 | Lenora Ledwon - 1996 - 522 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, do a linle wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA: It must not be. There is no power in Venice... | |
 | Mike Royston - 1998 - 246 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,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. 1 suit: prosecution, legal action 2 impugn: call into question 3 strain'd: diluted 4 seasons: mixes... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - 2000 - 254 pages
...contrast is dealt with in the exchange between Bassanio and 'Balthazar', in which Bassanio begs: Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. (4.1.212-14) - and Portia, as Balthazar, replies: It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can alter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...declaring that he never did wrong but with just cause would differ little from what Bassanio says: "Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong."— Mer. of Few., IV, i, 215.'— WALKER (Crit., iii, 246) asks, if the true reading be as Jonson gives... | |
 | Agnes Heller - 2002 - 390 pages
...thrice the sum of the money Antonio owes him, yet he has not accepted this. "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). Now this is a dialogue from which Shylock is excluded. They offer him money and he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest / PORTIA. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 pages
...contrast is dealt with in the exchange between Bassanio and 'Balthazar', in which Bassanio begs: Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right,...little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. (4.1. 212-14) - and Portia, as Balthazar, replies: It must not be. There is no power in Venice Can... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
