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Title: Shakespeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Linton James Dromgole, 1840-1916, ill Hazen, Frank, binding designer Hodder and Stoughton, publisher
Subjects: Shylock (Fictitious character) Jews Moneylenders
Publisher: New York, London : Hodder & Stoughton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he canshoe him himself. Ner. Then there is the County Palatine. PoR. He doth nothing but frown, as who shouldsay If you will not have me, choose: he hearsmerry tales and smiles not: I fear he will provethe weeping philosopher when he grows old,being so full of unmannerly sadness in hisyouth. I had rather be married to a deathshead with a bone in his mouth than to eitherof these. God defend me from these two ! Ner. How say you by the French lord, MonsieurLe Bon ? PoR. God made him, and therefore let him passfor a man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be amocker: but, he! why, he hath a horse betterthan the Neapolitans, a better bad habit offrowning than the Count Palatine; he is everyman in no man; if a throstle sing, he fallsstraight a capering: he will fence with his ownshadow: if I should marry him, I should marrytwenty husbands. If he would despise me, Iwould forgive him, for if he love me to madness,I shall never requite him.i6 ->..••• 0 •rrSbc 5=>o«<:g^::!C^=2xi
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i» ufcz^.-fCC^-.i sc. II.) OF VENICE Ner. What say you then to Falconbridge, theyoung baron of England ? PoR. You know I say nothing to him, for he under-stands not me, nor I him : he hath neither Latin,French, nor Italian, and you will come into thecourt and swear that I have a poor pennyworthin the English. He is a proper mans picture,but, alas, who can converse with a dumbshow ?How oddly he is suited ! I think he bought hisdoublet in Italy, his round hose in France, hisbonnet in Germany and his behaviour everywhere. Ner. What think you of the Scottish lord, hisneighbour ? For. That he hath a neighbourly charity in him,for he borrowed a box of the ear of the English-man and swore he would pay him again when hewas able: I think the Frenchman became hissurety and sealed under for another. Ner. How like you the young German, the Dukeof Saxonys nephew ? For. Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober,and most vilely in the afternoon, when he isdrunk: when he is best, he is a little w

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