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Editor: William George Clark John Glover
THE WORKS
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Edited by
WILLIAM GEORGE CLARK, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge;
and JOHN GLOVER, M.A. Librarian Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Cambridge and London: MACMILLAN AND CO. 1863.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
VINCENTIO, the Duke. ANGELO, Deputy. ESCALUS, an ancient Lord. CLAUDIO, a young gentleman. LUCIO, a fantastic. Two other gentlemen. PROVOST. THOMAS, } two friars. PETER, } A Justice. VARRIUS. ELBOW, a simple constable. FROTH, a foolish gentleman. POMPEY, servant to Mistress Overdone. ABHORSON, an executioner. BARNARDINE, a dissolute prisoner.
ISABELLA, sister to Claudio. MARIANA, betrothed to Angelo. JULIET, beloved of Claudio. FRANCISCA, a nun. MISTRESS OVERDONE, a bawd.
Lords, Officers, Citizens, Boy, and Attendants.
FOOTNOTES:
MEASURE FOR MEASURE.
"We've saved scotha, all Scotha," said Flandry. "Think, girl. What would have happened if you'd gone on into the Empire? Even if you'd won--and that was always doubtful, for Terra is mightier than you thought--you'd only have fallen into civil war. You just didn't have the capacity to run an empire--as witness the fact that your own allies and conquests turned on you the first chance they got. You'd have fought each other over the spoils, greater powers would have moved in, Scotha would have been ripe for sacking--eventually you'd have gone down into Galactic oblivion. The present conflict was really quite small--it took far fewer lives than even a successful invasion of the Empire would have done. And now Terra will bring the peace you longed for, Gunli."
"Aye," she whispered. "Aye, we deserve to be conquered."
"But you aren't," he said. "The southerners hold Scotha now, and Terra will recognize them as the legal government--with you the queen, Gunli. You'll be another vassal state of the Empire, yes, but with all your freedoms except the liberty to rob and kill other races. And trade with the rest of the Empire will bring you a greater and more enduring prosperity than war ever would.
"I suppose that the Empire is decadent. But there's no reason why it can't someday have a renaissance. When the vigorous new peoples such as yours are guided by the ancient wisdom of Terra, the Galaxy may see its greatest glory."
She smiled at him. It was still a wan smile, but something of her old spirit was returning to her. "I don't think the Empire is so far gone, Dominic," she said. "Not when it has men like you." She took his hands. "And what will you be doing now?"
He met her eyes, and there was a sudden loneliness within him. She--was very beautiful--
But it could never work out. Best to leave now, before a bright memory grew tarnished with the day-to-day clashing of personalities utterly foreign to each other. She would forget him in time, find someone else, and he--well--"I have my work," he said.
They looked up to the bright sky. Far above them, the first of the descending Imperial ships glittered in the sunlight like a falling star.
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