 | Ilona B. Nickels, Thomas P. Carr - Parliamentary practice - 2004 - 150 pages
...Appropriations, Etc. with notes and addenda by William T. Roy Kenneth Sprankle Paul M. Wilson BASSANIO: And I beseech you wrest once the law to your authority: to do a great right; do a little wrong. PORTIA: It must not be; * * * twill be recorded for a precedent, and many an error... | |
 | A. G. Harmon - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 212 pages
...law. Pleading that he would pay Antonio's debt with his own life, Bassanio asks the disguised Portia: Wrest once the law to your authority To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. (4.1.211-13) The suggestion, understandable... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...of the flaw in Shylock's definition of law. Asking Portia to make an exception, Bassanio begs: 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) Bassanio here seems to concede... | |
 | Kieran Dolin - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 26 pages
...result, the loss of a life. Bassanio appeals to Portia for what Aristotle calls 'a special ordinance': 'Wrest once the law to your authority; / To do a great right, do a little wrong' (4.1.211—12). Portia's appeal for mercy likewise draws on the discourse of equity:... | |
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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. 
