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Commentaries on the Law in Shakespeare; With Explanations of the Legal Terms Used in the Plays, Poems and Sonnets, and Discussions of the Criminal Types Presented


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Sec. 84. Plea of forfeiture.? Sale. Never did I know a creature, That did bear the shape of man, So keen and greedy to confound a man: He plies the duke at morning and at night; And doth impeach the freedom of the state, If they deny him justice: twenty merchants, The duke himself, and the magnificoes, Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him; But none can drive him from the envious plea Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.1 Forfeitures have always been regarded with odium by the courts.2 This fact was evidently known and appreciated by the Poet, for in this verse, he presents the most hideous plea for a forfeiture that could well be conceived, of a hated Jew, urging a forfeiture against a gentle and lovable person, in such manner as to encompass his life. to his servant: My mistress is one and I am her fool. (Act II, Scene II.) Alcibiades tells the Senate, on refusal of his plea for the lite of his soldier client, in Timon of Athens: Alcib. Banish me? Banish your dotage; banish usury, that makes the Senate ugly. (Act III, Scene V.) Timon of Athens, in the forest tells Alcibiades: Tim. Pity not honour'd age, for his white heard, He's an usurer. (Act IV, Scene III.) A citizen, in Coriolanus, said: 1 Cit. . . Suffer us to famish. and their store-houses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers. (Act I, Scene I.) In the sixth Sonnet, in urging the natural use of beauty, the Poet thus refers to usury: That use is not forbidden usury. Which happies those that pay the willing loan. The incarceration of Southampton, is compared to the exac- tion of usury for the debt due by the Poet, in the CXXXIV Sonnet: The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take, Thou usurer, that put'st forth all to Usp. And sue a friend came debtor f...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217914376
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 164
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217914373
  • Publisher Date: 10 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 304 gr


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