Scene + 

I + 

The moated grange at St. Luke’s. + 

Enter Mariana and a Boy. + 

Boy sings. + 

Take, O, take those lips away, + 

That so sweetly were forsworn; + 

And those eyes, the break of day, + 

Lights that do mislead the morn: + 

But my kisses bring again, bring again; + 

Seals of love, but seal’d in vain, seal’d in vain. + 

Mariana + 

Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away: + 

Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice + 

Hath often still’d my brawling discontent. Exit Boy. + 

Enter Duke disguised as before. + 

I cry you mercy, sir; and well could wish + 

You had not found me here so musical: + 

Let me excuse me, and believe me so, + 

My mirth it much displeased, but pleased my woe. + 

Duke + 

’Tis good; though music oft hath such a charm + 

To make bad good, and good provoke to harm. + 

I pray, you, tell me, hath any body inquired for me here to-day? much upon this time have I promised here to meet. + 

Mariana + 

You have not been inquired after: I have sat here all day. + 

Enter Isabella. + 

Duke + 

I do constantly believe you. The time is come even now. I shall crave your forbearance a little: may be I will call upon you anon, for some advantage to yourself. + 

Mariana + 

I am always bound to you. Exit. + 

Duke + 

Very well met, and well come. + 

What is the news from this good deputy? + 

Isabella + 

He hath a garden circummured with brick, + 

Whose western side is with a vineyard back’d; + 

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 have I made my promise + 

Upon the heavy middle of the night + 

To call upon him. + 

Duke + 

But shall you on your knowledge find this way? + 

Isabella + 

I have ta’en a due and wary note upon’t: + 

With whispering 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? + 

Isabella + 

No, none, but only a repair i’ the dark; + 

And that I have possess’d 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 borne up. + 

I have not yet made known to Mariana + 

A word of this. What, ho! within! come forth! + 

Reenter Mariana. + 

I pray you, be acquainted with this maid; + 

She comes to do you good. + 

Isabella + 

I do desire the like. + 

Duke + 

Do you persuade yourself that I respect you? + 

Mariana + 

Good friar, I know you do, and have found it. + 

Duke + 

Take, then, this your companion by the hand, + 

Who hath a story ready for your ear. + 

I shall attend your leisure: but make haste; + 

The vaporous night approaches. + 

Mariana + 

Will’t please you walk aside? Exeunt Mariana and Isabella. + 

Duke + 

O place and greatness! millions of false eyes + 

Are stuck upon thee: volumes of report + 

Run with these false and most contrarious quests + 

Upon thy doings: thousand escapes of wit + 

Make thee the father of their idle dreams + 

And rack thee in their fancies. + 

Reenter Mariana and Isabella. + 

Welcome, how agreed? + 

Isabella + 

She’ll take the enterprise upon her, father, + 

If you advise it. + 

Duke + 

It is not my consent, + 

But my entreaty too. + 

Isabella + 

Little have you to say + 

When you depart from him, but, soft and low, + 

“Remember now my brother.” + 

Mariana + 

Fear me not. + 

Duke + 

Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all. + 

He is your husband on a pre-contract: + 

To bring you thus together, ’tis no sin, + 

Sith that the justice of your title to him + 

Doth flourish the deceit. Come, let us go: + 

Our corn’s to reap, for yet our tithe’s to sow. Exeunt. + 