Duke.
Very well met, and welcome:
What is the news from this good deputy?

Isab.
He hath a garden circummur'd with brick,
Whose western side is with a vineyard backt;
And to that vineyard is a planched gate,
That makes his opening with this bigger key:
This other doth command a little door,
Which from the vineyard to the garden leads;
There, on the heavy middle of the night,
Have I my promise made to call upon him.

Duke.
But shall you on your knowledge find this way?

Isab.
I've ta'en a due and wary note upon't;
With whisp'ring and most guilty diligence,
^{2 note}In action all of precept, he did shew me
The way twice o'er.

Duke.
Are there no other tokens
Between you 'greed, concerning her observance?

Isab.
No: none, but only a repair i'th' dark;
And that I have possest him, my most stay

Can be but brief; for I have made him know,
I have a servant comes with me along,
That stays upon me; whose persuasion is,
I come about my brother.

Duke.
'Tis well born up.
I have not yet made known to Mariana
A word of this. What, hoa! within! come forth!

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