...next long speech, Isabella moves from the impersonal man to the personal: 'Go to your bosom,/Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know/ That's like my brother's fault' (II, ii, 137-9). Ironically, as his soliloquy demonstrates, Angelo heeds her words and discovers his...

...suffers it. Go to your own bosom, my lord; knock there, and ask your heart what it does know that is like my brother's fault; if it confess a natural guiltiness such as his is, let it not sound a thought against my brother's life!' Her last words more moved Angelo than...

...self-knowledge, that he is already doing that).32 In accord with Matthew, Isabella pleads with him: "Go to your bosom, / Knock there, and ask your heart...it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as is his, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life" (II.ii. 137-1 42). And trying...

...the woman has not sinned through adultery, but that there is no innocent man to cast the first stone. Go to your bosom. Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault. (II. ii. 136-8) Escalus had said the same thing earlier: Let but your honour know, Whom I believe to...

...authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself That covers over it's own vice. Go to your bosom: Knock there and ask your heart what...it doth know That's like my brother's fault. If it owns A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother...

...mete, it shall be measured to you again" (Matt 7:l-2).45 "Go to your bosom," Isabella urges Angelo, "Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know / That's like my brother's fault" (2.2.141-43). When Angelo finds such a fault in himself, he denies it publicly, as Berowne does, until...