THE monologue

"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 villany you

teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better

the instruction."

(Shylock Monologue)