And He that might the vantage best have took,
Found out the remedy. How would you be,
If He which is the top of judgment, should
But judge you, as you are? O, think on that!
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like men new made.
Shakspere.
It is an attribute of God himself,
And earthly power doth then show liker God’s,
When mercy seasons justice.