...thing meets i io In mere oppugnancy; the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe; Strength should...imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead; 115 Force should be right, or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should...

...the dramatic speeches: Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark! what discord follows . . . Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong...Should lose their names, and so should justice too. (Troilus and Cressida, i. 3) But mercy is above this sceptred sway. It is enthroned in the hearts of...

...degree is shak'd Which is the ladder of all high designs, The enterprise is sick.... Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself. (I, 3, 99-124) Ulysses may be 'authorized'...

...thing meets In mere oppugnancy: the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should...

...each other up. Without the check of order and deference, Ulysses complains in Troilus andCressida, Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And at last eat up himself. 59 Simply as a matter of familiar...

...food to the general and are eaten by him. A derangement of appetite is what ensues: Then everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce an universal prey, And last eat up himself (1.3.119-24) This last phrase, of course,...

...making reason, affection and appetite stand in their proper order of precedence — "When everything includes itself in power, Power into will, will into...And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded by will and power, Must make, perforce, an universal prey, And, last, eat up himself." The plot of...