd, Which quired with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lulls asleep! the smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! a beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath received an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness.

KING HENRY VI

Why, so I am, in mind; and that's enough.

Second Citizen

One word, good citizens.

Second Senator

Howsoever you have been his liar, as you say you have, I am one that, telling true under him, must say, you cannot pass. Therefore, go back.

VINCENTIO

'Tis a good hearing when children are toward.

Why, then, let's on our way in silent sort

For Warwick and his friends, God and Saint George! 3 KING HENRY VI

COMINIUS

As I guess, Marcius, Their bands i' the vaward are the Antiates, Of their best trust; o'er them Aufidius, Their very heart of hope.

'Twas where you woo'd the gentlewoman so well

I have forgot your name; but, sure, that part Was aptly fitted and naturally perform'd.

Watching breeds leanness, leanness is all gaunt

The pleasure that some fathers feed upon, Is my strict fast; I mean, my children's looks;

To be revenged on Rivers, Vaughan, Grey

But then I sigh; and, with a piece of scripture,

BAPTISTA

I'll after him, and see the event of this.

First Lord

What fit is this, good lady?

KING RICHARD III

Wrong not her birth, she is of royal blood.

AUTOLYCUS

Indeed, I have had earnest: but I cannot with conscience take it.

That's I, an't like your grace

I came to her from Claudio, and desired her To try her gracious fortune with Lord Angelo For her poor brother's pardon.

FERDINAND

No, as I am a man.

This will I do, and this I will advise you

First, tell me, have you ever been at Pisa?

QUEEN MARGARET

So come to you and yours, as to this Prince!

Both Tribunes

Hail sir!

Staying for thine to keep him company

Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him.

Provost

I shall obey him.

ELBOW

Ay, sir; whom, I thank heaven, is an honest woman,--

ANGELO

Say you so? then I shall pose you quickly. Which had you rather, that the most just law Now took your brother's life; or, to redeem him, Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness As she that he hath stain'd?

PRINCE

We still have known thee for a holy man. Where's Romeo's man? what can he say in this?

Gentleman

My lord, stand back, and let the coffin pass.

QUEEN ELIZABETH

My Lord of Gloucester, I have too long borne

See you the fornicatress be removed

Let have needful, but not lavish, means; There shall be order for't.

DUKE OF AUMERLE

Where is the duke my father with his power?

VALERIA

In troth, I think she would. Fare you well, then. Come, good sweet lady. Prithee, Virgilia, turn thy solemness out o' door. and go along with us.

BRUTUS

Say, you ne'er had done't-- Harp on that still--but by our putting on; And presently, when you have drawn your number, Repair to the Capitol.

SICINIUS

When we were chosen tribunes for the people,--

Second Musician

Pray you, put up your dagger, and put out your wit.

CORIOLANUS

So then the Volsces stand but as at first, Ready, when time shall prompt them, to make road. Upon's again.

Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of

I pray you stand good father to me now, Give me Bianca for my patrimony.

KING RICHARD II

Uncle, even in the glasses of thine eyes I see thy grieved heart: thy sad aspect Hath from the number of his banish'd years Pluck'd four away. Six frozen winter spent, Return with welcome home from banishment.

PETRUCHIO

Come, where be these gallants? who's at home?

Herald

Give way there, and go on!

CLIFFORD

Chaplain, away! thy priesthood saves thy life. As for the brat of this accursed duke, Whose father slew my father, he shall die.

Third Messenger

The news I have to tell your majesty Is, that by sudden floods and fall of waters, Buckingham's army is dispersed and scatter'd; And he himself wander'd away alone, No man knows whither.

Too far in years to be a pupil now

What is thy sentence then but speechless death, Which robs my tongue from breathing native breath?

QUEEN

My legs can keep no measure in delight,

KING EDWARD IV

Take heed you dally not before your king; Lest he that is the supreme King of kings Confound your hidden falsehood, and award Either of you to be the other's end.

ISABELLA

I have heard of the lady, and good words went with her name.

ALONSO

No, no, he's gone.

KATHARINA

Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, Whither away, or where is thy abode? Happy the parents of so fair a child; Happier the man, whom favourable stars Allot thee for his lovely bed-fellow!

CORIOLANUS

Well then, I pray, your price o' the consulship?

YORK

And therefore is he idle?

Provost

No.

PROSPERO

Come, follow. Speak not for him.

Send for the county; go tell him of this

I'll have this knot knit up to-morrow morning.

DERBY

I do beseech you, either not believe The envious slanders of her false accusers; Or, if she be accused in true report, Bear with her weakness, which, I think proceeds From wayward sickness, and no grounded malice.

SICINIUS

We charge you, that you have contrived to take From Rome all season'd office and to wind Yourself into a power tyrannical; For which you are a traitor to the people.

