...her at her task, and gradually her language warms and reveals her intellectual power and subtlety: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once, And...will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (73-79) The meter here is not much less regular than before, but Isabella's speeches now pour emphasis...

...the one most often heard in Shakespeare's plays — which in itself tells us much about him: . . . . Alas, Alas; Why, all the souls that were were forfeit...top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? (2.2.72) Or, as Hamlet at about the same time was putting it in bis play: "Use every man after his...

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...But if that pure judgment were set loose among us, all would be destroyed, judge and judged alike. 'How would you be / If he which is the top of judgment...will breathe within your lips / Like man new made!' (Measure 11.2). We should, therefore, not invoke it. But this does not mean there is no place for justice...

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...ii, 55). Gradually Isabella grows more impassioned, and her thoughts have more powerful implications: How would you be If He, which is the top of judgment,...will breathe within your lips. Like man new made. (II, ii, 75-79) Her address emphasizes the religious necessity of mercy, that Angelo's denial is anti-Christian....