Posts tagged Portia

Posted 5 months ago

The Merchant of Venice (IV,i,180-187)

  1. Portia:
  2. You stand within his danger, do you not?
  3. Antonio:
  4. Ay, so he says.
  5. Portia:
  6. Do you confess the bond?
  7. Antonio:
  8. I do.
  9. Portia:
  10. Then must the Jew be merciful.
  11. Shylock:
  12. On what compulsion must I? tell me that.
  13. Portia:
  14. The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
  15. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
  16. Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
  17. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.
Posted 1 year ago
Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so father’d and so husbanded?

Portia

Julius Caesar (II,i,296-297)

Posted 1 year ago

The Merchant of Venice: "A Pound of Flesh" (IV,i,304-307)

  1. Shylock:
  2. Most learnèd judge, a sentence! Come prepare!
  3. Portia:
  4. Tarry a little, there is something else.
  5. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
  6. The words expressly are "a pound of flesh."