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Angelo. Be you content, fair maid;

It is the law, not I, condemns your brother:

Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,

It should be thus with him; he must die to-morrow.

Act II. Sc. II.

A COMEDY,

En Five Acts.

BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE.

PRINTED FROM THE ACTING COPY, WITH REMARKS, BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL.

To which are added,

A DESCRIPTION OF THE COSTUME,-CAST OF THE CHARACTERS, EXITS AND ENTRANCES,-RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE PERFORMERS ON THE STAGE, AND THE WHOLE OF THE STAGE BUSINESS,

As now Performed at the

THEATRES-ROYAL LONDON.

EMBELLISHED WITH A FINE WOOD ENGRAVING,

By Mr. WHITE, from a Drawing by Mr. R. CRUIKSHANK.

LONDON:

JOHN CUMBERLAND, 19, LUDGATE HILL.

REMARKS.

The frequent representation of this play is creditable to the taste of theatrical managers, and of great public utility.

Would any one wish to teach great moral lessons, they would do well to consult Measure for Measure. Persons in office, high or low, may herein learn the first and most important duty of authority-self-go

vernment.

The immoral tendency of dramatic representations is a fact more pertinaciously insisted upon than fairly established, by many well-meaning, but not well-informed people. We should be glad to receive from such people a more correct description of the vanity. of human life, than the following extract gives:

Reason thus with life-
If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing

That none but fools would keep a breath thou art,
Servile to all the skiey influences,

That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st,
Hourly afflict: merely, thou art death's fool;

For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun,

And yet runn'st toward him still: thou art not noble ;
For all the accommodations that thou bear'st,

Are nurs❜d by baseness: thou art by no means valiant ;
For thou dost fear the soft and tender fork

Of a poor worm:

Happy thou art not;

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