{"product_id":"the-merchant-of-venice-isbn-9780553212990","title":"The Merchant of Venice","description":"This is one of Shakespeare’s darkest comedies, for the romantic story of a young man, Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune and must borrow money to woo the wealthy lady he loves is set against the more disturbing story of the Jewish moneylender Shylock and his demand for the “pound of flesh” owed him by the Venetian merchant, Antonio. Here pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglement to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach Edition Includes:\u003cbr\u003e• Comprehensive explanatory notes \u003cbr\u003e• Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship \u003cbr\u003e• Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English\u003cbr\u003e• Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories \u003cbr\u003e• An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmographyWilliam Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1564, and his birth is traditionally celebrated on April 23. The facts of his life, known from surviving documents, are sparse. He was one of eight children born to John Shakespeare, a merchant of some standing in his community. William probably went to the King’s New School in Stratford, but he had no university education. In November 1582, at the age of eighteen, he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior, who was pregnant with their first child, Susanna. She was born on May 26, 1583. Twins, a boy, Hamnet ( who would die at age eleven), and a girl, Judith, were born in 1585. By 1592 Shakespeare had gone to London working as an actor and already known as a playwright. A rival dramatist, Robert Greene, referred to him as “an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers.” Shakespeare became a principal shareholder and playwright of the successful acting troupe, the Lord Chamberlain’s Men (later under James I, called the King’ s Men). In 1599 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men built and occupied the Globe Theater in Southwark near the Thames River. Here many of Shakespeare’s plays were performed by the most famous actors of his time, including Richard Burbage, Will Kempe, and Robert Armin. In addition to his 37 plays, Shakespeare had a hand in others, including \u003ci\u003eSir Thomas More\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Two Noble Kinsmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and he wrote poems, including \u003ci\u003eVenus and Adonis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rape of Lucrece\u003c\/i\u003e. His 154 sonnets were published, probably without his authorization, in 1609. In 1611 or 1612 he gave up his lodgings in London and devoted more and more time to retirement in Stratford, though he continued writing such plays as \u003cb\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eHenry VII\u003c\/b\u003e until about 1613. He died on April 23 1616, and was buried in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. No collected edition of his plays was published during his life-time, but in 1623 two members of his acting company, John Heminges and Henry Condell, put together the great collection now called the First Folio.\u003cp\u003e[Dramatis Personae\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE DUKE OF VENICE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO, a merchant of Venice \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO, his friend, suitor to Portia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGRATIANO, a follower of Bassanio, in love with Nerissa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOLANIO,  friends to Antonio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO,   and Bassanio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORENZO, in love with Jessica\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEONARDO, servant to Bassanio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePORTIA, a rich heiress of Belmont\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNERISSA, her waiting-gentlewoman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBALTHASAR, servant to Portia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSTEPHANO, servant to Portia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PRINCE OF MOROCCO, suitor to Portia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PRINCE OF ARAGON, suitor to Portia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA MESSENGER to Portia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSHYLOCK, a rich Jew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJESSICA, his daughter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTUBAL, a Jew, Shylock's friend\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLANCELOT GOBBO, a clown, servant to Shylock and then to Bassanio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOLD GOBBO, Lancelot's father\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice, Jailor, Servants to Portia, and other Attendants\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScene: Partly at Venice and partly at Belmont,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe seat of Portia]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.1. Location: A street in Venice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1In sooth Truly.   sad morose, dismal-looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5am to learn have yet to learn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6such . . . of me such sadness makes me so distracted, lacking in good sense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9argosies large merchant ships. (So named from Ragusa, the modern city of Dubrovnik.)   portly majestic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10signors gentlemen.   flood sea\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11pageants mobile stages used in plays or processions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12overpeer look down upon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13curtsy i.e., bob up and down, or lower topsails in token of respect (reverence)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14woven wings canvas sails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e15venture forth investment at risk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e17still continually\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e19roads anchorages, open harbors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e23blow . . . ague i.e., start me shivering\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e26flats shoals\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1.1] A Enter Antonio, Salerio, and Solanio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn sooth, I know not why I am so sad.1\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wearies me, you say it wearies you;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut how I caught it, found it, or came by it,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am to learn;5\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd such a want-wit sadness makes of me6\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I have much ado to know myself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour mind is tossing on the ocean,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere where your argosies with portly sail,9\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike signors and rich burghers on the flood,10\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr as it were the pageants of the sea,11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo overpeer the petty traffickers12\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat curtsy to them, do them reverence,13\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs they fly by them with their woven wings.14\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOLANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelieve me, sir, had I such venture forth,15\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe better part of my affections would\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe with my hopes abroad. I should be still17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlucking the grass to know where sits the wind,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeering in maps for ports and piers and roads;19\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd every object that might make me fear\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMisfortune to my ventures, out of doubt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould make me sad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO         My wind cooling my broth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould blow me to an ague when I thought23\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat harm a wind too great might do at sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI should not see the sandy hourglass run\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut I should think of shallows and of flats,26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e27Andrew name of a ship. (Perhaps after the St. Andrew, a Spanish galleon captured at Cadiz in 1596.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e28Vailing lowering. (Usually as a sign of submission.) high-top topmast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e29burial burial place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e31bethink me straight be put in mind immediately\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e35even now a short while ago.   this i.e., the cargo of spices and silks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e38bechanced having happened\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e42bottom ship's hold\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e44Upon . . . year i.e., risked upon the chance of the present year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e50two-headed Janus a Roman god of all beginnings, represented by a figure with two faces\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e51framed fashioned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e52peep . . . eyes i.e., look with eyes narrowed by laughter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e53at a bagpiper i.e., even at a bagpiper, whose music was regarded as melancholic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e54other others.   