Shakespeare's Comedy of The Merchant of Venice |
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ABBOTT Antonio Arragon Bassanio beauty Bellario Belmont better blood bond cæsuras casket choose chooseth Christian CLARK AND WRIGHT comedy CORYAT'S Crudities court daughter death devil doth drama DUKE edition Elizabethan English Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair faith farewell father fear flesh folio reading fortune Gentlemen of Verona give GOBBO gold grace GRATIANO hast hath hear heart heaven honour Jessica Jew of Malta Jew's Julius Cæsar lady Launcelot look Lord Bassanio LORENZO Macbeth masque master Merchant of Venice mercy merry Midsummer Night's Dream NERISSA night Othello passion play poet PORTIA pray thee Richard III ring ROLFE SALARINO SCENE servant Shakespeare Shakespearian shalt Shylock Signior SOLANIO soul speak spirit Stephano story swear sweet tell textual notes thou three thousand ducats Tubal unto Venetian Winter's Tale words young youth
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Page 136 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Page 57 - 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 (The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
Page 59 - Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys 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?
Page 134 - The moon shines bright : — In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise ; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Where Cressid lay that night.
Page 100 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn ; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Page 59 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto, you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Page 92 - If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 123 - I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er, On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart : If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority : To do a great right do a little wrong ; And curb this cruel devil of his will.
Page 136 - Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold : There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls ; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. Enter Musicians. Come, ho ! and wake Diana with a hymn : With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear And draw her home with music.
Page 199 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.