 | Catherine M. S. Alexander, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2000 - 254 pages
...this contrast is dealt with in the exchange between Bassanio and 'Balthazar', in which Bassanio begs: Wrest once the law to your authority. To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. (4.1.212-14) - and Portia, as Balthazar, replies:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 496 pages
...declaring that he never did wrong but with just cause would differ little from what Bassanio says: "Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong."— Mer. of Few., IV, i, 215.'— WALKER (Crit., iii, 246) asks, if the true reading... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And a little wrong; And curb this cruel devil of his will. PORTIA. It must not be; there is no power in... | |
 | Agnes Heller - Fiction - 2002 - 390 pages
...have already offered thrice the sum of the money Antonio owes him, yet he has not accepted this. "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" (4.1.211—14). Now this is a dialogue from... | |
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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. 
