Duke Monologue from Measure for Measure

From Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare

male · philosophical · 49 sec

Not so, not so. His life is paralleled Even with the stroke and line of his great justice. He doth with holy abstinence subdue That in himself which he spurs on his power To qualify in others. Were he mealed with that Which he corrects, then were he tyrannous; But this being so, he’s just. Now are they come. This is a gentle provost. Seldom when The steeled gaoler is the friend of men. How now? What noise? That spirit’s possessed with haste That wounds th’ unsisting postern with these strokes. Provost returns.

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