Merchant Of Venice - William Shakespeare

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The Merchant Of Venice
	ACT I
	SCENE I. Venice. A street.

	Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO


	ANTONIO

1.1.1	In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:	ANTONIO
1.1.2	It wearies me; you say it wearies you;	ANTONIO
1.1.3	But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,	ANTONIO
1.1.4	What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,	ANTONIO
1.1.5	I am to learn;	ANTONIO
1.1.6	And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,	ANTONIO
1.1.7	That I have much ado to know myself.	ANTONIO


	SALARINO

1.1.8	Your mind is tossing on the ocean;	SALARINO
1.1.9	There, where your argosies with portly sail,	SALARINO
1.1.10	Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,	SALARINO
1.1.11	Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,	SALARINO
1.1.12	Do overpeer the petty traffickers,	SALARINO
1.1.13	That curtsy to them, do them reverence,	SALARINO
1.1.14	As they fly by them with their woven wings.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

1.1.15	Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,	SALANIO
1.1.16	The better part of my affections would	SALANIO
1.1.17	Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still	SALANIO
1.1.18	Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,	SALANIO
1.1.19	Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;	SALANIO
1.1.20	And every object that might make me fear	SALANIO
1.1.21	Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt	SALANIO
1.1.22	Would make me sad.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

1.1.23	My wind cooling my broth	SALARINO
1.1.24	Would blow me to an ague, when I thought	SALARINO
1.1.25	What harm a wind too great at sea might do.	SALARINO
1.1.26	I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,	SALARINO
1.1.27	But I should think of shallows and of flats,	SALARINO
1.1.28	And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,	SALARINO
1.1.29	Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs	SALARINO
1.1.30	To kiss her burial. Should I go to church	SALARINO
1.1.31	And see the holy edifice of stone,	SALARINO
1.1.32	And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,	SALARINO
1.1.33	Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,	SALARINO
1.1.34	Would scatter all her spices on the stream,	SALARINO
1.1.35	Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,	SALARINO
1.1.36	And, in a word, but even now worth this,	SALARINO
1.1.37	And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought	SALARINO
1.1.38	To think on this, and shall I lack the thought	SALARINO
1.1.39	That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?	SALARINO
1.1.40	But tell not me; I know, Antonio	SALARINO
1.1.41	Is sad to think upon his merchandise.	SALARINO


	ANTONIO

1.1.42	Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,	ANTONIO
1.1.43	My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,	ANTONIO
1.1.44	Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate	ANTONIO
1.1.45	Upon the fortune of this present year:	ANTONIO
1.1.46	Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.	ANTONIO


	SALARINO

1.1.47	Why, then you are in love.	SALARINO


	ANTONIO

1.1.48	Fie, fie!	ANTONIO


	SALARINO

1.1.49	Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,	SALARINO
1.1.50	Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy	SALARINO
1.1.51	For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,	SALARINO
1.1.52	Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,	SALARINO
1.1.53	Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:	SALARINO
1.1.54	Some that will evermore peep through their eyes	SALARINO
1.1.55	And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,	SALARINO
1.1.56	And other of such vinegar aspect	SALARINO
1.1.57	That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,	SALARINO
1.1.58	Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.	SALARINO
	Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO


	SALANIO

1.1.59	Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,	SALANIO
1.1.60	Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:	SALANIO
1.1.61	We leave you now with better company.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

1.1.62	I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,	SALARINO
1.1.63	If worthier friends had not prevented me.	SALARINO


	ANTONIO

1.1.64	Your worth is very dear in my regard.	ANTONIO
1.1.65	I take it, your own business calls on you	ANTONIO
1.1.66	And you embrace the occasion to depart.	ANTONIO


	SALARINO

1.1.67	Good morrow, my good lords.	SALARINO


	BASSANIO

1.1.68	Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?	BASSANIO
1.1.69	You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?	BASSANIO


	SALARINO

1.1.70	We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.	SALARINO
	Exeunt Salarino and Salanio


	LORENZO

1.1.71	My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,	LORENZO
1.1.72	We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,	LORENZO
1.1.73	I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.	LORENZO


	BASSANIO

1.1.74	I will not fail you.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

1.1.75	You look not well, Signior Antonio;	GRATIANO
1.1.76	You have too much respect upon the world:	GRATIANO
1.1.77	They lose it that do buy it with much care:	GRATIANO
1.1.78	Believe me, you are marvellously changed.	GRATIANO


	ANTONIO

1.1.79	I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;	ANTONIO
1.1.80	A stage where every man must play a part,	ANTONIO
1.1.81	And mine a sad one.	ANTONIO


	GRATIANO

1.1.82	Let me play the fool:	GRATIANO
1.1.83	With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,	GRATIANO
1.1.84	And let my liver rather heat with wine	GRATIANO
1.1.85	Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.	GRATIANO
1.1.86	Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,	GRATIANO
1.1.87	Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?	GRATIANO
1.1.88	Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice	GRATIANO
1.1.89	By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--	GRATIANO
1.1.90	I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--	GRATIANO
1.1.91	There are a sort of men whose visages	GRATIANO
1.1.92	Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,	GRATIANO
1.1.93	And do a wilful stillness entertain,	GRATIANO
1.1.94	With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion	GRATIANO
1.1.95	Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,	GRATIANO
1.1.96	As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,	GRATIANO
1.1.97	And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'	GRATIANO
1.1.98	O my Antonio, I do know of these	GRATIANO
1.1.99	That therefore only are reputed wise	GRATIANO
1.1.100	For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,	GRATIANO
1.1.101	If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,	GRATIANO
1.1.102	Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.	GRATIANO
1.1.103	I'll tell thee more of this another time:	GRATIANO
1.1.104	But fish not, with this melancholy bait,	GRATIANO
1.1.105	For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.	GRATIANO
1.1.106	Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:	GRATIANO
1.1.107	I'll end my exhortation after dinner.	GRATIANO


	LORENZO

1.1.108	Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:	LORENZO
1.1.109	I must be one of these same dumb wise men,	LORENZO
1.1.110	For Gratiano never lets me speak.	LORENZO


	GRATIANO

1.1.111	Well, keep me company but two years moe,	GRATIANO
1.1.112	Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.	GRATIANO


	ANTONIO

1.1.113	Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.	ANTONIO


	GRATIANO

1.1.114	Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable	GRATIANO
1.1.115	In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.	GRATIANO
	Exeunt GRATIANO and LORENZO


