The Law in ShakespeareWest Publishing Company, 1883 - 303 pages |
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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 common court crown Cymbeline death deed Dogb dost doth drown Duke England father fee-simple felony forfeit give guilty Hamlet hand hath hear heir Henry VI Henry VIII honour husband judge judgment 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 Rape of Lucrece 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 Winter's Tale witness word writ writing
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Page 126 - 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...
Page 137 - 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. Macb. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on 't again I dare not.
Page 258 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law...
Page 104 - It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state : it cannot be.
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 ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
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 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...
Page 187 - Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience...
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.
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.