The quality of mercy is not strained
- DMI number:
- 16504
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Evidence:
- First Line:
- The quality of mercy is not strained
- Last Line:
- When mercy seasons justice
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice and Punishment
- Author:
- William Shakespeare
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from Merchant of Venice Act 4 Scene 1.
- First Line:
- The quality of mercy is not stained
- Last Line:
- When mercy seasons justice
- Relationship:
- Variant Of
- Comments:
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [vol II] [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shakespear's Merchant of Venice
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets [T115504] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.246
- Poem Title:
- Mercy.
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry, extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. [T119553] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- Mercy. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets ... The fourth edition [T121136] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- Mercy. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- The poetical preceptor; or, a collection of select pieces of poetry; extracted from the works of the most eminent English poets. ... The fifth edition [T202612] [ECCO]
- Page No(s):
- p.237
- Poem Title:
- Mercy. [Shakespeare.]
- Attribution:
- Shakespeare.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
- Title:
- Thesaurus Dramaticus [II] [T134540] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- pp.65-66
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Shak. Merch of Ven.
- Attributed To:
- William Shakespeare
Poem Aliases
Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
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