	ANTONIO

1.1.116	Is that any thing now?	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.1.117	Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more	BASSANIO
1.1.118	than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two	BASSANIO
1.1.119	grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you	BASSANIO
1.1.120	shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you	BASSANIO
1.1.121	have them, they are not worth the search.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.1.122	Well, tell me now what lady is the same	ANTONIO
1.1.123	To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,	ANTONIO
1.1.124	That you to-day promised to tell me of?	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.1.125	'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,	BASSANIO
1.1.126	How much I have disabled mine estate,	BASSANIO
1.1.127	By something showing a more swelling port	BASSANIO
1.1.128	Than my faint means would grant continuance:	BASSANIO
1.1.129	Nor do I now make moan to be abridged	BASSANIO
1.1.130	From such a noble rate; but my chief care	BASSANIO
1.1.131	Is to come fairly off from the great debts	BASSANIO
1.1.132	Wherein my time something too prodigal	BASSANIO
1.1.133	Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,	BASSANIO
1.1.134	I owe the most, in money and in love,	BASSANIO
1.1.135	And from your love I have a warranty	BASSANIO
1.1.136	To unburden all my plots and purposes	BASSANIO
1.1.137	How to get clear of all the debts I owe.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.1.138	I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;	ANTONIO
1.1.139	And if it stand, as you yourself still do,	ANTONIO
1.1.140	Within the eye of honour, be assured,	ANTONIO
1.1.141	My purse, my person, my extremest means,	ANTONIO
1.1.142	Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.1.143	In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,	BASSANIO
1.1.144	I shot his fellow of the self-same flight	BASSANIO
1.1.145	The self-same way with more advised watch,	BASSANIO
1.1.146	To find the other forth, and by adventuring both	BASSANIO
1.1.147	I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,	BASSANIO
1.1.148	Because what follows is pure innocence.	BASSANIO
1.1.149	I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,	BASSANIO
1.1.150	That which I owe is lost; but if you please	BASSANIO
1.1.151	To shoot another arrow that self way	BASSANIO
1.1.152	Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,	BASSANIO
1.1.153	As I will watch the aim, or to find both	BASSANIO
1.1.154	Or bring your latter hazard back again	BASSANIO
1.1.155	And thankfully rest debtor for the first.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.1.156	You know me well, and herein spend but time	ANTONIO
1.1.157	To wind about my love with circumstance;	ANTONIO
1.1.158	And out of doubt you do me now more wrong	ANTONIO
1.1.159	In making question of my uttermost	ANTONIO
1.1.160	Than if you had made waste of all I have:	ANTONIO
1.1.161	Then do but say to me what I should do	ANTONIO
1.1.162	That in your knowledge may by me be done,	ANTONIO
1.1.163	And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.1.164	In Belmont is a lady richly left;	BASSANIO
1.1.165	And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,	BASSANIO
1.1.166	Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes	BASSANIO
1.1.167	I did receive fair speechless messages:	BASSANIO
1.1.168	Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued	BASSANIO
1.1.169	To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:	BASSANIO
1.1.170	Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,	BASSANIO
1.1.171	For the four winds blow in from every coast	BASSANIO
1.1.172	Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks	BASSANIO
1.1.173	Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;	BASSANIO
1.1.174	Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,	BASSANIO
1.1.175	And many Jasons come in quest of her.	BASSANIO
1.1.176	O my Antonio, had I but the means	BASSANIO
1.1.177	To hold a rival place with one of them,	BASSANIO
1.1.178	I have a mind presages me such thrift,	BASSANIO
1.1.179	That I should questionless be fortunate!	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.1.180	Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;	ANTONIO
1.1.181	Neither have I money nor commodity	ANTONIO
1.1.182	To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;	ANTONIO
1.1.183	Try what my credit can in Venice do:	ANTONIO
1.1.184	That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,	ANTONIO
1.1.185	To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.	ANTONIO
1.1.186	Go, presently inquire, and so will I,	ANTONIO
1.1.187	Where money is, and I no question make	ANTONIO
1.1.188	To have it of my trust or for my sake.	ANTONIO
	Exeunt
1.1.189	SCENE II: Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.	Exeunt
	Enter PORTIA and NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.190	By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of	PORTIA
1.1.191	this great world.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.192	You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in	NERISSA
1.1.193	the same abundance as your good fortunes are: and	NERISSA
1.1.194	yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit	NERISSA
1.1.195	with too much as they that starve with nothing. It	NERISSA
1.1.196	is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the	NERISSA
1.1.197	mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but	NERISSA
1.1.198	competency lives longer.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.199	Good sentences and well pronounced.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.200	They would be better, if well followed.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.201	If to do were as easy as to know what were good to	PORTIA
1.1.202	do, chapels had been churches and poor men's	PORTIA
1.1.203	cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that	PORTIA
1.1.204	follows his own instructions: I can easier teach	PORTIA
1.1.205	twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the	PORTIA
1.1.206	twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may	PORTIA
1.1.207	devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps	PORTIA
1.1.208	o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the	PORTIA
1.1.209	youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the	PORTIA
1.1.210	cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to	PORTIA
1.1.211	choose me a husband. O me, the word 'choose!' I may	PORTIA
1.1.212	neither choose whom I would nor refuse whom I	PORTIA
1.1.213	dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed	PORTIA
1.1.214	by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard,	PORTIA
1.1.215	Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.216	Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their	NERISSA
1.1.217	death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,	NERISSA
1.1.218	that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,	NERISSA
1.1.219	silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning	NERISSA
1.1.220	chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any	NERISSA
1.1.221	rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what	NERISSA
1.1.222	warmth is there in your affection towards any of	NERISSA
1.1.223	these princely suitors that are already come?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.224	I pray thee, over-name them; and as thou namest	PORTIA
1.1.225	them, I will describe them; and, according to my	PORTIA
1.1.226	description, level at my affection.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.227	First, there is the Neapolitan prince.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.228	Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth nothing but	PORTIA
1.1.229	talk of his horse; and he makes it a great	PORTIA
1.1.230	appropriation to his own good parts, that he can	PORTIA
1.1.231	shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his	PORTIA
1.1.232	mother played false with a smith.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.233	Then there is the County Palatine.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.234	He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you	PORTIA
1.1.235	will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and	PORTIA
1.1.236	smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping	PORTIA
1.1.237	philosopher when he grows old, being so full of	PORTIA
1.1.238	unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be	PORTIA
1.1.239	married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth	PORTIA
1.1.240	than to either of these. God defend me from these	PORTIA
1.1.241	two!	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.242	How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.243	God made him, and therefore let him pass for a man.	PORTIA
1.1.244	In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker: but,	PORTIA
1.1.245	he! why, he hath a horse better than the	PORTIA
1.1.246	Neapolitan's, a better bad habit of frowning than	PORTIA
1.1.247	the Count Palatine; he is every man in no man; if a	PORTIA
1.1.248	throstle sing, he falls straight a capering: he will	PORTIA
1.1.249	fence with his own shadow: if I should marry him, I	PORTIA
1.1.250	should marry twenty husbands. If he would despise me	PORTIA
1.1.251	I would forgive him, for if he love me to madness, I	PORTIA
1.1.252	shall never requite him.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.253	What say you, then, to Falconbridge, the young baron	NERISSA
1.1.254	of England?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.255	You know I say nothing to him, for he understands	PORTIA
1.1.256	not me, nor I him: he hath neither Latin, French,	PORTIA
1.1.257	nor Italian, and you will come into the court and	PORTIA
1.1.258	swear that I have a poor pennyworth in the English.	PORTIA
1.1.259	He is a proper man's picture, but, alas, who can	PORTIA
1.1.260	converse with a dumb-show? How oddly he is suited!	PORTIA
1.1.261	I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round	PORTIA
1.1.262	hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his	PORTIA
1.1.263	behavior every where.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.264	What think you of the Scottish lord, his neighbour?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.265	That he hath a neighbourly charity in him, for he	PORTIA
1.1.266	borrowed a box of the ear of the Englishman and	PORTIA
1.1.267	swore he would pay him again when he was able: I	PORTIA
1.1.268	think the Frenchman became his surety and sealed	PORTIA
1.1.269	under for another.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.270	How like you the young German, the Duke of Saxony's nephew?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.271	Very vilely in the morning, when he is sober, and	PORTIA
1.1.272	most vilely in the afternoon, when he is drunk: when	PORTIA
1.1.273	he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and	PORTIA
1.1.274	when he is worst, he is little better than a beast:	PORTIA
1.1.275	and the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall	PORTIA
1.1.276	make shift to go without him.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.277	If he should offer to choose, and choose the right	NERISSA
1.1.278	casket, you should refuse to perform your father's	NERISSA
1.1.279	will, if you should refuse to accept him.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.280	Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee, set a	PORTIA
1.1.281	deep glass of rhenish wine on the contrary casket,	PORTIA
1.1.282	for if the devil be within and that temptation	PORTIA
1.1.283	without, I know he will choose it. I will do any	PORTIA
1.1.284	thing, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.285	You need not fear, lady, the having any of these	NERISSA
1.1.286	lords: they have acquainted me with their	NERISSA
1.1.287	determinations; which is, indeed, to return to their	NERISSA
1.1.288	home and to trouble you with no more suit, unless	NERISSA
1.1.289	you may be won by some other sort than your father's	NERISSA
1.1.290	imposition depending on the caskets.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.291	If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as	PORTIA
1.1.292	chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by the manner	PORTIA
1.1.293	of my father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers	PORTIA
1.1.294	are so reasonable, for there is not one among them	PORTIA
1.1.295	but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant	PORTIA
1.1.296	them a fair departure.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.297	Do you not remember, lady, in your father's time, a	NERISSA
1.1.298	Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither	NERISSA
1.1.299	in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.300	Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think, he was so called.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

