It was certainly one of the most astute of lists that usually pass by notice and consideration in the costuming and posturing and staging probably 95 times out of 100 that it's heard. The listing of the "whips and scorns" we experience in life.
. . . of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes
Other than the pangs of despiz'd love, it sounds like the typical results of what you get from the American "justice" system. And I'd bet there's plenty of "despiz'd love" involved, look at how the Supreme Court is helping by "the law's delay" Trump get away with what it convicted Michael Cohen of. Stormy sure as hell doesn't seem to have enjoyed it.
Is there any office more insolent than that of Supreme Court Justice? I mean, how many of them were famous for their modesty - other than that most of them were very modest of wisdom, intelligence or moral fiber. I doubt you're going to find more "proud man's contumely" than on the Republican side of the Roberts Court, most of them drip with it and it's typical of that rank of their profession, both on the judicial and the academic scholastic side of it.
The author of those lines is often noted to have had an incredibly deep understanding of the law and legal proceedings, he certainly predicted the character of the American law, even as it pretends to do better than that.
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