 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 156 pages
...205 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. 210 PORTIA It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established. Twill be recorded... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 242 pages
...this will not suffice, it must appear 2 ,„ 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... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 2003 - 612 pages
...IV. i. 210—12, Bassanio addresses Portia (disguised as a judge, Balthasar) about Shylock: 'Wrest once the law to your authority; / To do a great right...little wrong, / And curb this cruel devil of his will'. Portia replies, 'It must not be.' 2. Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and... | |
 | 1984 - 424 pages
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 | A. G. Harmon - 2004 - 212 pages
...Pleading that he would pay Antonio's debt with his own life, Bassanio asks the disguised Portia: Wrest once the law to your authority To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. (4.1.211-13) The suggestion, understandable in light of the circumstances, nevertheless reveals that... | |
 | S. P. Cerasano - 2004 - 228 pages
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 | S. P. Cerasano - 2004 - 228 pages
...will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down17 truth. And, I beseech you, 210 Wrest once18 the law to your authority. To do a great right, do...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. 215 Twill be recorded... | |
 | Ilona B. Nickels, Thomas P. Carr - 2004 - 150 pages
...notes and addenda by William T. Roy Kenneth Sprankle Paul M. Wilson BASSANIO: And I beseech you wrest once the law to your authority: to do a great right; do a little wrong. PORTIA: It must not be; * * * twill be recorded for a precedent, and many an error by the same example... | |
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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,... 
