Question

Or is your gold and silver ewes and ramps? This is a line from merchant of Venice act 1 scene 3 spoken by Antonio. Please explain.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Before this line Antonio says that was this inserted to make interest good ?

then he says or is your gold and silver ewes and Rams ?

Explanation:

so what Antonio is trying to say is that charging interest makes sense ?

then for your question or is your gold and silver ewes and Rams .....That your interest payments are like Jocob's sheep ?

Answer 2

He says that are your gold and silver compared to ewes(female sheep) and rams(uncastrated male sheep) and you think that they are going to multiply

here ewes and rams are compared to Shylock's gold and silver