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" 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. "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... - Page 327
by William Shakespeare - 1805
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Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts

William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1846 - 934 pages
...deaths : yet death we fear That makes these odds all even. -Measure for Measure. LEGAL JUSTICE. Angela. 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. Escalus....
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Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Volumes 40-42

Languages, Modern - 1867 - 1464 pages
...Poesie" (Lib. HI, Chap. XIX) in describing the figure called Prosonomasia or the Nicknamer. Angelo. 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. •...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 726 pages
...— A Hall in ANOELO'S House. Enter ANBELO, ESCALUS, a Justice, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. t by that ? Claud. That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in l birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Escal....
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Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare [by P. J. Collier ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 618 pages
...brother : soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success. IMCIO. I take my leave of you. Isab. Good sir, adieu. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. A Hall...Justice, Provost, 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...
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Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ...

William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 156 pages
...themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase. We 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 Then1 perch, and not their terror. What...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...I.— Л Hall in Angelo's House. Enter ANGELO, ESCALVS, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. / / birds of prey, • Do not make a jeet of me. T In few and true words. And let it keep one shape, till...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...brother : soon at night I'll send him certain word of my success. Lucio. 1 take my leave of you. Isab. Good sir, adieu. [Exeunt. ACT II. SCENE I. A Hall...Justice, Provost, 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...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 264 pages
...which lives to fear.—DUKE, V., 1. Virtue is bold, and 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.—...
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ..., Volume 2

Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 534 pages
...Shakspearian as Mr. Ward would probably have in his mind the fine 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...
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With ...

Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 516 pages
...Shakspearian as Mr. Ward would probably have in his mind the fine 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...
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