All 3 Uses of
peril
in
The Merchant of Venice
- But ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, land-thieves and water-thieves,—I mean pirates,—and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks.†
Scene 1.3peril = danger
- And then to scape drowning thrice, and to be in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed; here are simple 'scapes.†
Scene 2.2 *
- Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.†
Scene 4.1