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| Name | Merchant of Venice F TextMap |
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| Description | Includes stage directions etc. |
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| Contributor | Hugh Craig |
| Entries | 97 |
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| Added to System | 2025-11-29 06:29:03 |
| Updated in System | 2025-11-30 11:55:11 |
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venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing,
more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two
graines of wheate hid in two bushels of chaffe: you shall
seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them
they are not worth the search."
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venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Thou knowst that all my fortunes are at sea,
Neither haue I money, nor commodity
To raise a present summe, therefore goe forth
Try what my credit can in Venice doe,
That shall be rackt euen to the vttermost,
To furnish thee to Belmont to faire Portia."
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cholchos
- Placename
- cholchos
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"In Belmont is a Lady richly left,
And she is faire, and fairer then that word,
Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes
I did receiue faire speechlesse messages:
Her name is Portia, nothing vndervallewd
To Cato's daughter, Brutus Portia,
Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
For the foure windes blow in from euery coast
Renowned sutors, and her sunny locks
Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,
Which makes her seat of Belmont Cholchos strond,
And many Iasons come in quest of her."
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italian
- Placename
- italian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"You know I say nothing to him, for hee vnder-
stands not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latine, French,
nor Italian, and you will come into the Court & sweare
that I haue a poore pennie-worth in the English: hee is a
proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a
dumbe show?"
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french
- Placename
- french
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"How say you by the French Lord, Mounsier
Le Boune?"
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england
- Placename
- england
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"What say you then to Fauconbridge, the yong
Baron of England?"
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neopolitans
- Placename
- neopolitans
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"God made him, and therefore let him passe for a
man, in truth I know it is a sinne to be a mocker, but he,
why he hath a horse better then the Neopolitans, a bet-
ter bad habite of frowning then the Count Palentine, he
is euery man in no man, if a Trassell sing, he fals straight
a capring, he will fence with his own shadow."
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neopolitane
- Placename
- neopolitane
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"First there is the Neopolitane Prince."
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french
- Placename
- french
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"You know I say nothing to him, for hee vnder-
stands not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latine, French,
nor Italian, and you will come into the Court & sweare
that I haue a poore pennie-worth in the English: hee is a
proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a
dumbe show?"
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france
- Placename
- france
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"how odly he is suited, I thinke he bought
his doublet in Italie, his round hose in France, his bonnet
in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where."
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germanie
- Placename
- germanie
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"how odly he is suited, I thinke he bought
his doublet in Italie, his round hose in France, his bonnet
in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where."
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english
- Placename
- english
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"You know I say nothing to him, for hee vnder-
stands not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latine, French,
nor Italian, and you will come into the Court & sweare
that I haue a poore pennie-worth in the English: hee is a
proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a
dumbe show?"
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italie
- Placename
- italie
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"how odly he is suited, I thinke he bought
his doublet in Italie, his round hose in France, his bonnet
in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where."
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venecian
- Placename
- venecian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Doe you not remember Ladie in your Fa-
thers time, a Venecian, a Scholler and a Souldior that
came hither in companie of the Marquesse of Mountferrat?"
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mountferrat
- Placename
- mountferrat
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Doe you not remember Ladie in your Fa-
thers time, a Venecian, a Scholler and a Souldior that
came hither in companie of the Marquesse of Mountferrat?"
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germaine
- Placename
- germaine
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"How like you the yong Germaine, the Duke of
Saxonies Nephew?"
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englishman
- Placename
- englishman
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"That he hath a neighbourly charitie in him, for
he borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Englishman, and
swore he would pay him againe when hee was able: I
thinke the Frenchman became his suretie, and seald vnder
for another."
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saxonies
- Placename
- saxonies
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"How like you the yong Germaine, the Duke of
Saxonies Nephew?"
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frenchman
- Placename
- frenchman
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"That he hath a neighbourly charitie in him, for
he borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Englishman, and
swore he would pay him againe when hee was able: I
thinke the Frenchman became his suretie, and seald vnder
for another."
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moroco
- Placename
- moroco
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The foure Strangers seeke you Madam to take
their leaue: and there is a fore-runner come from a fift,
the Prince of Moroco, who brings word the Prince his
Maister will be here to night."
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tripolis
- Placename
- tripolis
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is suffi-
cient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argo-
sie bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnder-
stand moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath
squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but
men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues,
and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the
perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is notwith-
standing sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may
take his bond."
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indies
- Placename
- indies
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is suffi-
cient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argo-
sie bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnder-
stand moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath
squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but
men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues,
and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the
perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is notwith-
standing sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may
take his bond."
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ryalta
- Placename
- ryalta
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is suffi-
cient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argo-
sie bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnder-
stand moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath
squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but
men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues,
and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the
perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is notwith-
standing sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may
take his bond."
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mexico
- Placename
- mexico
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is suffi-
cient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argo-
sie bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnder-
stand moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath
squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but
men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues,
and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the
perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is notwith-
standing sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may
take his bond."
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ryalta
- Placename
- ryalta
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"What newes on the Ryalta, who is he comes here?"
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nazarite
- Placename
- nazarite
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Yes, to smell porke, to eate of the habitation
which your Prophet the Nazarite coniured the diuell
into: I will buy with you, sell with you, talke with
you, walke with you, and so following: but I will
not eate with you, drinke with you, nor pray with you."
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england
- Placename
- england
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Ho no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a
good man, is to haue you vnderstand me that he is suffi-
cient, yet his meanes are in supposition: he hath an Argo-
sie bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies, I vnder-
stand moreouer vpon the Ryalta, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures hee hath
squandred abroad, but ships are but boords, Saylers but
men, there be land rats, and water rats, water theeues,
and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there is the
perrill of waters, windes, and rocks: the man is notwith-
standing sufficient, three thousand ducats, I thinke I may
take his bond."
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ryalto
- Placename
- ryalto
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Signior Anthonio, many a time and oft
In the Ryalto you haue rated me
About my monies and my vsances:
Still haue I borne it with a patient shrug,
(For suffrance is the badge of all our Tribe. )"
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venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"I hate him for he is a Christian:
But more, for that in low simplicitie
He lends out money gratis, and brings downe
The rate of vsance here with vs in Venice."
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persian
- Placename
- persian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Euen for that I thanke you,
Therefore I pray you leade me to the Caskets
To trie my fortune: By this Symitare
That slew the Sophie, and a Persian Prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would ore-stare the sternest eies that looke:
Out-braue the heart most daring on the earth:
Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare,
Yea, mocke the Lion when he rores for pray
To win the Ladie."
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italie
- Placename
- italie
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Father in, I cannot get a seruice, no, I haue nere
a tongue in my head, well: if anie man in Italie haue a
fairer table which doth offer to sweare vpon a booke, I
shall haue good fortune; goe too, here's a simple line
of life, here's a small trifle of wiues, alas, fifteene wiues
is nothing, a leuen widdowes and nine maides is a sim-
ple comming in for one man, and then to scape drow-
ning thrice, and to be in perill of my life with the edge
of a featherbed, here are simple scapes: well, if Fortune
be a woman, she's a good wench for this gere: Father
come, Ile take my leaue of the Iew in the twinkling."
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hircanion
- Placename
- hircanion
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The Hircanion deserts, and the vaste wildes
Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
For Princes to come view faire Portia."
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morocho
- Placename
- morocho
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"As much as he deserues; pause there Morocho,
And weigh thy value with an euen hand,
If thou beest rated by thy estimation
Thou doost deserue enough, and yet enough
May not extend so farre as to the Ladie:
And yet to be afeard of my deseruing,
Were but a weake disabling of my selfe."
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frenchman
- Placename
- frenchman
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Marry well remembred,
I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscaried
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:
I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me,
And wisht in silence that it were not his."
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venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,
Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats."
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england
- Placename
- england
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"They haue in England
A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell
Stampt in gold, but that's insculpt vpon:
But here an Angell in a golden bed
Lies all within."
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english
- Placename
- english
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Marry well remembred,
I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscaried
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:
I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me,
And wisht in silence that it were not his."
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french
- Placename
- french
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Marry well remembred,
I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscaried
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:
I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me,
And wisht in silence that it were not his."
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arabia
- Placename
- arabia
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The Hircanion deserts, and the vaste wildes
Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
For Princes to come view faire Portia."
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arragon
- Placename
- arragon
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The Prince of Arragon hath tane his oath,
And comes to his election presently."
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venetian
- Placename
- venetian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Madam, there is a-lighted at your gate
A yong Venetian, one that comes before
To signifie th' approaching of his Lord,
From whom he bringeth sensible regreets;
To wit (besides commends and curteous breath)
Gifts of rich value; yet I haue not seene
So likely an Embassador of loue."
