...Madison in No. 46 of the Federalist. 17 Cf. Bassanio's plea to Portia, to which she did not listen: "And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong." Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Sc. 1, 1. 210. "There is no vice so simple but assumes...
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. 
