Heaven give you many, many merry dayes:
Good husband, let us every one go home,
And laugh this sport ore by a Countrie fire,
Sir John and all.

Ford.

Let it be so (Sir John :)

To Master Broome, you yet shall hold your word,
For he, to night, shall lye with Mistris Ford.

FINIS.

Exeunt.

Duk. Of Government, the properties to unfold,
Would seeme in me t'affect speech & discourse,
Since I am put to know, that your owne Science
Exceedes (in that) the lists of all advice

My strength can give you: Then no more remaines
But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,
And let them worke: The nature of our People,

Our Cities Institutions, and the Termes
For Common Justice, y'are as pregnant in

As Art, and practise, hath inriched any

That we remember: There is our Commission,

From which, we would not have you warpe; call hither,

I say, bid come before us Angelo:

What figure of us thinke you, he will beare.

For you must know, we have with speciall soule

Elected him our absence to supply;

Lent him our terror, drest him with our love,
And given his Deputation all the Organs
Of our owne powre: What thinke you of it?

Esc. If any in Vienna be of worth

To undergoe such ample grace, and honour,

It is Lord Angelo.

Enter Angelo.

Duk. Looke where he comes.

Ang. Alwayes obedient to your Graces will,

I come to know your pleasure.

Duke.

Angelo:

There is a kinde of Character in thy life,
That to th'observer, doth thy history
Fully unfold: Thy selfe, and thy belongings
Are not thine owne so proper, as to waste
Thy selfe upon thy vertues; they on thee:
Heaven doth with us, as we, with Torches doe,
Not light them for themselves: For if our vertues
Did not goe forth of us, 'twere all alike

As if we had them not: Spirits are not finely touch'd

But to fine issues: nor nature never lends

The smallest scruple of her excellence,

But like a thrifty goddesse, she determines

Her selfe the glory of a creditour,

Both thanks, and use; but I do bend my speech

To one that can my part in him advertise;

Hold therefore Angelo:

In our remove, be thou at full, our selfe :
Mortallitie and Mercie in Vienna

Live in thy tongue, and heart: Old Escalus

Though first in question, is thy secondary.

Take thy Commission.

Ang.

Now good my Lord

Let there be some more test, made of my mettle,
Before so noble, and so great a figure

We have with a leaven'd, and prepared choice

Proceeded to you; therefore take your honors: