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Lord Angelo is in charge of Vienna while the Duke is away. He has made it his mission to clean up the immorality of the city and has come down hard on those who have sinned. However, he is not above sin himself. Isabella has come to Lord Angelo to plead for her brother’s life after he is condemned for sexual misconduct. However, she is amazed at his reaction. He tells her that the only way to save her brother is for her give up her virginity to Angelo. Although she threatens to reveal his sin,
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ANGELO
How now, fair maid?
ISABELLA
I am come to know your pleasure.
ANGELO
That you might know it, would much better please me
Than to demand what 'tis. Your brother cannot live.
ISABELLA
Even so. Heaven keep your honour!
ANGELO
Yet may he live awhile; and, it may be,
As long as you or I
yet he must die.
ISABELLA
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