 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 418 pages
...top of judgment." As the heroine of another of Shakespeare's three "problem plays" says: ISABELLA: How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment,...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.827-31) She is pleading for her brother's life with a man at the height of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 95 ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were were forfeit once, And He that might the...would you be If He which is the top of judgment should 100 But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man... | |
 | Richard B. Hays - Philosophy - 2005 - 492 pages
...hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And He that might the...you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should 200 But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2011 - 340 pages
...brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 95 ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were were forfeit once, And He that might the...would you be If He which is the top of judgment should 100 But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man... | |
 | Daniel Kornstein - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 296 pages
...lamenting the "just but severe law" (2.2.41): How would you be If He which is the top of judgement should But judge you as you are? O, think on that,...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (2.2.77-81) Again, Escalus puts it to Angelo, Whether you had not sometime in your life Krred in this... | |
 | Sukanta Chaudhuri - Didactic drama, English - 1981 - 284 pages
...The clearest allusion comes in these lines: How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that;...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. 'Man new made' is of course Christ, the second Adam, or perhaps man as redeemed through Christ. The... | |
 | E. Beatrice Batson - Drama - 2006 - 198 pages
...resonant. Isabella takes her theology further: How would you be If He, which is the top of judgement, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that;...then will breathe within your lips Like man new made. (75—9) Her main nouns and verbs are biblical, especially 'souls', 'judge', 'judgement' and 'mercy'.... | |
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Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then... 
