Section 126. Shylock⁠ Meditating Revenge

If it will feed⁠ nothing else (S. 27, N. 8), it will⁠ feed my revenge. He has disgraced⁠ me, and hindered⁠ me of half a million! laughed⁠ at my losses, mocked⁠ at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted⁠ my bargains, cooled⁠ my friends, heated⁠ my enemies! And⁠ what’s his reason? I am a Jew! Has⁠ not a Jew eyes? Has not a Jew hands, organs, senses, affections,⁠ passions? Is (S. 2, N. 1) he not fed with⁠ the same food, hurt with the same weapon, subject⁠ to the same diseases, healed⁠ by the same means, warmed⁠ and cooled by the same summer and winter, as a Christian is? If⁠ you stab 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 (S. 27, N. 8), we will resemble you in that⁠! If a Jew wrong a Christian, what⁠ is his humility? Revenge⁠. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what⁠ should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why⁠, revenge! The villany you teach (S. 42, N. 4) me I⁠ will execute; and⁠ it shall go hard but⁠ I will better the instruction.—William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice.”

Shylock auf Rache sinnend.

feed = satisfy.

Insert the adv. doch after the subject.

disgraced = insulted, beschimpft.

einen um etwas bringen.

Supply ‘has’ to begin this clause; at, über, with acc.

to mock at a thing, etwas verspotten, v. tr.; ‘my gains’ may be rendered by meinen Profit.

crossed (durchkreu´zen) my enterprises.

cooled = made indifferent.

heated = incited (auf´reizen).

And for what (aus welchem) reason?

As a rule the English ‘not a’ or ‘not an’ is best rendered by the indef. numeral kein. Say ‘Has a Jew no eyes’?

feelings.

von.

Say ‘is he not subject to’, etc.; to be subject to a thing, einer Sache unterworfen sein.

This verb requires again the passive voice, and copula and subject must be supplied; by, durch.

Say ‘not warmed’, the auxiliary need not be repeated here.

Begin with the principal sentence in this and the two following passages. ‘You’, here ihr.

Say ‘and we shall not revenge ourselves, if you wrong us (Unrecht zufügen)’.

to be like, gleichen, with dat.; in the rest, in allem übrigen.

in that, darin.

what is = in what (wherein) consists.

In der Rache.

in what (wherein) shall according to the Christian example consist his sufferance (Dulden, n., or Duldung, f.)?

Nun, doch wohl in der Rache!

ich will sie anwenden.

and — hard, und es müßte seltsam zugehen.

but — instruction = if I should not even (noch, after ‘not’) excel (‘should excel’ Imperf. of the Subj. of übertreffen; App. § 33) my teachers.