Angelo: The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
those many had not dared to do that evil
If the first that did th' edict infringe
Had answered for this deed. Now 'tis awake,
Takes note of what is done, and, like a prophet,
Looks in a glass that shows what future evils--
Either now, or by remissness new-conceived,
And so in progress to be hatched and born--
Are now to have no successive degress
But, ere they live, to end.
Isabella: Yet show some pity.
Angelo: I show it most of all when I show justice,
For then I pity those I do not know,
Which a dismissed offense would after gall,
And do hm right that, answering one foul wrong,
Lives not to act another. Be satisfied;
Your brother dies tomorrow; be content.