Claudio:
Oh what shall become of Vienna,
As the Duke has unmasked himself,
And tested our city and all it's strife?
Poor Isabella hath lived her nightmare,
As she put faith in the false Friar.
My dear sister will have to test her virtue,
But I know she shall choose herself over the Duke's proposal,
Since she chose herself over my eternal damnation.
Angelo hath been sent to death, like me,
but was freed with mercy,
and sent into an involuntary marriage to Mariana.
I await the birth of my child, and life with Juliet,
Yet wonder how I shall be able to live a life of trust,
In a city full of strumpets, hypocrisy,
Where our lord is full of slander and conceit,
And religion and prostitution are of closest friends.
It seems as if I shall be welcomed in such society,
As my crimes of passion were so slight
Compared to those of whom abused their power,
and strengthened the wicked ignominy of our state,
accusing those who committed the same crimes as he.
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