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'Twere pity two fuch friends should long be foes.

PRO. Be witness, heav'n,

I have my wish for ever.

JUL. And I mine.

SCENE V.

Enter Outlaws, with Duke and Thurio.

OUT. A prize! a prize! a prize!

VAL. Forbear, forbear, it is my lord the Duke.
-Your grace is welcome to a man disgrac'd,
The banish'd Valentine.

DUKE. Sir Valentine?

THU. Yonder is Silvia: and Silvia's mine.

VAL. Thurio, give back; or else embrace thy death:
Come not within the measure of my wrath.
Do not name Silvia thine; if once again,
Milan shall not behold thee. Here she stands,
Take but poffeffion of her with a touch;
I dare thee but to breathe upon my love,
THU. Sir Valentine, I care not for her, I
I hold him but a fool, that will endanger
His body for a girl that loves him not.
I claim her not; and therefore she is thine.
DUKE. The more degenerate and base art thou,
To make such means for her as thou hast done,
And leave her on such flight conditions.
Now, by the honour of my ancestry,
I do applaud thy spirit, Valentine,
And think thee worthy of an empress' love.
Know then, I here forget all former griefs;
Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again,
Plead a new state in thy unrival'd merit,

To which I thus subscribe: Sir Valentine,
Thou art a gentleman, and well deriv'd;
Take thou thy Silvia, for thou hast deserv'd her.
VAL. I thank your grace; the gift hath made me happy.
I now beseech you, for your daughter's fake,
To grant one boon that I shall ask of you.
DUKE. I grant it for thine own, whate'er it be.
VAL. These banish'd men, that I have kept withal,
Are men endu'd with worthy qualities:
Forgive them what they have committed here,
And let them be recalled from their exile.
They are reformed, civil, full of good,
And fit for great employment, worthy lord.
DUKE. Thou hast prevail'd. I pardon them and thee;
Dispose of them, as thou know'st their deserts.
Come, let us go; we will include all jars
With triumphs, mirth, and rare folemnity.
VAL. And as we walk along, I dare be bold
With our discourse to make your grace to fimile.
What think you of this page, my lord?
DUKE. I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.
VAL. I warrant you, my lord, more grace than boy.
DUKE. What mean you by that saying?
VAL. Please, you, I'll tell you as we pass along,
That you will wonder what hath fortuned.
Come, Protheus, 'tis your penance but to hear
The story of your loves discovered:
That done, our day of marriage shall be yours,
One feast, one house, one mutual happiness.

[Exeunt omnes.

MEA

SURE

FOR

MEASURE.

DRAMATIS PERSONA.

VINCENTIO, Duke of Vienna.

ANGELO, Lord deputy in the Duke's absence.

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ACT I. SCENE I.

The Duke's palace.

Enter Duke, Escalus, and lords.
DUKE.

SCALUS,

ESCAL. My lord.

DUKE. Of government the properties t'unfold,
Would seem in me t'affect speech and discourse;
Since I am not to know, that your own science
Exceeds, in that, the lifts of all advice

My ftrength can give you: then no more remains,

But THAT to your sufficiency, as your worth is able;

[Pointing to the commiffion.

And let them work. The nature of our people

Our city's institutions, and the terms

For common justice, y'are as pregnant in,

As art and practice hath enriched any

That we remember. There is our commiffion,

From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,

I fay, bid come before us Angelo :

What figure of us, think you he will bear ?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him in our absence to supply;

Lent him our terror, drest him with our love;
And giv'n his deputation all the organs
Of our own power: say, what think you of it?
ESCAL. If any in Vienna be of worth

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