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• Dramatis Personæ.
• Act I.
• Scene I.—: an Apartment In Theduke’spalace.
• Scene Ii.—: a Street.
• Scene Iii.—: a Monastery.
• Scene Iv.—: a Nunnery.
• Act II.
• Scene I.—: a Hall Inangelo’shouse.
• Scene Ii.—: Another Room In the Same.
• Scene Iii.—: a Room In a Prison.
• Scene Iv.—: a Room Inangelo’shouse.
• Act III.
• Scene I.—: a Room In the Prison.
• Scene Ii.—: the Street Before the Prison.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.—: the Moated Grange At St. Luke’s.
• Scene Ii.—: a Room In the Prison.
• Scene Iii.—: Another Room In the Same.
• Scene Iv.—: a Room Inangelo’shouse.
• Scene V.—: Fields Without the Town.
• Scene Vi.—: Street Near the City Gate.
• Act V.
• Scene I.—: a Public Place Near the City Gate.

Scene VI.—

Street near the City Gate.

EnterIsabellaandMariana.

Isab.

To speak so indirectly I am loath:

I would say the truth; but to accuse him so,

That is your part: yet I’m advis’d to do it;

He says, to veil full purpose.

Mari.

Be rul’d by him.

Isab.

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.

Mari.

I would, Friar Peter—

Isab.

O, peace! the friar is come.

EnterFriar Peter.

F. 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 ent’ring: therefore hence, away!

[Exeunt.

ACT V.