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SHYLOCK

There I have another bad match! A bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce
show his head on the Rialto, a beggar that was used to come so smug upon
the mart! Let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer. Let him

look to his bond. [45] He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy.
Let him look to his bond.

SALERIO
Why, I am sure if he forfeit thou wilt not take his flesh. What’s that good for?

SHYLOCK
To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing [50] else, it will feed my revenge. 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. Hath [55]
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 [60] 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 [65]

humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be
by Christian example? Why, revenge! The villainy you teach me I will
execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. [70]

Enter a Man from Antonio.

MAN
Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and desires to speak with you

both.

SALERIO
We have been up and down to seek him.

Enter Tubal.

SOLANIO