As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd, Both thanks and uset. THE CONSEQUENCE OF LIBERTY INDULGED. As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint: Our natures do pursue, (Like rats that ravint down their proper bane), A thirsty evil; and when we drink, we die. ELOQUENCE AND BEAUTY. In her youth There is a prone § and speechless dialect, [art Such as moves men; beside, she hath prosperous When she will play with reason and discourse, PARDON THE SANCTION OF WICKEDNESS. For we bid this be done, When evil deeds have their permissive pass, And not the punishment. A SEVERE GOVERNOR. Lord Angelo is precise; Stands at a guard || with envy; scarce confesses That his blood flows, or that his appetite Is more to bread than stone: Hence shall we see. If power change purpose, what our seemers be. *For high purposes. § Prompt. RESOLUTION. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, THE PRAYERS OF MAIDEN'S EFFECTUAL. Go to lord Angelo, And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, ACT II. ALL MEN FRAIL. Let but your honour know† (Whom I believe to be most straight in virtue), Could have attain'd the effect of your own purpose, THE FAULTS OF OTHERS NO JUSTIFICATION OF OUR OWN. 'Tis one thing to be tempted, Escalus, Another thing to fall. I not deny, The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try: What's open made to justice, That justice seizes. What know the laws, * Have. +Examine. Suited. * That thieves do pass on thieves? "Tis very preg nantt, The jewel that we find, we stoop and take it, You may not so extenuate his offence, MERCY FREQUENTLY MISTAKEN. Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; MERCY IN GOVERNORS COMMENDED. No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, As THE DUTY OF MUTUAL FORGIVENESS. Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; JUSTICE. Yet shew some pity. * Pass judgment. + Plain. Because. § Sentence. Ang. I shew it most of all, when I shew justice; For then I pity those I do not know, Which a dismiss'd offence would after gall; And do him right, that, answering one foul wrong, Lives not to act another. THE ABUSE OF AUTHORITY. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous Could great men thunder, As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting* petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Merciful heaven! Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, THE PRIVILEGE OF AUTHORITY. Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them; That in the captain's but a choleric word, HONEST BRIBERY. Hark, how I'll bribe you. Ang. How! bribe me? Isab. Ay, with such gifts, that heaven shall share with you. Lucio. You had marr'd all else. Isab. Not with fond shekels of the tested* gold, Or stones, whose rates are either rich, or poor, As fancy values them: but with true prayers, That shall be up at heaven, and enter there, Ere sunrise; prayers from preserved† souls, From fasting maids, whose minds are dedicate To nothing temporal. THE POWER OF VIRTUOUS DUTY. Is this her fault, or mine? The tempter, or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Do, as the carrion does, not as the flower, Can it be, That modesty may more betray our sense Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary, * Attested, stamped. + Preserved from the corruption of the world. |