Shakespeare as a LawyerLittle, Brown,, 1883 - 119 páginas |
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Absque hoc amerced answer arrested bond Cade cause committed common court death deed draws dry foot Dromio drowned duke durance Fee simple felony forfeit forfeiture fourth act free as heart free as tongue free socage grave-diggers in Hamlet hath heart can think heart can wish heir Henry IV Henry VI Hermione high treason indictment judge judgment Julius Cæsar King Henry King Henry VIII King Lear king's Lady Hales lands language law term livery Lord Campbell Mainour Malone manner manor Master Constable means Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives offence pass assurance passage Petit phrase Plowden pray in aid prison punishment realm Reporters scene Shakespeare Sir James Hales socage Sonnet speak or heart statute merchant statute staple technical thee thou hast hanged Thou hast put tion tongue can speak tongue can tell trespass Winter's Tale wish or tongue worthy to live writ
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Página 71 - ANTONIO. So please my lord the duke and all the court To quit the fine for one half of his goods, I am content; so he will let me have The other half in use, to render it, Upon his death, unto the gentleman That lately stole his daughter.
Página 75 - LEAR. A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places ; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? The
Página 35 - she was a woman, and was turned into a cold fish for she would not exchange flesh with one that loved her: the ballad is very pitiful, and as true. DOR. Is it true too, think you ? AUT. Five justices' hands at it; and witnesses more than my pack will hold.
Página 68 - s no time for a man to recover his hair that grows bald by nature. ANT. S. May he not do it by fine and recovery ? DRO. S. Yes, to pay a fine for a periwig, and recover the lost hair of another man. In " The Merry Wives of Windsor,
Página 68 - says: — My brother had but justice, In that he did the thing for which he died: For Angelo, His act did not o'ertake his bad intent ; And must be buried but as an intent That perish'd by the way: thoughts are no subjects, Intents but merely thoughts.
Página 62 - And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong; And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the State : it cannot be.
Página 62 - goes, — mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. SECOND CLOWN: But is this law ? FIRST CLOWN. Ay, marry is 't; crowner's
Página 27 - inquiry being deemed necessary, Portia says, — Let us go in; And charge us there upon inter'gatories, And we will answer all things faithfully. Gratiano assents, observing, — Let it be so: the first inter*gatory That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is, Whether till the next night she had rather stay, Or go to bed now, being two hours to day.
Página 43 - ADR. What, is he arrested? tell me at whose suit. DRo. S. I know not at whose suit he is arrested well; But 'is in a suit of buff which 'rested him, that can I tell. ADR. This I wonder at, That he, unknown to me, should be in debt . — Tell me, was he arrested on
Página 62 - For though you lay here in this goodly chamber, Yet would you say, ye were beaten out of door; And rail upon the hostess of the house; And say, you would present her at the Leet, Because she brought stone jugs and no