 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 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 - Drama - 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... | |
 | G. Wilson Knight - Christian drama, English - 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:... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 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... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - Drama - 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... | |
 | Sonja Hansard-Weiner - Culture and law - 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... | |
 | Amy Laura Hall - Philosophy - 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... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 2003 - 504 pages
...she begs him to remember that we must be merciful, as the Father was also merciful in redeeming us: 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... | |
 | Michele Marrapodi - Drama - 2004 - 292 pages
...one half so good a grace As mercy does . . . ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, ISABELLA 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? (2.2.59-77)16 Considered in its religious terms, the dialogue... | |
 | Fleming Rutledge - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 386 pages
...theological basis for this has never been better expressed than in two well-known Shakespearean passages: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...took Found out the remedy. How would you be, If he, that is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will... | |
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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 judgement, should But judge you as you are ? O, think on that ; And mercy... 
