Sirrah, no more. Lucio. Carnally, she says. Duke. Lucio. Enough, my lord. Ang. My lord, I must confess, I know this woman: And, five years since, there was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off, Partly, for that her promised proportions I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her, Mari. Noble prince, As there comes light from heaven, and words from breath, As there is sense in truth, and truth in virtue, I am affianc'd this man's wife, as strongly As words could make up vows: and, my good lord, But Tuesday night last gone, in his garden-house, Let me in safety raise me from my knees; Or else for ever be confixed here, A marble monument! Ang. I did but smile till now; Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice; Duke. Ay, with all my heart; Compact with her that's gone! think'st thou, thy oaths, i her promised proportions Came short of composition ;] Her fortune, which was promised proportionate to mine, fell short of the composition, that is, contract or bargain.-JOHNSON. - informal-] Deranged. k seal'd in approbation?-] Angelo's integrity had been tried, approved, and Sit with my cousin; lend him your kind pains To find out this abuse, whence 'tis deriv'd.- Let him be sent for. F. Peter. Would he were here, my lord; for he, indeed, Hath set the woman on to this complaint: Your provost knows the place where he abides, Duke. Go, do it instantly. [Exit Provost. And you, my noble and well-warranted cousin, Will leave you; but stir not you, till you have well Escal. My lord, we'll do it thoroughly.—[Exit Duke.] Signior Lucio, did not you say, you knew that friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person? Lucio. Cucullus non facit monachum: honest in nothing, but in his clothes; and one that hath spoke most villainous speeches of the duke. Escal. We shall entreat you to abide here till he come, and enforce them against him: we shall find this friar a notable fellow. Lucio. As any in Vienna, on my word. Escal. Call that same Isabel here once again; [to an Attendant.] I would speak with her: Pray you, my lord: give me leave to question; you shall see how I'll handle her. Lucio. Not better than he, by her own report. Escal. Say you ? Lucio. Marry, sir, I think, if you handle her privately, she would sooner confess; perchance, publicly she'll be ashamed. Re-enter Officers, with ISABELLA; the Duke, in the Escal. I will go darkly to work with her. sealed in testimony of approbation, and was no more to be questioned or suspected of being counterfeit.-JOHNSON. Lucio. That's the way; for women are light at midnight. Escal. Come on, mistress: [To ISABELLA.] here's a gentlewoman denies all that you have said. Lucio. My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of; here with the provost. Escal. In very good time:-speak not you to him till we call upon you. Lucio. Mum. Escal. Come sir: Did you set these women on to slander lord Angelo? they have confess'd you did. . Duke. 'Tis false. Escal. How! know where you are you ? Duke. Respect to your great place! and let the devil Be sometime honour'd for his burning throne : Where is the duke? 'tis he should hear me speak. Escal. The duke's in us; and we will hear you speak : Look, you speak justly. Duke. Boldly, at least:-But, O, poor souls, Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox? Good night to your redress. Is the duke gone? And put your trial in the villain's mouth, Which here you come to accuse. Lucio. This is the rascal; this is he I spoke of. To call him villain? And then to glance from him, Take him hence :-To the rack with him :- Duke. Be not so hot : The duke dare no more stretch this finger of mine, than he Dare rack his own; his subject am I not, m to retort your manifest appeal,] To refer back to Angelo the cause in which you appealed from Angelo to the duke.-JOHNSON. Nor here provincial: My business in this state Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble, As much in mock as mark. Escal. Slander to the state! Away with him to prison. Ang. What can you vouch against him, signior Lucio? Is this the man that you did tell us of? Lucio. 'Tis he, my lord. Come hither, good-man baldpate: Do you know me? Duke. I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice: I met you at the prison in the absence of the duke. Lucio. O, did you so? And do you remember what you said of the duke? Duke. Most notedly, sir. Lucio. Do you so, sir? And was the duke a fleshmonger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be? Duke. You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make that my report: you, indeed, spoke of him; and much more, much worse. Lucio. O thou damnable fellow! Did not I pluck thee by the nose, for thy speeches? Duke. I protest, I love the duke, as I love myself. Ang. Hark! how the villain would close now, after his treasonable abuses. Escal. Such a fellow is not to be talk'd withal:- -Away with him to prison :-Where is the provost ?-Away with him to prison: lay bolts enough upon him: let him speak no more:-Away with those giglots too, and with the other confederate companion. [The Provost lays hands on the Duke. n Nor here provincial:] Nor here accountable.-The meaning seems to be, I am not one of his natural subjects.-JOHNSON. 0 -forfeits in a burber's shop,] These shops were places of great resort for passing away time in an idle manner. By way of enforcing some kind of regularity, and perhaps, at least as much, to promote drinking, certain laws were usually hung up, the transgression of which was to be punished by specific forfeitures. It is not to be wondered at if these laws were as often laughed at as obeyed. ARCHDEACON NARES's Glossary. P those giglots too,] A giglot is a wanton wench. Duke. Stay, sir; stay a while. Ang. What! resists he! Help him, Lucio. Lucio. Come, sir; come, sir; come, sir; foh, sir: Why, you bald-pated, lying rascal! you must be hooded, must you? Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you! show your sheep-biting face, and be hang'd an hour! Will't not off? [Pulls off the Friar's hood, and discovers the Duke. Duke. Thou art the first knave, that e'er made a duke.. First, Provost, let me bail these gentle three: Sneak not away, sir; [to Lucio.] for the friar and you Must have a word anon :-lay hold on him. Lucio. This may prove worse than hanging. Duke. What you have spoke, I pardon; sit you down. To ESCALUS. We'll borrow place of him :-Sir, by your leave: Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence, And hold no longer out. Ang. O my dread lord, I should be guiltier than my guiltiness, To think I can be undiscernible, [TO ANGELO. When I perceive, your grace, like power divine, But let my trial be mine own confession; Immediate sentence then, and sequent death, Duke. hang'd an hour!] There has been much discussion among the commentators to explain the words an hour in this phrase ;-be hanged an hourbe caught awhile-be bought awhile, &c. &c. were colloquial vulgarisms in frequent use, as is exhibited by a note of Mr. Giffords in his edition of Ben Jonson, vol. 4. page 421.-The words "an hour," "a while," &c. are pure expletives and have no perceptible influence on the exclamations to which they are subjoined. can do thee office?] i. e. Do thee service.- STEEVENS, |