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Speeches (Lines) for Gratiano
in "Merchant of Venice"

Total: 48

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# Act, Scene, Line
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1

I,1,78

You look not well, Signior Antonio;
You have too much respect upon the world:...

2

I,1,85

Let me play the fool:
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,...

3

I,1,114

Well, keep me company but two years moe,
Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.

4

I,1,117

Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.

5

II,2,737

Where is your master?

6

II,2,740

Signior Bassanio!

7

II,2,742

I have a suit to you.

8

II,2,744

You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.

9

II,2,755

Signior Bassanio, hear me:
If I do not put on a sober habit,...

10

II,2,765

Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
By what we do to-night.

11

II,2,772

And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:
But we will visit you at supper-time.

12

II,4,803

We have not made good preparation.

13

II,4,816

Love-news, in faith.

14

II,4,833

Was not that letter from fair Jessica?

15

II,6,909

This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo
Desired us to make stand.

16

II,6,912

And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,
For lovers ever run before the clock.

17

II,6,917

That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?...

18

II,6,964

Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.

19

II,6,977

Signior Antonio!

20

II,6,983

I am glad on't: I desire no more delight
Than to be under sail and gone to-night.

21

III,2,1559

My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
I wish you all the joy that you can wish;...

22

III,2,1566

I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:...

23

III,2,1582

Yes, faith, my lord.

24

III,2,1584

We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.

25

III,2,1586

No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.
But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,...

26

III,2,1612

Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.
Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?...

27

IV,1,2058

Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,...

28

IV,1,2063

O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused....

29

IV,1,2235

I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
I would she were in heaven, so she could...

30

IV,1,2259

O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!

31

IV,1,2264

O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!

32

IV,1,2271

O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!

33

IV,1,2281

A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.

34

IV,1,2288

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

35

IV,1,2313

Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:
And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,...

36

IV,1,2328

A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.

37

IV,1,2349

In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:
Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,...

38

IV,2,2422

Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en
My Lord Bassanio upon more advice...

39

IV,2,2430

That will I do.

40

V,1,2607

[To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;
In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:...

41

V,1,2612

About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
That she did give me, whose posy was...

42

V,1,2624

He will, an if he live to be a man.

43

V,1,2626

Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,...

44

V,1,2644

My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed...

45

V,1,2704

Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;
For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.

46

V,1,2733

Why, this is like the mending of highways
In summer, where the ways are fair enough:...

47

V,1,2752

Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?

48

V,1,2773

Let it be so: the first inter'gatory
That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,...

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