MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Act 4 Scene 1

(Mariana discovered with a Boy singing)
l1l	>
Boy	> Take, O take those lips away
l2l		That so sweetly were forsworn,
l3l		And those eyes, the break of day
l4l		Lights that do mislead the morn#
l5l		But my kisses bring again, bring again,
l6l		Seals of love, though sealed in vain, sealed in vain. AMiddleton> 
		(Enter the Duke, disguised as a friar)
l7l	Mariana	 Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away.
l8l		Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
l9l		Hath often stilled my brawling discontent.
		(Exit Boy)
l10l		I cry you mercy, sir, and well could wish
l11l		You had not found me here so musical.
l12l		Let me excuse me, and believe me so:
l13l		My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe.
l14l	Duke	’Tis good# though music oft hath such a charm
l15l		To make bad good, and good provoke to harm.
l16l		I pray you tell me, hath anybody enquired for me here
l17l		today? Much upon this time have I promised here to
l18l		meet.
l19l	Mariana	You have not been enquired after# I have sat
l20l		here all day.
		(Enter Isabella)
l21l	Duke	 I do constantly believe you# the time is come even
l22l		now. I shall crave your forbearance a little. Maybe I
l23l		will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself.
l24l	Mariana	I am always bound to you.
		(Exit)
l25l	> 
	Duke	 Very well met,
> and welcome.
l26l	>
	What is the news from this good deputy?
l27l	Isabella	He hath a garden circummured with brick,
l28l		Whose western side is with a vineyard backed#
l29l		And to that vineyard is a plankèd gate,
l30l		That makes his opening with this bigger key.
l31l		This other doth command a little door
l32l		Which from the vineyard to the garden leads.
l33l		There have I made my promise
l34l		Upon the heavy middle of the night
l35l		To call upon him.
l36l	Duke	But shall you on your knowledge find this way?
l37l	Isabella	I have ta’en a due and wary note upon ’t.
l38l		With whispering and most guilty diligence,
l39l		In action all of precept, he did show me
l40l		The way twice o’er.
	Duke	Are there no other tokens
l41l		Between you ’greed concerning her observance?
l42l	Isabella	No, none, but only a repair i’ th’ dark,
l43l		And that I have possessed him my most stay
l44l		Can be but brief, for I have made him know
l45l		I have a servant comes with me along
l46l		That stays upon me, whose persuasion is
l47l		I come about my brother.
	Duke	’Tis well borne up.
l48l		I have not yet made known to Mariana
l49l		A word of this.—What ho, within! Come forth!
		(Enter Mariana)
l50l		(To Mariana)
		 I pray you be acquainted with this maid.
l51l		She comes to do you good.
	Isabella	I do desire the like.
l52l	Duke	(to Mariana)
		 Do you persuade yourself that I respect you?
l53l	Mariana	Good friar, I know you do, and so have found it.
l54l	Duke	Take then this your companion by the hand,
l55l		Who hath a story ready for your ear.
l56l		I shall attend your leisure# but make haste,
l57l		The vaporous night approaches.
	Mariana	
		(to Isabella)
		 Will ’t please you walk aside?
		(Exeunt Mariana and Isabella)
l58l	Duke	 O place and greatness, millions of false eyes
l59l		Are stuck upon thee# volumes of report
l60l		Run with their false and most contrarious quest
l61l		Upon thy doings# thousand escapes of wit
l62l		Make thee the father of their idle dream,
l63l		And rack thee in their fancies.
		(Enter Mariana and Isabella)
		 Welcome. How agreed?
l64l	Isabella	She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father,
l65l		If you advise it.
	Duke	It is not my consent,
l66l		But my entreaty too.
	Isabella	
		(to Mariana)
		 Little have you to say
l67l		When you depart from him but, soft and low,
l68l		“Remember now my brother”.
	Mariana	Fear me not.
l69l	Duke	Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all.
l70l		He is your husband on a pre-contract.
l71l		To bring you thus together ’tis no sin,
l72l		Sith that the justice of your title to him
l73l		Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go.
l74l		Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tilth’s to sow.
		(Exeunt)