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Retribution: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

That high ALL-SEER which I dallied with, Hath turn'd my feigned prayer on my head, And given in earnest what I begg'd in jest.— R. III. v.

Till now you have gone on, and fill'd the time With all licentious measure, making your wills The scope of justice; till now, myself and such As slept within the shadow of your power, Have wander'd with our travers'd arms, and breath'd Our sufferance vainly: Now the time is flush, When crouching marrow, in the bearer strong, Cries of itself, No more: now breathless wrong, Shall sit and pant in your great chairs of ease; And pursy insolence shall break his wind, With fear and horrid flight.— T. A. v. 5.

Thus hath the course of justice wheel'd about, And left thee but a very prey to time; Having no more but thought of what thou wert, To torture thee the more, being what thou art. Thou didst usurp my place. And dost thou not Usurp the just proportion of my sorrow?— R. III. iv 4

So just is God to right the innocent!— R. III. i. 3

But it is no matter: Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, the dog will have his day.— H. V. 1.

O God! I fear, thy justice will take hold On me, and you, and mine, and yours, for this. R. III. ii. 1. For this down-trodden equity, we tread, In warlike march, these greens before your town.— K. J. ii. 1

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges. T.N.v.1