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MEASURE FOR MEASURE.TXT-Part8_WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE(1564-1616)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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LUCIO. Why, 'tis good; it is the right of it; it must be so; ever

your fresh whore and your powder'd bawd- an unshunn'd



consequence; it must be so. Art going to prison, Pompey?

POMPEY. Yes, faith, sir.



LUCIO. Why, 'tis not amiss, Pompey. Farewell; go, say I sent thee

thither. For debt, Pompey- or how?



ELBOW. For being a bawd, for being a bawd.

LUCIO. Well, then, imprison him. If imprisonment be the due of a



bawd, why, 'tis his right. Bawd is he doubtless, and of

antiquity, too; bawd-born. Farewell, good Pompey. Commend me to



the prison, Pompey. You will turn good husband now, Pompey; you

will keep the house.



POMPEY. I hope, sir, your good worship will be my bail.

LUCIO. No, indeed, will I not, Pompey; it is not the wear. I will



pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you take it not

patiently, why, your mettle is the more. Adieu trusty Pompey.



Bless you, friar.

DUKE. And you.



LUCIO. Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha?

ELBOW. Come your ways, sir; come.



POMPEY. You will not bail me then, sir?

LUCIO. Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar? what news?



ELBOW. Come your ways, sir; come.

LUCIO. Go to kennel, Pompey, go.



Exeunt ELBOW, POMPEY and OFFICERS

What news, friar, of the Duke?



DUKE. I know none. Can you tell me of any?

LUCIO. Some say he is with the Emperor of Russia; other some, he is



in Rome; but where is he, think you?

DUKE. I know not where; but wheresoever, I wish him well.



LUCIO. It was a mad fantastical trick of him to steal from the

state and usurp the beggary he was never born to. Lord Angelo



dukes it well in his absence; he puts transgression to't.

DUKE. He does well in't.



LUCIO. A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him;

something too crabbed that way, friar.



DUKE. It is too general a vice, and severity must cure it.

LUCIO. Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is



well allied; but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till

eating and drinking be put down. They say this Angelo was not



made by man and woman after this downright way of creation. Is it

true, think you?



DUKE. How should he be made, then?

LUCIO. Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some, that he was begot



between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes

water his urine is congeal'd ice; that I know to be true. And he



is a motion generative; that's infallible.

DUKE. You are pleasant, sir, and speak apace.



LUCIO. Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the rebellion

of a codpiece to take away the life of a man! Would the Duke that



is absent have done this? Ere he would have hang'd a man for the

getting a hundred bastards, he would have paid for the nursing a



thousand. He had some feeling of the sport; he knew the service,

and that instructed him to mercy.



DUKE. I never heard the absent Duke much detected for women; he was

not inclin'd that way.



LUCIO. O, sir, you are deceiv'd.

DUKE. 'Tis not possible.



LUCIO. Who- not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty; and his use

was to put a ducat in her clack-dish. The Duke had crotchets in



him. He would be drunk too; that let me inform you.

DUKE. You do him wrong, surely.



LUCIO. Sir, I was an inward of his. A shy fellow was the Duke; and

I believe I know the cause of his withdrawing.



DUKE. What, I prithee, might be the cause?

LUCIO. No, pardon; 'tis a secret must be lock'd within the teeth



and the lips; but this I can let you understand: the greater file

of the subject held the Duke to be wise.



DUKE. Wise? Why, no question but he was.

LUCIO. A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow.



DUKE. Either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking; the very




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