 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 316 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 - Drama - 2003 - 242 pages
...my head, my heart. If this will not suffice, it must appear 2 ,„ That malice bears down truth. 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. PORTIA It must not be. There is no power in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Jews - 2003 - 156 pages
...hands, my head, my heart. 205 If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. 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. 210 PORTIA It must not be. There is no power... | |
 | Notable - Law - 2003
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 | Charles Dickens - Fiction - 2003 - 612 pages
...Venice, IV. i. 210—12, Bassanio addresses Portia (disguised as a judge, Balthasar) about Shylock: '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 replies, 'It must not be.' 2. Toor... | |
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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. 
