. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. II. Jhj sharp and sulphurous [Scene II. Street hefore the Prison.] ACT III. SCENE I.—A Room in the Prison. Enter Duke, Claudio, and Provost. Duke. So, then, you hope of pardon from lord Angelo?Claud. The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope: I hope to live, and am prepard to Be absolute for death; either death, or life. Shall thereby be the sweeter. Keason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing SCENE I.] MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 379 That none but fools would keep^: a breath thou art, (S
. The comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems of William Shakspere. II. Jhj sharp and sulphurous [Scene II. Street hefore the Prison.] ACT III. SCENE I.—A Room in the Prison. Enter Duke, Claudio, and Provost. Duke. So, then, you hope of pardon from lord Angelo?Claud. The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope: I hope to live, and am prepard to Be absolute for death; either death, or life. Shall thereby be the sweeter. Keason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing SCENE I.] MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 379 That none but fools would keep^: a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keepst, Hourly afflict: merely, thou art deaths fool^; For him thou labour st by thy flight to shun, And yet runnst toward him still: Thou art not noble; For all the accommodations that thou bearst. Are nursd by baseness: Thou art by no means valiant; For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork Of a poor worm^: Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provokst; yet grossly fearst Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not
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