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You call me a misbeliever, cut throat dog and spit on my jewish gaberdine

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If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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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 wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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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 wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

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If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

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I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond.

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I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond.

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He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.

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He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.

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To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

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To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

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You call me a misbeliever, cut throat dog and spit on my jewish gaberdine

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If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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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 wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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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 wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

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If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

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If every ducat in six thousand ducats were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

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I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond.

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I’ll have my bond; speak not against my bond.

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He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.

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He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.

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To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

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To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

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ANTONIO
Hie thee, gentle Jew.
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind. (1.3.191-192)

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Antonio’s sarcasm is pretty blatant here—he cannot fathom the possibility that Shylock the Jew is just being “kind.” We also notice Antonio’s use of the word “gentle,” a term that shows up quite a bit in this play. For Antonio and many of the other characters, “gentle” means a few things: 1) considerate behavior, 2) aristocratic heritage, and 3) gentile (Christian). In other words, Antonio is saying that Shylock will never be “gentle” (considerate or upper class) because he’s not a Christian.

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ANTONIO
Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money nor commodity
To raise a present sum. Therefore go forth:
Try what my credit can in Venice do;
That shall be racked, even to the uttermost
To furnish thee to Belmont to fair Portia.
Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is, and I no question make
To have it of my trust, or for my sake. (1.1.184-192)

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Here he says he’d loan Bassanio the money he needs to woo Portia in style, but he can’t because all his dough is tied up “at sea.” As an alternative, Antonio says Bassanio can use his (Antonio’s) good credit in order to secure a loan. (Basically, Antonio’s going to be a kind of co-signer.) This is a really generous and risky offer for Antonio to make because, as we know, Bassanio is terrible at managing his money, which is why he’s always sponging off his friend.

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ANTONIO
My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring.
Let his deservings and my love withal
Be valued ‘gainst your wife’s commandment. (4.1.467-469)

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Not knowing that Portia has just saved his backside, Antonio still insists that his friendship be valued over her love. It’s like he’s jockeying with her for the primary spot in Bassanio’s heart. Seriously, he just nagged Bassanio into giving up the equivalent of his wedding ring

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