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genowa
- Placename
- genowa
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"How now Tuball, what newes from Genowa?"
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goodwins
- Placename
- goodwins
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio
hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the
Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous
flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye
buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest wo-
man of her word."
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franckford
- Placename
- franckford
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone
cost me two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse ne-
uer fell vpon our Nation till now, I neuer felt it till now,
two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, preci-
ous iewels: I would my daughter were dead at my foot,
and the iewels in her eare: would she were hearst at my
foote, and the duckets in her coffin: no newes of them,
why so?"
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- sentence_end_index
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ryalto
- Placename
- ryalto
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, a
prodigall, who dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto,
a begger that was vsd to come so smug vpon the Mart:
let him look to his bond, he was wont to call me Vsurer,
let him looke to his bond, he was wont to lend money
for a Christian curtsie, let him looke to his bond."
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ryalto
- Placename
- ryalto
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Now, what newes on the Ryalto?"
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- 52161
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turkies
- Placename
- turkies
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Out vpon her, thou torturest me Tuball, it was
my Turkies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batcheler: I
would not haue giuen it for a wildernesse of Monkies."
Extended Data
- line
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- sentence_start_index
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- sentence_end_index
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Sources
genowa
- Placename
- genowa
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Yes, other men haue ill lucke too, Anthonio as I
heard in Genowa?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1325
- word
- 2
- offset
- 56538
- sentence_start_index
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- sentence_end_index
- 56545
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"There came diuers of Anthonios creditors in my
company to Venice, that sweare hee cannot choose but
breake."
Extended Data
- line
- 1340
- word
- 2
- offset
- 57109
- sentence_start_index
- 57051
- sentence_end_index
- 57158
Sources
genowa
- Placename
- genowa
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one
night fourescore ducats."
Extended Data
- line
- 1334
- word
- 5
- offset
- 56875
- sentence_start_index
- 56852
- sentence_end_index
- 56923
Sources
genowa
- Placename
- genowa
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"I thanke thee good Tuball, good newes, good
newes: ha, ha, here in Genowa."
Extended Data
- line
- 1333
- word
- 5
- offset
- 56839
- sentence_start_index
- 56772
- sentence_end_index
- 56846
Sources
venetian
- Placename
- venetian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"What and my old Venetian friend Salerio?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1587
- word
- 4
- offset
- 67317
- sentence_start_index
- 67300
- sentence_end_index
- 67341
Sources
indian
- Placename
- indian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea: the beautious scarfe
Vailing an Indian beautie; In a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To intrap the wisest."
Extended Data
- line
- 1462
- word
- 2
- offset
- 62139
- sentence_start_index
- 62043
- sentence_end_index
- 62232
Sources
troy
- Placename
- troy
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Now he goes
With no lesse presence, but with much more loue
Then yong Alcides, when he did redeeme
The virgine tribute, paied by howling Troy
To the Sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice,
The rest aloofe are the Dardanian wiues:
With bleared visages come forth to view
The issue of th' exploit: Goe Hercules,
Liue thou, I liue with much more dismay
I view the sight, then thou that mak'st the fray."
Extended Data
- line
- 1416
- word
- 6
- offset
- 60388
- sentence_start_index
- 60251
- sentence_end_index
- 60646
Sources
tripolis
- Placename
- tripolis
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1645
- word
- 1
- offset
- 69514
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Your hand Salerio, what's the newes from Venice?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1610
- word
- 7
- offset
- 68194
- sentence_start_index
- 68152
- sentence_end_index
- 68201
Sources
barbary
- Placename
- barbary
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1646
- word
- 2
- offset
- 69562
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
mexico
- Placename
- mexico
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1645
- word
- 3
- offset
- 69529
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
england
- Placename
- england
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1645
- word
- 5
- offset
- 69540
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
lisbon
- Placename
- lisbon
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1646
- word
- 1
- offset
- 69554
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The Duke cannot deny the course of law:
For the commoditie that strangers haue
With vs in Venice, if it be denied,
Will much impeach the iustice of the State,
Since that the trade and profit of the citty
Consisteth of all Nations."
