QUOTES FROM THE BARD

PLAY: Measure for Measure ACT/SCENE: 5.1 SPEAKER: Isabella CONTEXT: Most bounteous sir, Look, if it please you, on this man condemn’d,
As if my brother lived: I partly think
A due sincerity govern’d his deeds,
Till he did look on me: since it is so,
Let him not die. My brother had but justice,
In that he did the thing for which he died:
For Angelo,
His act did not o’ertake his bad intent,
And must be buried but as an intent
That perish’d by the way: thoughts are no subjects;
Intents but merely thoughts. DUTCH: Doch Angelo, hoe boos zijn doel ook ware,
Zijn daad bereikte ‘t niet; dus moet zijn daad,
Als een bedoeling, onderweg gestorven,
Begraven worden. Vrij toch zijn gedachten,
Bedoelingen gedachten. MORE: Cited in Shakespeare’s Legal Maxims (William Lowes Rushton): Topics: law/legal, plans/intentions, justice, punishment