435 Sweet Isabel, do yet but kneel by me;

Hold up your hands, say nothing,—I’ll speak all.

They say, best men are moulded out of faults;

And, for the most, become much more the better

For being a little bad: so may my husband.

440 O Isabel, will you not lend a knee?

Duke. He dies for Claudio’s death.

Isab.

Most bounteous sir, [Kneeling.]

Look, if it please you, on this man condemn’d,