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The Merchant of Venice

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“Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest.”

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“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage, but music for the time doth change his nature. The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved 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. Mark the music.”

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“The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes The thronèd monarch better than his crown. His scepter shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings, But mercy is above this sceptered sway. It is enthronèd in the hearts of kings. It is an attribute to God himself. And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this- That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea, Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.”

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“God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he! why, he hath a horse better than the Neapolitan’s, a better bad habit of frowning than the Count Palentine; he is every man in no man. If a throstle sing, he falls straight a-cap’ring. He will fence with his own shadow. If I should marry him, I should marry twenty husbands.”

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“Para servir de isca aos peixes. Se não nutrir mais nada, nutrirá minha vingança. Ele me desgraçou, prejudicou-me em meio milhão; riu-se das minhas perdas, caçoou dos meus lucros, escarneceu minha estirpe, atrapalhou meus negócios, esfriou minhas amizades, afogueou meus inimigos; e por que razão? Eu sou judeu. Um judeu não tem olhos? Um judeu não tem mãos, órgãos, dimensões, sentidos, afeições, paixões? Não é alimentado pela mesma comida, ferido pelas mesmas armas, sujeito às mesmas doenças, curado pelos mesmos meios, esquentado e regelado pelo mesmo verão e inverno, tal como um cristão? Quando vós nos feris, não sangramos nós? Quando nos divertis, não nos rimos nós? Quando nos envenenais, não morremos nós? E se nos enganais, não haveremos nós de nos vingar? Se somos como vós em todo o resto, nisto também seremos semelhantes. Se um judeu enganar um cristão, qual é a humildade que encontra? A vingança. Se um cristão enganar um judeu, qual deve ser seu sentimento, segundo o exemplo cristão? A vingança, pois. A vileza que me ensinais eu executo, e, por mais difícil que seja, superarei meus mestres.”

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