Measure for Measure 11

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (11)

Shake-Speare:

Angelo: “It is the law, not I condemns your brother”.

Measure for Measure, 2.2.80

(He is only enforcing the law, not interpreting it.)

Bacon:

“And it is a true maxim, that the best law leaves least to the breast of the judge; which is effected by certainty”.

De Augmentis, 8.3.8

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Shake-Speare:

Isabella: “Go to your bosom, knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know that's like my brother's fault”. 

Measure for Measure 2.2.136

Escalus: “Whether you had not sometimes in your life”.

Measure, 2.1.14

Isabel: “If he had been as you, and you as he, you would have slipped like him; but he, like you, would not have been so stern”.

Measure, 2.2.64

Isabel: “How would you be, if he, which is the top of judgment, should but judge you as you are? Oh! Think on that, and mercy then will breathe within your lips, like a man new made”.

Measure, 2.2.75

Also Hamlet:

“Come, come, and sit you down. You shall not budge. You go not till I set you up a glass where you may see the inmost part of you”.

Hamlet  3.4.19

Bacon:

“That oracle ‘Know thyself’ is not only a rule of universal wisdom, but has also a principle place in politics”

De Augmentis, 8.2

“And St. James excellently observes of mankind, that ‘he who views his face in a glass, instantly forgets what manner of man he was.’ Whence we had need be often looking”.

De Augmentis, 8. 2