Extended Data
- line
- 1736
- word
- 3
- offset
- 73377
- sentence_start_index
- 73287
- sentence_end_index
- 73517
Sources
italie
- Placename
- italie
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The deerest friend to me, the kindest man,
The best condition'd, and vnwearied spirit
In doing curtesies: and one in whom
The ancient Romane honour more appeares
Then any that drawes breath in Italie."
Extended Data
- line
- 1674
- word
- 6
- offset
- 70732
- sentence_start_index
- 70539
- sentence_end_index
- 70739
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"First goe with me to Church, and call me wife,
And then away to Venice to your friend:
For neuer shall you lie by Portias side
With an vnquiet soule."
Extended Data
- line
- 1683
- word
- 4
- offset
- 71061
- sentence_start_index
- 70996
- sentence_end_index
- 71146
Sources
india
- Placename
- india
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,
From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
From Lisbon, Barbary, and India,
And not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch
Of Merchant-marring rocks?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1646
- word
- 4
- offset
- 69575
- sentence_start_index
- 69461
- sentence_end_index
- 69654
Sources
romane
- Placename
- romane
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"The deerest friend to me, the kindest man,
The best condition'd, and vnwearied spirit
In doing curtesies: and one in whom
The ancient Romane honour more appeares
Then any that drawes breath in Italie."
Extended Data
- line
- 1673
- word
- 2
- offset
- 70673
- sentence_start_index
- 70539
- sentence_end_index
- 70739
Sources
moore
- Placename
- moore
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"I shall answere that better to the Common-
wealth, than you can the getting vp of the Negroes bel-
lie: the Moore is with childe by you Launcelet?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1872
- word
- 2
- offset
- 79182
- sentence_start_index
- 79074
- sentence_end_index
- 79220
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Now Balthaser, as I haue euer found thee honest true,
So let me finde thee still: take this same letter,
And vse thou all the indeauor of a man,
In speed to Mantua, see thou render this
Into my cosins hand, Doctor Belario,
And looke what notes and garments he doth giue thee,
Bring them I pray thee with imagin'd speed
Vnto the Tranect, to the common Ferrie
Which trades to Venice; waste no time in words,
But get thee gone, I shall be there before thee."
Extended Data
- line
- 1802
- word
- 3
- offset
- 76057
- sentence_start_index
- 75682
- sentence_end_index
- 76137
Sources
mantua
- Placename
- mantua
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Now Balthaser, as I haue euer found thee honest true,
So let me finde thee still: take this same letter,
And vse thou all the indeauor of a man,
In speed to Mantua, see thou render this
Into my cosins hand, Doctor Belario,
And looke what notes and garments he doth giue thee,
Bring them I pray thee with imagin'd speed
Vnto the Tranect, to the common Ferrie
Which trades to Venice; waste no time in words,
But get thee gone, I shall be there before thee."
Extended Data
- line
- 1797
- word
- 3
- offset
- 75840
- sentence_start_index
- 75682
- sentence_end_index
- 76137
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scilla
- Placename
- scilla
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Truly then I feare you are damned both by fa-
ther and mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, I
fall into Charibdis your mother; well, you are gone both
waies."
Extended Data
- line
- 1849
- word
- 7
- offset
- 78193
- sentence_start_index
- 78113
- sentence_end_index
- 78278
Sources
moore
- Placename
- moore
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"It is much that the Moore should be more then
reason: but if she be lesse then an honest woman, shee is
indeed more then I tooke her for."
Extended Data
- line
- 1873
- word
- 6
- offset
- 79247
- sentence_start_index
- 79227
- sentence_end_index
- 79364
Sources
charibdis
- Placename
- charibdis
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Truly then I feare you are damned both by fa-
ther and mother: thus when I shun Scilla your father, I
fall into Charibdis your mother; well, you are gone both
waies."
Extended Data
- line
- 1850
- word
- 2
- offset
- 78225
- sentence_start_index
- 78113
- sentence_end_index
- 78278
Sources
tarters
- Placename
- tarters
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Shylocke the world thinkes, and I thinke so to
That thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice
To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought
Thou'lt shew thy mercy and remorse more strange,
Than is thy strange apparant cruelty;
And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
Which is a pound of this poore Merchants flesh,
Thou wilt not onely loose the forfeiture,
But touch'd with humane gentlenesse and loue:
Forgiue a moytie of the principall,
Glancing an eye of pitty on his losses
That haue of late so hudled on his backe,
Enow to presse a royall Merchant downe;
And plucke commiseration of his state
From brassie bosomes, and rough hearts of flints,
From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind
To offices of tender curtesie,
We all expect a gentle answer Iew?"
