Page 1142 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

That I should do what I abhor to name;
Or else thou diest tomorrow.

CLAUDIO
Thou shalt not do’t.

ISABELLA
O, were it but my life, [105]
I’d throw it down for your deliverance

As frankly as a pin.

CLAUDIO
Thanks, dear Isabel.

ISABELLA
Be ready, Claudio, for your death tomorrow.

CLAUDIO
Yes. − Has he affections in him,
That thus can make him bite the law by th’nose [110]

When he would force it? − Sure, it is no sin;
Or of the deadly seven it is the least.

ISABELLA
Which is the least?

CLAUDIO
If it were damnable, he being so wise,
Why would he for the momentary trick [115]
Be perdurably fin’d? − O Isabel!

ISABELLA
What says my brother?

CLAUDIO
Death is a fearful thing.