Measure For Measure
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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language: en
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source: measureforemeasure.Z
subject: duke
subject: vincentio
subject: angelo
subject: isabella
subject: lucio
subject: sufficiency
subject: worth
subject: able
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: measure
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: MEASURE FOR MEASURE DRAMATIS PERSONAE VINCENTIO the Duke. (DUKE VINCENTIO:) ANGELO Deputy. ESCALUS an ancient Lord. CLAUDIO a young gentleman. LUCIO a fantastic. Two other gentlemen. (First Gentleman:) (Second Gentleman:) Provost. PETER (FRIAR PETER:) | | two friars. THOMAS (FRIAR THOMAS:) | A Justice. VARRIUS: ELBOW a simple constable. FROTH a foolish gentleman. POMPEY servant to Mistress Overdone. ABHORSON an executioner. BARNARDINE a dissolute prisoner. ISABELLA sister to Claudio. MARIANA betrothed to Angelo. JULIET beloved of Claudio. FRANCISCA a nun. MISTRESS OVERDONE a bawd. Lords, Officers, Citizens, Boy, and Attendant. (Servant:) (Messenger:) SCENE Vienna. MEASURE FOR MEASURE ACT I SCENE I An apartment in the DUKE'S palace. [Enter DUKE VINCENTIO, ESCALUS, Lords and Attendants] DUKE VINCENTIO Escalus. ESCALUS My lord. DUKE VINCENTIO 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're as pregnant in As art and practise hath enriched any That we remember. There is our commission, From which we would not have you warp. Call hither, I say, bid come before us Angelo. [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? ESCALUS If any in Vienna be of worth To undergo such ample grace and honour, It is Lord Angelo. DUKE VINCENTIO Look where he comes. [Enter ANGELO] ANGELO Always obedient to your grace's will, I come to know your pleasure. DUKE VINCENTIO Angelo, There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the ob…