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Measure for Measure - Act 2, scene 3Act 2, scene 3
Scene 3
Synopsis:
The duke (in the role of a friar) visits the prison and there meets Juliet, who expresses both her love for Claudio and her repentance for the sinful act that led to her pregnancy. She learns that Claudio must die the following day.
Enter Duke, ⌜disguised as a Friar,⌝ and Provost.DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0960 Hail to you, provost, so I think you are.
PROVOST
0961 I am the Provost. What’s your will, good friar?
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0962 Bound by my charity and my blest order,
0963 I come to visit the afflicted spirits
0964 5 Here in the prison. Do me the common right
0965 To let me see them, and to make me know
0966 The nature of their crimes, that I may minister
0967 To them accordingly.
PROVOST
0968 I would do more than that if more were needful.
Enter Juliet.
0969 10 Look, here comes one, a gentlewoman of mine,
0970 Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth,
0971 Hath blistered her report. She is with child,
0972 And he that got it, sentenced—a young man,
0973 More fit to do another such offense
0974 15 Than die for this.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0975 When must he die?
PROVOST 0976 As I do think, tomorrow.
0977 ⌜To Juliet.⌝ I have provided for you. Stay awhile
0978 And you shall be conducted.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar, to Juliet⌝
0979 20 Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
JULIET
0980 I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0981 I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience,
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0982
And try your penitence, if it be sound0983 Or hollowly put on.
JULIET 0984 25 I’ll gladly learn.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝ 0985 Love you the man that wronged you?
JULIET
0986 Yes, as I love the woman that wronged him.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0987 So then it seems your most offenseful act
0988 Was mutually committed?
JULIET 0989 30 Mutually.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0990 Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
JULIET
0991 I do confess it and repent it, father.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝
0992 ’Tis meet so, daughter; but lest you do repent
0993 As that the sin hath brought you to this shame,
0994 35 Which sorrow is always toward ourselves, not
0995 heaven,
0996 Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it,
0997 But as we stand in fear—
JULIET
0998 I do repent me as it is an evil,
0999 40 And take the shame with joy.
DUKE, ⌜as Friar⌝ 1000 There rest.
1001 Your partner, as I hear, must die tomorrow,
1002 And I am going with instruction to him.
1003 Grace go with you. Benedicite.He exits.
JULIET
1004 45 Must die tomorrow? O injurious love
1005 That respites me a life, whose very comfort
1006 Is still a dying horror.
PROVOST 1007 ’Tis pity of him.
They exit.