Reading Measure, for Measure — William Shakespeare

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Ang.

The Law hath not bin dead, thogh it hath slept

Those many had not dar'd to doe that euill

If the first;, that did th'Edict

infringe

Had answer'd for his deed. Now 'tis awake,

Takes note of what is done, and like a Prophet

Lookes in a glasse that shewes what future euils

Either now, or by remissenesse, new conceiu'd,

And so in progresse to be hatch'd, and borne,

Are now to haue no successiue degrees,

But here they liue to end.

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