1.1.301	True, madam: he, of all the men that ever my foolish	NERISSA
1.1.302	eyes looked upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

1.1.303	I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of	PORTIA
1.1.304	thy praise.	PORTIA
	Enter a Serving-man
1.1.305	How now! what news?	Enter a Serving-man


	Servant

1.1.306	The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take	Servant
1.1.307	their leave: and there is a forerunner come from a	Servant
1.1.308	fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the	Servant
1.1.309	prince his master will be here to-night.	Servant


	PORTIA

1.1.310	If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good a	PORTIA
1.1.311	heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should	PORTIA
1.1.312	be glad of his approach: if he have the condition	PORTIA
1.1.313	of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had	PORTIA
1.1.314	rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come,	PORTIA
1.1.315	Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.	PORTIA
1.1.316	Whiles we shut the gates	PORTIA
1.1.317	upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.	PORTIA
	Exeunt

	SCENE III. Venice. A public place.

	Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK


	SHYLOCK

1.3.1	Three thousand ducats; well.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.2	Ay, sir, for three months.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.3	For three months; well.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.4	For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.5	Antonio shall become bound; well.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.6	May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I	BASSANIO
1.3.7	know your answer?	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.8	Three thousand ducats for three months and Antonio bound.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.9	Your answer to that.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.10	Antonio is a good man.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.11	Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.12	Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in saying he is a	SHYLOCK
1.3.13	good man is to have you understand me that he is	SHYLOCK
1.3.14	sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition: he	SHYLOCK
1.3.15	hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the	SHYLOCK
1.3.16	Indies; I understand moreover, upon the Rialto, he	SHYLOCK
1.3.17	hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and	SHYLOCK
1.3.18	other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships	SHYLOCK
1.3.19	are but boards, sailors but men: there be land-rats	SHYLOCK
1.3.20	and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I	SHYLOCK
1.3.21	mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,	SHYLOCK
1.3.22	winds and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding,	SHYLOCK
1.3.23	sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may	SHYLOCK
1.3.24	take his bond.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.25	Be assured you may.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.26	I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured,	SHYLOCK
1.3.27	I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio?	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.28	If it please you to dine with us.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.29	Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which	SHYLOCK
1.3.30	your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. I	SHYLOCK
1.3.31	will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you,	SHYLOCK
1.3.32	walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat	SHYLOCK
1.3.33	with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What	SHYLOCK
1.3.34	news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?	SHYLOCK
	Enter ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.3.35	This is Signior Antonio.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.36	[Aside] How like a fawning publican he looks!	SHYLOCK
1.3.37	I hate him for he is a Christian,	SHYLOCK
1.3.38	But more for that in low simplicity	SHYLOCK
1.3.39	He lends out money gratis and brings down	SHYLOCK
1.3.40	The rate of usance here with us in Venice.	SHYLOCK
1.3.41	If I can catch him once upon the hip,	SHYLOCK
1.3.42	I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.	SHYLOCK
1.3.43	He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,	SHYLOCK
1.3.44	Even there where merchants most do congregate,	SHYLOCK
1.3.45	On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,	SHYLOCK
1.3.46	Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,	SHYLOCK
1.3.47	If I forgive him!	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.48	Shylock, do you hear?	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.49	I am debating of my present store,	SHYLOCK
1.3.50	And, by the near guess of my memory,	SHYLOCK
1.3.51	I cannot instantly raise up the gross	SHYLOCK
1.3.52	Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?	SHYLOCK
1.3.53	Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,	SHYLOCK
1.3.54	Will furnish me. But soft! how many months	SHYLOCK
1.3.55	Do you desire?	SHYLOCK
	To ANTONIO
1.3.56	Rest you fair, good signior;	To ANTONIO
1.3.57	Your worship was the last man in our mouths.	To ANTONIO


