Part 21 (2/2)

You call aberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own

Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, 'Shylock, ould have moneys:' you say so You that did void your rheuer cur Over your threshold: moneys is your suit

What should I say to you? Should I not say 'Hath a dog money? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?'”

Antonio answers this in words which it would be almost impossible to take for Shakespeare's because of their brutal rudeness, were it not, as we shall see later, that Shakespeare loathed the Jew usurer more than any character in all his plays Here are the words:

”_Ant_ I aain, to spurn thee too

If thou will lend this money, lend it not As to thy friends; for when did friendshi+p take A breed for barren metal of his friend?

But lend it rather to thine enemy Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face Exact the penalty”

Then Shylock makes peace, and proposes his modest penalty Bassanio says:

”You shall not seal to such a bond for me: I'll rather dwell in my necessity”

Antonio is perfectly careless and content: he says:

”Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond, And say there is much kindness in the Jew”

Antonio's heedless trust of other n to the ain by Shakespeare's impersonations

Perhaps it will be well here to prove once for all that Shakespeare did really hate the Jew In the first place he excites our syrounds of common humanity; but the moment it comes to a particular occasion he represents hiht him that the Jew must be at his best It is a peculiarity of humanity which Shakespeare should not have overlooked, that all pariahs and outcasts display intense faenerally at their noblest in their own homes The pressure fro about cohesion a the members of the despised caste The family affection of the Jew, his kindness to his kindred, have become proverbial But Shakespeare adhter leaves Shylock one would think that Shakespeare would picture the father's desolation andhis only child; but here there is no touch of syhter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin!”

But there is even better proof than this: when Shylock is defeated in his case and leaves the Court penniless and broken, Shakespeare allows hientleman Shylock becomes pathetic in his defeat, for Shakespeare always syrief himself:

”_Shy_ Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live”

”_Por_ What ratis; nothing else for God's sake”

And then Antonio offers to ”quit the fine for one-half his goods”

Utterly broken now, Shylock says:

”I pray you, give o fron it

_Duke_ Get thee gone, but do it

_Gra In christening shalt thou have two Godfathers: Had I been judge, thou should'st have had ten allows, not the font”

A brutal insult froentleman to the broken Jew: it is the only time in all Shakespeare when a beaten and ruined man is so insulted

Antonio, itsketch of Shakespeare when he was about thirty years of age, and it is a to reflect that it is just the rich merchant with all his wealth at hazard whom he picks out to embody his utter contempt of riches The ”royal merchant,” as he calls him, trained from youth to barter, is the very last man in the world to back such a venture as Bassanio's--much less would such a inning of the play put hi antinomy came to expression