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... sweet madam , if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are and yet , for aught I see , they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing . It is no mean happiness therefore , to be ...
... sweet madam , if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are and yet , for aught I see , they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing . It is no mean happiness therefore , to be ...
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... sweet Jew ! If a Christian did not play the knave and get thee , I am much deceived . But , adieu ! these foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit : adieu ! Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot . Exit LAUNCELOT . Alack , what heinous ...
... sweet Jew ! If a Christian did not play the knave and get thee , I am much deceived . But , adieu ! these foolish drops do somewhat drown my manly spirit : adieu ! Jes . Farewell , good Launcelot . Exit LAUNCELOT . Alack , what heinous ...
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... Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait : When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as long for you then . Approach ; Here dwells my father Jew . Ho ! who's ...
... Sweet friends , your patience for my long abode ; Not I , but my affairs , have made you wait : When you shall please to play the thieves for wives , I'll watch as long for you then . Approach ; Here dwells my father Jew . Ho ! who's ...
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... sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the runaway , And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and gild myself With some more ducats , and be ...
... sweet , Even in the lovely garnish of a boy . But come at once ; For the close night doth play the runaway , And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast . Jes . I will make fast the doors , and gild myself With some more ducats , and be ...
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... one fool's head I came to woo , But I go away with two . Sweet , adieu . I'll keep my oath , Patiently to bear my wroth . Exeunt ARRAGON and Train . Por . Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth . 38 ACT II . Sc . IX THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
... one fool's head I came to woo , But I go away with two . Sweet , adieu . I'll keep my oath , Patiently to bear my wroth . Exeunt ARRAGON and Train . Por . Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth . 38 ACT II . Sc . IX THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
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Page 77 - 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 120 - Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side, His youthful hose well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
Page 105 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am. Sweet are the uses of adversity ; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and...
Page 41 - 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...
Page 71 - So please my lord the duke, and all the court. To quit the fine for one half of his goods ; I am content, so he will let me have The other half in use, to render it, Upon his death, unto...
Page 258 - While thou liest warm at home, secure and safe ; And craves no other tribute at thy hands, But love, fair looks, and true obedience, — Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 14 - 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. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate, On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe, \ If I forgive him ! BASS.
Page 109 - When service should in my old limbs lie lame, And unregarded age in corners thrown. Take that; and He that doth the ravens feed, Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, Be comfort to my age ! Here is the gold : All this I give you. Let me be your servant : Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo so The means of weakness and debility ; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty,...
Page 120 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 145 - Farewell, Monsieur Traveller: look you lisp and wear strange suits, disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity, and almost chide God for making you that countenance you are, or I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola.