The quality of mercy is not stained
- DMI number:
- 33647
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The quality of mercy is not stained
- Last Line:
- When mercy seasons justice
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Fragment and Blank verse
- Themes:
- Punishment and Virtue / vice
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The Merchant of Venice Act 4 Scene 1.
- First Line:
- The quality of mercy is not strained
- Last Line:
- When mercy seasons justice
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The flower-piece, a collection of modern poems [T213573]
- Page No(s):
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The fugitive miscellany: a collection of fugitive pieces in prose and verse [vol 2] [T118867] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.153
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
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