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 blesses him that gives and him that takes. ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown— he covered some of its qualities: impartiality, gentleness, abundance. But this is not the full definition. And it is only the Bible that gives the word “mercy” its true scope and spiritual significance. In some ways mercy may be compared with