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1"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."
(Portia's argument against Shylock in the Court of Justice.)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [IV.i.222-26] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 176.
2"And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
(Portia's plea to Shylock to exercise mercy, to which Shylock responds, "I crave the law.")
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [IV.i.200-01] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 176.
3"With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
(The words of John of Gaunt to the Duke of York.)
Shakespeare, Richard III [II.i] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 453.
4
(The words of Hamlet regarding the skulls unearthed by the gravediggers digging a grave for Ophelia)
Shakespeare, Hamlet [V.i] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), *.
5Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy . . .
. . . .
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between whose endless jar justice resides,
Should lose her names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself . . . .
(Failure to observe proportion and order results in the loss of objective right and wrong and the loss of justice to power, will, and appetite.)
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida [I.iii.111-13, 118-26] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 332.
6"Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him."
(Lord Chamberlain to the Earl of Surrey.)
Shakespeare, King Henry VIII [III.ii.395-97] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 834.
7"We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, 'till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror."
(Angelo to Escalus.)
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure [II.i.1-4] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 409.
8"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?"
(Bassanio to Portia)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [III.ii.79-81] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), *.
9"In the corrupted current of the world,
Offence's gilded hand may show by justice;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out law."
Shakespeare, Hamlet [*.*.*-*] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 332.
10 " The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice 9
(Portia's argument against Shylock in the Court of Justice.)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [IV.i.222-26] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 176.
2"And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
(Portia's plea to Shylock to exercise mercy, to which Shylock responds, "I crave the law.")
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [IV.i.200-01] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 176.
3"With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds: That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself."
(The words of John of Gaunt to the Duke of York.)
Shakespeare, Richard III [II.i] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 453.
4
"Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddets now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks? Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and not tell him of his action of battery? . . . this fellow might be in's time a great buyer of land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries."
(The words of Hamlet regarding the skulls unearthed by the gravediggers digging a grave for Ophelia)
Shakespeare, Hamlet [V.i] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), *.
5Take but degree away, untune that string,
And, hark, what discord follows! Each thing meets
In mere oppugnancy . . .
. . . .
Force should be right; or rather, right and wrong,
Between whose endless jar justice resides,
Should lose her names, and so should justice too.
Then every thing includes itself in power,
Power into will, will into appetite;
And appetite, an universal wolf,
So doubly seconded with will and power,
Must make perforce an universal prey,
And last eat up himself . . . .
(Failure to observe proportion and order results in the loss of objective right and wrong and the loss of justice to power, will, and appetite.)
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida [I.iii.111-13, 118-26] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 332.
6"Press not a falling man too far! 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
Not you, correct him."
(Lord Chamberlain to the Earl of Surrey.)
Shakespeare, King Henry VIII [III.ii.395-97] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 834.
7"We must not make a scarecrow of the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,
And let it keep one shape, 'till custom make it
Their perch and not their terror."
(Angelo to Escalus.)
Shakespeare, Measure for Measure [II.i.1-4] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 409.
8"In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil?"
(Bassanio to Portia)
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice [III.ii.79-81] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), *.
9"In the corrupted current of the world,
Offence's gilded hand may show by justice;
And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself
Buys out law."
Shakespeare, Hamlet [*.*.*-*] in Wilbur L. Cross and Trucker Brooke, eds., The Yale Shakespeare: The Complete Works (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 332.
10 " The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice 9
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