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We shall entreat you to abide here till he come, and enforce them against
him. We shall find this friar a [265] notable fellow.

LUCIO
As any in Vienna, on my word!

ESCALUS
Call that same Isabel here once again; I would speak with her.
[Exit an Attendant.]

Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question; you shall [270] see how I’ll
handle her.

LUCIO
Not better than he, by her own report.

ESCALUS
Say you?

LUCIO
Marry, sir, I think if you handled her privately she would sooner confess;

perchance publicly she’ll be [275] ashamed.

Enter [at several doors] Provost [with] Duke [in disguise and hooded],
[and] Isabella [under guard].

ESCALUS
I will go darkly to work with her.

LUCIO
That’s the way; for women are light at midnight.

ESCALUS
Come on, mistress, here’s a gentlewoman denies all that you have said.

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LUCIO

My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here with the Provost.