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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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1 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
98 |
If the duke with the other dukes come not to
composition with the King of Hungary, why then all
the dukes fall upon the king.
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2 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
First Gentleman |
109 |
Why, 'twas a commandment to command the captain and
all the rest from their functions: they put forth
to steal. There's not a soldier of us all, that, in
the thanksgiving before meat, do relish the petition
well that prays for peace.
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3 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
121 |
Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all
controversy: as, for example, thou thyself art a
wicked villain, despite of all grace.
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4 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Mistress Overdone |
193 |
Why, here's a change indeed in the commonwealth!
What shall become of me?
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5 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Claudio |
206 |
Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
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6 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 2] |
Lucio |
215 |
Why, how now, Claudio! whence comes this restraint?
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7 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 3] |
Vincentio |
290 |
No, holy father; throw away that thought;
Believe not that the dribbling dart of love
Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee
To give me secret harbour, hath a purpose
More grave and wrinkled than the aims and ends
Of burning youth.
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8 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 3] |
Vincentio |
297 |
My holy sir, none better knows than you
How I have ever loved the life removed
And held in idle price to haunt assemblies
Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keeps.
I have deliver'd to Lord Angelo,
A man of stricture and firm abstinence,
My absolute power and place here in Vienna,
And he supposes me travell'd to Poland;
For so I have strew'd it in the common ear,
And so it is received. Now, pious sir,
You will demand of me why I do this?
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9 |
Measure for Measure
[I, 4] |
Isabella |
372 |
Why 'her unhappy brother'? let me ask,
The rather for I now must make you know
I am that Isabella and his sister.
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10 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Angelo |
513 |
Go to: what quality are they of? Elbow is your
name? why dost thou not speak, Elbow?
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11 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
561 |
Why, very well; I telling you then, if you be
remembered, that such a one and such a one were past
cure of the thing you wot of, unless they kept very
good diet, as I told you,—
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12 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
566 |
Why, very well, then,—
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13 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
578 |
Why, very well; I hope here be truths. He, sir,
sitting, as I say, in a lower chair, sir; 'twas in
the Bunch of Grapes, where indeed you have a delight
to sit, have you not?
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14 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Pompey |
583 |
Why, very well, then; I hope here be truths.
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15 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 1] |
Escalus |
602 |
Why, no.
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16 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Angelo |
745 |
Did not I tell thee yea? hadst thou not order?
Why dost thou ask again?
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17 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Angelo |
789 |
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,
And let go by the actor.
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18 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Isabella |
814 |
Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word.
May call it back again. Well, believe this,
No ceremony that to great ones 'longs,
Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword,
The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe,
Become them with one half so good a grace
As mercy does.
If he had been as you and you as he,
You would have slipt like him; but he, like you,
Would not have been so stern.
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19 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Isabella |
833 |
Alas, alas!
Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once;
And He that might the vantage best have took
Found out the remedy. How would you be,
If He, which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you as you are? O, think on that;
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.
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20 |
Measure for Measure
[II, 2] |
Angelo |
900 |
Why do you put these sayings upon me?
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