Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Ant. I, so he sayes.
Por. Por.
Por. Do you confesse the bond?
Ant. Ant.
Ant. I do.
Por. Then must the Iew be mercifull.
Iew. Iew.
Iew. On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.
Por. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
Por. It droppeth as the gentle raine from heauen
Por. Vpon the place beneath. It is twice blest,
Por. It blesseth him that giues, and him that takes,
Por. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes
Por. The throned Monarch better then his Crowne.
Por. His Scepter shewes the force of temporall power,
Por. The attribute to awe and Maiestie,
Por. Wherein doth sit the dread and feare of Kings:
Por. But mercy is aboue this sceptred sway,