And it in you more dreadful would have seem’d
Than in Lord Angelo.
Duke.
I [do] fear, too dreadful:
35 Sith ’twas my fault to give the people scope,
’Twould be my tyranny to strike and gall them
For what I bid them do: for we bid this [be done],
When evil deeds have their permissive pass,
And not [the] punishment. Therefore, [indeed], my father,
40 I have on Angelo imposed the office;