 | Languages, Modern - 1859 - 480 pages
...hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it inust appear That malice bears down truth and 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 rnust not be ; there is no power... | |
 | William Nelson - 1963 - 378 pages
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 | United States. 88th Cong., 2d sess., 1964 - 1964 - 262 pages
...lost on us today. The quotation begins with one of the characters, Bassanlo, speaking as follows: And I beseech you wrest once the law to your authority; to do a great right, do a little wrong. But Portia, the heroine, answers : It must not be * * * 'twill be recorded for a precedent,... | |
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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. 
