...What dost thou say? SHYLOCK I am content. PORTIA [To NERISSA] Clerk, draw a deed of gift. 390 SHYLOCK I pray you, give me leave to go from hence. I am not well. Send the deed after me, And I will sign it. DUKE Get thee gone, but do it. 58 The general use of the...

...qualified by his palpable discomposure in the very public space to which he will in effect be converted: "I pray you, give me leave to go from hence; / I am not well" (4.1.390-91). In Othello's case, the same selfcircumcising mark that recovenants Othello to Venice...

...Amen" (4.1). Shylock's last lines in The Merchant of Venice express the desolation of a broken man:"I pray you give me leave to go from hence, / I am not well" (4.1). All's Well That Ends Well includes the poignancy of Helena begging a kiss from the infuriated...

...that borders on discontent: Shylock goes on to say, in what will be his final words in the play, / pray you give me leave to go from hence; I am not well. Send the deed afier me, And I will sign it. (4.1.392-95^ In a recent essay, Hugh Short, arguing for...

...final, pitiful words in his role as convicted culprit, "I am content," he turns faint and requests: "I pray you give me leave to go from hence, I am not well, — send the deed after me, And I will sign it" (4.1.391f.). At this point, his successful adversaries...

...and thus belongs to the deep history of confessional conflict in the West.) When Shylock requests, "I pray you give me leave to go from hence, / I am not well" (4.1.391-2), Shakespeare indicates just how equivocal - how riddled by discontent - Shylock's stated...

...pronounced here. Art thou contented, Jew? What dost thou say? I am content. Clerk, draw up a deed of gift. I pray you give me leave to go from hence. I am not well. Send the deed after me And I will sign it. Get thee gone, but do it. In christ'ning thou shall have...