_Matrimony_--the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
_Wedlock's_ a lane where there is no turning.
What is _wedlock_ forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
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Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That _mercy_ I to others show,
That _mercy_ show to me.
The quality of _mercy_ is not strain'd,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless'd;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes;
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And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When _mercy_ seasons justice.
_Clemency_ is the surest proof of a true monarch.
_Lenity_ will operate with greater force, in some instances, than
vigor.
All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater _leniency_,
but in vain.
It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by
measures of the utmost _lenience_.
There is however a limit at which _forbearance_ ceases to be a
virtue.
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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His _pity_ gave ere charity began.
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