POMPEY.
Come, fear not you. Good counsellors lack no clients. Though you change your place, you need not change your trade. I’ll be your tapster still. Courage, there will be pity taken on you. You that have worn your eyes almost out in the service, you will be considered.
Enter Provost, Claudio, Juliet and Officers.
BAWD.
What’s to do here, Thomas Tapster? Let’s withdraw.
POMPEY.
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the Provost to prison. And there’s Madam Juliet.
[Exeunt Bawd and Pompey.]
CLAUDIO.
Fellow, why dost thou show me thus to the world?
Bear me to prison, where I am committed.
PROVOST.
I do it not in evil disposition,
But from Lord Angelo by special charge.
CLAUDIO.
Thus can the demi-god Authority
Make us pay down for our offence by weight.
The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will;
On whom it will not, so; yet still ’tis just.
Enter Lucio and two Gentlemen.
LUCIO.
Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint?