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‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 25
The portrait of a blinking idiot.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 54
The fire seven times tried this:
Seven times tried that judgment is
That did never choose amiss.
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow’s bliss.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 63
Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
O, these deliberate fools!
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 2, sc. 9, l. 79
The Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses
of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [4]
Let him look to his bond.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [51]
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the
same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick
us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you
wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63
The villany you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [76]
Thou stick’st a dagger in me.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [118]
Tubal: One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey.
Shylock: Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I
was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. [126]
He makes a swan-like end
Fading in music.
‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 44
Tell me where is fancy bred.
Or in the heart or in the head?
How begot, how nourishéd?
Reply, reply.
It is engendered in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies