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" We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. "
The Works of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ... - Page 23
by William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842
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Life. New facts regarding the life of Shakespeare [by P. J. Collier ...

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 618 pages
...Hall in Angelo's House. Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting...would save, had a most noble father. Let but your honor know,2 (Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,) That, in the working of jour own affections,...
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Shakespeare Proverbs: Or, The Wise Saws of Our Wisest Poet Collected Into a ...

William Shakespeare, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1848 - 160 pages
...themselves a good report after fourteen years' purchase. We cannot weigh our brother with ourself. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue ? With mirth and laughter let old...
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The Dramatic Works of W. Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, • Do not make a jeet of me. T In few and true words. / must noble lather. Let but your honor know, * Breeding plenty. 1 Sentenced. 88 MEASURE FOR MEASURE....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Illustrated ; Embracing ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 614 pages
...Hall in Angelo's House. Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scarecrow of the law. Setting...would save, had a most noble father. Let but your honor know,2 (Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,) That, in the working of your own affections....
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ..., Volume 2

Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 534 pages
...Shakspearian as Mr. Ward would probably have in his mind the fine passage in " Measure for Measure : " " We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror." a good man of business, that I dare say you cannot enter into it, but I do assure you that the true...
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Memoirs of the Political and Literary Life of Robert Plumer Ward ...: With ...

Edmund Phipps - Great Britain - 1850 - 516 pages
...Shakspearian as Mr. Ward would probably have in his mind the fine passage in " Measure for Measure : " " We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror." a good man of business, that I dare say you cannot enter into it, but I do assure you that the true...
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Apophthegms from the plays of Shakespeare, by C. Lyndon

William Shakespeare - 1850 - 260 pages
...which lives to fear.—DUKE, V., 1. Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.—DUKE, III., 1. W We must not make a scare-crow of the law, setting...custom make it their perch, and not their terror.— AUG. II., 1. in this life lie hid more thousand deaths : yet death we fear, that makes these odds all...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: With a Life of the Poet, and ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 772 pages
...ANGELO, ESOALUS, a Justice, Provost, Officers, and other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scarcecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,...would save, had a most noble father. Let but your honor know, (Whom I believe to be most strait in virtue,) That, in the working of your own affections,...
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Dictionary of Shakespearian Quotations: Exhibiting the Most Forcible ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. MV i. 2. We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it...custom make it Their perch, and not their terror. MM ii. 1. There is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established : Twill be recorded for a precedent...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, from the text ..., Part 47, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 540 pages
...Hall in ANGELO'S House. Enter ANGELO, ESCALUS, a JUSTICE, PBOVOST, Officers, ami other Attendants. Ang. We must not make a scare-crow of the law, Setting...one shape, till custom make it Their perch, and not then- terror. Let us be keen, and rather cut a little. Than fall, and bruise to death: Alas ! this...
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