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Monday, February 28, 2011

Shakespeare week day 1

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath: It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: It becomes the throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty, wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's when mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, though justice be thy ple, consider this, that in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
Portia in A Merchant Of Venice

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