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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...And you but waste your words. ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were, were forfeit once, 75 And he that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. How would you be If he, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? Oh, think on...
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Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New Contexts

Russ McDonald - Drama - 1994 - 324 pages
...gradually her language warms and reveals her intellectual power and subtlety: 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...
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Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies

Maynard Mack - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 300 pages
...plays — which in itself tells us much about him: . . . . 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? (2.2.72) Or,...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Chastity - 1995 - 148 pages
...forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took 80 Found out the remedy. How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you...
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama

Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...that mercy surpasses temporal power; she appeals to Christian doctrine: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And He that might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. (2.2.75-7) She pleads that the offence is universal, but none has died for it; Angelo retorts: 'The...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare

Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 pages
...death for his crime against her. The story got around. 168 A Higher Court 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? — Measure...
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Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology of Plays from the ...

Daniel Fischlin, Mark Fortier - English drama - 2000 - 330 pages
...forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. ISABELLA 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 judgement, should But judge you as you are? O think on...
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Romance and Reformation: The Erasmian Spirit of Shakespeare's Measure for ...

Robert B. Bennett - Drama - 2000 - 204 pages
...Isabella grounds her plea for mercy on the exemplary base of humanist moral tradition, imitatio Christi: "He that might the vantage best have took/ Found out the remedy" (74-75). More importantly for the dynamics of transformation, Isabella introduces three times with...
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莎士比亞通論: 喜劇

顏元叔 - Comedy - 2001 - 838 pages
...brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 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 judgement, should But judge you as you are? 0, think on...
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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 54, Shakespeare and Religions

Peter Holland - Drama - 2001 - 398 pages
...extent of the compensatory sacrifice of Christ for the sins of the world. 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 ofjudgement, should But judge you as you are? O, think on...
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