夏洛克：拿来钓鱼也好；即使他的肉不中吃,至少也可以出出我这一口气.他曾经羞辱过我,夺去我几十万块钱的生意,讥笑着我的亏蚀,挖苦着我的盈余,侮蔑我的民族,破坏我的买卖,离间我的朋友,煽动我的仇敌；他的理由是什么?只因为我是一个犹太人.难道犹太人没有眼睛吗?难道犹太人没有五官四肢、没有知觉、没有感情、没有血气吗?他不是吃着同样的食物,同样的武器可以伤害他,同样的医药可以疗治他,冬天同样会冷,夏天同样会热,就像一个基督徒一样吗?你们要是用刀剑刺我们,我们不是也会出血的吗?你们要是搔我们的痒,我们不是也会笑起来的吗?你们要是用毒药谋害我们,我们不是也会死的吗?那么要是你们欺侮了我们,我们难道不会复仇吗?要是在别的地方我们都跟你们一样,那么在这一点上也是彼此相同的.要是一个犹太人欺侮了一个基督徒,那基督徒怎样表现他的谦逊?报仇.要是一个基督徒欺侮了一个犹太人,那么照着基督徒的榜样,那犹太人应该怎样表现他的宽容?报仇.你们已经把残虐的手段教给我,我一定会照着你们的教训实行,而且还要加倍奉敬哩.
第三幕第一场）
To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? 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.