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For my authority bears so credent bulk
That no particular scandal once can touch, [25]
But it confounds the breather. He should have liv’d;
Save that his riotous youth, with dangerous sense,

Might in the times to come have ta’en revenge
By so receiving a dishonour’d life
With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived. [30]
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot,

Nothing goes right; we would, and we would not.
[Exit.]

Scene V IT

[A Friar’s Cell.]

Enter Duke [in his own habit] and Friar Peter.

DUKE

These letters at fit time deliver me.
The Provost knows our purpose and our plot;
The matter being afoot, keep your instruction,

And hold you ever to our special drift,
Though sometimes you do blench from this to that [5]
As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius’ house,
And tell him where I stay. Give the like notice
To Valencius, Rowland, and to Crassus,

And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate:
But send me Flavius first.

FRIAR PETER
It shall be speeded well. [10]
[Exit Friar.]

Enter Varrius.

DUKE

I thank thee, Varrius, thou hast made good haste.