"Judge's robe" Quotes from Famous Books
... 'it is too late.' 'Too later' said Isabel: 'Why, no: I that do speak a word may call it back again. Believe this, my lord, no ceremony that to great ones belongs, not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, the marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, becomes them with one half so good a grace as mercy does.' 'Pray you begone,' said Angelo. But still Isabel entreated, and she said: 'If my brother had been as you, and you as he, you might have slipped like him, but he, like you, would ... — Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb |