The Law in ShakespeareThis work consists of definitions obtained from existing law dictionaries illustrated with annotations and, most important, by hundreds of quotations from Shakespeare's 37 plays, poems & sonnets. |
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... scene in the Fox will establish the truth of this remark . Fletcher had been a student at Cambridge , and Beaumont at Oxford . The latter was the son of a judge of the court of common pleas , and was him- self bred to the law . But we ...
... scene in the Fox will establish the truth of this remark . Fletcher had been a student at Cambridge , and Beaumont at Oxford . The latter was the son of a judge of the court of common pleas , and was him- self bred to the law . But we ...
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... scene between Ovid and his father , who detects the young law student writing plays and poems . There is so much similarity between the opening lines of the Poetaster- Then when this body falls in funeral fire , My 54 THE LAW IN ...
... scene between Ovid and his father , who detects the young law student writing plays and poems . There is so much similarity between the opening lines of the Poetaster- Then when this body falls in funeral fire , My 54 THE LAW IN ...
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... Scene 2 . Premises . That part in the beginning of a deed in which are set forth the names of the parties , and in which are recited such deeds , agreements , or matters of fact as are necessary to explain the rea- sons upon which the ...
... Scene 2 . Premises . That part in the beginning of a deed in which are set forth the names of the parties , and in which are recited such deeds , agreements , or matters of fact as are necessary to explain the rea- sons upon which the ...
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Page 76 - Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made 4.
Page 100 - The slaves are ours : So do I answer you : The pound of flesh, which I demand of him, Is dearly bought, is mine, and I will have it: If you deny me, fie upon your law ! There is no force in the decrees of Venice : I stand for judgment : answer ; shall I have it ? Duke.
Page 193 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the ' lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
Page 107 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Page 230 - tis his will : Let but the Commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; VTea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 137 - But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 103 - But mercy is above this sceptred sway, — It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy ; VOL. II. X And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 75 - Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does.
Page 103 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, — It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd, — It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest : it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown ; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this...
Page 77 - O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.