<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399630" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The merchant</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who could play Portia, but you? <br>The quick-witted woman<br>who really loved<br>and came to the rescue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The merchant - just me. And it<br>was that way, with our life together<br>and the way that life went<br>and how quickly <br>my meagre savings was spent.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Inhuman Shylock could probably be<br>each and every employer<br>that misused me<br>and only offered a contract<br>of which the time ran out<br>as quick as the job was done<br>and no sure permanent job<br>could appear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My ships sailing against the storm<br>would probably be my stories and poems<br>and when the script overtook us<br>I had to find other lodgings<br>as quick as magician<br>pulls a rabbit from a hat.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then I wondered sweet Portia, <br>who’s hand held the knife<br>to slice into the inmost core<br>of the heart, <br>was it Shylock’s or yours? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But now you love me still<br>and sometimes your sweet voice<br>thrills me intensely<br>and your touch makes my hairs rise<br>and still I am in love<br>and not really wise.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: The merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399630" data-title="The merchant de Gert Strydom" data-description="Who could play Portia, but you? The quick-witted woman who really loved and came to the rescue. The merchant - just me. And it was that way, with our life together and the way that life went and how quickly my meagre savings was spent. Inhuman..."></div> </div> </div>

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