Comedy of Measure for measure Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Angela. Well, let her be admitted.— [Exit Servant. See you the fornicatress be remov'd: Let her have needful but not lavish means; There shall be order for 't... more ». Enter Isabella and Lucio. Provost. Save your honour ! Angela. Stay a little while.— [To Isabella) You 're welcome; what 's your will? Isabella. I am a woful suitor to your honour, Please but your honour hear me. Angela. Well, what 's your suit? Isabella. There is a vice that most I do abhor, And most desire should meet the blow of justice; 30 For which I would not plead, but that I must; For which I must not plead, but that I am At war 'twixt will and will not. Angela. Well, the matter ? Isabella. I have a brother is condemn'd to die; I do beseech you, let it be his fault, And not my brother. Provost. [Aside] Heaven give thee moving graces ! Angela. Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it ? Why, every fault 's condemn'd ere it be done. Mine were the very cipher of a function, To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, 4o And let go by the actor. Isabella. O just but severe law ! I had a brother, then. Heaven keep your honour ! Lucio. -(Aside to Isabella] Give 't not o'er so : to him agai entreat him; Kneel down before him, hang upon his gown. You are too cold; if you should need a pin, You could not with more tame a tongue desire it. To him, I say ! Isabella. Must he needs die ? Angela. Maiden, no remedy. Isabella. Yes; I do think that you might pardon him, And neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy. 50 Angela. I will not do 't. Isabella. But can you, if you would ? Angela. Look, what I will not, that I cannot do. Isabella. But might you do 't, and do the world no wrong, If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse As mine is to h...« less