Shy. I say my daughter is my flesh and 40
blood.
Salar. There is more difference between thy
flesh and hers than between jet and ivory; more
between your bloods than there is between red 44
wine and Rhenish. But tell us, do you hear
whether Antonio have had any loss at sea
or no?
Shy. There I have another bad match: a 48
bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his
head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was used to
come so smug upon the mart; let him look to his
bond: he was wont to call me usurer; let him look 52
to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a
Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond.
Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit thou
wilt not take his flesh: what's that good for? 56
Shy. To bait fish withal: if it feed nothing
else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced
me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at
my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my 60
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, affec- 64
tions, passions? fed with the same food, hurt
with the same weapons, subject to the same dis-
eases, healed by the same means, warmed and
cooled by the same winter and summer, as a 68
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 72
will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a
