According to the weight and worthiness.
Uncle of Exeter, R.
Enlarge the man committed yesterday,
That rail’d against our person: we consider
It was excess of wine that set him on;
And, on his more advice,[3] we pardon him.
Scroop. (R.) That’s mercy, but too much security:
Let him be punish’d, sovereign; lest example
Breed, by his sufferance, more of such a kind.
K. Hen. O, let us yet be merciful.