<p>Actus primus, Scena prima.</p> <p>Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords.</p> <p>Duke. Escalus</p> <p>Esc. My Lord</p> <p>Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vnfold,<br />Would seeme in me t' affect speech & discourse,<br />Since I am put to know, that your owne Science<br />Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice<br />My strength can giue you: Then no more remaines<br />But that, to your sufficiency, as your worth is able,<br />And let them worke: The nature of our People,<br />Our Cities Institutions, and the Termes<br />For Common Iustice, y'are as pregnant in<br />As Art, and practise, hath inriched any<br />That we remember: There is our Commission,<br />From which, we would not haue you warpe; call hither,<br />I say, bid come before vs Angelo:<br />What figure of vs thinke you, he will beare.<br />For you must know, we haue with speciall soule<br />Elected him our absence to supply;<br />Lent him our terror, drest him with our loue,<br />And giuen his Deputation all the Organs<br />Of our owne powre: What thinke you of it?<br /> Esc. If any in Vienna be of worth<br />To vndergoe such ample grace, and honour,<br />It is Lord Angelo.</p> <p>Enter Angelo.</p> <p>Duk. Looke where he comes</p> <p>Ang. Alwayes obedient to your Graces will,<br />I come to know your pleasure</p> <p>Duke. Angelo:<br />There is a kinde of Character in thy life,<br />That to th' obseruer, doth thy history<br />Fully vnfold: Thy selfe, and thy belongings<br />Are not thine owne so proper,