Merchant of Venice

Explanation of Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be damned; good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that

FROM ACT 3 SCENE 5

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Lancelot and Jessica are in an argument over whether she can be saved by God since she was born a Jew. Lancelot tells her that since both her parents are Jews, she is damned. She protests that she can be saved once she becomes a Christian because her husband Lorenzo is a Christian. Lancelot then makes a joke, and says that Lorenzo is a bad man because by converting all the Jews he is raising the price of pork (since Jews do not eat pork, but Christians do).