MEASURE FOR MEASURE,

Á COMEDY,

REVISED BY

J. P. KEMBLE;

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE.

ACT I.

SCENE I.

The Duke's Palace.

The Duke, ESCALUS, FREDERICK, and LEOPOLD, discovered.

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 :

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.-
[ESCALUS kneels, and takes his commission.] ́
Call hither,

I say, bid come before us Angelo.

[Exit LEOPOLD.
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