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PERSONS REPRESENTED.

VINCENTIO, the Duke.

Appears, Act. I. sc. 1; sc. 4.
Act. IV. sc. 1; sc. 2;
ANGELO, the Deputy [in the Duke's absence].

Act II. sc. 3.
sc. 3; sc. 5.

Act III. sc. 1; sc. 2.
Act V. sc. 1.

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Appears, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3; sc. 5. Act II. sc. 2.
Act III. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1.

Two other like Gentlemen.

Appear, Act I. sc. 2; sc. 3.

Provost.

Appears, Act. I. sc. 3. Act. II. sc. 1; sc. 2; sc. 3.
Act IV. sc. 2; sc. 3. Act V. sc. 1.

Act. III. sc. 1; sc. 2.

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ISABELLA, sister to Claudio.

Appears, Act. I. sc. 5. Act II. sc. 2; sc. 4. Act III. sc. 1.
Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 3; sc. 6. Act V. sc. 1.

MARIANA, betrothed to Angelo.

Appears, Act IV. sc. 1; sc. 6. Act V. sc. 1.

JULIET, beloved of Claudio.

Appears, Act. I. sc. 3. Act. II. sc. 3.

FRANCISCA, a nun.

Appears, Act. I. sc. 5.

MISTRESS OVERDONE, a bawd.

Act V. sc. 1.

Appears, Act I. sc. 2. Act III. sc. 2.

Lords, Gentlemen, Guards, Officers, and other Attendants.

SCENE, VIENNA.

THIS Comedy was first printed in the folio collection of 1623. The original edition is divided into acts and scenes. characters as we have printed them.

It also gives the enumeration of It has been recently ascertained

that Measure for Measure' was presented at Court by the King's Players (the company to which Shakspere belonged) in 1604.

MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

ACT I.

SCENE I.—An Apartment in the Duke's Palace.

Enter DUKE, ESCALUS, Lords, and Attendants.

DUKE. Escalus,

ESCAL. My lord.

DUKE. Of government the properties to unfold,
Would seem in me to affect speech and discourse;
Since I am put to know, that your own science
Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice

My strength can give you: Then, no more remains:
But that, to your sufficiency as your worth, is able;
And let them work. The nature of our people,

Our city's institutions, and the terms

For common justice, you are as pregnant in,

As art and practice hath enriched any

That we remember: There is our commission,

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

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[Exit an Attendant.

What figure of us think you he will bear?

For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;

Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our love;
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own power: What think you of it?
ESCAL. If any in Vienna be of worth
To undergo such ample grace and honour,
It is lord Angelo.

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