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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. "
Shakspeare's Measure for Measure: A Comedy - Page 15
by William Shakespeare - 1803 - 68 pages
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The essays of Elia

Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...honourable father, for whose sake I pray you pardon the young man's transgression." But Angelo replied, "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to frighten birds of prey, till custom, finding it harmless, makes it their perch, and and not their terror....
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The Philosophy of Shakspere: Extracted from His Plays

William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum. Measure for Measure. Act i. Scene 4. Angelo. We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Ibid. Act ii. Scene 1. THE civilized world is at last beginning to see the impolicy of the Draconian...
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The works of Shakspere, revised from the best authorities: with a ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...A Hau in ANCELO'S House. Enter ANOELO, ESCALUS, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scarecrow of the law Setting...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. Eseal. Ay, but yet Let us be keen, and rather cut a little, Than fall, and bruise to death : Alas !...
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Mutual Fund Amendments: Hearings, Ninety-first Congress, First Session, on H ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance - Mutual funds - 1970 - 450 pages
...governed by the wisdom of the past. I appreciated your quotations. They remind me of one, though : "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting...to fear the birds of prey and let it keep one shape til custom make it their perch and not their terror." I am wondering if that is not the wise advice...
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Mutual Fund Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce ..., Part 2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Commerce and Finance - Mutual funds - 1970 - 1004 pages
...governed by the wisdom of the past. I appreciated your quotations. They remind me of one, though : "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting...to fear the birds of prey and let it keep one shape til custom make it their perch and not their terror." I am wondering if that is not the wise advice...
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A Choice of Emblemes

Geffrey Whitney - 1971 - 642 pages
...harmes. Spen. Ant & ci. u. vi. Thou canst not fear us, Pompey, with thy sails. Shak. M. forM. ii. ii We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey. „ T.Shrcw.i.ii.zoz. Tush, tush ! fear boys with bugs. „ FONDE : foolish. E. "i, i 7- Oh worldlinges...
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Auto Repair: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance - Automobiles - 1979 - 592 pages
...machinery which keeps the law workable. The best quotation I know about that is Shakespeare's statement: "We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting...custom make it their perch, and not their terror." And I think that we need to make the law so it never can be the perch of those who are the regulated...
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Antitrust enforcement: hearing before the Subcommittee on Antitrust ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Consumers, and Employment - 1978 - 1208 pages
...follows:] r Prepared Statement of AGW Biddle, President, Computer & Communications Industry Association ' We must not make a scarecrow of the law. Setting it...till custom make it Their perch and not their terror. " --Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Good morning Mr. Chairman, members of the Committee. My name is...
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Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Iowa State Bar Association ...

Iowa State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 1030 pages
...repeating machine. They had not then come to "Malic a scare-rrow of the hiw. Setting it up to frur the birds of prey. And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their porch. and not their terror." Hence we find them standing boldly for right, for justice, as seen through...
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The Hidden Hand, Or, Capitola the Madcap

Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth - Fiction - 1988 - 548 pages
...Greyson returned the look with a glance of more than encouragement— of triumph! CHAPTER LIU THE VERDICT "We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting it up to frighten birds of prey; And let it keep one shape till custom makes it Their perch and not their terror."...
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