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" We must not make a scare-crow 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. "
The plays and poems of Shakspeare [according to the text of E. Malone] with ... - Page 137
by William Shakespeare - 1832
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Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ...

William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...cannot weigh our brother with ourself. 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. What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? With mirth and laughter let old...
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Sketch of the life of Shakespeare. Tempest. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Merry ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 498 pages
...Provost, Officers, and attendants. Jlng. We must not make a scare-crow of the law Setting Hup to fear11 the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. (7) Power of gaining (9) Have. (10) A favour. bbess. (8) Sentenced. (II) Scare. Eical. Ay, bat yet...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...true words. And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. Escal. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little,...death: Alas! this gentleman, Whom I would save, had a must noble lather. Let but your honor know, * Breeding plenty. 1 Sentenced. 88 MEASURE FOR MEASURE....
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With ...

Edmund Phipps - 1850 - 516 pages
...passage in " Measure for Measure : " " 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." a good man of business, that I dare say you cannot enter into it, but I do assure you that the true...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...goodness never fearful.—DUKE, III., 1. W We must not make a scare-crow 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.— AUG. II., 1. in this life lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear, that makes these odds all...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. 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. EscaL Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death : alas !...
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The Vale of Cedars: Or, The Martyr

Grace Aguilar - 1850 - 280 pages
...nation's love. CHAPTER XVII. ANGEI.O. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Sotting it up to fear the birds of prey ; And let it keep one shape, till...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall and bruise to death. ESCALUS. Ay, but yet SHAKSPEARE....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scarcecrow 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. Escal. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death : alas !...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...of good counsel the cripple. MV i. 2. 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. MM ii. 1. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : Twill be recorded for a precedent...
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The Vale of Cedars: Or, The Martyr

Grace Aguilar - 1851 - 272 pages
...of prey ; And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. ESCALUS. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall and bruise to death. SHAKSPEARB. ON the evening preceding the day appointed for the trial, Isabella, unattended and unannounced,...
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