Measure for Measure 3

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (3)

Shake-Speare:

Duke: “Nor Nature never lends the smallest scruple of her excellence but, like a thrifty goddess, she determines herself the glory of a creditor, both thanks and use”.

Measure for Measure,1.1.36

Bacon:

“. . .everything in nature seems not made for itself, but for man”. . .”for all things are made subservient to man, and he receives use and benefit from them all”.

Bacon’s Prometheus

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Shake-Speare:

Duke (a judge) to Angelo (another judge): “Mortality and mercy in Vienna Live in thy tongue and heart”. 

Measure for Measure1.1.44

Bacon:

Bacon (a judge) addressing the judges in the Star Chamber in 1617:

“Do good to the people, love them and give them justice.” 

Life and Letters, 6.p. 211