Where prayers cross." At what hour to-morrow Shall I attend your lordship? Isab. Save your honour! Ang. At any time 'fore noon. [Exeunt LUCIO, ISABELLA, and Provost. Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on? To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet, — I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.] This appointment of his for the morrow's meeting, being a premeditated exposure of himself to temptation, which it was the general object of prayer to thwart. HENLEY. Subdues me quite ;-Ever, till now, When men were fond, I smil'd and wonder'd how. SCENE III. A Room in a prison. [Exit. Enter Duke, habited like a Friar, and Provost. Duke. Hail to you, provost! so, I think you are. Prov. I am the provost: What's your will, good friar? Duke. Bound by my charity, and my bless'd order, I come to visit the afflicted spirits Here in the prison: do me the common right Prov. I would do more than that, if more were Enter JULIET. Look, here comes one; a gentlewoman of mine, Than die for this. Duke. When must he die? Prov. As I do think, to-morrow. I have provided for you; stay a while, [To JULIET. And you shall be conducted. Duke. Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry? Juliet. I do; and bear the shame most patiently. Duke. I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound, Or hollowly put on. Juliet. I'll gladly learn. Duke. Love you the man that wrong'd you? Juliet. Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him. Duke. So then, it seems, your most offenceful act was mutually committed? Juliet. Mutually. Duke. Then was your sin of heavier kind than his. Juliet. I do confess it, and repent it, father. Duke. "Tis meet so, daughter: But lest you do repent, As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not heaven; Showing, we'd not spare heaven, as we love it, Juliet. I do repent me, as it is an evil; Duke. There rest.1 Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow, [Exit. Juliet. Must die to-morrow! O, injurious love,* That respites me a life, whose very comfort Is still a dying horror! Prov. 'Tis pity of him. [Exeunt, But lest do repent,] i. e. you "Take care, lest you re pent [not so much of your fault, as it is an evil,] as that the sin hath brought you to this shame. 9 Showing we'd not spare heaven,] i. e. spare to offend heaven. There rest.] Keep yourself in this temper. O, injurious love,] probably should be law. SCENE IV. A Room in Angelo's House. Enter ANGELO. Ang. When I would pray and think, I think and pray To several subjects: heaven hath my empty words; And in my heart, the strong and swelling evil 4 3 Whilst my invention,] i. e. imagination. 6 with boot,] Boot is profit, advantage, gain. s Which the air beats for vain.] or vanity. 6case,] For outside; garb. "Let's write good angel on the devil's horn, 'Tis not the devil's crest.] This whole passage, as it stands, appears to me to mean: "O place! O form! though you wrench awe from fools, and tie even wiser souls to your false seeming, yet you make no alteration in the minds or constitutions of those who possess, or assume you. Though we should write good angel on the devil's horn, it will not change his nature, so as to give him a right to wear that crest. M. MASON. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart; And dispossessing all the other parts Of necessary fitness? So play the foolish throngs with one that swoons; By which he should revive: and even so Enter IABELLA. How now, fair maid? Isab. I am come to know your pleasure. Ang. That you might know it, would much better please me, Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live. Isab. Even so?-Heaven keep your honour! [Retiring. Ang. Yet may he live a while; and it may be, As long as you, or I: yet he must die. Isab. Under your sentence? Ang. Yea. Isab. When, I beseech you? that in his reprieve, The general,-] i. e. generality. |