THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
The DUKE OF VENICE. (DUKE:)
The PRINCE OF |
MOROCCO (MOROCCO:) |
| suitors to Portia.
The PRINCE OF |
ARRAGON (ARRAGON:) |
ANTONIO a merchant of Venice.
BASSANIO his friend, suitor likewise to Portia.
SALANIO |
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SALARINO |
| friends to Antonio and Bassanio.
GRATIANO |
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SALERIO |
LORENZO in love with Jessica.
SHYLOCK a rich Jew.
TUBAL a Jew, his friend.
LAUNCELOT GOBBO the clown, servant to SHYLOCK. (LAUNCELOT:)
OLD GOBBO father to Launcelot. (GOBBO:)
LEONARDO servant to BASSANIO.
BALTHASAR |
| servants to PORTIA.
STEPHANO |
PORTIA a rich heiress.
NERISSA her waiting-maid.
JESSICA daughter to SHYLOCK.
Magnificoes of Venice, Officers of the Court of Justice,
Gaoler, Servants to Portia, and other Attendants.
(Servant:)
(Clerk:)
SCENE Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont,
the seat of PORTIA, on the Continent.
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
ACT I
SCENE I Venice. A street.
[Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO]
ANTONIO In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
SALARINO Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.
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