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冷如冰 更新:2024-04-07 11:51 字数:9322
Pompey; you are partly a bawd; Pompey; howsoever you colour it in being
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a tapster。 Are you not? Come; tell me true; it shall be the better for you。
POMPEY。 Truly; sir; I am a poor fellow that would live。 ESCALUS。 How
would you live; Pompey… by being a bawd? What do you think of the trade;
Pompey? Is it a lawful trade? POMPEY。 If the law would allow it; sir。
ESCALUS。 But the law will not allow it; Pompey; nor it shall not be
allowed in Vienna。 POMPEY。 Does your worship mean to geld and splay
all the youth of the city? ESCALUS。 No; Pompey。 POMPEY。 Truly; sir; in
my poor opinion; they will to't then。 If your worship will take order for the
drabs and the knaves; you need not to fear the bawds。 ESCALUS。 There is
pretty orders beginning; I can tell you: but it is but heading and hanging。
POMPEY。 If you head and hang all that offend that way but for ten year
together; you'll be glad to give out a commission for more heads; if this
law hold in Vienna ten year; I'll rent the fairest house in it; after threepence
a bay。 If you live to see this come to pass; say Pompey told you so。
ESCALUS。 Thank you; good Pompey; and; in requital of your prophecy;
hark you: I advise you; let me not find you before me again upon any
complaint whatsoever… no; not for dwelling where you do; if I do; Pompey;
I shall beat you to your tent; and prove a shrewd Caesar to you; in plain
dealing; Pompey; I shall have you whipt。 So for this time; Pompey; fare
you well。 POMPEY。 I thank your worship for your good counsel; 'Aside'
but I shall follow it as the flesh and fortune shall better determine。 Whip
me? No; no; let carman whip his jade; The valiant heart's not whipt out of
his trade。 Exit ESCALUS。 Come hither to me; Master Elbow; come hither;
Master Constable。 How long have you been in this place of constable?
ELBOW。 Seven year and a half; sir。 ESCALUS。 I thought; by the
readiness in the office; you had continued in it some time。 You say seven
years together? ELBOW。 And a half; sir。 ESCALUS。 Alas; it hath been
great pains to you! They do you wrong to put you so oft upon't。 Are there
not men in your ward sufficient to serve it? ELBOW。 Faith; sir; few of any
wit in such matters; as they are chosen; they are glad to choose me for
them; I do it for some piece of money; and go through with all。 ESCALUS。
Look you; bring me in the names of some six or seven; the most sufficient
of your parish。 ELBOW。 To your worship's house; sir? ESCALUS。 To my
house。 Fare you well。 'Exit ELBOW' What's o'clock; think you? JUSTICE。
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Eleven; sir。 ESCALUS。 I pray you home to dinner with me。 JUSTICE。 I
humbly thank you。 ESCALUS。 It grieves me for the death of Claudio; But
there's no remedy。 JUSTICE。 Lord Angelo is severe。 ESCALUS。 It is but
needful: Mercy is not itself that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of
second woe。 But yet; poor Claudio! There is no remedy。 Come; sir。 Exeunt
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SCENE II。 Another room in ANGELO'S house
Enter PROVOST and a SERVANT
SERVANT。 He's hearing of a cause; he will come straight。 I'll tell him
of you。 PROVOST。 Pray you do。 'Exit SERVANT' I'll know His pleasure;
may be he will relent。 Alas; He hath but as offended in a dream! All sects;
all ages; smack of this vice; and he To die for 't!
Enter ANGELO
ANGELO。 Now; what's the matter; Provost? PROVOST。 Is it your
will Claudio shall die to…morrow? ANGELO。 Did not I tell thee yea?
Hadst thou not order? Why dost thou ask again? PROVOST。 Lest I might
be too rash; Under your good correction; I have seen When; after
execution; judgment hath Repented o'er his doom。 ANGELO。 Go to; let
that be mine。 Do you your office; or give up your place; And you shall
well be spar'd。 PROVOST。 I crave your honour's pardon。 What shall be
done; sir; with the groaning Juliet? She's very near her hour。 ANGELO。
Dispose of her To some more fitter place; and that with speed。
Re…enter SERVANT
SERVANT。 Here is the sister of the man condemn'd Desires access to
you。 ANGELO。 Hath he a sister? PROVOST。 Ay; my good lord; a very
virtuous maid; And to be shortly of a sisterhood; If not already。 ANGELO。
Well; let her be admitted。 Exit SERVANT See you the fornicatress be
remov'd; Let her have needful but not lavish means; There shall be order
for't。
Enter Lucio and ISABELLA
PROVOST。 'Going' Save your honour! ANGELO。 Stay a little while。
'To ISABELLA' Y'are welcome; what's your will? ISABELLA。 I am a
woeful suitor to your honour; Please but your honour hear me。 ANGELO。
Well; what's your suit? ISABELLA。 There is a vice that most I do abhor;
And most desire should meet the blow of justice; For which I would not
plead; but that I must; For which I must not plead; but that I am At war
'twixt will and will not。 ANGELO。 Well; the matter? ISABELLA。 I have a
brother is condemn'd to die; I do beseech you; let it be his fault; And not
my brother。 PROVOST。 'Aside' Heaven give thee moving graces。
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ANGELO。 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。 ISABELLA。
O just but severe law! I had a brother; then。 Heaven keep your honour!
LUCIO。 'To ISABELLA' Give't not o'er so; to him again; entreat him;
Kneel down before him; hang upon his gown; You are too cold: if you
should need a pin; You could not with more tame a tongue desire it。 To
him; I say。 ISABELLA。 Must he needs die? ANGELO。 Maiden; no
remedy。 ISABELLA。 Yes; I do think that you might pardon him。 And
neither heaven nor man grieve at the mercy。 ANGELO。 I will not do't。
ISABELLA。 But can you; if you would? ANGELO。 Look; what I will not;
that I cannot do。 ISABELLA。 But might you do't; and do the world no
wrong; If so your heart were touch'd with that remorse As mine is to him?
ANGELO。 He's sentenc'd; 'tis too late。 LUCIO。 'To ISABELLA' You are
too cold。 ISABELLA。 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 slipp'd like
him; but he; like you; Would not have been so stern。 ANGELO。 Pray you
be gone。 ISABELLA。 I would to heaven I had your potency; And you were
Isabel! Should it then be thus? No; I would tell what 'twere to be a judge
And what a prisoner。 LUCIO。 'To ISABELLA' Ay; touch him; there's the
vein。 ANGELO。 Your brother is a forfeit of the law; And you but waste
your words。 ISABELLA。 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。 ANGELO。 Be you content; fair
maid。 It is the law; not I condemn your brother。 Were he my kinsman;
brother; or my son; It should be thus with him。 He must die to…morrow。
ISABELLA。 To…morrow! O; that's sudden! Spare him; spare him。 He's not
prepar'd for death。 Even for our kitchens We kill the fowl of season; shall
we serve heaven With less respect than we do minister To our gross selves?
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Good; good my lord; bethink you。 Who is it that hath died for this offence?
There's many have committed it。 LUCIO。 'Aside' Ay; well said。 ANGELO。
The law hath not been dead; thoug