How does Leah's (and we really don't know who Leah is) ring fit in
here? Leah gave Shylock a turquois ring when he was a bachelor, and his
daughter gave it for a monkey, or so reports Tubal (3.1.118ff.). Shylock
responds that he would not have sold it even for a wilderness of
monkeys. I take it that Shylock means that he would not have sold it under
any conditions.
Bill Godshalk
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