In our office Eleene Myers, Susan Mattheis, and Sharon Wynott all consulted their sources. He uses it twice. Once, in The Merchant of Venice , and again in Othello . It is probably a reference back to felines who play with their prey before they consume them. Many felines have green eyes.
Envy loves, and loathes, at the same time, the same thing.
Envy is weeping at the good fortune of someone else, and rejoicing in their failure. Luke Timothy Johnson is a professor at Emory University. He speaks about the economy of envy. In the economy of envy, Johnson says, the universe is a closed system, and value is not placed on being, but on having. You have to have things to be of value in the economy of envy.