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And let them work. The nature of our people,
Our city's institutions, and the terms
For common justice, you're as pregnant in
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.
[Exit an Attendant.
What figure of us think you he will bear?
For you must know, we have with special soul
Elected him our absence to supply;
Lent him our terror, dress'd him with our
love,
And given his deputation all the organs
Of our own power: what think you of it?

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20

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

Duke. Look where he comes.

____________________
Mr Halliwell thinks to relieve the passage of darkness by printing
task instead of that,--a correction which he found written by some
unknown hand in an old copy of the play belonging to Mr. Tunno.
But if we understand that as referring to the commission, which
the Duke holds in his hand, as he afterwards says,--"There is our
commission,"--the passage, though still obscure, will appear com-
plete as it stands. The meaning will then be,--"Since, then, your
worth is ample, nothing is wanting to qualify you, to make you
sufficient for the office, but this our commission, and let them, that
is, the ability, which is in you, and the authority, which I confer
upon you, work."--H. N. H.
Tyrwhitt's
But that to your sufficiency you put
A zeal as willing as your worth is able,

perhaps approaches Shakespeare's thought, though it certainly misses
his expression.--C. H. H.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Measure for Measure. Contributors: William Shakespeare - author. Publisher: Funk & Wagnalls. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1909. Page Number: 8.
    
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