Extended Data
- line
- 1961
- word
- 4
- offset
- 82915
- sentence_start_index
- 82234
- sentence_end_index
- 83001
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venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"If you deny me; fie vpon your Law,
There is no force in the decrees of Venice;
I stand for iudgement, answer, Shall I haue it?"
Extended Data
- line
- 2034
- word
- 8
- offset
- 86020
- sentence_start_index
- 85948
- sentence_end_index
- 86075
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"I haue spoke thus much
To mittigate the iustice of thy plea:
Which if thou follow, this strict course of Venice
Must needes giue sentence 'gainst the Merchant there."
Extended Data
- line
- 2140
- word
- 8
- offset
- 90671
- sentence_start_index
- 90566
- sentence_end_index
- 90731
Sources
venetian
- Placename
- venetian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Of a strange nature is the sute you follow,
Yet in such rule, that the Venetian Law
Cannot impugne you as you do proceed."
Extended Data
- line
- 2112
- word
- 6
- offset
- 89526
- sentence_start_index
- 89455
- sentence_end_index
- 89576
Sources
rome
- Placename
- rome
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"YOur Grace shall vnderstand, that at the receite of your
Letter I am very sicke: but in the instant that your mes-
senger came, in louing visitation, was with me a young Doctor of Rome, his name is Balthasar: I acquained him with
the cause in Controuersie, betweene the Iew and Anthonio
the Merchant: We turn'd ore many Bookes together: hee is
furnished with my opinion, which bettred with his owne lear-
ning, the greatnesse whereof I cannot enough commend, comes
with him at my importunity, to fill vp your Graces request in
my sted."
Extended Data
- line
- 2088
- word
- 12
- offset
- 88345
- sentence_start_index
- 88164
- sentence_end_index
- 88700
Sources
padua
- Placename
- padua
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"My Lord, heere stayes without
A Messenger with Letters from the Doctor,
New come from Padua."
Extended Data
- line
- 2042
- word
- 3
- offset
- 86306
- sentence_start_index
- 86220
- sentence_end_index
- 86312
Sources
padua
- Placename
- padua
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Came you from Padua from Bellario?"
Extended Data
- line
- 2053
- word
- 4
- offset
- 86762
- sentence_start_index
- 86748
- sentence_end_index
- 86782
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"It must not be, there is no power in Venice
Can alter a decree established:
'Twill be recorded for a President,
And
180The Merchant of Venice."
Extended Data
- line
- 2154
- word
- 10
- offset
- 91295
- sentence_start_index
- 91258
- sentence_end_index
- 91400
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Tarry a little, there is something else,
This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud,
The words expresly are a pound of flesh:
Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods
Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate
Vnto the state of Venice."
Extended Data
- line
- 2253
- word
- 5
- offset
- 95390
- sentence_start_index
- 95100
- sentence_end_index
- 95433
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Tarry a little, there is something else,
This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud,
The words expresly are a pound of flesh:
Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods
Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate
Vnto the state of Venice."
Extended Data
- line
- 2254
- word
- 4
- offset
- 95426
- sentence_start_index
- 95100
- sentence_end_index
- 95433
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"No not for Venice."
Extended Data
- line
- 2168
- word
- 3
- offset
- 91814
- sentence_start_index
- 91802
- sentence_end_index
- 91821
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"It is enacted in the Lawes of Venice,
If it be proued against an Alien,
That by direct, or indirect attempts
He seeke the life of any Citizen,
The party gainst the which he doth contriue,
Shall seaze one halfe his goods, the other halfe
Comes to the priuie coffer of the State,
And the offenders life lies in the mercy
Of the Duke onely, gainst all other voice."
Extended Data
- line
- 2295
- word
- 7
- offset
- 97036
- sentence_start_index
- 97005
- sentence_end_index
- 97367
Sources
padua
- Placename
- padua
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"I humbly doe desire your Grace of pardon,
I must away this night toward Padua,
And it is meete I presently set forth."
Extended Data
- line
- 2352
- word
- 6
- offset
- 99431
- sentence_start_index
- 99359
- sentence_end_index
- 99476
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"There's more depends on this then on the valew,
The dearest ring in Venice will I giue you,
And finde it out by proclamation,
Onely for this I pray you pardon me."
