Reading Measure, for Measure — William Shakespeare

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Duke.

This is his Pardon purchas'd by such sin,

For which the Pardoner himselfe is in:

Hence hath offence his quicke celeritie,

When it is borne in high Authority.

When Vice makes Mercie; Mercie's so extended,

That for the faults loue, is th'offender

friended.

Now Sir, what newes?

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