QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Measure for Measure ACT/SCENE: 2.1 SPEAKER: Escalus CONTEXT: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of vice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone. DUTCH: Sommigen rijzen door ondeugd, anderen komen door deugd ten val/
De een stijgt door schuld, door deugd moet de ander vallen MORE: Also versions with ‘brakes of ice’.
Schmidt:
Meaning of brakes is disputed; from the context it should be understood in the sense of “engines of torture”. Brakes was used to mean a collection. Topics: good and bad, corruption, virtue, error, punishment, fate/destiny