Reading Measure, for Measure — William Shakespeare

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Ang.

Admit no other way to saue his life

(As I subscribe not that, nor any other,

But in the losse of question) that you, his

Sister,

Finding your selfe desir'd of such a person,

Whose creadit with the Iudge, or owne great place,

Could fetch your Brother from the Manacles

Of the all‑building‑Law: and that there were

No earthly meane to saue him, but that either

You must lay downe the treasures of your body,

To this supposed, or else to let him suffer:

What would you doe?

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