VOLUMNIA

He'll beat Aufidius 'head below his knee And tread upon his neck.

PETRUCHIO

Who brought it?

Provost

Who's there? come in: the wish deserves a welcome.

DORCAS

Is it true too, think you?

ESCALUS

Go; away with her to prison!

LADY ANNE

No! why? When he that is my husband now Came to me, as I follow'd Henry's corse, When scarce the blood was well wash'd from his hands Which issued from my other angel husband And that dead saint which then I weeping follow'd; O, when, I say, I look'd on Richard's face, This was my wish: 'Be thou,' quoth I, ' accursed, For making me, so young, so old a widow! And, when thou wed'st, let sorrow haunt thy bed; And be thy wife--if any be so mad-- As miserable by the life of thee As thou hast made me by my dear lord's death! Lo, ere I can repeat this curse again, Even in so short a space, my woman's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words And proved the subject of my own soul's curse, Which ever since hath kept my eyes from rest; For never yet one hour in his bed Have I enjoy'd the golden dew of sleep, But have been waked by his timorous dreams. Besides, he hates me for my father Warwick; And will, no doubt, shortly be rid of me.

BIONDELLO

You saw my master wink and laugh upon you?

Or something hath the nothing that I grieve

'Tis in reversion that I do possess; But what it is, that is not yet known; what I cannot name; 'tis nameless woe, I wot.

My last good deed was to entreat his stay

What was my first? it has an elder sister, Or I mistake you: O, would her name were Grace! But once before I spoke to the purpose: when? Nay, let me have't; I long.

ESCALUS

Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo? they have confessed you did.

Instead whereof let this supply the room

Measure for measure must be answered.

LUCIO

Well, then, imprison him: if imprisonment be the due of a bawd, why, 'tis his right: bawd is he doubtless, and of antiquity too; bawd-born. Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to the prison, Pompey: you will turn good husband now, Pompey; you will keep the house.

GLOUCESTER

Alas, why would you heap these cares on me? I am unfit for state and majesty; I do beseech you, take it not amiss; I cannot nor I will not yield to you.

And like her most whose merit most shall be

Which on more view, of many mine being one May stand in number, though in reckoning none, Come, go with me. Go, sirrah, trudge about Through fair Verona; find those persons out Whose names are written there, and to them say, My house and welcome on their pleasure stay.

Second Citizen

You shall ha' it, worthy sir.

AEdile

Very well.

DION

I shall report, For most it caught me, the celestial habits, Methinks I so should term them, and the reverence Of the grave wearers. O, the sacrifice! How ceremonious, solemn and unearthly It was i' the offering!

Nurse

Faith, here it is. Romeo is banish'd; and all the world to nothing, That he dares ne'er come back to challenge you; Or, if he do, it needs must be by stealth. Then, since the case so stands as now it doth, I think it best you married with the county. O, he's a lovely gentleman! Romeo's a dishclout to him: an eagle, madam, Hath not so green, so quick, so fair an eye As Paris hath. Beshrew my very heart, I think you are happy in this second match, For it excels your first: or if it did not, Your first is dead; or 'twere as good he were, As living here and you no use of him.

BUCKINGHAM

I do, my lord; but long I shall not stay I shall return before your lordship thence.

CATESBY

O, make them joyful, grant their lawful suit!

LEONTES

A gross hag And, lozel, thou art worthy to be hang'd, That wilt not stay her tongue.

First Senator

Then, worthy Marcius, Attend upon Cominius to these wars.

Of my lord's tricks and yours when you were boys

You were pretty lordings then?

GREMIO

Youngling, thou canst not love so dear as I.

LUCIO

A hundred, if they'll do you any good. Is lechery so look'd after?

MONTAGUE

Ay, now my sovereign speaketh like himself; And now will I be Edward's champion.

ESCALUS

That fellow is a fellow of much licence: let him be called before us. Away with her to prison! Go to; no more words. Provost, my brother Angelo will not be altered; Claudio must die to-morrow: let him be furnished with divines, and have all charitable preparation. if my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be so with him.

GREEN

Besides, our nearness to the king in love Is near the hate of those love not the king.

CORIOLANUS

Traitor! how now!

RICHMOND

God and your arms be praised, victorious friends, The day is ours, the bloody dog is dead.

BIANCA

The more fool you, for laying on my duty.

And take the great-grown traitor unawares

Brave warriors, march amain towards Coventry. 3 KING HENRY VI

KING RICHARD III

Well, but what's o'clock?

SICINIUS

Be-mock the modest moon.

VIRGILIA

But had he died in the business, madam; how then?

ISABELLA

But might you do't, and do the world no wrong, If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse As mine is to him?

CLARENCE

My brother's love, the devil, and my rage.

GLOUCESTER

I go; and if you plead as well for them As I can say nay to thee for myself, No doubt well bring it to a happy issue.