Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.”

Little she recks of what is to betide her ere to-morrow dawn. Or is it an execution? Hear Angelo’s decree against another (quite another) Claudio:

“Were he my kinsman, brother, or my son,

It would be thus with him;—he must die to-morrow.

Isab. To-morrow! O, that’s sudden! Spare, him, spare him;

He’s not prepared for death.”

Many scenes later we have the Provost imparting his fate to the doomed man:—

“Look, here’s the warrant, Claudio, for thy death:

’Tis now dead-midnight, and by eight to-morrow

Thou must be made immortal.”