Merchant of Venice

Regarding Shylock's speech at the end of act 3 scene 1

When Shylock says "no satisfaction no revenge" ,does he means to say that he is unable to ,have satisfaction due to jessica and have revenge on Antonio?

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Shylock is angry at Jessica for stealing his wealth. He is losing money trying to track her down on top of the money stolen from him in the first place. My take on it is that Shylock does not feel his revenge on Antonio is worthwhile if is wealth has been stolen by his own daughter.

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