ACT IV
SCENE VI Street near the city gate.


 [Enter ISABELLA and MARIANA]

ISABELLA To speak so indirectly I am loath:
 I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,
 That is your part: yet I am advised to do it;
 He says, to veil full purpose.

MARIANA Be ruled by him.

ISABELLA Besides, he tells me that, if peradventure
 He speak against me on the adverse side,
 I should not think it strange; for 'tis a physic
 That's bitter to sweet end.

MARIANA I would Friar Peter--

ISABELLA O, peace! the friar is come.

 [Enter FRIAR PETER]

FRIAR PETER Come, I have found you out a stand most fit,
 Where you may have such vantage on the duke,
 He shall not pass you. Twice have the trumpets sounded;
 The generous and gravest citizens
 Have hent the gates, and very near upon
 The duke is entering: therefore, hence, away!

 [Exeunt]




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ACT V