Page 1083 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

And given his deputation all the organs [20]
Of our own power. What think you of it?

ESCALUS
If any in Vienna be of worth
To undergo such ample grace and honour,
It is Lord Angelo.

Enter Angelo.

DUKE
Look where he comes.

ANGELO
Always obedient to your Grace’s will, [25]
I come to know your pleasure.

DUKE
Angelo:
There is a kind of character in thy life

That to th’observer doth thy history
Fully unfold. Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper as to waste [30]

Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch’d [35]

But to fine issues; nor nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence
But, like a thrifty goddes, she determines

Herself the glory of a creditor,
Both thanks and use. But I do bend my speech [40]
To one that can my part in him advértise:
Hold therefore, Angelo.
In our remove, be thou at full ourself.

Mortality and mercy in Vienna
Live in thy tongue, and heart. Old Escalus, [45]