vinegar aspect sour, sullen looks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e56Nestor venerable senior officer in the Iliad, noted for gravity\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd see my wealthy Andrew docked in sand,27\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVailing her high-top lower than her ribs28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo kiss her burial. Should I go to church29\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd see the holy edifice of stone\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks31\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich, touching but my gentle vessel's side,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould scatter all her spices on the stream,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnrobe the roaring waters with my silks,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd, in a word, but even now worth this,35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo think on this, and shall I lack the thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat such a thing bechanced would make me sad?38\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut tell not me. I know Antonio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs sad to think upon his merchandise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelieve me, no. I thank my fortune for it,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy ventures are not in one bottom trusted,42\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor to one place; nor is my whole estate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUpon the fortune of this present year.44\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTherefore my merchandise makes me not sad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOLANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy then, you are in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO         Fie, fie!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSOLANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot in love neither? Then let us say you are sad\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause you are not merry; and 'twere as easy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor you to laugh and leap, and say you are merry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause you are not sad. Now, by two-headed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Janus,50\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNature hath framed strange fellows in her time:51\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome that will evermore peep through their eyes52\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,53\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd other of such vinegar aspect54\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat they'll not show their teeth in way of smile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough Nestor swear the jest be laughable.56\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e61prevented forestalled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e64th'occasion the opportunity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e66laugh i.e., be merry together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e67strange distant.   Must it be so? Must you go? or, Must you show reserve?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e68We'll . . . yours We'll adjust our spare time to accommodate your schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e74respect . . . world concern for worldly affairs of business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnter Bassanio, Lorenzo, and Gratiano.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe leave you now with better company.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI would have stayed till I had made you merry,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf worthier friends had not prevented me.61\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour worth is very dear in my regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI take it your own business calls on you,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd you embrace th'occasion to depart.64\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO  Good morrow, my good lords.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGood signors both, when shall we laugh? Say,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  when?66\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou grow exceeding strange. Must it be so?67\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSALERIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe'll make our leisures to attend on yours.68\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExeunt Salerio and Solanio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORENZO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe two will leave you, but at dinnertime,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI pray you, have in mind where we must meet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO  I will not fail you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGRATIANO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou look not well, Signor Antonio.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou have too much respect upon the world.74\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey lose it that do buy it with much care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelieve me, you are marvelously changed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hold the world but as the world, Gratiano--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA stage where every man must play a part,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd mine a sad one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egratianoLet me play the fool.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e81heat with wine (The liver was regarded as the seat of the passions and wine as an agency for inflaming them.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e82mortifying penitential and deadly. (Sighs were thought to cost the heart a drop of blood.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e84in alabaster i.e., in a stone effigy upon a tomb.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e85jaundice (Regarded as arising from the effects of too much choler or yellow bile, one of the four humors, in the blood.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e89cream and mantle become covered with scum, i.e., acquire a lifeless, stiff expression.   standing stagnant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e90-2 And . . . conceit and who maintain a willful silence in order to acquire a reputation for gravity and deep thought\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e93As . . . say as if to say\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e94let . . . bark i.e., let no creature dare to interrupt me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e98-9 would . . . fools i.e., would virtually condemn their hearers into calling them fools. (Compare Matthew 5:22, in which anyone calling another a fool is threatened with damnation.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e101-2 fish . . . opinion i.e., don't go fishing for a reputation of being wise, using your melancholy silence as the bait to fool people. (Gudgeon, a small fish, was thought of as a type of gullibility.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e106dumb mute, speechless\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e108keep if you keep\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e110for this gear in view of what you say.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd let my liver rather heat with wine81\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan my heart cool with mortifying groans.82\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy should a man whose blood is warm within\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?84\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice85\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI love thee, and 'tis my love that speaks--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a sort of men whose visages\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDo cream and mantle like a standing pond,89\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd do a willful stillness entertain90\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith purpose to be dressed in an opinion91\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,92\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs who should say, \"I am Sir Oracle,93\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd when I ope my lips let no dog bark!\"94\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, my Antonio, I do know of these\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat therefore only are reputed wise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor saying nothing, when, I am very sure,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf they should speak, would almost damn those ears98\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich, hearing them, would call their brothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  fools.99\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll tell thee more of this another time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut fish not with this melancholy bait101\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor this fool gudgeon, this opinion.--102\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome, good Lorenzo.--Fare ye well awhile.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'll end my exhortation after dinner.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLORENZO [to Antonio and Bassanio]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, we will leave you then till dinnertime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI must be one of these same dumb wise men,106\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Gratiano never lets me speak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGRATIANO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, keep me company but two years more,108\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThou shalt not know the sound of thine own\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFare you well. I'll grow a talker for this gear.110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e112neat's ox's.   not vendible i.e., not yet salable in the marriage market.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e113Is . . . now? i.e., Was all that talk about anything?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e115reasons reasonable ideas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e119the same i.e., the one\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e124By . . . port by showing a somewhat more lavish style of living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e125grant continuance allow to continue.