[Mes.] [Giving a paper] My lord hath sent you this note; and by me this further charge, that you swerve not from the IV. 2
100 smallest article of it, neither in time, matter, or other circumstance. Good morrow; for, as I take it, it is almost day.
Prov. I shall obey him.
Exit Messenger.
Duke. [Aside] This is his pardon, purchased by such sin
For which the pardoner himself is in.
105 Hence hath offence his quick celerity,
When it is borne in high authority:
When vice makes mercy, mercy’s so extended,
That for the fault’s love is the offender friended.
Now, sir, what news?