SHYLOCK The Merchant of Venice By Alfred de Vigny
SHYLOCK The Merchant of Venice By Alfred de Vigny
SHYLOCK The Merchant of Venice By Alfred de Vigny
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<strong>SHYLOCK</strong> <strong>The</strong> <strong>Merchant</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Venice</strong> <strong>By</strong> <strong>Alfred</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>Vigny</strong><br />
NERISSA: When they draw their fate, madam, does your heart<br />
Still beat for fear <strong>of</strong> a conqueror?<br />
PORTIA: Alas! I always tremble and I never hope<br />
So long as it's a question <strong>of</strong> obeying my father.<br />
For <strong>of</strong> these preten<strong>de</strong>rs named therein, if you please<br />
One alone might be suitable as a valet.<br />
NERISSA: That's too severe, too. <strong>The</strong> one who's ruining himself,<br />
<strong>The</strong> Count Palatine, doesn't he have a nice appearance?<br />
PORTIA: No. He has a haughty, contrary, sulky air<br />
Without gayety, without any pleasure, even in laughing.<br />
NERISSA: And the English Falconbridge?<br />
PORTIA: He doesn't know how to live.<br />
Mornings he's bored, and evenings, he's drunk.<br />
He influences me before, not after his meals,<br />
For he always bores me and never intoxicates me.<br />
NERISSA: And Don Pedro?<br />
PORTIA: Ah! I hate that dark face,<br />
Dark cloaked, these airs <strong>of</strong> a moonlight lover.<br />
<strong>The</strong>se dark conversations: and I find him flat,<br />
More than his guitar and his brown chocolate.<br />
NERISSA: And the French Marquis, madam, named Estrada?<br />
PORTIA: God ma<strong>de</strong> him: let him pass for a man.<br />
I consent to it. But I think when he came to Belmont,<br />
ACT II 23
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