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" Too late? why, no; I, that do speak a word, May call it back again: Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good... "
The Plays of William Shakspeare - Page 358
by William Shakespeare - 1822
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When the Theater Turns to Itself: The Aesthetic Metaphor in Shakespeare

Sidney Homan - Drama - 1981 - 246 pages
...others. This type of empathy is violated by Angelo when he speculates on changing places with Claudio: "If he had been as you and you as he, / You would...like him; but he, like you, / Would not have been so stern" (2.2.64-66). Angelo can imagine being a prisoner instead of a judge, but such imagination does...
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Crime and Punishment in Eighteenth-century England

Frank McLynn - History - 1989 - 434 pages
...October 1774 Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar? Herman Melville, Moby Dick No ceremony that to great ones 'longs Not the king's...Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does William Shakespeare. Measure For Measure, II.ii.59 At no stage in the eighteenth century did England...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...that do speak a word May call it again. Well, believe this: No ceremony that to great ones longs, 60 Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's...mercy does. If he had been as you, and you as he, 65 You would have slipped like him, but he like you Would not have been so stern. ANGELO Pray you be...
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Bi-cultural Critical Essays on Shakespeare

Joo-Hyon Kim - Comparative literature - 1994 - 142 pages
...a Biblical title. Isabella pleads with Angelo for her brother's life as follows '. ...Well, believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the...Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.17) Indeed, this play has close bearing on Christian ethic !the Duke comes like Jesus to teach...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...ISABELLA 'Too late'? Why no: I, that do speak a word, May call it back again. Well, believe this:32 No ceremony that to great ones longs, Not the king's...mercy does. If he had been as you, and you as he, 70 You would have slipped like him; but he like you Would not have been so stem.33 ANGELO Pray you...
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the ...

Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...too late. ISABELLA Too late? Why, no. I that do speak a word May call it back again. Well, believe this, No ceremony that to great ones longs, Not the...he had been as you, and you as he, You would have slipped like him; but he, like you Would not have been so stern. ANGELO Pray you, be gone. ISABELLA...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2000 - 164 pages
...speak a word May call it back again. Well believe this, 59 No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, eo Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's...he had been as you, and you as he, You would have slipped like him; but he, like you, Would not have been so stern. ANGELO Pray you, be gone. ISABELLA...
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The Loves of Shakespeare's Women

Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...grieve at the mercy. Too late? Why, no; I that do speak a word May call it back again. Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs Not the...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...
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Measure for Measure: Oxford School Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 180 pages
...5:17). Isabella Too late? Why, no; I that do speak a word May call it again. Well, believe this: 60 No ceremony that to great ones longs, Not the king's...them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. 65 If he had been as you, and you as he, You would have slipp'd like him, but he like you Would not...
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The Tragedie of Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...Poetrie (Arb.) 47: Aeneas . . . carrying away his religious ceremonies. Meas. for Meas., II, ii, 59: 'No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's...them with one half so good a grace As mercy does.' 77. the Feast of Lupercall] For a description of the rites attending this [ACT i, sc. ii. [Scene //.]...
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