 I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong,...  The Works of Shakespeare in Seven Volumes - Page 68by William Shakespeare - 1733Full view - About this book
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - Flower language - 1839 - 284 pages
...justice, be assured, Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desires t. SHAKSPEARE. I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong. SHAKSPEARE. Impartial are our eyes and ears; Were he my brother, nay, my kingdom's heir, Now by my... | |
 | 1840 - 266 pages
...cells from which they had been brought, and the court dispersed. CHAPTER X. " I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little "wrong." MERCHANT or VBMCE. THE following morning I had occasion to go early into the city, and in passing through... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 582 pages
...heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth : and, I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : Twill be recorded... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 88 pages
...If this will not suffice , it must appear That malice bears down truth : and, I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right...wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'T will be recorded for a... | |
 | United States. Congress - Government publications - 1964 - 260 pages
...quotation begins with one of the characters, Bassanlo, speaking as follows: And I beseech you wrest once the law to your authority; to do a great right, do a little wrong. But Portia, the heroine, answers: It must not be * * • twill be recorded for a precedent, and many... | |
 | Keir Elam - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 360 pages
...of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. Bass. . . . And / beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority, To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be, there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. At this, Shylock,... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 340 pages
...the order of law. PART II RULES, ROLES, AND REBELS: Nature's Place Disputed And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right, do a little wrong. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established; T will be recorded for... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right,...do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his wil1. (IV. i. 205-13) Iconographically, Truth's enemies are Envy and Fraud,12 and the 'malice' in Bassanio's... | |
 | Lenora Ledwon - Law and literature - 1996 - 524 pages
...heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right,...little wrong. And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA: It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. Twill be recorded... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest > 3 PORTIA. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: "Twill be recorded... | |
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