—malice bears down truth.; Malice oppresses honesty. A true man in old language is an honest man.
—Barrabas; Shakespeare seems to have followed the pronunciation of the name of this robber usual to the Theatre, Barrabas being sounded Barabas throughout Marlowe's Jews of Malta.
Ay, for the state; That is, the state's moiety may be commuted for a fine, but not Antonio's.