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>: Just and fine law!<br />
Good judge!<br />
<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 />
PORTIA: You must cut it from his breast<br />
<strong>The</strong> court permits you to do it.<br />
<strong>SHYLOCK</strong>: Learned judge!<br />
BASSANIO: (asi<strong>de</strong>) Assassin!<br />
<strong>SHYLOCK</strong>: (rushing knife in hand toward Antonio)<br />
What a sentence! Let's go! Your breast is ready?<br />
Come on! prepare yourself! let's go! let's go!<br />
PORTIA: (putting her hand between them) Stop!<br />
That's not all; reread this all powerful note:<br />
It doesn't grant you one drop <strong>of</strong> blood:<br />
A pound <strong>of</strong> flesh! Take a pound <strong>of</strong> flesh,<br />
That's fine: you can take it, and the law gives it to you.<br />
But if you cause the shedding <strong>of</strong> a little Christian blood,<br />
All your wealth is confiscated to the pr<strong>of</strong>it <strong>of</strong> <strong>Venice</strong>.<br />
GRATIANO: Great judge! look at him, Jew! <strong>The</strong> fair judge!<br />
<strong>SHYLOCK</strong>: (letting his scales and his knife fall)<br />
Is this the law?<br />
PORTIA: You can see it on this table<br />
And read it. Ah! you insist they be just with you!<br />
More than you wanted us to be, trust me.<br />
<strong>SHYLOCK</strong>:<br />
<strong>The</strong>n I accept your <strong>of</strong>fer and I want them to count it out to me<br />
SCENE II 58
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