Act 4 Quotes

Question 1

thou art come to answer
A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
Uncapable of pity, void and empty
From any dram of mercy.

Answer 1

The Duke to Antonio about Shylock

Question 2

I do oppose,
My patience to his fury, and am arm’d
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.

Answer 2

Antonio to Duke (noble, victim)

Question 3

To the last hour of act;… mercy

Answer 3

The Duke

Question 4

We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.

Answer 4

The Duke to Shylock

Question 5

can I give no reason, nor I will not,
More than lodged hate and a certain loathing
I bear Antonio,

Answer 5

Shylock to the Duke about Antonio

Question 6

the beach
the wolf
the mountain pines

Answer 6

Antonio (poetic imagery and images to depict how hard-headed Shylock is)

Question 7

Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.

Answer 7

Antonio to the Duke

Question 8

mercy

Answer 8

The Duke to Shylock

Question 9

The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
Is dearly bought;

Answer 9

Shylock to the Duke

Question 10

What, man, courage yet!
The Jew shall have my flesh and blood, bones and all,
Ere thou shalt lose me one drop of blood.

Answer 10

Bassanio to Antonio

Question 11

You cannot better be employ’d, Bassanio
Than to live still and write min epitaph.

Answer 11

Antonio to Bassanio

Question 12

sole….. soul

Answer 12

Gratiano to Shylock (pun)

Question 13

wolf

Answer 13

Gratiano to Shylock (animal imagery)

Question 14

Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous

Answer 14

Gratiano to Shylock

Question 15

Balthasar… my opinion… bettered with his own learning

Answer 15

Clerk to the room

Question 16

merciful

Answer 16

Portia to Shylock

Question 17

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppethas the gentle rain from the heaven
Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:

Answer 17

Portia to Shylock

Question 18

When mercy seasons justice.

Answer 18

Portia to Shylock

Question 19

To do a great right, do a little wrong,
And curb this cruel devil of his will.

Answer 19

Bassanio to Portia

Question 20

precedent… it cannot be

Answer 20

Portia to Bassanio

Question 21

And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
Nearest the merchant’s heart.

Answer 21

Portia to Shylock

Question 22

The flesh?

Answer 22

Portia to Shylock

Question 23

lest he do bleed to death.

Answer 23

Portia to Shylock

Question 24

Commend me to your honourable wife:
Tell her the process of Antonio’s end;

Answer 24

Antonio to Bassanio

Question 25

But life itself, my wife, and all my world,
Are not with me esteem’d above thy life:
I would lose all, aye, sacrifice them all
Here to this devil, to deliver you.

Answer 25

Bassanio to Antonio

Question 26

if thoist dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Unto the state of Venice.

Answer 26

Portia to Shylock

Question 27

as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.

Answer 27

Portia to Shylock

Question 28

all justice…
He shall have nothing but the penalty.

Answer 28

Portia to everyone in general

Question 29

just a pound of flesh:

Answer 29

Portia to Shylock

Question 30

Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.

Answer 30

Portia to Shylock

Question 31

my principal?

Answer 31

Shylock to Portia

Question 32

yet another hold on you.

Answer 32

Portia to Shylock

Question 33

The party’gainst the which he doth contrive
Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
Comes to the privy coffer of the state;
And the offender’s life lies in the mercy
Of the duke’s only,’gainst all other voice.

Answer 33

Portia to Shylock

Question 34

the means

Answer 34

Shylock to Portia

Question 35

mercy

Answer 35

Portia to Antonio

Question 36

one half of his goods,..
the gentleman
That lately stole his daughter…
He presently become Christian…
he dies possess’d…
Lorenzo and his daughter.

Answer 36

Antonio to the court

Question 37

I am not well

Answer 37

Shylock to Antonio (Last words)

Question 38

know me when we meet again:

Answer 38

Portia to Bassanio

Question 39

my love withal
Be valued against your wife’s commandment.

Answer 39

Antonio to Bassanio