Matrimony—the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
Wedlock's a lane where there is no turning.
What is wedlock forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
<Mercy, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience, forbearance>.
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.
The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;
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And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.
Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch.
Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than vigor.
All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater leniency, but in vain.
It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost lenience.