The Merchant of Venice

reference to the context

reference to the context of “Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be damned; good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.”

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Launcelot is telling Jessica that children are often punished for the sins of their fathers. He means that Jessica suffers under Shylock simply for being his daughter. He wants her to renounce her father and her faith.