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me?

POMPEY
Come: fear not you: good counsellors lack no [105] clients: though you
change your place, you need not change your trade: I’ll be your tapster still;
courage, there will be pity taken on you; you that have worn your eyes
almost out in the service, you will be considered.

MISTRESS OVERDONE
What’s to do here, Thomas tapster? [110] Let’s withdraw!

POMPEY
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the Provost to prison: and there’s Madam
Juliet.
Exeunt.

Enter Provost [and] Officers [with] Claudio and Juliet; Lucio and [the] two

Gentlemen.

CLAUDIO
Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to th’world?
Bear me to prison, where I am committed. [115]

PROVOST
I do it not in evil disposition,
But from Lord Angelo by special charge.

CLAUDIO

Thus can the demi-god, Authority,
Make us pay down for our offence by weight.
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will; [120]
On whom it will not, so; yet still ’tis just.

LUCIO
Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?

CLAUDIO