The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)

Thus that title, Heaven's Rain, is from Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice. The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.

Nelly gives a speech by Portia and Merchant of Venice and Andy he melts he agrees to give Nelly a job as special projects manager He calls her a sly bastard and he hires her back yes, they shake on it.

Merchant of Venice. They didn't say capitalist of Venice, they said merchant of Venice.

He wrote Merchant of Venice.

OK, Harold Bloom, maybe the most prominent literary critic of the past generation at least, he called Merchant of Venice a profoundly antisemitic work. And most people who study that kind of thing would agree.

My favorite Shakespeare play is the Tempest.

I joke is I go the Merchant of Venice and it says the Tempest.

It's from The Merchant of Venice. It's Shakespeare. And Shakespeare always has the ability to say beautifully what needs to be said.

The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

tis, meaning mercy, tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes the throne of monarch better than his crown.

His scepter shows the force of temporal power, the attribute to awe and majesty wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings. But mercy is above this sceptered sway.

Therefore, though justice be thy plea, consider this, that in the course of justice, none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.