Hie thee, | gentle Jew. The Hebrew will turn Christian, he grows kind |
The duke cannot | deny the course of law… if it be denied will much impeach the justice of his state |
My purse, | my person, my extremest means lie all unlock’ to your occasions |
I hold the world | but as a world, Gratiano; a stage where everyman must play a part and mine a sad one |
In sooth | I know not why I am so sad |
Most heartily | I do beseech the court to give the judgement |
Why then, | you are in love. |
Neither have I | money nor commodity to raise a present sum; therefore go forth, try what my credit can in Venice do |
I am as like | to call thee so again, to spit on thee again, to spurn thee too |
I never knew | so young a body with so an old head |
Tarry a little; | there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood. |
Have by some | surgeon, Shylock on your charge, to stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death |
O love, | dispatch all business and be gone! |
My little body | is aweary of this great world |
What, no more? | Pay him six thousand and deface the bond. Double six thousand, and then treble that |
So is the will | of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father |
In Belmont there | is a lady richly left, and she is fair |
If he have the condition | of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me |
Pay the | petty debt twenty times over |
If it will feed | nothing else, it will feed my revenge |
Many a time | and oft in the Rialto you have rated me about my money and my usances |
He lends out | money gratis and brings down the rate of usance here with us in Venice |
I hate him | for he is Christian |
I’ll have my bond. | Speak not against my bond. I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. |
I will buy | with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor will I pray with you |
My daughter! | O my ducats! O my daughter! |
Two thousand ducats | in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter be dead at my foot. |
You call me | misbeliever, cutthroat dog, and spet upon my Jewish gabardine |
Tis not unknown | to you how much i have disabled mine estate |
You shall not | seal to such a bond for me: I’ll rather dwell in my necessity |
[aside] Why, | I were best to cut my left hand off and swear I lost the ring defending it |
To you, Antonio, | I owe the most in money and in love |
I would lose | all, ay, sacrifice them all to this devil, to deliver you |
I am glad ’tis | night, you do not look on me |
Farewell, and | if my fortune not be crossed. I have a father, and you a daughter, lost |
I will make | fast the doors and glid myself with some more ducats |
How I shall | take her from her father’s house, what gold and jewels she is furnished with |
If I can | catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation. |
What heinous sin | is it in me to be ashamed to be my father’s child? |
Thou wilt show | thy mercy… But, touched with human gentleness and love… we all expect a gentle answer, Jew |
But lend it | rather to thine enemy, who, if he breaks, thou mayst with better face exact the penalty |
He seek the | life of any citizen, the party ‘gainst which he contrive shall seize half his goods |
He presently | become a Christian |
Merchant of Venice quotes
July 11, 2019