...there's the vein. ANGELO Your brother is a forfeit of the law, And you but waste your words. 95 ISABELLA Alas, alas! Why all the souls that were were forfeit...would you be If He which is the top of judgment should 100 But judge you as you are? O, think on that, And mercy then will breathe within your lips Like man...

...calls upon the hypocritical judge Angelo to see his life anew in light of God's judgment and grace: Why, all the souls that were were forfeit once; And...you be If He, which is the top of judgment, should 200 But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like...

...top of judgment." As the heroine of another of Shakespeare's three "problem plays" says: ISABELLA: How would you be, If He, which is the top of judgment,...mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made. (Measure for Measure, 2.2.827-31) She is pleading for her brother's life with a man at the height...

...thing: the one for, the other against. That in favor is in Measure for Measure, Act 2, s. 2. Isabella: Alas, Alas! Why, all the Souls that were, were forfeit...the vantage best have took, Found out the Remedy. That against is in Twelfth Night, Act 3, s 2. Mariana: "for there is no Christian, that means to be...

...for Measure, Isabella retorts to the Deputy's Draconian 'Your brother is forfeit of the law,' with: Alas! Alas! Why, all the souls that were were forfeit...might the vantage best have took Found out the remedy. (72-5) Her evocation of the biblical account of the blameless life of Christ, and his work of the redemption...