Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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SCENE VIII.
Ang.
From thee; even from thy virtue.
What's this? what's this? is this her fault, or mine?
&wlquo;The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most?
&wlquo;Not she; nor doth she tempt; but it is I,
&wlquo;That, lying by the violet in the sun,
&wlquo;Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower,
&wlquo;Corrupt with 3 notevirtuous season. Can it be,
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&wlquo;That modesty may more betray our sense,
&wlquo;Than woman's lightness? having waste ground enough,
&wlquo;Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary,
&wlquo;And pitch our evils there? oh, fie, fie, fie!&wrquo;
What dost thou? or what art thou, Angelo?
Dost thou desire her foully, for those things
That make her good? Oh, let her brother live:
Thieves for their robbery have authority,
When judges steal themselves. What? do I love her,
That I desire to hear her speak again,
And feast upon her eyes? what is't I dream on?
Oh, cunning enemy, that, to catch a Saint,
With Saints dost bait thy hook! most dangerous
&wlquo;Is that temptation, that doth goad us on
&wlquo;To sin in loving virtue: ne'er could the strumpet,&wrquo;
With all her double vigour, art and nature,
Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid
Subdues me quite: Ever 'till this very Now,
When men were fond, I smil'd, and wonder'd how.
[Exit.
Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].
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