 | S. P. Cerasano - 2004 - 228 pages
...more for that in low simplicity3 35 He lends out money gratis4 and brings down The rate of usance5 here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip,6 I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,8 40... | |
 | 2004 - 494 pages
...loan of three thousand ducats from a Jewish banker. How like a fawning publican he looks. I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity...and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.1 Historians, I know, must be wary of citing Shakespeare for their purposes. They are famous... | |
 | John Russell Brown - 2005 - 264 pages
...the bond, Shylock discovers his hatred in an aside : I hate him for he is a Christian, But more/or that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis and...brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. . . . (I. iii. 43-6) Shylock lends only for what he can gain, Antonio for the sake of friendship ;... | |
 | Amanda Jayne Parr - 2005 - 342 pages
...history's most influential authors. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Shylock proclaims that 'if I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge,' whilst in Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark decrees... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Various - 2004 - 1060 pages
...contained in his ships at sea. On this, Shylock thought within himself: 'If I can once catch him on the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our Jewish nation; he lends out money gratis; and among the merchants he rails at me and my well-earned... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2006 - 384 pages
...a Christian, (pause) But more for that (pause) in low simplicity He lends out money gratis (pause) and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice, (pause) If I catch him once upon the hip, (pause) I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. All... | |
 | 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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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. 
