The Stratford gallery; . note her to the doctor,(For they must all be masked and vizarded,)20 154 ANNE PAGE. That, quaint in green, she shall be loose enrobd,With ribands pendant, flaring bout her head ;And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,To pinch her by the hand—and, on that token,The maid hath given consent to go with him. Host. Which means she to deceive ? father or mother ? Fent. Both, my good host, to go along with me ;And here it rests—that youll procure the vicarTo stay for me at church, twixt twelve and one,And, in the lawful name of marrying,To give our hearts united ceremony.
The Stratford gallery; . note her to the doctor,(For they must all be masked and vizarded,)20 154 ANNE PAGE. That, quaint in green, she shall be loose enrobd,With ribands pendant, flaring bout her head ;And when the doctor spies his vantage ripe,To pinch her by the hand—and, on that token,The maid hath given consent to go with him. Host. Which means she to deceive ? father or mother ? Fent. Both, my good host, to go along with me ;And here it rests—that youll procure the vicarTo stay for me at church, twixt twelve and one,And, in the lawful name of marrying,To give our hearts united ceremony. And as lovers1 excuses for their own misdemeanors are alwaysthe best, we cannot do better for our sweet Anne Page than toquote the plea of that plausible young Fenton : The offence is holy that she hath committed, And this deceit loses the name of craft, Of disobedience, or unduteous title ; Since therein she doth evitate and shun A thousand irreligious cursed hours, Which forced marriage would have brought upon ISABELLA. Isabella of Vienna, a novice of the Sisterhood of St. Clare,was the sister of Claudio, a young man under sentence of deathfor having seduced a lady betrothed to him in marriage. Vicentio, the reigning Duke of Vienna, becoming conscious ofan injudicious clemency in his administration of the laws, appoint-ed Lord Angelo his deputy, and, pretending to set out, incognito,on a long journey, remained in his dukedom, disguised as a friar,to take personal note of the effect produced on his people by thesevere discipline of an austere ruler. Claudio chanced to be the first detected in the violation of alaw which, from long neglect to enforce it, had become a dead let-ter ; and to establish an example for the salutary contemplationof its many outragers, Angelo, without hesitation, condemned himto die. Isabella, who was on the point of taking the veil in the con-vent where she had served her novitiate, being sent for by herbrother, abandoned her strict seclusio
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