...quick in quarrel ; Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And tlien, the justice, In fair round belly, with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formai eut, Full of wise saws and modem instances; And so he plays his pari. The sixth age shifts Into...

...leads us to vifit Charlecote Hall, where Sir Thomas Lucy — the original of Jitftice Shallow — " In fair round belly, with good capon lined, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut — magifterially inquired into the poaching delinquencies of the poet. It is on the other fide...

...Even in the cannon's mouth : And then, the justice ; In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern1 instances, And so he plays his part : The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon...

...and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes...severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modem instances ; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,...

...duly executed.' There may be a few Justices like the Shallows and the Silences of Shakespeare's time: In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes...formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances. Some there may be who are! satisfied with being able to write ' JP' after their name, who take no share...

...pass on hastily to the fifth scene in the drama of life, — that of middle age, when "the justice in fair round belly with good capon lined, with eyes...cut. Full of wise saws and modern instances; and so on he plays the part." Middle age, 40 to 60 years, in many respects, is the most significant time of...

...reconstruction of the old Court of Requests, and will have to revise his conception of "The justice "In fair round belly, with good capon lined, "With...formal cut, "Full of wise saws and modern instances." The oW justices of the peace may have commanded the respect of their neighbors, for as a rule they...

...over the SOLDIER while the two PLAINTIFFS try to catch his attention.) JACQUES. And then the justice, in fair round belly with good capon lined,/ With eyes...formal cut,/ Full of wise saws and modern instances. . . (The JUSTICE calls in a GUARD and orders both PLAINTIFFS under arrest. ALL except the SOLDIER exit.)...

...image. This is the fifth age of Shakespeare's justice "In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, / With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, /Full of wise saws and modern instances." Here is both the mellowness drawn from a full life and the hardness born of experience. The two aspects...

...less value-laden. We all prefer the image of wise King Solomon to Shakespeare's "justice . . . with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of wise saws and modern instances." Yet wisdom cannot be present without justice, nor justice without wisdom. I shall now discuss the central...