Shy. Thou stick'st a dagger in me:-I shall never see my gold again: Fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats! Tub. There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice, that swear he cannot but break. Shy. I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture him; I'm glad of it. Tub. One of them shewed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. Shy. 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. Tub. But Antonio is certainly undone. Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true: Go, Tubal, fee me an officer, bespeak him a fortnight before: I will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for were he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I will: Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal. [Exeunt. THE JEW'S MALICE. Bass. This is signior Antonio. Shy. (aside) How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him, for he is a Christian; But more, for that, in low simplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. THE JEW'S EXPOSTULATION. Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, And all, for use of that which is mine own. Shylock, we would have moneys;' you say so: is your suit. What should I say to you? should I not say, Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats? or Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, Fair sir, you spit on me on wednesday last; THE JEW'S REVENGE. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. 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. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge; if a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction. ANTONIO ON THE JEW'S OBSTINACY. You may as well go stand upon the beach As seek to soften that (than which what's harder?) THE JEW'S REASON FOR REVENGE. You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have Of what it likes or loathes. Now for your answer: Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; A losing suit against him. Are you answered? No where, perhaps, are the fears and anguish attendant on guilt, more beautifully and forcibly expressed than in the following passage from the 'Tempest.' It is uttered by Alonso, the King of Naples, in remembrance of his vile conduct towards Prospero, the rightful duke of Milan, and in the belief that his wickedness is punished by the loss of his son. O, it is monstrous! monstrous ! Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; In this Comedy of the 'Tempest' there is a beautiful reference to the general conflagration. It is, to some extent, a paraphrase on a text of Holy Writ, and as |