Merchant of Venice. Taming of the shrewHarper & brothers, 1884 |
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1st folio Antonio Bassanio Bianca Biondello Clarke comedy comes Curtis daughter doth ducats Duke early eds edition Enter Exeunt Exit eyes fair father fear Feran Ferando folio fool gentle gentleman give Gobbo Gratiano Grumio Halliwell hand hath haue hear hither honour horse Hortensio humour husband Jessica Julius Cæsar Kate Katherina lady Launcelot look lord Lorenzo Lucentio madam marry master means Merchant of Venice merry mistress Nerissa never night old play Padua Pedant Peize Petruchio Pisa Portia pray quarto R.'s quarto Rich ring Salanio Salarino SCENE Schmidt Servant Shakespeare Shrew Shylock Signior Baptista Signior Gremio Sirrah Slie speak spirit Steevens swear sweet Tailor Taming tell Temp thee things Tranio University of Padua unto villain Vincentio wife win my love withal word
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Page 53 - For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say "Shylock, we would have moneys...
Page 104 - His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to...
Page 118 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign ; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land...
Page 109 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Page 84 - There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who, inward...
Page 41 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Page 45 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 117 - Since nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage, But music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not mov'd with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils : The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.
Page 105 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Page 47 - If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes