The Merchant of Venice
1598 · 288 pages
In Venice a merchant borrows from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender he has spat on, pledging a pound of his flesh. Shylock asks whether a Jew does not bleed, and the comedy never recovers.
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How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598
They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing.
The Merchant of Venice · 1598