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put forth to fteal; there's not a foldier of us all, that, in the thanksgiving before meat, do relifh the petition well prays for peace.

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2 Gent. I never heard any foldier diflike it.

Lucio. I believe thee: for, I think, thou' never waft where grace was faid.

2 Gent, No? a dozen times at least.

1 Gent. What? in meeter?

Lucio. In any proportion, or in any language. 1 Gent. I think, or in any religion.

Lucio. Ay, why not? grace is grace, defpight of all controverfy; as for example, thou thyfelf art a wicked villain, defpight of all grace.

1 Gent. Well; there went but a pair of heers be

tween us.

Lucio. I grant; as there may between the lifts and the velvet. Thou art the lift.

1 Gent. And thou the velvet; thou art good velvet ; thou'rt a three-pil'd piece, I warrant thee: I had as lief be a lift of an English kerfey, as be pil'd, as thou art pil'd, for a French velvet. Do I fpeak feelingly now?

Lucio. I think, thou doft; and, indeed, with most painful feeling of thy fpeech: I will, out of thine own confeffion, learn to begin thy health; but, whilft I live, forget to drink after thee.

i Gent. I think, I have done myself wrong, have I not? 2 Gent. Yes, that thou haft; whether thou art tainted, or free.

Lucio. Behold, behold, where Madam Mitigation comes. 1 Gent. I have purchas'd as many difeafes under her roof, as may come to

2 Gent. To what I pray?

1. Gent: Judge.

2 Gent. To three thousand dollars a year.

1 Gent. Ay, and more.

Lucio. A French crown more. (2)

Gent.

(2) A French Crown more.] Lucio means here not the piece of money fo called, but that Venereal Scab which among the Surgeons,

1 Gent. Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error; I am found.

Lucio. Nay, not as one would fay healthy; but fo found, as things that are hollow; thy bones are hollow; impiety hath made a feast of thee.

Enter Bawd.

1 Gent. How now, which of your hips has the most profound fciatica ?

Bawd. Well, well; there's one yonder arrested, and carry'd to prifon, was worth five thousand of you all. 1 Gent. Who's that, I pr'ythee?

Bawd. Marry, Sir, that's Claudio; Signior Claudio. : 1 Gent. Claudio to prison 'tis not fo.

Bawd. Nay, but I know, 'tis fo; I faw him arrested; faw him carry'd away; and, which is more, within these three days his head is to be chopt off.

Lucio. But, after all this fooling, I would not have it fo: art thou fure of this?

Bad. I am too fure of it; and it is for getting madam Julietta with child.

Lucio. Believe me, this may be; he promised to meet me two hours fince, and he was ever precife in promifekeeping.

2 Gent. Befides, you know, it draws fomething near to the fpeech we had to fuch a purpose.

1 Gent. But most of all agreeing with the Proclamation. Lucio. Away, let's go learn the truth of it.

Manet Bawd.

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Bawd. Thus, what with the war, what with the fweat, what with the gallows, and what with poverty, I am cuftom fhrunk. How now? what's the news with you?

is filed Corona Veneris, To this, I think, our Author likewife makes Quince allude in Midsummer-Night's Dream.

Some of your French Crowns bave no Hair at all, and then you quill play bare-faced.

For where thefe Eruptions are, the Skull is carious, and the Party becomes bald.

Enter

Enter Clown.

Clown. Yonder man is carry'd to prifon.
Bawd. Well, what has he done?

Clown. A woman.

Bawd. But what's his offence.

Clown. Groping for trouts in a peculiar river. Bawd. What is there a maid with child by him? Clown. No; but there's a woman with maid by him. You have not heard of the Proclamation, have you? Bawd. What Proclamation, man?

Clown. All houfes in the fuburbs of Vienna muft be pluck'd down.

Bawd. And what fhall become of thofe in the city? Clown. They fhall ftand for feed; they had gone down too, but that a wife burgher put in for them.

Bawd. But fhall all our houfes of refort in the fuburbs be pull'd down?

Clown. To the ground, miftrefs.

Bawd. Why, here's a change, indeed, in the common wealth; what fhall become of me?

Clown. Come, fear not you; good counfellors lack no clients; though you change your place, you need not change your trade: I'll be your tapfter ftill. Courage, there will be pity taken on you; you that have worn your eyes almoft out in the fervice, you will be confidered.

Bawd. What's to do hear, Thomas Tapfter? let's withdraw.

Clown. Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the volt to prison; and there's Madam Juliet.

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[Exe. Bawd and Clown.

Enter Provost, Claudio, Juliet, and Officers. Lucio, and two Gentlemen.

Claud. Fellow, why doft thou show me thus to th' world? Bear me to prifon, where I am committed.

Prov. I do it not in evil difpofition,

But from lord Angelo by fpecial charge.

Claud

Claud. Thus can the Demi-god, Authority, Make us pay down, for our offence, by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will; On whom it will not, fo; yet ftill 'tis juft.

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Lucio. Why, how now, Claudio? whence comes this restraint?

Claud. From too much liberty, my Lucio, liberty; As furfeit is the father of much fast, So ev'ry scope by the immod'rate use Turns to restraint: our natures do purfue, Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die.

Lucio. If I could fpeak fo wifely under an arrest, I would fend for certain of my creditors; and yet, to fay the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom, as the morality of imprisonment: what's thy offence, Claudio? Claud. What, but to speak of, would offend again. Lucio. What is't, murder?

Claud. No.

Lucio, Letchery?

Claud. Call it fo.

Prov. Away, Sir, you must go.

Claud. One word, good friend:

with you.

Lucio, a word

Lucio. A hundred; if they'll do you any good; is letchery fo look'd after?

Claud. Thus ftands it with me; upon a true contract I got poffeffion of Julietta's bed,

(You know the lady,) fhe is faft my wife ;

Save that we do the denunciation lack

Of outward order. This we came not to,
Only for propagation of a dower

Remaining in the coffer of her friends;

From whom we thought it meet to hide our love,
'Till time had made them for us. But it chances,
The stealth of our moft mutual entertainment,
With character too grofs, is writ on Juliet,
Lucio. With child, perhaps?
Claud. Unhappily, even fo.

And the new Depaty now for the Duke,

(Whe

(Whether it be the fault, and glimple, of newness;
Or whether that the body public be

A horfe whereon the Governor doth ride,
Who, newly in the feat, that it may know
He can command, let's it ftrait feel the spur;
Whether the tyranny be in his Place,
Or in his eminence that fills it up,
I ftagger in :) but this new Governor
Awakes me all th' enrolled penalties,

Which have, like unfcour'd armour, hung by th' wall
So long that nineteen Zodiacks have gone round, (3)
And none of them been worn; and, for a name,
Now puts the drowsy and neglected A&
Freshly on me; 'tis furely, for a name.

Lucio. I warrant, it is; and thy head ftands fo tickle on thy shoulders, that a milk-maid, if the be in love, may figh it off. Send after the Duke, and appeal to him. Claud. I have done fo, but he's not to be found.

I pr'ythee, Lucio, do me this kind fervice:
This day my Sifter fhould the cloister enter
And there receive her Approbation.

Acquaint her with the danger of my ftate,
Implore her, in my voice, that fhe make friends
To the ftrict Deputy; bid herself assay him;
I have great hope in that; for in her youth
There is a prone and fpeechlefs dialect,

Such as moves men! befide, fhe hath profp'rous art
When fhe will play with reafon and difcourfe,
And well fhe can perfuade.

Lucio. I pray, The may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which elfe would ftand under grievous impofition; as for the enjoining of thy life, who I would be

(3) So long that nineteen Zodiacks have gone round.] The Duke in the Scene immediately following, fays,

Which for thefe fourteen Years we have let flip,

The Author could not fo difagree with himself, in fo narrow á Com pafs. The numbers must have been wrote in Figures, and fo miftaken: for which reason, 'tis neceffary to make the two Accounts correfpond.

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