 | 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
...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... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - 2005 - 296 pages
...Shylock's definition of law. Asking Portia to make an exception, Bassanio begs: 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. (4.1.211-14) Bassanio here seems to concede that it would be "wrong" not to enforce the contract, though... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2006 - 212 pages
...not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down109 truth. And I beseech you1 10 Wrest once1 1 1 the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel divel of his will. 215 Portia It must not be, there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established.112... | |
 | Kieran Dolin - 2007 - 26 pages
...the loss of a life. Bassanio appeals to Portia for what Aristotle calls 'a special ordinance': 'Wrest once the law to your authority; / To do a great right, do a little wrong' (4.1.211—12). Portia's appeal for mercy likewise draws on the discourse of equity: T have spoke thus... | |
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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,... 
