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PORTIA (describing her suitors) The Neapolitan prince is a colt indee - PPT Presentation

disguised as a male lawyer pleading with Shylock for mercy The quality of mercy is not strained It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath It is twice blest It blesseth h ID: 453700

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PORTIA (describing her suitors) The Neapolitan prince is a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but talk of his horse; and he makes it a great appropriation to his own good parts that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother played false with a smith. The County Palatine doth nothing but frown; he hears merry tales and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather bemarried to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth (disguised as a male lawyer, pleading with Shylock for mercy) The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this sceptred sway;It is enthroned in the hearts of kings. is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Though justice be thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to renderThe deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much To mitigate the justice of thy plea,