 How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian, But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the...  Merchant of Venice. As you like it - Page 32by William Shakespeare - 1785Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Leggatt - 2005 - 296 pages
...throughout the play. Conversely, money is at once the root of the enmity between Shylock and Antonio - 'He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice' (i. iii. 39-40) and its ultimate means of expression : If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not As... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - 2006 - 324 pages
...New Hungarian Quarterly (1964): 33-40. 26. Shylock does see this difference when he says of Antonio, "He lends out money gratis, and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" (1.3.39-40). 27. Mayer (see note 4), 315. 28. Giving enthusiastic praise to the "young Daniel come... | |
 | S. P. Cerasano, Heather Anne Hirschfeld - 2006 - 356 pages
...this second point of difference from Antonio has already been stressed in Shy lock's complaint that he "lends out money gratis and brings down / The rate of usance here with us in Venice" (41-42). Conversely, Antonio reminds Shylock that under normal circumstances "I neither lend nor borrow... | |
 | Miriam Weinmann - 2007 - 57 pages
...ungestört seine Geldgeschäfte in Venedig ausführen zu können. ("... I hate him for he is a ChristianA But more, for that in low simplicity\ He lends out...and brings down\ The rate of usance here with us in VeniceA If I can catch him once upon the hip,\ I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. ..."... | |
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