Noblewoman Portia, famously disguised as a lawyer’s apprentice, delivers the famous lines discussing mercy and justice from The Merchant of Venice.
Today, let’s take a look at a portion of Portia.


From The Lawyer’s Alcove: Poems by the Lawyer, for the Lawyer, and about the Lawyer, ed. by Ina Russelle Warren, available on HeinOnline.*
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