Duke.
Escalus,—

Escal.
My Lord.

Duke.
Of Government the properties t'unfold,
Would seem in me t'affect speech and discourse.
Since I am† ^note not to know, that your own Science
Exceeds, in that, the lists of all advice^{2 note}
My strength can give you: then no more remains:^{3 note}

But that to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
And let them work. The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions, and the terms

For common justice, y'are as pregnant in,^{4 note}

As art and practice hath enriched any
That we remember. There is our Commission,
From which we would not have you warp. Call hither,
I say, bid come before us Angelo:
What figure of us, think you, he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul^{5 note}

Elected him our Absence to supply;
Lent him our Terror, drest him with our Love;
And giv'n his Deputation all the organs
Of our own Power: say, what think you of it?

Escal.
If any in Vienna be of worth
To undergo such ample grace and honour,
It is lord Angelo.

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