Isabella's Epilogue

Isabella:

Sweet Claudio, it cannot be 

that your life should be spared

but only by the good graces of our father above

and the judgment of our duke.

I pray you a long and happy life and marriage.

Good duke, you know I am set to be a nun,

yet upon discovering the facilities and lifestyle

I find I seek not a life in the habit.

You are a most just man,

skilled in the art of justice

and abounding in mercy still.

I will marry you

and make an honest character of us both.

As for that Angelo

whom I did most detest,

I do forgive. 

Mariana, I would that you have the life you dreamed of.

Now, let's make haste my merciful Duke

for we shall wed tonight.