	ANTONIO

1.3.58	Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow	ANTONIO
1.3.59	By taking nor by giving of excess,	ANTONIO
1.3.60	Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,	ANTONIO
1.3.61	I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd	ANTONIO
1.3.62	How much ye would?	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.63	Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.64	And for three months.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.65	I had forgot; three months; you told me so.	SHYLOCK
1.3.66	Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;	SHYLOCK
1.3.67	Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow	SHYLOCK
1.3.68	Upon advantage.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.69	I do never use it.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.70	When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--	SHYLOCK
1.3.71	This Jacob from our holy Abram was,	SHYLOCK
1.3.72	As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,	SHYLOCK
1.3.73	The third possessor; ay, he was the third--	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.74	And what of him? did he take interest?	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.75	No, not take interest, not, as you would say,	SHYLOCK
1.3.76	Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.	SHYLOCK
1.3.77	When Laban and himself were compromised	SHYLOCK
1.3.78	That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied	SHYLOCK
1.3.79	Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,	SHYLOCK
1.3.80	In the end of autumn turned to the rams,	SHYLOCK
1.3.81	And, when the work of generation was	SHYLOCK
1.3.82	Between these woolly breeders in the act,	SHYLOCK
1.3.83	The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands,	SHYLOCK
1.3.84	And, in the doing of the deed of kind,	SHYLOCK
1.3.85	He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,	SHYLOCK
1.3.86	Who then conceiving did in eaning time	SHYLOCK
1.3.87	Fall parti-colour'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.	SHYLOCK
1.3.88	This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:	SHYLOCK
1.3.89	And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.90	This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;	ANTONIO
1.3.91	A thing not in his power to bring to pass,	ANTONIO
1.3.92	But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.	ANTONIO
1.3.93	Was this inserted to make interest good?	ANTONIO
1.3.94	Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.95	I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:	SHYLOCK
1.3.96	But note me, signior.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.97	Mark you this, Bassanio,	ANTONIO
1.3.98	The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.	ANTONIO
1.3.99	An evil soul producing holy witness	ANTONIO
1.3.100	Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,	ANTONIO
1.3.101	A goodly apple rotten at the heart:	ANTONIO
1.3.102	O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.103	Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.	SHYLOCK
1.3.104	Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.105	Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.106	Signior Antonio, many a time and oft	SHYLOCK
1.3.107	In the Rialto you have rated me	SHYLOCK
1.3.108	About my moneys and my usances:	SHYLOCK
1.3.109	Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,	SHYLOCK
1.3.110	For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.	SHYLOCK
1.3.111	You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,	SHYLOCK
1.3.112	And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,	SHYLOCK
1.3.113	And all for use of that which is mine own.	SHYLOCK
1.3.114	Well then, it now appears you need my help:	SHYLOCK
1.3.115	Go to, then; you come to me, and you say	SHYLOCK
1.3.116	'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;	SHYLOCK
1.3.117	You, that did void your rheum upon my beard	SHYLOCK
1.3.118	And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur	SHYLOCK
1.3.119	Over your threshold: moneys is your suit	SHYLOCK
1.3.120	What should I say to you? Should I not say	SHYLOCK
1.3.121	'Hath a dog money? is it possible	SHYLOCK
1.3.122	A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or	SHYLOCK
1.3.123	Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,	SHYLOCK
1.3.124	With bated breath and whispering humbleness, Say this;	SHYLOCK
1.3.125	'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;	SHYLOCK
1.3.126	You spurn'd me such a day; another time	SHYLOCK
1.3.127	You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies	SHYLOCK
1.3.128	I'll lend you thus much moneys'?	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.129	I am as like to call thee so again,	ANTONIO
1.3.130	To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.	ANTONIO
1.3.131	If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not	ANTONIO
1.3.132	As to thy friends; for when did friendship take	ANTONIO
1.3.133	A breed for barren metal of his friend?	ANTONIO
1.3.134	But lend it rather to thine enemy,	ANTONIO
1.3.135	Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face	ANTONIO
1.3.136	Exact the penalty.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.137	Why, look you, how you storm!	SHYLOCK
1.3.138	I would be friends with you and have your love,	SHYLOCK
1.3.139	Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,	SHYLOCK
1.3.140	Supply your present wants and take no doit	SHYLOCK
1.3.141	Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:	SHYLOCK
1.3.142	This is kind I offer.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

1.3.143	This were kindness.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.144	This kindness will I show.	SHYLOCK
1.3.145	Go with me to a notary, seal me there	SHYLOCK
1.3.146	Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,	SHYLOCK
1.3.147	If you repay me not on such a day,	SHYLOCK
1.3.148	In such a place, such sum or sums as are	SHYLOCK
1.3.149	Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit	SHYLOCK
1.3.150	Be nominated for an equal pound	SHYLOCK
1.3.151	Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken	SHYLOCK
1.3.152	In what part of your body pleaseth me.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.153	Content, i' faith: I'll seal to such a bond	ANTONIO
1.3.154	And say there is much kindness in the Jew.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

1.3.155	You shall not seal to such a bond for me:	BASSANIO
1.3.156	I'll rather dwell in my necessity.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.3.157	Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:	ANTONIO
1.3.158	Within these two months, that's a month before	ANTONIO
1.3.159	This bond expires, I do expect return	ANTONIO
1.3.160	Of thrice three times the value of this bond.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.161	O father Abram, what these Christians are,	SHYLOCK
1.3.162	Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect	SHYLOCK
1.3.163	The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;	SHYLOCK
1.3.164	If he should break his day, what should I gain	SHYLOCK
1.3.165	By the exaction of the forfeiture?	SHYLOCK
1.3.166	A pound of man's flesh taken from a man	SHYLOCK
1.3.167	Is not so estimable, profitable neither,	SHYLOCK
1.3.168	As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats. I say,	SHYLOCK
1.3.169	To buy his favour, I extend this friendship:	SHYLOCK
1.3.170	If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;	SHYLOCK
1.3.171	And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.172	Yes Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

1.3.173	Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;	SHYLOCK
1.3.174	Give him direction for this merry bond,	SHYLOCK
1.3.175	And I will go and purse the ducats straight,	SHYLOCK
1.3.176	See to my house, left in the fearful guard	SHYLOCK
1.3.177	Of an unthrifty knave, and presently	SHYLOCK
1.3.178	I will be with you.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

1.3.179	Hie thee, gentle Jew.	ANTONIO
	Exit Shylock
1.3.180	The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.	Exit Shylock


	BASSANIO

1.3.181	I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

1.3.182	Come on: in this there can be no dismay;	ANTONIO
1.3.183	My ships come home a month before the day.	ANTONIO
	Exeunt

	ACT II
	SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.

	Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO and his train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and others attending


	MOROCCO

2.1.1	Mislike me not for my complexion,	MOROCCO
2.1.2	The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,	MOROCCO
2.1.3	To whom I am a neighbour and near bred.	MOROCCO
2.1.4	Bring me the fairest creature northward born,	MOROCCO
2.1.5	Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,	MOROCCO
2.1.6	And let us make incision for your love,	MOROCCO
2.1.7	To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.	MOROCCO
2.1.8	I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine	MOROCCO
2.1.9	Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear	MOROCCO
2.1.10	The best-regarded virgins of our clime	MOROCCO
2.1.11	Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,	MOROCCO
2.1.12	Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.	MOROCCO


	PORTIA

2.1.13	In terms of choice I am not solely led	PORTIA
2.1.14	By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;	PORTIA
2.1.15	Besides, the lottery of my destiny	PORTIA
2.1.16	Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:	PORTIA
2.1.17	But if my father had not scanted me	PORTIA
2.1.18	And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself	PORTIA
2.1.19	His wife who wins me by that means I told you,	PORTIA
2.1.20	Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair	PORTIA
2.1.21	As any comer I have look'd on yet	PORTIA
2.1.22	For my affection.	PORTIA


	MOROCCO

2.1.23	Even for that I thank you:	MOROCCO
2.1.24	Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets	MOROCCO
2.1.25	To try my fortune. By this scimitar	MOROCCO
2.1.26	That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince	MOROCCO
2.1.27	That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,	MOROCCO
2.1.28	I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,	MOROCCO
2.1.29	Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,	MOROCCO
2.1.30	Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,	MOROCCO
2.1.31	Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,	MOROCCO
2.1.32	To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!	MOROCCO
2.1.33	If Hercules and Lichas play at dice	MOROCCO
2.1.34	Which is the better man, the greater throw	MOROCCO
2.1.35	May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:	MOROCCO
2.1.36	So is Alcides beaten by his page;	MOROCCO
2.1.37	And so may I, blind fortune leading me,	MOROCCO
2.1.38	Miss that which one unworthier may attain,	MOROCCO
2.1.39	And die with grieving.	MOROCCO


	PORTIA

2.1.40	You must take your chance,	PORTIA
2.1.41	And either not attempt to choose at all	PORTIA
2.1.42	Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong	PORTIA
2.1.43	Never to speak to lady afterward	PORTIA
2.1.44	In way of marriage: therefore be advised.	PORTIA


	MOROCCO

2.1.45	Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.	MOROCCO


	PORTIA

2.1.46	First, forward to the temple: after dinner	PORTIA
2.1.47	Your hazard shall be made.	PORTIA


	MOROCCO

2.1.48	Good fortune then!	MOROCCO
2.1.49	To make me blest or cursed'st among men.	MOROCCO
	Cornets, and exeuntp

	SCENE II. Venice. A street.

	Enter LAUNCELOT


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.1	Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from	LAUNCELOT
2.2.2	this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and	LAUNCELOT
2.2.3	tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good	LAUNCELOT
2.2.4	Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot	LAUNCELOT
2.2.5	Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My	LAUNCELOT
2.2.6	conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;	LAUNCELOT
2.2.7	take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest	LAUNCELOT
2.2.8	Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy	LAUNCELOT
2.2.9	heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me	LAUNCELOT
2.2.10	pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the	LAUNCELOT
2.2.11	fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'	LAUNCELOT
2.2.12	says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.13	hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely	LAUNCELOT
2.2.14	to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest	LAUNCELOT
2.2.15	man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.16	indeed, my father did something smack, something	LAUNCELOT
2.2.17	grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience	LAUNCELOT
2.2.18	says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the	LAUNCELOT
2.2.19	fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.	LAUNCELOT
2.2.20	'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'	LAUNCELOT
2.2.21	say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my	LAUNCELOT
2.2.22	conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.23	who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to	LAUNCELOT
2.2.24	run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the	LAUNCELOT
2.2.25	fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil	LAUNCELOT
2.2.26	himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil	LAUNCELOT
2.2.27	incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is	LAUNCELOT
2.2.28	but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel	LAUNCELOT
2.2.29	me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more	LAUNCELOT
2.2.30	friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are	LAUNCELOT
2.2.31	at your command; I will run.	LAUNCELOT
	Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket


	GOBBO

2.2.32	Master young man, you, I pray you, which is the way	GOBBO
2.2.33	to master Jew's?	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.34	[Aside] O heavens, this is my true-begotten father!	LAUNCELOT
2.2.35	who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.36	knows me not: I will try confusions with him.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.37	Master young gentleman, I pray you, which is the way	GOBBO
2.2.38	to master Jew's?	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.39	Turn up on your right hand at the next turning, but,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.40	at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at	LAUNCELOT
2.2.41	the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn	LAUNCELOT
2.2.42	down indirectly to the Jew's house.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.43	By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can	GOBBO
2.2.44	you tell me whether one Launcelot,	GOBBO
2.2.45	that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.46	Talk you of young Master Launcelot?	LAUNCELOT
	Aside
2.2.47	Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you	Aside
2.2.48	of young Master Launcelot?	Aside


