Measure for Measure 9 - Scarecrow, Condemn the Fault

Some Shake-Speare / Bacon parallels in Measure for Measure (9)

Shake-Speare:

Angelo: “We must not make a scarecrow of the law,. .. .” 

Measure for Measure, 2.1.1

Bacon:

“As posteriores leges priores abrogant, so new judgements avoid the former. The records reverent things, but like scarecrows.” 

(Life and Letters, 4. P. 200)

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Shake-Speare:

Isabella: “I have a brother is condemned to die: I do beseech you, let it be his fault and not my brother.

Angelo: “Condemn the fault and not the actor of it”!

Measure for Measure 2.2.34-37

Bacon:

“…and to cast a severe eye upon the example, but a merciful eye upon the person”.

(Bacon Essay OF JUDICATURE)

“Such is our inclination to clemency and moderation as we are willing rather to correct the fault than to deal with the persons whom it may concern”.

(Life and Letters 3. P. 387)

“…because the example is more than the man.” (Life and Letters, 5.p.160)