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Shakespeare quotes on lawFor to thy sensual fault I bring in sense, Thy adverse party is thy advocate, And 'gainst my self a lawful plea commence I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is; But, like Source: ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL If I put any tricks upon 'em, sir, they shall be jades' tricks, which are their own right by the law of nature Try thy cunning, Thyreus; Make thine own edict for thy pains, which we Will answer as a law Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, Cannot amount unto a hundred marks; Therefore by law thou art condemn'd to die May one be pardon'd and retain th' offence? In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law; but 'tis not so above How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! Yet must not we put the strong law on him Yea, and so us'd it that, were it not here apparent that thou art heir apparent- But I prithee, sweet wag, shall there be gallows standing in England when thou art king? and resolution thus fubb'd as it is with the rusty curb of old father antic the law? Do not thou, when thou art king, hang a thief He hath a tear for pity and a hand Open as day for melting charity; Yet notwithstanding, being incens'd, he is flint; As humorous as winter, and as sudden As flaws congealed in the spring of day Mowbray, the Bishop Scroop, Hastings, and all, Are brought to the correction of your law 'In terram Salicam mulieres ne succedant'- 'No woman shall succeed in Salique land'; Which Salique land the French unjustly Source: THE LIFE OF KING HENRY THE FIFTH Yet their own authors faithfully affirm That the land Salique is in Germany, Between the floods of Sala and of Elbe; Where Charles the Great, having subdu'd the Saxons, There left behind and settled certain French; Who, holding in disdain the German women For some dishonest manners of their life, Establish'd then this law It is the greatest admiration in the universal world, when the true and aunchient prerogatifes and laws of the wars is not kept war is His beadle, war is His vengeance; so that here men are punish'd for before-breach of the King's laws in now the King's quarrel An please your Majesty, let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law in the world Faith, I have been a truant in the law And never yet could frame my will to it; And therefore frame the law unto my will Besides, all French and France exclaims on thee, Doubting thy birth and lawful progeny Crossing the sea from England into France, This fellow here, with envious carping tongue, Upbraided me about the rose I wear, Saying the sanguine colour of the leaves Did represent my master's blushing cheeks When stubbornly he did repugn the truth About a certain question in the law Argu'd betwixt the Duke of York and him; With other vile and ignominious terms In confutation of which rude reproach And in defence of my lord's worthiness, I crave the benefit of law of arms Will nothing turn your unrelenting hearts? Then, Joan, discover thine infirmity That warranteth by law to be thy privilege 'Tis known already that I am possess'd With more than half the Gallian territories, And therein reverenc'd for their lawful king Thy cruelty in execution Upon offenders hath exceeded law, And left thee to the mercy of the law Wouldst have me rescue thee from this reproach? Why, yet thy scandal were not wip'd away, But I in danger for the breach of law Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band, I will stir up in England some black storm Shall blow ten thousand souls to heaven or hell; And this fell tempest shall not cease to rage Until the golden circuit on my head, Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams, Do calm the fury of this mad-bred flaw Ring bells aloud, burn bonfires clear and bright, To entertain great England's lawful king Now therefore be it known to noble Lewis That Henry, sole possessor of my love, Is, of a king, become a banish'd man, And forc'd to live in Scotland a forlorn; While proud ambitious Edward Duke of York Usurps the regal title and the seat Of England's true-anointed lawful King From worthy Edward, King of Albion, My lord and sovereign, and thy vowed friend, I come, in kindness and unfeigned love, First to do greetings to thy royal person, And then to crave a league of amity, And lastly to confirm that amity With nuptial knot, if thou vouchsafe to grant That virtuous Lady Bona, thy fair sister, To England's King in lawful marriage Now, Warwick, tell me, even upon thy conscience, Is Edward your true king? for I were loath To link with him that were not lawful chosen Ay, what of that? it was my will and grant; And for this once my will shall stand for law Came to the bar; where to his accusations He pleaded still not guilty, and alleged Many sharp reasons to defeat the law I have this day receiv'd a traitor's judgment, And by that name must die; yet, heaven bear witness, And if I have a conscience, let it sink me Even as the axe falls, if I be not faithful! The law I bear no malice for my death It is not to be question'd That they had gather'd a wise council to them Of every realm, that did debate this business, Who deem'd our marriage lawful Thy ambition, Thou scarlet sin, robb'd this bewailing land Of noble Buckingham, my father-in-law These couchings and these lowly courtesies Might fire the blood of ordinary men And turn preordinance and first decree Into the law of children What Antony shall speak, I will protest He speaks by leave and by permission, And that we are contented Caesar shall Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies Let copulation thrive; for Gloucester's bastard son Was kinder to his father than my daughters Got 'tween the lawful sheets Then leave this chat; and, good Berowne, now prove Our loving lawful, and our faith not torn And, to begin, wench- so God help me, law!- My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw Let but your honour know, Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue, That, in the working of your own affections, Had time coher'd with place, or place with wishing, Or that the resolute acting of our blood Could have attain'd th' effect of your own purpose Whether you had not sometime in your life Err'd in this point which now you censure him, And pull'd the law upon you Come, bring them away; if these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law; bring them away I am now going to resolve him; I had rather my brother die by the law than my son should be unlawfully born Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind; but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman Claudio, whom here you have warrant to execute, is no greater forfeit to the law than Angelo who hath sentenc'd him In any case, let Thisby have clean linen; and let not him that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out for the lion's claws Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carack; If it prove lawful prize, he's made forever [To Brabantio.] And, noble signior, If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your son-in-law is far more fair than black It may be I will go with you; but yet I'll pause, For I am loath to break our country's laws Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offence? Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful quest have given their verdict up Unto the frowning judge, or who pronounc'd The bitter sentence of poor Clarence' death? Before I be convict by course of law, To threaten me with death is most unlawful Will you then Spurn at his edict and fulfil a man's? Take heed; for he holds vengeance in his hand To hurl upon their heads that break his law Dead life, blind sight, poor mortal living ghost, Woe's scene, world's shame, grave's due by life usurp'd, Brief abstract and record of tedious days, Rest thy unrest on England's lawful earth, [Sitting down] Unlawfully made drunk with innocent blood All this I know, and to the marriage Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this Miscarried by my fault, let my old life Be sacrific'd, some hour before his time, Unto the rigour of severest law [To TRANIO] Signior Lucentio, this is the 'pointed day That Katherine and Petruchio should be married, And yet we hear not of our son-in-law If by this crime he owes the law his life, Why, let the war receive't in valiant gore; For law is strict, and war is nothing more If they did kill thy husband, then be joyful, Because the law hath ta'en revenge on them By the bare scalp of Robin Hood's fat friar, This fellow were a king for our wild faction! FIRST OUTLAW But to the purpose- for we cite our faults That they may hold excus'd our lawless lives; And, partly, seeing you are beautified With goodly shape, and by your own report A linguist, and a man of such perfection As we do in our quality much want- SECOND OUTLAW Are you content to be our general- To make a virtue of necessity, And live as we do in this wilderness? THIRD OUTLAW Come, I must bring you to our captain's cave; Fear not; he bears an honourable mind, And will not use a woman lawlessly no life, I prize it not a straw, but for mine honour Which I would free- if I shall be condemn'd Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigour, and not law He hath ribbons of all the colours i' th' rainbow; points, more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by th' gross; inkles, caddisses, cambrics, lawns I will tell the King all, every word- yea, and his son's pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make me the King's brother-in-law [HERMIONE comes down from the pedestal] Start not; her actions shall be holy as You hear my spell is lawful Quotes for: Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Project Gutenburg Texts
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