This chapter's epigraph comes from the famous line, "I can still laugh when I'm captured" . It's a quote from the play's title sequence, in which Shylock's character, Shylock, is captured and tortured by his master's guards. Shylock tells the guards that he's never been a member of their ranks, and that when he was serving the late Emperor, the guards beat him mercilessly. One day, a wound from the guards' beating became so bad that he