All 5 Uses of
clemency
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- I was once of Clement's Inn, where I think they will talk of mad Shallow yet.†
Scene 3.2 *
- Nay, she must be old; she cannot choose but be old; certain she 's old; and had Robin Nightwork by old Nightwork before I came to Clement's Inn.†
Scene 3.2
- I remember at Mile-end Green, when I lay at Clement's Inn,—I was then Sir Dagonet in Arthur's show,—there was a little quiver fellow, and a' would manage you his piece thus; and a' would about and about, and come you in and come you in: "rah, tah, tah," would a' say; "bounce" would a' say; and away again would a' go, and again would 'a come: I shall ne'er see such a fellow.†
Scene 3.2
- I do remember him at Clement's Inn like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a fork'd radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife: a' was so forlorn, that his dimensions to any thick sight were invincible: a' was the very genius of famine; yet lecherous as a monkey, and the whores called him mandrake: a' came ever in the rearward of the fashion, and sung those tunes to the overscutch'd huswifes that he heard…†
Scene 3.2
- I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
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(clemency as in: the judge showed clemency) mercy