MEASURE FOR MEASURE

Act AP Scene A

0 [[1.2.0.1-116]]
	[[Lines 2-9 of Additional Passage A (“. . . by him”) are lines which the
	adapter (whom we believe to be Thomas Middleton) evidently intended
	to be replaced by 1.2.56-79 of the play as we print it. The adapter must
	have contributed all of 1.2.0.1-83, which in the earliest and subsequent
	printed texts precede the discussion between the Clown (Pompey) and the
	Bawd (Mistress Overdone) about Claudio’s arrest. Lucio’s entry alone at]]
	[[line 40.1 below, some eleven lines after his re-entry with the two
	Gentlemen and the Provost’s party in the adapted text, probably represents
	Shakespeare’s original intention. In his version, Juliet, present but
	silent in the adapted text both in 1.2 and 5.1, probably did not appear
	in either scene# accordingly, the words “and there’s Madam Juliet”
	(1.2.107) must also be the reviser’s work, and do not appear below.]]
	(Enter Pompey and Mistress Overdone, meeting)
l1l	Mistress Overdone	 How now, what’s the news with you?
l2l	Pompey	Yonder man is carried to prison.
l3l	Mistress Overdone	Well! What has he done?
l4l	Pompey	A woman.
l5l	Mistress Overdone	But what’s his offence?
l6l	Pompey	Groping for trouts in a peculiar river.
l7l	Mistress Overdone	What, is there a maid with child by
l8l		him?
l9l	Pompey	No, but there’s a woman with maid by him: you
l10l		have not heard of the proclamation, have you?
l11l	Mistress Overdone	What proclamation, man?
l12l	Pompey	All houses in the suburbs of Vienna must be
l13l		plucked down.
l14l	Mistress Overdone	And what shall become of those in
l15l		the city?
l16l	Pompey	They shall stand for seed. They had gone down
l17l		too, but that a wise burgher put in for them.
l18l	Mistress Overdone	But shall all our houses of resort in
l19l		the suburbs be pulled down?
l20l	Pompey	To the ground, mistress.
l21l	Mistress Overdone	Why, here’s a change indeed in the
l22l		commonwealth. What shall become of me?
l23l	Pompey	Come, fear not you. Good counsellors lack no
l24l		clients. Though you change your place, you need not
l25l		change your trade. I’ll be your tapster still. Courage,
l26l		there will be pity taken on you. You that have worn
l27l		your eyes almost out in the service, you will be
l28l		considered. 
		(A noise within)
l29l	Mistress Overdone	 What’s to do here, Thomas Tapster?
l30l		Let’s withdraw! 
		(Enter the Provost and Claudio)
l31l	Pompey	 Here comes Signor Claudio, led by the Provost to
l32l		prison. 
		(Exeunt Mistress Overdone and Pompey)
l33l	Claudio	 Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to th’ world?
l34l		Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
l35l	Provost	I do it not in evil disposition,
l36l		But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
l37l	Claudio	Thus can the demigod Authority
l38l		Make us pay down for our offence, by weight,
l39l		The bonds of heaven. On whom it will, it will#
l40l		On whom it will not, so# yet still ’tis just. 
		(Enter Lucio)
l41l	Lucio	 Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?