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The Quality of Mercy Is Strain'd

  1. Mary Rayme
  2. Jem Bloomfield


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1.   Sep 4, 2007 4:44 AM

» Feature Writer Mary Rayme - I get it now


I had to memorize this speech in High School and it always troubled me. Thanks for the article, now I know why. ;-)
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2.   Sep 5, 2007 6:46 PM

» Feature Writer Jem Bloomfield - I get it now

In response to I get it now posted by MaryRayme:


Heh, thanks Mary - glad some fairly plodding scholarship could help. It is a tricky business, isn't it - knowing what to allow on the grounds that "those were different times", and how to convict what one finds abhorrent in the cornerstones of our culture..

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