Question

Thoughts on 'Mercy is not strained, it is as natural as rainfall' maybe some points or an essay would be greatly apreciated

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The quality of mercy is not strained. A line from the play The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare. Strained means “constrained,” or “forced”; the speaker is telling Shylock that mercy must be freely given, and is inviting him to show mercy to the title character.