Speeches (Lines) for Servant in "The Merchant of Venice"

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# Act / Scene Speech text
1 I / 2
  • The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
    their leave: and there is a...
  • The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
    their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a
    fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
    prince his master will be here to-night.
  • Portia. I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of
    thy praise.
    [Enter a Serving-man]
    How now! what news?

    Servant. The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take
    their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a
    fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the
    prince his master will be here to-night.

2 II / 9
  • Where is my lady?
  • Where is my lady?
  • Portia. Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.

    Servant. Where is my lady?

3 II / 9
  • Madam, there is alighted at your gate
    A young Venetian, one that comes befor...
  • Madam, there is alighted at your gate
    A young Venetian, one that comes before
    To signify the approaching of his lord;
    From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
    To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
    Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
    So likely an ambassador of love:
    A day in April never came so sweet,
    To show how costly summer was at hand,
    As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
  • Portia. Here: what would my lord?

    Servant. Madam, there is alighted at your gate
    A young Venetian, one that comes before
    To signify the approaching of his lord;
    From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
    To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
    Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
    So likely an ambassador of love:
    A day in April never came so sweet,
    To show how costly summer was at hand,
    As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.

4 III / 1
  • Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
    desires to speak with you b...
  • Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
    desires to speak with you both.
  • Shylock. To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will
    feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million;
    laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted
    my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his
    reason? - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
    dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt
    with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same
    means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a
    Christian is? If you prick 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, 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 villainy you teach me, I will execute, and it
    shall go hard but I will better the instruction.

    Servant. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
    desires to speak with you both.

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