Duke.
Very well met, and well come:
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,
In action all of precept, he did show 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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