Measure for Measure — Vocabulary
William Shakespeare
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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it!12 more

It is the law, not I, condemns your brother:12 more

did you set these women on to slander Lord Angelo?8 more

Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words.6 more

Better it were a brother died at once
Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
Should die for ever.6 more

I do confess it, and repent it, father.5 more

thy fault's thus manifested,4 more

Take my defiance: Die; perish!†2 more

Ay, just; perpetual durance; a restraint, Though all the world's vastidity you had, To a determin'd scope.†2 more

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.†3 more

Pleas'd you to do't at peril of your soul, Were equal poise of sin and charity.†3 more

And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
That I crave death more willingly than mercy;
Tis my deserving, and I do entreat it.4 more

a tapster, sir; parcel-bawd; one that serves a bad woman; whose house, sir, was, as they say, plucked down in the suburbs; and now she professes a hot-house, which, I think, is a very ill house too.†4 more

Here in the prison, father, There died this morning of a cruel fever One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head Just of his colour.†2 more

Exeunt Lucio and Gentlemen.24 more

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?4 more

You may not so extenuate his offence For I have had such faults; but rather tell me, When I, that censure him, do so offend, Let mine own judgment pattern out my death, And nothing come in partial.†2 more

And why should we proclaim it in an hour before his entering that, if any crave redress of injustice, they should exhibit their petitions in the street?†2 more

But, indeed, I can do you little harm: you'll forswear this again.†3 more

Fie upon him; he will discredit our mystery.†1 more