Page 1195 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife!
LUCIO
My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are [180] neither maid, widow
nor wife.
DUKE
Silence that fellow! I would he had some cause to prattle for himself.
LUCIO
Well, my lord.
MARIANA
My lord, I do confess I ne’er was married; [185]
And I confess besides, I am no maid.
I have known my husband; yet my husband
Knows not that ever he knew me.
LUCIO
He was drunk then, my lord; it can be no better.
DUKE
For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too. [190]
LUCIO
Well, my lord.
DUKE
This is no witness for Lord Angelo.
MARIANA
Now I come to’t, my lord.
She that accuses him of fornication
In self-same manner doth accuse my husband, [195]
And charges him, my lord, with such a time
When I’ll depose I had him in mine arms
With all th’effect of love.
