William Shakespeare (1564–1616). The Oxford Shakespeare. 1914.
Act IV. Scene VI.Measure for Measure
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.
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.