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Noun. The compassionate treatment of someone who is under your power.
Noun. The compassionate treatment of someone who is under your power.
In his ''The Merchant of Venice'' [[William Shakespeare]] uses Portia, (a trial lawyer) to reminds Shylock of mercy's qualities:
<blockquote>The quality of mercy...<br>
is twice bless'd;<br>
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes;<br>
Tis mightiest in the mightiest: becomes<br>
The throned monarch better than his crown.</blockquote>
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