Reading Measure, for Measure — William Shakespeare

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Isab.

Could great men thunder

As Ioue himselfe do's, Ioue would neuer be quiet,

For euery pelting petty Officer

Would vse his heauen for thunder;

Nothing but thunder: Mercifull heauen,

Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt

Splits the vn‑wedgable and gnarled Oke,

Then the soft Mertill: But man, proud man,

Drest in a little briefe authoritie,

Most ignorant of what he's most

assur'd,

(His glassie Essence) like an angry Ape

Plaies such phantastique tricks before high heauen,

As makes the Angels weepe: who with our spleenes,

Would all themselues laugh mortall.

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