Shylock
Bassanio
Antonio
Portia
100

‘I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk

with you, and so following; but I will not ...'

'... eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you.’

100

‘In sooth, I know not ...'

'... why I am so sad.'

200

‘You call me misbeliever, cut-throat ...'

'... dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.’

200

‘I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano— A stage,

where every man ...'

'... where every man must play a part; And mine a sad one.’

300

‘Let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of

your fair flesh, to be ...'

'... cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me.’

300

‘Let me choose, for as I am ...'

'... I live upon the rack.’

400

‘To bait fish withal – if it will feed nothing else ...'

'... it will feed my revenge.’

400

‘Yet for you I would be trebled twenty times myself, A

thousand times more ...'

'... fair, ten thousand times more rich.’

400

‘Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond; double six

thousand and then ...'

'... treble that before a friend of this

description shall lose a hair through Bassanio’s fault.’

500

'And if you wrong us, shall we not

revenge? ...'

'... If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble

you in that.’

500

The selfsame way, with

more advised watch, To find the other forth; and by ...'


'... adventuring both, I oft found both.’

500

‘The quality of mercy is not strain'd . . . '

' ... it becomes the thronèd monarch better than his crown.’

600

‘The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go ...'

'... hard, but I will better the instruction.’

700

‘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.’

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