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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,... "
Much ado about nothing. The marchant of Venice. Love's labour lost. As you ... - Page 167
by William Shakespeare - 1747
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 7

Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 614 pages
...third parties, to whom Spain owes nothing, might be ready to exclaim, supposing her pretensions legal) "To do a great right do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of bis will." But the more coolly we examine the legal merits of the question, the more satisfactory will...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 23

1816 - 852 pages
...been miftook, And fame about him have too laviflily Wrefted his meaning and authority. ' Shak. Wrtft once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong. Shot. » WRESTERt nf [from wrejl.] He who * To WRESTLE. *. n. [from wrejl.] i. To contend who fliall...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 322 pages
...If this will not suffice, it must appear Thtit malice bears down truth. 6 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. for. It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : 'Twill be recorded...
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The Family Shakspeare: In Ten Volumes; in which Nothing is Added ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1818 - 376 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,...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 : 'Twill be recorded for a...
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The Plays of Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1819 - 560 pages
...heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear, That malice bearsdown 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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 5

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 550 pages
...alteration we ought to adopt. RITSON. 8 — malice bears down truth.] Malice oppresses honesty ; a 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...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

1822 - 384 pages
...the language of Bassanio : " 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." Many causes were sent out, or kept out of court by the mercy of this legal discovery, which was probably...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...in the language of Bassanio : "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." • Many causes were sent out, or kept out of court by the mercy of this legal discovery, which was...
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Blighted Ambition, Or, The Rise and Fall of the Earl of Somerset: A Romance ...

1822 - 382 pages
...promote the glory more than the happiness of his people. CHAP. V. -I beseech you Wrest once the laws to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. ROCHESTER, on quitting his friend Overbury, tripped lightly along the Mall...
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Etymologicon universale; or, Universal etymological ..., Volume 2; Volume 30

Walter Whiter - 1822 - 768 pages
...WRESTED or Perverted from its proper state, or its due and right course : " And I beseech you, " WREST once the law to your authority "To do a great right, do a little WRONG." The English Round, and its parallels, as produced by the Etymologists, Rond, (Fr.) the Teutonic Rundt,...
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