Measure for Measure 21

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (21)

  

Shake-Speare:

Angelo pleads: “Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice; My patience here is touched”.

Measure for Measure, 5.1.233

  

Bacon:

“For the advocates and counsel that plead, patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice”. Essay Of Judicature

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Shake-Speare:

Duke: “Dear Isabel, I have a motion much imports your good; Whereto if you’ll a willing ear incline, what’s mine is yours and what is your is mine”.

Measure for Measure, 5.1.531

Bacon:

“There is in man’s nature a secret inclination and motion towards the love of others”.

Essay Of Love