the Merchant of Venice.
18271821Iessi. Well, ile
set you forth.
Exit. 18281822Enter the Duke, the Magnificoes, Anthonio, Bassanio, 18311825Antho. Ready,
so plea
se your grace?
18321826Duke. I am
sorry for thee, thou art come to aun
swere
18331827a
stonie aduer
sarie, an inhumaine wretch,
18341828vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty
18371831your grace hath tane great paines to qualli
fie
18381832his rigorous cour
se; but
since he
stands obdurate,
18391833And that no lawfull meanes can carry me
18401834out of his enuies reach, I doe oppo
se
18411835my patience to his furie, and am armd
18421836to
su
ffer with a quietnes of
spirit,
18431837the very tiranny and rage of his.
18441838Duke. Goe one and call the Iew into the Court.
18451839Salerio. He is ready at the dore, he comes my Lord.
18471841Duke. Make roome, and let him
stand before our face.
18481842Shylocke the world thinks, and I thinke
so to
18491843that thou but leade
st this fa
shion of thy mallice
18501844to the la
st houre of a
ct, and then tis thought
18511845thowlt
shew thy mercy and remor
se more
strange,
18521846than is thy
strange apparant cruelty;
18531847and where thou now exa
cts the penalty,
18541848which is a pound of this poore Merchants
fle
sh,
18551849thou wilt not onely loo
se the forfaiture,
18561850but toucht with humaine gentlenes and loue:
18571851Forgiue a moytie of the principall,
18581852glauncing an eye of pitty on his lo
sses
18591853that haue of late
so hudled on his backe,
18601854Enow to pre
sse a royall Merchant downe;
18611855And pluck comi
seration of this
states
18621856from bra
ssie bo
somes and rough harts of
flints,
18631857from
stubborne Turkes, and Tarters neuer traind
G3 to