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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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the character name is "Poet."
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Measure for Measure
[I, 1] |
Escalus |
87 |
I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
To have free speech with you; and it concerns me
To look into the bottom of my place:
A power I have, but of what strength and nature
I am not yet instructed.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Second Gentleman |
137 |
Yes, that thou hast, whether thou art tainted or free.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 4] |
Isabella |
1138 |
Ignomy in ransom and free pardon
Are of two houses: lawful mercy
Is nothing kin to foul redemption.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 1] |
Isabella |
1290 |
Yes, brother, you may live:
There is a devilish mercy in the judge,
If you'll implore it, that will free your life,
But fetter you till death.
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[III, 2] |
Vincentio |
1549 |
That we were all, as some would seem to be,
From our faults, as faults from seeming, free!
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[IV, 3] |
Provost |
2211 |
I am your free dependant.
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Friar Peter |
2541 |
Blessed be your royal grace!
I have stood by, my lord, and I have heard
Your royal ear abused. First, hath this woman
Most wrongfully accused your substitute,
Who is as free from touch or soil with her
As she from one ungot.
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Measure for Measure
[V, 1] |
Vincentio |
2811 |
You are pardon'd, Isabel:
And now, dear maid, be you as free to us.
Your brother's death, I know, sits at your heart;
And you may marvel why I obscured myself,
Labouring to save his life, and would not rather
Make rash remonstrance of my hidden power
Than let him so be lost. O most kind maid,
It was the swift celerity of his death,
Which I did think with slower foot came on,
That brain'd my purpose. But, peace be with him!
That life is better life, past fearing death,
Than that which lives to fear: make it your comfort,
So happy is your brother.
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