那些藏身於戲劇裡的邊緣人們 I

Salarino. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh: what's that good for?

Shylock. 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.

(The Merchant of Venice. Act 3, Scene 1)

他（指安東尼奧）曾羞辱我， 害得我損失幾十萬，笑我的損失， 譏諷我的盈利，嘲弄我的民族， 妨礙我的買賣，離間我的友好， 挑撥我的仇人，為了甚麼緣故呢？為了我是一個猶太人。 猶太人沒有眼嗎？猶太人沒有手、五官、四肢、感覺、鍾愛、熱情？ 猶太人不是吃同樣的糧食，受同樣武器的創傷， 生同樣的病，同樣的方法可治療， 同樣的覺得冬冷夏熱，和基督徒完全一樣嗎？ 你若刺我們一下，我們能不流血嗎？ 你若搔著我們的癢處，我們能不笑嗎？ 你若毒害我們，我們能不死嗎？ 你若欺負我們，我們能不報仇嗎？ 我們若在別的地方都和你相同，那麼在這一點上我們也和你們一樣。 如果一個猶太人欺負了一個基督徒，他將怎樣忍受？報仇。 如果一個基督徒欺負了一個猶太人，按照基督徒的榜樣，他將怎樣忍受？哼，也是報仇。 你們教給我的壞，我就要實行，我若不變本加厲地處置你們，那才是怪哩。

（《威尼斯商人》第三幕第一景）