1 Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.
ANGELO
2 In most uneven and distracted manner. His actions 3 show much like to madness: pray heaven his wisdom be 4 not tainted! And why meet him at the gates, and 5 redeliver our authorities there
ESCALUS
6 I guess not.
ANGELO
7 And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his 8 entering, that if any crave redress of injustice, 9 they should exhibit their petitions in the street?
ESCALUS
10 He shows his reason for that: to have a dispatch of 11 complaints, and to deliver us from devices 12 hereafter, which shall then have no power to stand 13 against us.
ANGELO
14 Well, I beseech you, let it be proclaimed betimes 15 i' the morn; I'll call you at your house: give 16 notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet 17 him.
ESCALUS
18 I shall, sir. Fare you well.
ANGELO
19 Good night. Exit ESCALUS 20 This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant 21 And dull to all proceedings. A deflower'd maid! 22 And by an eminent body that enforced 23 The law against it! But that her tender shame 24 Will not proclaim against her maiden loss, 25 How might she tongue me! Yet reason dares her no; 26 For my authority bears of a credent bulk, 27 That no particular scandal once can touch 28 But it confounds the breather. He should have lived, 29 Save that riotous youth, with dangerous sense, 30 Might in the times to come have ta'en revenge, 31 By so receiving a dishonour'd life 32 With ransom of such shame. Would yet he had lived! 33 A lack, when once our grace we have forgot, 34 Nothing goes right: we would, and we would not.