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e126-7 make . . . rate complain at being cut back from such a high style of living\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e128to . . . off honorably to extricate myself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e129time youthful lifetime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e130gaged pledged, in pawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e132warranty authorization\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e133unburden disclose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e136-7 if . . . honor if it looks honorable, as your conduct has always done\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGRATIANO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks, i'faith, for silence is only commendable\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.112\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExeunt [Gratiano and Lorenzo].\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO  Is that anything now?113\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO  Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as  115\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etwo grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshall seek all day ere you find them, and when you\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehave them they are not worth the search.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, tell me now what lady is the same119\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat you today promised to tell me of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow much I have disabled mine estate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy something showing a more swelling port124\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan my faint means would grant continuance.125\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor do I now make moan to be abridged126\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom such a noble rate; but my chief care127\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs to come fairly off from the great debts128\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWherein my time, something too prodigal,129\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,130\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI owe the most, in money and in love,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd from your love I have a warranty132\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo unburden all my plots and purposes133\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow to get clear of all the debts I owe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd if it stand, as you yourself still do,136\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin the eye of honor, be assured137\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy purse, my person, my extremest means\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLie all unlocked to your occasions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e140shaft arrow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e141his its.   selfsame flight same kind and range\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e142advisd careful\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e143forth out.   adventuring risking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e145innocence ingenuousness, sincerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e148self same\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e150or either\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e151hazard that which was risked\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e152rest remain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e153spend but time only waste time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e154To . . . circumstance i.e., in not asking plainly what you want. (Circumstance here means \"circumlocution.\")\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e156In . . . uttermost in showing any doubt of my intention to do all I can\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e160prest ready\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e161richly left left a large fortune (by her father's will)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e163Sometimes Once\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e165-6 nothing undervalued To of no less worth than\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e166Portia (The same Portia as in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e171Colchis' (Jason adventured for the golden fleece in the land of Colchis, on the Black Sea.)   strand shore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my schooldays, when I had lost one shaft,140\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI shot his fellow of the selfsame flight141\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe selfsame way with more advised watch142\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo find the other forth, and by adventuring both143\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI oft found both. I urge this childhood proof\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause what follows is pure innocence.145\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI owe you much, and, like a willful youth,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat which I owe is lost; but if you please\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo shoot another arrow that self way148\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs I will watch the aim, or to find both150\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOr bring your latter hazard back again151\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd thankfully rest debtor for the first.152\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou know me well, and herein spend but time153\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo wind about my love with circumstance;154\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd out of doubt you do me now more wrong\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn making question of my uttermost156\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThan if you had made waste of all I have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen do but say to me what I should do\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat in your knowledge may by me be done,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd I am prest unto it. Therefore speak.160\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBASSANIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Belmont is a lady richly left;161\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd she is fair and, fairer than that word,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOf wondrous virtues. Sometimes from her eyes163\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI did receive fair speechless messages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer name is Portia, nothing undervalued165\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia.166\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the four winds blow in from every coast\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRenowned suitors, and her sunny locks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang on her temples like a golden fleece,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhich makes her seat of Belmont Colchis' strand,171\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd many Jasons come in quest of her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e175presages i.e., that presages    thrift profit and good fortune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e178commodity merchandise\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e179a present sum ready money.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e181racked stretched\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e183presently immediately\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e184no question make have no doubt\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e185of my trust on the basis of my credit as a merchant. sake i.e., personal sake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.2. Location: Belmont. Portia's house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1troth faith\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3would be would have reason to be (weary)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5surfeit overindulge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7mean small. (With a pun; see next note.)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7-8 in the mean having neither too much nor too little.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8comes sooner by acquires sooner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9competency modest means\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10sentences maxims.   pronounced delivered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14divine clergyman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e18blood (Thought of as a chief agent of the passions, which in turn were regarded as the enemies of reason.)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOh, my Antonio, had I but the means\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo hold a rival place with one of them,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have a mind presages me such thrift175\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat I should questionless be fortunate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eANTONIO\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither have I money nor commodity178\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo raise a present sum. Therefore go forth.179\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTry what my credit can in Venice do;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat shall be racked even to the uttermost181\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGo presently inquire, and so will I,183\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere money is, and I no question make184\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo have it of my trust or for my sake.Exeunt. 185\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[1.2] A Enter Portia with her waiting woman, Nerissa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePORTIA  By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary   1\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304790675685,"sku":"NP9780553212990","price":6.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780553212990.jpg?v=1767740475","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-merchant-of-venice-isbn-9780553212990","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}