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ESCALUS
In very good time. Speak not you to him till we call upon you.
LUCIO
Mum. [285]
ESCALUS
Come, sir: did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo? They have
confess’d you did.
DUKE
’Tis false.
ESCALUS
How! Know you where you are?
DUKE
Respect to your great place; and let the devil [290]
Be sometime honour’d for his burning throne.
Where is the Duke? ’Tis he should hear me speak.
ESCALUS
The Duke’s in us; and we will hear you speak;
Look you speak justly.
DUKE
Boldly, at least. But O, poor souls, [295]
Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox?
Good-night to your redress! Is the Duke gone?
Then is your cause gone too. The Duke’s unjust
Thus to retort your manifest appeal,
And put your trial in the villain’s mouth [300]
Which here you come to accuse.
LUCIO
This is the rascal: this is he I spoke of.