	GOBBO

2.2.49	No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father,	GOBBO
2.2.50	though I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man	GOBBO
2.2.51	and, God be thanked, well to live.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.52	Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of	LAUNCELOT
2.2.53	young Master Launcelot.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.54	Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.55	But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.56	talk you of young Master Launcelot?	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.57	Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.58	Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master	LAUNCELOT
2.2.59	Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.60	according to Fates and Destinies and such odd	LAUNCELOT
2.2.61	sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of	LAUNCELOT
2.2.62	learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say	LAUNCELOT
2.2.63	in plain terms, gone to heaven.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.64	Marry, God forbid! the boy was the very staff of my	GOBBO
2.2.65	age, my very prop.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.66	Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post, a staff or	LAUNCELOT
2.2.67	a prop? Do you know me, father?	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.68	Alack the day, I know you not, young gentleman:	GOBBO
2.2.69	but, I pray you, tell me, is my boy, God rest his	GOBBO
2.2.70	soul, alive or dead?	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.71	Do you not know me, father?	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.72	Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know you not.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.73	Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes, you might fail of	LAUNCELOT
2.2.74	the knowing me: it is a wise father that knows his	LAUNCELOT
2.2.75	own child. Well, old man, I will tell you news of	LAUNCELOT
2.2.76	your son: give me your blessing: truth will come	LAUNCELOT
2.2.77	to light; murder cannot be hid long; a man's son	LAUNCELOT
2.2.78	may, but at the length truth will out.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.79	Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not	GOBBO
2.2.80	Launcelot, my boy.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.81	Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but	LAUNCELOT
2.2.82	give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy	LAUNCELOT
2.2.83	that was, your son that is, your child that shall	LAUNCELOT
2.2.84	be.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.85	I cannot think you are my son.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.86	I know not what I shall think of that: but I am	LAUNCELOT
2.2.87	Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your	LAUNCELOT
2.2.88	wife is my mother.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.89	Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou	GOBBO
2.2.90	be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.	GOBBO
2.2.91	Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou	GOBBO
2.2.92	got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than	GOBBO
2.2.93	Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.94	It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows	LAUNCELOT
2.2.95	backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail	LAUNCELOT
2.2.96	than I have of my face when I last saw him.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.97	Lord, how art thou changed! How dost thou and thy	GOBBO
2.2.98	master agree? I have brought him a present. How	GOBBO
2.2.99	'gree you now?	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.100	Well, well: but, for mine own part, as I have set	LAUNCELOT
2.2.101	up my rest to run away, so I will not rest till I	LAUNCELOT
2.2.102	have run some ground. My master's a very Jew: give	LAUNCELOT
2.2.103	him a present! give him a halter: I am famished in	LAUNCELOT
2.2.104	his service; you may tell every finger I have with	LAUNCELOT
2.2.105	my ribs. Father, I am glad you are come: give me	LAUNCELOT
2.2.106	your present to one Master Bassanio, who, indeed,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.107	gives rare new liveries: if I serve not him, I	LAUNCELOT
2.2.108	will run as far as God has any ground. O rare	LAUNCELOT
2.2.109	fortune! here comes the man: to him, father; for I	LAUNCELOT
2.2.110	am a Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.	LAUNCELOT
	Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers


	BASSANIO

2.2.111	You may do so; but let it be so hasted that supper	BASSANIO
2.2.112	be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See	BASSANIO
2.2.113	these letters delivered; put the liveries to making,	BASSANIO
2.2.114	and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.	BASSANIO
	Exit a Servant


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.115	To him, father.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.116	God bless your worship!	GOBBO


	BASSANIO

2.2.117	Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with me?	BASSANIO


	GOBBO

2.2.118	Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.119	Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew's man; that	LAUNCELOT
2.2.120	would, sir, as my father shall specify--	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.121	He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve--	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.122	Indeed, the short and the long is, I serve the Jew,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.123	and have a desire, as my father shall specify--	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.124	His master and he, saving your worship's reverence,	GOBBO
2.2.125	are scarce cater-cousins--	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.126	To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having	LAUNCELOT
2.2.127	done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being, I	LAUNCELOT
2.2.128	hope, an old man, shall frutify unto you--	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.129	I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon	GOBBO
2.2.130	your worship, and my suit is--	GOBBO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.131	In very brief, the suit is impertinent to myself, as	LAUNCELOT
2.2.132	your worship shall know by this honest old man; and,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.133	though I say it, though old man, yet poor man, my father.	LAUNCELOT


	BASSANIO

2.2.134	One speak for both. What would you?	BASSANIO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.135	Serve you, sir.	LAUNCELOT


	GOBBO

2.2.136	That is the very defect of the matter, sir.	GOBBO


	BASSANIO

2.2.137	I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:	BASSANIO
2.2.138	Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,	BASSANIO
2.2.139	And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment	BASSANIO
2.2.140	To leave a rich Jew's service, to become	BASSANIO
2.2.141	The follower of so poor a gentleman.	BASSANIO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.142	The old proverb is very well parted between my	LAUNCELOT
2.2.143	master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of	LAUNCELOT
2.2.144	God, sir, and he hath enough.	LAUNCELOT


	BASSANIO

2.2.145	Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.	BASSANIO
2.2.146	Take leave of thy old master and inquire	BASSANIO
2.2.147	My lodging out. Give him a livery	BASSANIO
2.2.148	More guarded than his fellows': see it done.	BASSANIO


	LAUNCELOT

2.2.149	Father, in. I cannot get a service, no; I have	LAUNCELOT
2.2.150	ne'er a tongue in my head. Well, if any man in	LAUNCELOT
2.2.151	Italy have a fairer table which doth offer to swear	LAUNCELOT
2.2.152	upon a book, I shall have good fortune. Go to,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.153	here's a simple line of life: here's a small trifle	LAUNCELOT
2.2.154	of wives: alas, fifteen wives is nothing! eleven	LAUNCELOT
2.2.155	widows and nine maids is a simple coming-in for one	LAUNCELOT
2.2.156	man: and then to 'scape drowning thrice, and to be	LAUNCELOT
2.2.157	in peril of my life with the edge of a feather-bed;	LAUNCELOT
2.2.158	here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune be a	LAUNCELOT
2.2.159	woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,	LAUNCELOT
2.2.160	come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in the twinkling of an eye.	LAUNCELOT
	Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo


	BASSANIO

2.2.161	I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:	BASSANIO
2.2.162	These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,	BASSANIO
2.2.163	Return in haste, for I do feast to-night	BASSANIO
2.2.164	My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.	BASSANIO


	LEONARDO

2.2.165	My best endeavours shall be done herein.	LEONARDO
	Enter GRATIANO


	GRATIANO

2.2.166	Where is your master?	GRATIANO


	LEONARDO

2.2.167	Yonder, sir, he walks.	LEONARDO
	Exit


	GRATIANO

2.2.168	Signior Bassanio!	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

2.2.169	Gratiano!	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

2.2.170	I have a suit to you.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

2.2.171	You have obtain'd it.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

2.2.172	You must not deny me: I must go with you to Belmont.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

2.2.173	Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;	BASSANIO
2.2.174	Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;	BASSANIO
2.2.175	Parts that become thee happily enough	BASSANIO
2.2.176	And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;	BASSANIO
2.2.177	But where thou art not known, why, there they show	BASSANIO
2.2.178	Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain	BASSANIO
2.2.179	To allay with some cold drops of modesty	BASSANIO
2.2.180	Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior	BASSANIO
2.2.181	I be misconstrued in the place I go to,	BASSANIO
2.2.182	And lose my hopes.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

2.2.183	Signior Bassanio, hear me:	GRATIANO
2.2.184	If I do not put on a sober habit,	GRATIANO
2.2.185	Talk with respect and swear but now and then,	GRATIANO
2.2.186	Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,	GRATIANO
2.2.187	Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes	GRATIANO
2.2.188	Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'	GRATIANO
2.2.189	Use all the observance of civility,	GRATIANO
2.2.190	Like one well studied in a sad ostent	GRATIANO
2.2.191	To please his grandam, never trust me more.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

2.2.192	Well, we shall see your bearing.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

2.2.193	Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me	GRATIANO
2.2.194	By what we do to-night.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

2.2.195	No, that were pity:	BASSANIO
2.2.196	I would entreat you rather to put on	BASSANIO
2.2.197	Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends	BASSANIO
2.2.198	That purpose merriment. But fare you well:	BASSANIO
2.2.199	I have some business.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

2.2.200	And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:	GRATIANO
2.2.201	But we will visit you at supper-time.	GRATIANO
	Exeunt

	SCENE III. The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house.

	Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT


	JESSICA

2.3.1	I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:	JESSICA
2.3.2	Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,	JESSICA
2.3.3	Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.	JESSICA
2.3.4	But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:	JESSICA
2.3.5	And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see	JESSICA
2.3.6	Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:	JESSICA
2.3.7	Give him this letter; do it secretly;	JESSICA
2.3.8	And so farewell: I would not have my father	JESSICA
2.3.9	See me in talk with thee.	JESSICA


	LAUNCELOT

2.3.10	Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue. Most beautiful	LAUNCELOT
2.3.11	pagan, most sweet Jew! if a Christian did not play	LAUNCELOT
2.3.12	the knave and get thee, I am much deceived. But,	LAUNCELOT
2.3.13	adieu: these foolish drops do something drown my	LAUNCELOT
2.3.14	manly spirit: adieu.	LAUNCELOT


	JESSICA

2.3.15	Farewell, good Launcelot.	JESSICA
	Exit Launcelot
2.3.16	Alack, what heinous sin is it in me	Exit Launcelot
2.3.17	To be ashamed to be my father's child!	Exit Launcelot
2.3.18	But though I am a daughter to his blood,	Exit Launcelot
2.3.19	I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,	Exit Launcelot
2.3.20	If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,	Exit Launcelot
2.3.21	Become a Christian and thy loving wife.	Exit Launcelot
	Exit

	SCENE IV. The same. A street.

	Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO


	LORENZO

2.4.1	Nay, we will slink away in supper-time,	LORENZO
2.4.2	Disguise us at my lodging and return,	LORENZO
2.4.3	All in an hour.	LORENZO


	GRATIANO

2.4.4	We have not made good preparation.	GRATIANO


	SALARINO

2.4.5	We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.4.6	'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,	SALANIO
2.4.7	And better in my mind not undertook.	SALANIO


	LORENZO

2.4.8	'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours	LORENZO
2.4.9	To furnish us.	LORENZO
	Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter
2.4.10	Friend Launcelot, what's the news?	Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter


	LAUNCELOT

2.4.11	An it shall please you to break up	LAUNCELOT
2.4.12	this, it shall seem to signify.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

2.4.13	I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;	LORENZO
2.4.14	And whiter than the paper it writ on	LORENZO
2.4.15	Is the fair hand that writ.	LORENZO


	GRATIANO

2.4.16	Love-news, in faith.	GRATIANO


	LAUNCELOT

2.4.17	By your leave, sir.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

2.4.18	Whither goest thou?	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

2.4.19	Marry, sir, to bid my old master the	LAUNCELOT
2.4.20	Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

2.4.21	Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica	LORENZO
2.4.22	I will not fail her; speak it privately.	LORENZO
2.4.23	Go, gentlemen,	LORENZO
	Exit Launcelot
2.4.24	Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?	Exit Launcelot
2.4.25	I am provided of a torch-bearer.	Exit Launcelot


	SALANIO

2.4.26	Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.	SALANIO


	SALANIO

2.4.27	And so will I.	SALANIO


	LORENZO

2.4.28	Meet me and Gratiano	LORENZO
2.4.29	At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence.	LORENZO


	SALARINO

2.4.30	'Tis good we do so.	SALARINO
	Exeunt SALARINO and SALANIO


	GRATIANO

2.4.31	Was not that letter from fair Jessica?	GRATIANO


	LORENZO

2.4.32	I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed	LORENZO
2.4.33	How I shall take her from her father's house,	LORENZO
2.4.34	What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,	LORENZO
2.4.35	What page's suit she hath in readiness.	LORENZO
2.4.36	If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,	LORENZO
2.4.37	It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:	LORENZO
2.4.38	And never dare misfortune cross her foot,	LORENZO
2.4.39	Unless she do it under this excuse,	LORENZO
2.4.40	That she is issue to a faithless Jew.	LORENZO
2.4.41	Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:	LORENZO
2.4.42	Fair Jessica shall be my torch-beare r.	LORENZO
	Exeunt

	SCENE V. The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house.

	Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT


	SHYLOCK

2.5.1	Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,	SHYLOCK
2.5.2	The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--	SHYLOCK
2.5.3	What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,	SHYLOCK
2.5.4	As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--	SHYLOCK
2.5.5	And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--	SHYLOCK
2.5.6	Why, Jessica, I say!	SHYLOCK


	LAUNCELOT

2.5.7	Why, Jessica!	LAUNCELOT


	SHYLOCK

2.5.8	Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.	SHYLOCK


	LAUNCELOT

2.5.9	Your worship was wont to tell me that	LAUNCELOT
2.5.10	I could do nothing without bidding.	LAUNCELOT
	Enter Jessica


	JESSICA

2.5.11	Call you? what is your will?	JESSICA


	SHYLOCK

2.5.12	I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:	SHYLOCK
2.5.13	There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?	SHYLOCK
2.5.14	I am not bid for love; they flatter me:	SHYLOCK
2.5.15	But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon	SHYLOCK
2.5.16	The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,	SHYLOCK
2.5.17	Look to my house. I am right loath to go:	SHYLOCK
2.5.18	There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,	SHYLOCK
2.5.19	For I did dream of money-bags to-night.	SHYLOCK


	LAUNCELOT

2.5.20	I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect	LAUNCELOT
2.5.21	your reproach.	LAUNCELOT


	SHYLOCK

2.5.22	So do I his.	SHYLOCK


	LAUNCELOT

2.5.23	An they have conspired together, I will not say you	LAUNCELOT
2.5.24	shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not	LAUNCELOT
2.5.25	for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on	LAUNCELOT
2.5.26	Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,	LAUNCELOT
2.5.27	falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four	LAUNCELOT
2.5.28	year, in the afternoon.	LAUNCELOT


