The Law in ShakespeareWest Publishing Company, 1884 - 303 Seiten |
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accused action of battery answer Antonio appear arrest attainder Bacon Bass bond Bouv Cade Cæsar called cause charge claim Comm commission committed court crown Cymbeline death deed Dogb dost doth drown Duke England father fee-simple felony forfeit forfeiture give guilty Hamlet hand hath hear heir Henry VI Henry VIII honour husband judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice king's lady lands lawyer Lear learned letters-patent Litt lord Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth marg marriage Marry Master constable Measure for Measure ment Merchant of Venice mercy oath offender officer person phrase plea Quarto queen recovery Richard Richard II Romeo and Juliet Salique Scene seal Shakespeare Shylock slander Sonnet stand statute suit tell tender thee things thou hast tion Titus Andronicus Tomlin's Law Dict treason trial unto Venice vouchers Winter's Tale witness word writ writing
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Seite 252 - Give me leave. Here lies the water ; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that ? but if the water come to him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is 't ; crowner's-quest law. 2 Clo. Will you ha...
Seite 129 - Who was it that thus cried? Why, worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must lie there: go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood.
Seite 186 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Seite 68 - 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.
Seite 96 - Yes, here I tender it for him in the court ? Yea, twice the sum : if that will not suffice, 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 ; And curb this cruel villain of his will.
Seite 95 - But mercy is above this scepter'd 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.
Seite 118 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Seite 101 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Seite 91 - You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats. I'll not answer that : . But, say, it is my humour : is it...
Seite 95 - 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...