quotes- merchant of venice Flashcards

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1
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my ventures are not in one bottom trusted nor to one place; nor is my hwole estate upon the frtune of this present year

A

antonio about him not worrying about money

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2
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when i had lost one shaft, i shot his fellow of the self same flight

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bassanio

only way to pay antonio is to get more money

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3
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and many jasons come in quest of her. o my antonio, had i but the means to hold a rival place with one of them

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I-bassanio
her- portia
FL- mythological alllusion

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4
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your father was very virtuous; and holy men, at their dead, have good inspirations

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nerissa to portia

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5
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i am much afeard my lad y this mother played false with a smith

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portia to nerissa about italian

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6
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very viley in the morning, when he is sober’ most viley in the afternoon, wneh nhe is drunk

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portia about german

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7
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i will buy with you, sell with you, talk twith you, and so folowing’ but i will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you

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shylock to bassanio and antonio

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8
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he lends out moeny gratis and brings down the rate usance her with us in venice

A

shylock about antonio

gratis= free of interest

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9
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if i can catch him once on the hip, iwill feed fat the ancient grudge i bear him

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shylock about antonio

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10
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fair sir, you spit on me on wednesday last’ you spurn’d me such a day’ another time you calll’d me a dog’ and for the courtesies I’ll lend you thus much moneys?

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shylock to antonio

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11
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you shall not seal to such a bond for me

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bassanio to antonio

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12
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a kinder gentlmena treads not the earth

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salarino about antonio

hyperbole

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13
Q

our house is hell; and thou a merry devil, didst rob it of some taste of tediousness

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Our- jessica/ shyllock

thou- launcelot

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14
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pray thee, take pain to allay with some cold drops of modesty thy skipping spirit

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bassanio

thee- gratiano

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15
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i will not jump with common spirits, and rank me with the barbarous multitutde

A

prince of arragon

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16
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to prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine

A

prince of Morocco

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17
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budge, says the fiend. budge not, says my conscience

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launcelot

leaving shylock for bassanio

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18
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why ‘t is an office of discovery, love’ and i should be obscured

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Jessica to lorenzo

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19
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let not the sound of shallow foppery enter my house

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shylock to jessica

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20
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if it be preferment to leave a rich jew’s service, to become the follower of so poor a gentleman

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bassanio to launcelot / old gobbo

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21
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a carrion death, within whose empty eye there is written scroll

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gold casket

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22
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i should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself. certainly the jew is the very devil incarnal

A

launcelot

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23
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do as i bid you; shut the doors after you : fast bind, fast find

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shylock to jessica

24
Q

all things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoy’d 3 EXAMPLES

A

gratiano
being hungry/ getting up from feast
horse retracing footsteps with same energy as orgininally walking them
ship sailing out of harbor/ returning weather beaten

25
Q

all that glisters is not gold

A

inscription on scroll in gold casket

26
Q

what many men desire ! that many may be meant by the foul multitutde

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prince of arragon in regards to the gold casket

27
Q

my daughter! o my ducats! o my daughter! fled with a Christian

A

shylock

28
Q

i will not jump with common spirits, and rank me with the barbarous multitudes

A

prince of arragon towards gold

29
Q

did i deserve no more than a fool’s head? is that my prize? are my deserts no better?

A

prince of arragon

30
Q

for never shall you lie by portia’s side/ with an unquiet soul

A

portia to bassanio

31
Q

but since i am a dog, beware my fangs

A

shylock

32
Q

therefore, thou gaudy gold, hardy food for midas, i will none of thee

A

bassanio

mythological/ allusion/ apostrophe/ metaphor/ alliteration/ dramatic irony

33
Q

ill prove the prettier fellow of the two

A

portia

34
Q

when i told you my state was nothing, i should then have told you/ that i was worse than nothing

A

bassanio to portia

35
Q

if you pric us, do we not bleed

A

jews- shylock

36
Q

would she were hearsed at my feed, and the ducats in her coffin

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shylock about jessica

37
Q

i have toward heaven breathed a secret vow/ to livein prayer and contemplation

A

portia

38
Q

i oft have delivered from his forfeitures/ many that have at times made moan to me…

A

antonio about shylock

39
Q

one inwhom/ the ancient roman honour more appears/ than any that draws breath in italy

A

one- antonio

hyperbole

40
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I…am arm’d/ to suffer, with a quietness of spirit

A

antonio

41
Q

the jew shall have my felsh, bones, and all/ ere thou shalt lose fro me on drop of blood.

A

bassanio to antonio

42
Q

the bond doth give thee here, no jot of _____

A

blood
portia
thee- shylcok

43
Q

and, for your love, ill take this ring from you

A

portia to bassanio

44
Q

i beseech you, let his lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a revered estimation

A

portia/ balthasar

antonio to bassanio about portia

45
Q

blesses him that gives and him that takes

A

mercy

46
Q

the throned monarch better than his crown

A

mercy

47
Q

a daniel come to judgment “

who says it first/ then rearranges

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shylock/ gratiano

48
Q

would any of the stock of barabbas/ had been her husband rather than a Christian

A

shylock

her- jessica

49
Q

i am the unhappy subject of these quarrels

A

antonio

50
Q

fair ladies, you do drop manna in the way of starved people

A

lorenzo
manna- shylock’s inheritance
metahpor

51
Q

ill not deny him anything I have/ no, not my body nor my husband’s bed

A

portia

him- doctor

52
Q

would he were gelt taht had it, for my part, / since you do take it, love, so much at heart

A

gratiano to nerissa
gelt- castrated
it -ring

53
Q

i would out night you, did no body come

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jessica to lorenzo

54
Q

what comment is made about men and music

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they can not be trusted if they do not like music

55
Q

by heave, i will never come in your bed/ until i see the ring

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portia to bassanio

56
Q

ill die for’t but some woman had the ring

A

portia