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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Lippman, Laura
Affiliation: Department Of English, Harvard University

The Merchant Of Venice: Act 5

Act Five, Scene One

Back in Belmont, Lorenzo and Jessica are enjoying a beautiful moonlit
night. "The moon shines bright. In such a night as this,/ When the sweet wind
did gently kiss the trees / And they did make no noise, in such a night /
Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls, / And sighed his soul toward the
Grecian tents / Where Cressid lay that night," Lorenzo muses aloud, and
Jessica, following his train of thought, fancies that ...

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