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William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914.

Act IV. Scene VI.

Measure for Measure

Street near the City Gate.

Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA.

Isab.To speak so indirectly I am loath:

I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,

That is your part: yet I’m advis’d to do it;

He says, to veil full purpose.

Mari.Be rul’d by him.

Isab.Besides, he tells me that if peradventure

He speak against me on the adverse side,

I should not think it strange; for ’tis a physic

That’s bitter to sweet end.

Mari.I would, Friar Peter—

Isab.O, peace! the friar is come.

Enter FRIAR PETER.

F. Peter.Come; I have found you out a stand most fit,

Where you may have such vantage on the duke,

He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded:

The generous and gravest citizens

Have hent the gates, and very near upon

The duke is ent’ring: therefore hence, away![Exeunt.