 | Robert Deverell - 1813
...that will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, WTrest once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. 'Twill be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error by the... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813
...that will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority; To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error by the... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815
...SIR H. BATE DUDLEY, BART. CIIAKCELLOR AND PREBENDARY OF FERNS, &C. " I beseech you " Wrest once the law to your authority ; " To do a great right, do a little wrong." SHAKESPEARE, LONDON. A J.HOSE who expect to find in the few following pages, what may favor the prejudices of any... | |
 | 1816
...miftook, And fame about him have too laviflily Wrefted his meaning and authority. ' Shak. Wrtft once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong. Shot. » WRESTERt nf [from wrejl.] He who * To WRESTLE. *. n. [from wrejl.] i. To contend who fliall... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816
...that \\ill not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this Cruel devil tif his will. 3 Twill be recorded for a precedent ; And many an error by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818
...this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. Par. It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1819
...this will not suffice, it must appear, That malice bearsdown truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. Por. It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821
...ought to adopt. RITSON. 8 — malice bears down truth.] Malice oppresses honesty ; a Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right, do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will. POR. It must not be ; there is no power in Venice Can alter... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822
...language of Bassanio : "It must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority ; To do a great right, do a little -wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will." • Many causes were sent out, or kept out of court by the... | |
 | Walter Whiter - 1822
...Perverted from its proper state, or its due and right course : " And I beseech you, " WREST once the law to your authority "To do a great right, do a little WRONG." The English Round, and its parallels, as produced by the Etymologists, Rond, (Fr.) the Teutonic Rundt,... | |
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And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will. 
