To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it

will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and

hinder’d me half a million; laught at my losses,

mockt at my gains, scorn’d my nation, thwarted

my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine

enemies: and what’s his reason? I am a Jew. Hath

a Jew not eyes? Hath a Jew not hands, organs,

dimensions, senses, affections, passion? 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 villainy

you teach me, I will execute; and it shall