Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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If He, which is the top of judgment, should

But judge you as you are?

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

O, it is excellent

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous

To use it like a giant.

Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.