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ACT IV SCENE V | Fields without the town. | |
| Enter DUKE VINCENTIO in his own habit, and FRIAR PETER. | |
DUKE VINCENTIO | These letters at fit time deliver me | |
| Giving letters. | |
| The provost knows our purpose and our plot. | |
| The matter being afoot, keep your instruction, | |
| And hold you ever to our special drift; | 5 |
| Though sometimes you do blench from this to that, | |
| As cause doth minister. Go call at Flavius' house, | |
| And tell him where I stay: give the like notice | |
| To Valentinus, Rowland, and to Crassus, | |
| And bid them bring the trumpets to the gate; | 10 |
| But send me Flavius first. | |
FRIAR PETER | It shall be speeded well. | |
| Exit. | |
| Enter VARRIUS. | |
DUKE VINCENTIO | I thank thee, Varrius; thou hast made good haste: | |
| Come, we will walk. There's other of our friends | |
| Will greet us here anon, my gentle Varrius. | 15 |
| Exeunt. | |