Extended Data
- line
- 2385
- word
- 4
- offset
- 100834
- sentence_start_index
- 100766
- sentence_end_index
- 100928
Sources
grecian
- Placename
- grecian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"In such a night as this,
When the sweet winde did gently kisse the trees,
And they did make no nnyse, in such a night
Troylus me thinkes mounted the Troian walls,
And sigh'd his soule toward the Grecian tents
Where Cressed lay that night."
Extended Data
- line
- 2440
- word
- 6
- offset
- 103034
- sentence_start_index
- 102839
- sentence_end_index
- 103077
Sources
carthage
- Placename
- carthage
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"In such a night
Stood Dido with a Willow in her hand
Vpon the wilde sea bankes, and waft her Loue
To come againe to Carthage."
Extended Data
- line
- 2449
- word
- 4
- offset
- 103328
- sentence_start_index
- 103212
- sentence_end_index
- 103337
Sources
venice
- Placename
- venice
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"In such a night
Did Iessica steale from the wealthy Iewe,
And with an Vnthrift Loue did runne from Venice,
As farre as Belmont."
Extended Data
- line
- 2455
- word
- 8
- offset
- 103526
- sentence_start_index
- 103427
- sentence_end_index
- 103554
Sources
troian
- Placename
- troian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"In such a night as this,
When the sweet winde did gently kisse the trees,
And they did make no nnyse, in such a night
Troylus me thinkes mounted the Troian walls,
And sigh'd his soule toward the Grecian tents
Where Cressed lay that night."
Extended Data
- line
- 2439
- word
- 5
- offset
- 102988
- sentence_start_index
- 102839
- sentence_end_index
- 103077
Sources
antipodes
- Placename
- antipodes
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"We should hold day with the Antipodes,
If you would walke in absence of the sunne."
Extended Data
- line
- 2582
- word
- 7
- offset
- 108501
- sentence_start_index
- 108473
- sentence_end_index
- 108555
Sources
padua
- Placename
- padua
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Speake not so grossely, you are all amaz'd;
Heere is a letter, reade it at your leysure,
It comes from Padua from Bellario,
There you shall finde that Portia was the Doctor,
Nerrissa there her Clarke."
Extended Data
- line
- 2730
- word
- 3
- offset
- 114734
- sentence_start_index
- 114631
- sentence_end_index
- 114831
Sources
narrow
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio
hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the
Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous
flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye
buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest wo-
man of her word."
Extended Data
- offset
- 52255
Sources
narrow
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio
hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the
Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous
flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye
buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest wo-
man of her word."
Extended Data
- offset
- 52255
Sources
Dardanian
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Now he goes
With no lesse presence, but with much more loue
Then yong Alcides, when he did redeeme
The virgine tribute, paied by howling Troy
To the Sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice,
The rest aloofe are the Dardanian wiues:
With bleared visages come forth to view
The issue of th' exploit: Goe Hercules,
Liue thou, I liue with much more dismay
I view the sight, then thou that mak'st the fray."
Extended Data
- offset
- 60460
Sources
Turkes
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Shylocke the world thinkes, and I thinke so to
That thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice
To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought
Thou'lt shew thy mercy and remorse more strange,
Than is thy strange apparant cruelty;
And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
Which is a pound of this poore Merchants flesh,
Thou wilt not onely loose the forfeiture,
But touch'd with humane gentlenesse and loue:
Forgiue a moytie of the principall,
Glancing an eye of pitty on his losses
That haue of late so hudled on his backe,
Enow to presse a royall Merchant downe;
And plucke commiseration of his state
From brassie bosomes, and rough hearts of flints,
From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind
To offices of tender curtesie,
We all expect a gentle answer Iew?"
Extended Data
- offset
- 82904
Sources
Reinish
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"Therefore for feare of the worst, I pray thee set
a deepe glasse of Reinish-wine on the contrary Casket,
for if the diuell be within, and that temptation without,
I know he will choose it."
Extended Data
- offset
- 12701
Sources
rennish
- Type
- Text
Details
Description
"There is more difference betweene thy flesh and
hers, then betweene Iet and Iuorie, more betweene your
bloods, then there is betweene red wine and rennish: but
tell vs, doe you heare whether Anthonio haue had anie
losse at sea or no?"
Extended Data
- offset
- 53817
