perfectly awful

 

1. DREW!!  *laughs* (I’m so going to inflict this on others.)

   Posted by Argentium G. Tiger       07/07/2009  at  10:39 PM  



2. sigh

   I’m afraid I didn’t catch the reference!

   Posted by gdonovan       07/08/2009  at  04:40 AM  



3. Oh. Well, actually, it’s a bit from Shakespeare, from The Merchant of Venice. The lines belong to the character Portia, a rich, beautiful, and highly intelligent woman who disguises herself as a lawyer to attempt to best Shylock in court, and thus save Antonio, who is the Merchant, the best friend of her love. This is the whole “pound of flesh” thing I’m sure you’ve heard about. She finds a loophole in the contract and wins the case.

   The quality of mercy is not strained.
   It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
   Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
   It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
   Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
   The throned monarch better than his crown.
   His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
   The attribute to awe and majesty,
   Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings.
   But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
   It is enthroned in the hearts of kings;
   It is an attribute of God himself;
   And earthly power doth then show like God’s
   When mercy seasons justice.

   Posted by Drew458       07/08/2009  at  08:54 AM  

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