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

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# Act / Scene Speech text
1 III / 1
  • I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.
  • I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.
  • Shylock. How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou
    found my daughter?

    Tubal. I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.

2 III / 1
  • Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
    heard in Genoa,--
  • Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
    heard in Genoa,--
  • Shylock. Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,
    cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse
    never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it
    till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other
    precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter
    were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!
    would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in
    her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know
    not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon
    loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to
    find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:
    nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my
    shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears
    but of my shedding.

    Tubal. Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
    heard in Genoa,--

3 III / 1
  • Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.
  • Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.
  • Shylock. What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?

    Tubal. Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.

4 III / 1
  • I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.
  • I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.
  • Shylock. I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?

    Tubal. I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.

5 III / 1
  • Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
    night fourscore ducats.
  • Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
    night fourscore ducats.
  • Shylock. I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!
    ha, ha! where? in Genoa?

    Tubal. Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
    night fourscore ducats.

6 III / 1
  • There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
    company to Venice, that swear...
  • There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
    company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.
  • Shylock. Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my
    gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
    fourscore ducats!

    Tubal. There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my
    company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.

7 III / 1
  • One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
    daughter for a monkey.
  • One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
    daughter for a monkey.
  • Shylock. I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture
    him: I am glad of it.

    Tubal. One of them showed me a ring that he had of your
    daughter for a monkey.

8 III / 1
  • But Antonio is certainly undone.
  • But Antonio is certainly undone.
  • Shylock. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my
    turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:
    I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

    Tubal. But Antonio is certainly undone.

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