In the canon
The Merchant of Venice
- Form
- Form Play
- Year
- Year 1600
- Pages
- Pages 110
Three thousand ducats, three months, and a bond signed as a joke: if the debt goes unpaid, the lender may cut a pound of flesh from wherever on the borrower's body he pleases. Then the ships do not come home.
The quality of mercy is not strain’d, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath.
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