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It droppeth like the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath, I court it not! to your justice alone I am intitled, and by that I must abide. Your engagements are not to the supplicating authors; but to the candid public, which will not fail to crave The penalty and forfeit of your bond.
He shunned the face of day; but in his own dark haunts, and with his hellish colleagues, plans were formed and acted on, with a rapidity which, to minds less matured in iniquity, would have seemed incredible. The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath.
When in the Merchant of Venice the Duke says, "Then must the Jew be merciful!" and Shylock asks with true Jewish commercialism, "On what compulsion must I, tell me that?" then Portia gives the eternal answer The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
I derived such pleasure from his version of the "Mercy" speech from "The Merchant of Venice" that I still think he was ill-paid! "The quality of mercy is not strange It droppeth as the gentle rain from 'Eaven Upon the place beneath; it is twicet bless. It blesseth in that gives and in that takes It is in the mightiest in the mightiest It becomes the throned monuk better than its crownd.
The oneness of spirit leads the way into the intimacy of closest friendship. And that is His thought for us. Do you remember those fine lines, "The quality of mercy is not strained" if the thing be forced through a strainer, there is no mercy there "it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath." Only what the warm current of His love draws out does Jesus desire from us.
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: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.
Let your hearts be filled with mercy to the unfortunate. Remember that "The quality of mercy is not strain'd It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath; it is twice blessed, It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The crowned monarch better than his crown:"
Their drinke is either water, or the iuise that droppeth from the cut branches of the barren Date trees, called Palmitos. For either they hang great gourdes at the said branches euery euening, and let them so hang all night, or else they set them on the ground vnder the trees, that the droppes may fall therein.
But what's the reason? why, they have taken up a profession, but want the grace of Christ; the faith, the repentance, the love and hope of the gospel. No marvel then, if they abide among the wooden sort of professors: no marvel then, though the iniquity of their heels still follows them, and that it droppeth from them wherever they go.
"Not after the way he wallops the Ida," grunted Agnew. "Let Milt do it." "Boss," said Jonas suddenly, "tell 'em that poem about mercy I heard you give at at that banquet at our house." Enoch smiled, took his pipe from his lips, and began: "'The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven, Upon the place beneath " Enoch paused a moment.
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