 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...  Measure for measure. Comedy of errors - Page 37by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1837 - 424 pages
...scene between Isabella and Angelo. — She is persuading him to pardon her brother, and she says, ' All the souls that were, were forfeit once ; And He that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy,' &c." — p. xiiii. Now if the writer meant, as he doubtless did, by the term " Christian,"... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in art - 1837 - 400 pages
...doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. ISABELLA. Alas ! alas ! Why all the souls that are, were forfeit once ; And He, that might the 'vantage best have took, Pound out the remedy. How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...vein. [Aside. Ang. Your brother is a forfeit of the law. And you but waste your words. Isab. Alas! interchange of incidents and characters. The lady's...is very affecting ; and the character of the bast out the remedy : How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you... | |
 | 1841 - 754 pages
...immediately pointed out the following terse, but transcendant passage from ' Measure for Measure.' ' Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ;...And HE that might the 'vantage best have took, Found out the remedy.' It would pass MiC bounds of the most exalted eulogy to record the prelate's answer,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...in us, when The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 11— ii. 1. 727 Fall of man and redemption. 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... | |
 | John William Cole - 1839 - 192 pages
...life, he says : " Your brother is aforfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Isabella. 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... | |
 | John William Cole - Theater - 1839 - 194 pages
...life, he says : " Your brother is aforfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. Isabella. Alas ! Alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once...And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out tho remedy. How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 480 pages
...in us, when The help of Heaven we count the act of men. 11— ii. 1. 727 Fall of man and redemption. All the souls that were, were forfeit once ;} And He, that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy 1|| How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pages
...acceptation the thing forfeited, and the other the act of forfeiting. All the soals that arc, line forfeit once; And he that might the 'vantage best have took. Found out the remedy. Shakxpeare. Measure for Metuwe. Beg that thou maye« have leave to hang thyself ; And... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Michael Henry Rankin - 1841 - 266 pages
...marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does. 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... | |
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