 Alas! alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then...  The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 192by William Shakespeare - 1889Full view - About this book
 | Peter Holland - 2001 - 398 pages
...and to the equally general extent of the compensatory sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the world. Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And...the remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top ofjudgement, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within... | |
 | George Thaddeus Wright - 2001 - 348 pages
...her at her task, and gradually her language warms and reveals her intellectual power and subtlety: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would vou be 214 If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you arel O, think on that,... | |
 | Richard Lischer - 2002 - 500 pages
...calls upon the hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. Isabella resists the oppressor by applying a hermeneutic of suspicion to his pose of righteousness... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 204 pages
...sources of the play's title and of Isabella's own earlier, explicit, and eloquent plea for charity: Alas, Alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit...remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2002 - 260 pages
...prayers for thy death, No word to save thee (11. 143-6) but also the impassioned evangelical eloquence of Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit...the remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top ofjudgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - 2002 - 296 pages
...with Angelo as Isabella's substitute; Isabella's remedy is that man should remember Jesus' remedy: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...remedy. How would you be If He which is the top of judgement should But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your... | |
 | George Wilson Knight, Patricia M. Ball - 1958 - 336 pages
...judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. (n. ii. 58) And here another : Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? O ! think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 pages
...with man's true nature. Man really is not as yet fit to judge his fellow men. Isabella is speaking: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? (ll. ii. 73) In any official position man is merely comic:... | |
 | Amy Laura Hall - 2002 - 238 pages
...me to apply this as a small installment on the debt - in which I still wish definitely to remain." Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once, And...remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? O think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 228 pages
...equally in need of God's providential mercy. Isabella states the theme as she pleads for her brother: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? (1i, ii, 73-7) The universality of human weakness is emphasized... | |
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