3 Bound by my charity and my blest order, 4 I come to visit the afflicted spirits 5 Here in the prison. Do me the common right 6 To let me see them and to make me know 7 The nature of their crimes, that I may minister 8 To them accordingly.
Provost
9 I would do more than that, if more were needful. Enter JULIET 10 Look, here comes one: a gentlewoman of mine, 11 Who, falling in the flaws of her own youth, 12 Hath blister'd her report: she is with child; 13 And he that got it, sentenced; a young man 14 More fit to do another such offence 15 Than die for this.
DUKE VINCENTIO
16 When must he die?
Provost
17 As I do think, to-morrow. 18 I have provided for you: stay awhile, To JULIET 19 And you shall be conducted.
DUKE VINCENTIO
20 Repent you, fair one, of the sin you carry?
JULIET
21 I do; and bear the shame most patiently.
DUKE VINCENTIO
22 I'll teach you how you shall arraign your conscience, 23 And try your penitence, if it be sound, 24 Or hollowly put on.
JULIET
25 I'll gladly learn.
DUKE VINCENTIO
26 Love you the man that wrong'd you?
JULIET
27 Yes, as I love the woman that wrong'd him.
DUKE VINCENTIO
28 So then it seems your most offenceful act 29 Was mutually committed?
JULIET
30 Mutually.
DUKE VINCENTIO
31 Then was your sin of heavier kind than his.
JULIET
32 I do confess it, and repent it, father.
DUKE VINCENTIO
33 'Tis meet so, daughter: but lest you do repent, 34 As that the sin hath brought you to this shame, 35 Which sorrow is always towards ourselves, not heaven, 36 Showing we would not spare heaven as we love it, 37 But as we stand in fear,--
JULIET
38 I do repent me, as it is an evil, 39 And take the shame with joy.
DUKE VINCENTIO
40 There rest. 41 Your partner, as I hear, must die to-morrow, 42 And I am going with instruction to him. 43 Grace go with you, Benedicite!
Exit
JULIET
44 Must die to-morrow! O injurious love, 45 That respites me a life, whose very comfort 46 Is still a dying horror!