Page 1182 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.

ANGELO
In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions show much like to
madness; pray heaven his wisdom be not tainted. And why meet him at the
gates and redeliver our authorities there? [5]

ESCALUS
I guess not.

ANGELO
And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering, that if any

crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?

ESCALUS
He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch [10] of complaints, and to
deliver us from devices hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand
against us.

ANGELO

Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaim’d
Betimes i’th’morn: I’ll call you at your house.
Give notice to such men of sort and suit [15]
As are to meet him.

ESCALUS
I shall, sir: fare you well.

ANGELO
Good night.

Exit [Escalus].
This deed unshapes me quite; makes me unpregnant
And dull to all proceedings. A deflower’d maid;

And by an eminent body, that enforc’d [20]
The law against it! But that her tender shame
Will not proclaim against her maiden loss,
How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no,