Measure for Measure 17

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (17)

Shake-Speare:

Duke: “ . . . Thou art not noble; For all th' accommodations that thou bear'st are nurs'd by baseness”.

Measure for Measure, 3.1.13

“He then unto the ladder turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend”. Julius Caesar, 2.1.25

Bacon:

“The rising into place is laborious . . .and it is sometimes base”.

Essay Of Great Place

“ . . . by indignities men come to dignities”.

Essay Of Great Place

 Comment: So both Shake-Speare and Bacon think and say that from indignities or baseness men rise to dignities and accommodations.

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Shake-Speare:

Isabella: “I am now going to resolve him; I had rather my brother die by the law than my son should be unlawfully born”.

Measure for Measure, 3.1.191

Bacon:

“Proceeding and resolving in all actions is necessary”.

Colour, iv