Measure for Measure
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Read between October 17 - October 17, 2025
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Lent him our terror,
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I hold you as a thing ensky'd and sainted.
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Your brother and his lover have embraced:
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lying by the violet in the sun,
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What, do I love her,
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That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes?
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To sin in loving virtue:
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O injurious love,
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That respites me a life, whose very comfort Is still a dying horror!
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Heaven in my mouth,
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One Isabel, a sister,
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Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be, As long as you or I yet he must die.
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Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness
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You must lay down the treasures of your body
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Plainly conceive, I love you. ISABELLA My brother did love Juliet, And you tell me that he shall die for it. ANGELO He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
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Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite;
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redeem thy brother By yielding up thy body to my will;
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Answer me to-morrow, Or, by the affection that now guides me most, I'll prove a tyrant to him.
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And fit his mind to death, for his soul's rest.
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flowery tenderness?
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If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride,
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DUKE VINCENTIO Know you this woman? LUCIO Carnally, she says.
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He knew me as a wife.
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O most kind maid,
What's mine is yours and what is yours is mine. So, bring us to our palace; where we'll show What's yet behind, that's meet you all should know.