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" Well believe this, No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace, As mercy does. "
Remarks, Critical, Conjectural, and Explanatory, Upon the Plays of ... - Page 88
by E. H. Seymour - 1805
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Shakespeare and the Lawyers

O. Hood Phillips - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 240 pages
...brother by means of her own dishonour, [sabella in her plea to Angelo echoes Portia's speech on mercy : No ceremony that to great ones longs, Not the King's crown nor the deputed sword, The marshall's truncheon nor the judge's robe, Becomes them with one half so good a grace As mercy does....
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Shakespearian Comedy

H. B. Charlton - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 320 pages
...the laws. One remembers Isabella's impassioned plea that neither heaven nor man can grieve at mercy: No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshafs truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does....
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Children's Classic Tales

Various - Fiction - 2004 - 1060 pages
...speak a word may call it back again. Believe this, my lord, no ceremony that to great ones belongs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, becomes them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.' 'Pray you begone,' said Angelo. But still...
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Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...cold. ISABELLA Too late? Why, no. I that do speak a word May call it rback^ again. Well believe this: No ceremony that to great ones longs, Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 80 The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy...
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The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll - Volume 10 - Legal (The Munn Trail ...

606 pages
...allows the feeling of brotherhood to die in his heart becomes a wild beast. You know it and so do I : " Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, The marshal's...truncheon, nor the judge's robe, Become them with one-half so good a grace as mercy does." And yet the only mercy we ask in this case, gentlemen, is...
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An Actor's Edition of Shakespeare Revisited

James R. Hartman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 518 pages
...ceremony that belongs to great ones, Not the king's crown nor the sword of justice, A staff of command nor the judge's robe, Become them with one half so good a grace As mercy does. If my brother had been as you, and you as he, You would have commited an offense like him; but he,...
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