Put them in secret holds, [both Barnardine and Claudio]:

Ere twice the sun hath made his journal greeting

85 To [the under] generation, you shall find

Your safety [manifested].

Prov. I am your free dependant.

Duke. [Quick], dispatch, and send the head to Angelo.

Exit Provost.

Now will I write letters to Angelo,—

90 The provost, he shall bear them,—whose contents

Shall witness to him I am near at home,