mercy (1 usu. in phr. “I cry you mercy”; 3 hence the general phr. “at, in,” or “within the mercy of”）
1.
“cry ,” beg for pard
on or forgiveness
Gent. V. iv. 94
“O, cry you mercy, sir;
I have mistook,”
AYL. III. v. 61
“Cry the man ,”
H8 V. iii. 78
“I cry your honour
mercy,”
Lr. III. vi. 55.
2.
“by ,” (?) by a
merciful condition Tim. III. v.
56*.
3.
clemency of a
conqueror
Mer.V. IV. i. 356
“the offender's life
lies in the Of the duke,”
H5 III. iii. 3
“To our best give
yourselves,”
3H6 I. iv. 30
“Yield to our ”
; phr. “at , in ,” absolutely in
the power of the victor
Cor. I. x. 7
“I' the part that is at
”
(i.e. conquered),
Lr. I. iv. 352
“that . . . He may . . .
hold our lives in ”
