07/07/2019
❤️L A U N C E L O T❤️
🤪A C T 2 S C E N E 2🤪
[laun]: (2.2.1)-(2.2.29)
“My conscience says: be honest Launcelot. Take heed, be honest Gobbo. Do not run... The bold devil is encouraging me to run away. The devil says to be brave and run away. But my conscience says to me: Be honest Launcelot, you are the son of an honest man. I tell my conscience it gives good advice. And if i run away from the Jew i will be listening to the Devil who is a Devil himself. And if my conscience says to stay the Jew, the Devil is giving friendlier advice; i will run away Devil.”
[laun]: (2.2.32)-(2.2.34)
~to himself~ “Oh God, this is my father. He is as blind as a bat. And does not recognise me. I will play some tricks on him.”
[laun]: (2.2.37)-(2.2.40)
“At the next intersection, take a right and then at the next, take a left. And then at the next intersection, keep going straight and you will be at the Jew’s house.”
[laun]: (2.2.44)-(2.2.46)
“Are you talking about young Master Launcelot?”
~to himself~ “Watch this, now I’ll raise the stakes.”
“Are you talking about the Master Launcelot?”
[laun]: (2.2.50)-(2.2.51)
“Well whatever his father is like, we are talking about young Master Launcelot?”
[laun]: (2.2.53)-(2.2.54)
“But I ask you, ergo, old man, I beg you: are you talking about young Master Launcelot?”
[laun]: (2.2.56)-(2.2.61)
“Don’t talk about Master Launcelot. That young gentleman, according to his fate and destiny, the three sisters and so on, is dead. Or to say it plainly, he has gone to heaven.”
[laun]: (2.2.64)-(2.2.65)
“Do I look like a crutch or a prop? Do you recognise me, Father?”
[laun]: (2.2.69)
“Do you not know who I am, Father?”
[laun]: (2.2.71)-(2.2.76)
“Even if you could see, you might not recognise me. It takes a wise father, to recognise his own child. Well, old man, I will give you news about your son. The truth will come to light. Murder can’t be hidden for long, a man’s son can be hidden, but not the truth.”
[laun]: (2.2.79)-(2.2.81)
“Stop fooling around. Give me your blessing. I am Launcelot, and will continue to be your son.”
[laun]: (2.2.83)-(2.2.85)
“I don’t know what to think of that. I am Launcelot, the Jew’s servant. And I am sure your wife, Margery, is my mother.”
[laun]: (2.2.93)-(2.2.95)
“It seems that Dobbin’s tail is shrinking. I am sure that he had more hair on his tail the last time I saw him than I have on my face.”
[laun]: (2.2.99)-(2.2.108)
“I have decided to run away from him. My master is a Jew. Give him a noose as a present. I work as his servant and he hardly feeds me. You can count my ribs. I’m glad you have come, Father. Give me the present, so that I can give it to master Bassanio. If I don’t end up as his servant, I will run as far away as possible. Oh look, here he comes. Let’s go talk to him, Father. If I serve the Jew any longer, I will be a Jew myself.”
[laun]: (2.2.113)
“Go talk to him, Father.”
[laun]: (2.2.121)-(2.2.122)
“To make a long story short, I currently serve under the Jew and as my father will tell you, I have a desire-“
[laun]: (2.2.125)-(2.2.127)
“To be brief, the truth is, that the Jew, having wronged me, now makes it so that I as my father, being an old man, will provide you with-“
[laun]: (2.2.130)-(2.2.133)
“In short, the request is about me. And you will learn from this honest old man, that even though I am his son, he is old and poor. My father-“
[laun]: (2.2.135)
“To be your servant, sir.”
[laun]: (2.2.142)-(2.2.144)
“The old proverb says ‘The grace of God is enough’. It could be split up between you and Shylock, sir. You have the ‘grace of God’ and he has ‘enough’.”
[laun]: (2.2.149)-(2.2.164)
“Father, go. I can’t get a job. I’m not very good at talking. *reading his own palm* I have as good a palm as any man in Italy to swear upon a bible with. I will have good luck. Here’s the life line. It predicts 15 wives, which is nothing. 11 widows and 9 young women is good for one man. I will escape drowning three times and nearly lose my life in a feather bed. If fortune is a lady, she is a good one for all this. Come with me, Father. I will leave the Jew in a blink of an eye.”
