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CLAUDIO

I have done so, but he’s not to be found. [170]
I prithee, Lucio, do me this kind service:
This day my sister should the cloister enter,

And there receive her approbation.
Acquaint her with the danger of my state:
Implore her, in my voice, that she make friends [175]
To the strict deputy: bid herself assay him.
I have great hope in that. For in her youth

There is a prone and speechless dialect
Such as move men; beside, she hath prosperous art
When she will play with reason and discourse, [180]

And well she can persuade.

LUCIO

I pray she may: as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would
stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would
be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. − I’ll to her.
[185]

CLAUDIO
I thank you, good friend Lucio.

LUCIO

Within two hours.

CLAUDIO

Come, officer, away.
Exeunt.

Scene III IT

[A Friar’s Cell.]

Enter Duke and Friar Thomas.

DUKE