{"id":9275,"date":"2025-11-09T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9275"},"modified":"2025-11-09T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T21:11:05","slug":"the-taming-of-the-shrew-act-v-scene-ii-first-folio-2-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=9275","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant of Venice: Act III, Scene i – First Folio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Merchant of Venice.         Act 3, Scene 1.            Shylock<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Saul Rubinek<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click\u00a0here to see the modern version<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1265  …if it will feede nothing<\/span><\/div>\n
1266  el<\/span>s<\/span>e, it will feede my reuenge; he hath di<\/span>s<\/span>grac’d me, and<\/span><\/div>\n
1267  hindred me halfe a million, laught at my lo<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span><\/span>es, mockt at<\/span><\/div>\n
1268  my gaines, <\/span>s<\/span>corned my Nation, thwarted my bargaines,<\/span><\/div>\n
1269  cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what’s the<\/span><\/div>\n
1270  rea<\/span>s<\/span>on? I am a <\/span>Iewe:<\/i> Hath not a <\/span>Iew<\/i> eyes? hath not a<\/span><\/div>\n
1271  Iew<\/i> hands, organs, dementions, <\/span>s<\/span>ences, a<\/span>ff<\/span>e<\/span>ct<\/span>ions, pa<\/span>s<\/span>s<\/span>i<\/span><\/span>–<\/span><\/div>\n
1272  ons, fed with the <\/span>s<\/span>ame foode, hurt with the <\/span>s<\/span>ame wea<\/span>–<\/span><\/div>\n
1273  pons, s<\/span>ubiect<\/span> to the s<\/span>ame dis<\/span>eas<\/span>es, healed by the s<\/span>ame<\/div>\n
1274  meanes, warmed and cooled by the <\/span>s<\/span>ame Winter and<\/span><\/div>\n
1275  Sommmer as a Chris<\/span>t<\/span>ian is: if you pricke vs doe we not<\/div>\n
1276  bleede? if you tickle vs, doe we not laugh? if you poi<\/span>s<\/span>on<\/span><\/div>\n
1277  vs doe we not die? and if you wrong vs <\/span>s<\/span>h<\/span><\/span>all we not re<\/span>–<\/span><\/div>\n
1278  uenge? if we are like you in the re<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>, we will re<\/span>s<\/span>emble you<\/span><\/div>\n
1279  in that. If a <\/span>Iew<\/i> wrong a <\/span>Chri<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ian<\/span><\/i>, what is his humility,<\/span><\/div>\n
1280  reuenge? If a <\/span>Chri<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ian<\/span><\/i> wrong a <\/span>Iew<\/i>, what <\/span>s<\/span>h<\/span><\/span>ould his <\/span>s<\/span>uf<\/span>–<\/span><\/div>\n
1281  ferance be by Chri<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ian example, why reuenge? The vil<\/span>–<\/span><\/div>\n
1282  lanie you teach me I will execute, and it <\/span>s<\/span>h<\/span><\/span>all goe hard<\/span><\/div>\n
1283  but I will better the in<\/span>s<\/span>t<\/span><\/span>ru<\/span>ct<\/span>ion.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Merchant of Venice.         Act 3, Scene 1.            Shylock (This text is featured in our\u00a0interview with Saul Rubinek) Click\u00a0here to see the modern version. 1265  …if it will feede nothing 1266  else, it will feede my reuenge; he hath disgrac’d me, and 1267  hindred me halfe a million, laught at<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-2pB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9297,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9275\/revisions\/9297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}