Disraeli

Terrance lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 7 10:20:40 CST 2000


SHYLOCK: 


                   To bait fish withal: if it will feed
nothing else, it will
                   feed my revenge. He hath disgrac'd me and
hind'red me half a
                   million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd 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 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 villaiy you teach me
                   I will execute; and it shall go hard but
I will better the
                   instruction.



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