The Complete Works of William Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
SCENE III. A room in a prison.
Enter Duke disguised as a Friar, and Provost. DUKE. Hail to you, Provost, so I think you are. PROVOST. I am the Provost. What’s your will, good friar? DUKE. Bound by my charity and my blessed order, I come to visit the afflicted spirits Here in the prison. Do me the common right To let me see them, and to make me know The nature of their crimes, that I may minister To them accordingly. PROVOST. I would do more than that, if more were needful. Enter Juliet. Look, here comes one, a gentlewoman of mine, Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth, Hath blistered her report. She is with child, And he that got it, sentenced: a young man More fit to do another such offence Than die for this. DUKE. When must he die? PROVOST. As I do think, tomorrow. [_To Juliet_.] I have provided for you; stay a while And you shall be conducted. DUKE. Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry? JULIET. I do; and bear the shame most patiently. DUKE. I’ll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, And try your penitence, if it be sound Or hollowly put on. JULIET. I’ll gladly learn. DUKE. Love you the man that wronged you? JULIET. Yes, as I love the woman that wronged him.
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