 | Oliver O'Donovan - Philosophy - 2003 - 154 pages
...justice to its limits, and, if he did, as Shakespeare asks us, How would you be If He, which is the tops of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O think...mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new made. 1 And that is a lesson which must govern any project for extending the administration of law... | |
 | Paula Jean Miller, Richard Fossey - Religion - 2004 - 304 pages
...articulated when Isabella urges Angelo in his dealings with her brother to follow Christ's example: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (2.2.73-79) The Christian allegorists also rightly assumed that Measure for Measure must be understood... | |
 | N. T. Wright - Religion - 2004 - 244 pages
...himself is impartial, and that he too may find himself in need of the mercy which God provided in Christ: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. Measure for Measure Act 2, Scene 2 Angelo refuses: Claudio must die. But at the same time Angelo... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...prayer 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...mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man new made! The beautiful things which Isabella is made to utter, have, like the sayings of Portia, become... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 95 ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...would you be If He which is the top of judgment should 100 But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man... | |
 | Richard B. Hays - Philosophy - 2005 - 492 pages
...calls upon the hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should 200 But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 95 ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...would you be If He which is the top of judgment should 100 But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 418 pages
...top of judgment." As the heroine of another of Shakespeare's three "problem plays" says: ISABELLA: How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment,...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.827-31) She is pleading for her brother's life with a man at the height... | |
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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 judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then... 