	SHYLOCK

2.5.29	What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:	SHYLOCK
2.5.30	Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum	SHYLOCK
2.5.31	And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,	SHYLOCK
2.5.32	Clamber not you up to the casements then,	SHYLOCK
2.5.33	Nor thrust your head into the public street	SHYLOCK
2.5.34	To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,	SHYLOCK
2.5.35	But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:	SHYLOCK
2.5.36	Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter	SHYLOCK
2.5.37	My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,	SHYLOCK
2.5.38	I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:	SHYLOCK
2.5.39	But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;	SHYLOCK
2.5.40	Say I will come.	SHYLOCK


	LAUNCELOT

2.5.41	I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at	LAUNCELOT
2.5.42	window, for all this, There will come a Christian	LAUNCELOT
2.5.43	boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye.	LAUNCELOT
	Exit


	SHYLOCK

2.5.44	What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?	SHYLOCK


	JESSICA

2.5.45	His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else.	JESSICA


	SHYLOCK

2.5.46	The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;	SHYLOCK
2.5.47	Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day	SHYLOCK
2.5.48	More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;	SHYLOCK
2.5.49	Therefore I part with him, and part with him	SHYLOCK
2.5.50	To one that would have him help to waste	SHYLOCK
2.5.51	His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;	SHYLOCK
2.5.52	Perhaps I will return immediately:	SHYLOCK
2.5.53	Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:	SHYLOCK
2.5.54	Fast bind, fast find;	SHYLOCK
2.5.55	A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.	SHYLOCK
	Exit


	JESSICA

2.5.56	Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,	JESSICA
2.5.57	I have a father, you a daughter, lost.	JESSICA
	Exit

	SCENE VI. The same.

	Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued


	GRATIANO

2.6.1	This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo	GRATIANO
2.6.2	Desired us to make stand.	GRATIANO


	SALARINO

2.6.3	His hour is almost past.	SALARINO


	GRATIANO

2.6.4	And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,	GRATIANO
2.6.5	For lovers ever run before the clock.	GRATIANO


	SALARINO

2.6.6	O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly	SALARINO
2.6.7	To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont	SALARINO
2.6.8	To keep obliged faith unforfeited!	SALARINO


	GRATIANO

2.6.9	That ever holds: who riseth from a feast	GRATIANO
2.6.10	With that keen appetite that he sits down?	GRATIANO
2.6.11	Where is the horse that doth untread again	GRATIANO
2.6.12	His tedious measures with the unbated fire	GRATIANO
2.6.13	That he did pace them first? All things that are,	GRATIANO
2.6.14	Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd.	GRATIANO
2.6.15	How like a younker or a prodigal	GRATIANO
2.6.16	The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,	GRATIANO
2.6.17	Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!	GRATIANO
2.6.18	How like the prodigal doth she return,	GRATIANO
2.6.19	With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,	GRATIANO
2.6.20	Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!	GRATIANO


	SALARINO

2.6.21	Here comes Lorenzo: more of this hereafter.	SALARINO
	Enter LORENZO


	LORENZO

2.6.22	Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode;	LORENZO
2.6.23	Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:	LORENZO
2.6.24	When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,	LORENZO
2.6.25	I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;	LORENZO
2.6.26	Here dwells my father Jew. Ho! who's within?	LORENZO
	Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes


	JESSICA

2.6.27	Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,	JESSICA
2.6.28	Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

2.6.29	Lorenzo, and thy love.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

2.6.30	Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,	JESSICA
2.6.31	For who love I so much? And now who knows	JESSICA
2.6.32	But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?	JESSICA


	LORENZO

2.6.33	Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou art.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

2.6.34	Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.	JESSICA
2.6.35	I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,	JESSICA
2.6.36	For I am much ashamed of my exchange:	JESSICA
2.6.37	But love is blind and lovers cannot see	JESSICA
2.6.38	The pretty follies that themselves commit;	JESSICA
2.6.39	For if they could, Cupid himself would blush	JESSICA
2.6.40	To see me thus transformed to a boy.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

2.6.41	Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

2.6.42	What, must I hold a candle to my shames?	JESSICA
2.6.43	They in themselves, good-sooth, are too too light.	JESSICA
2.6.44	Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;	JESSICA
2.6.45	And I should be obscured.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

2.6.46	So are you, sweet,	LORENZO
2.6.47	Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.	LORENZO
2.6.48	But come at once;	LORENZO
2.6.49	For the close night doth play the runaway,	LORENZO
2.6.50	And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

2.6.51	I will make fast the doors, and gild myself	JESSICA
2.6.52	With some more ducats, and be with you straight.	JESSICA
	Exit above


	GRATIANO

2.6.53	Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.	GRATIANO


	LORENZO

2.6.54	Beshrew me but I love her heartily;	LORENZO
2.6.55	For she is wise, if I can judge of her,	LORENZO
2.6.56	And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,	LORENZO
2.6.57	And true she is, as she hath proved herself,	LORENZO
2.6.58	And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,	LORENZO
2.6.59	Shall she be placed in my constant soul.	LORENZO
	Enter JESSICA, below
2.6.60	What, art thou come? On, gentlemen; away!	Enter JESSICA, below
2.6.61	Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.	Enter JESSICA, below
	Exit with Jessica and Salarino
	Enter ANTONIO


	ANTONIO

2.6.62	Who's there?	ANTONIO


	GRATIANO

2.6.63	Signior Antonio!	GRATIANO


	ANTONIO

2.6.64	Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?	ANTONIO
2.6.65	'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.	ANTONIO
2.6.66	No masque to-night: the wind is come about;	ANTONIO
2.6.67	Bassanio presently will go aboard:	ANTONIO
2.6.68	I have sent twenty out to seek for you.	ANTONIO


	GRATIANO

2.6.69	I am glad on't: I desire no more delight	GRATIANO
2.6.70	Than to be under sail and gone to-night.	GRATIANO
	Exeuntp

	SCENE VII. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.

	Flourish of cornets. Enter PORTIA, with the PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains


	PORTIA

2.7.1	Go draw aside the curtains and discover	PORTIA
2.7.2	The several caskets to this noble prince.	PORTIA
2.7.3	Now make your choice.	PORTIA


	MOROCCO

2.7.4	The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,	MOROCCO
2.7.5	'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'	MOROCCO
2.7.6	The second, silver, which this promise carries,	MOROCCO
2.7.7	'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'	MOROCCO
2.7.8	This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,	MOROCCO
2.7.9	'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'	MOROCCO
2.7.10	How shall I know if I do choose the right?	MOROCCO


	PORTIA

2.7.11	The one of them contains my picture, prince:	PORTIA
2.7.12	If you choose that, then I am yours withal.	PORTIA


	MOROCCO

2.7.13	Some god direct my judgment! Let me see;	MOROCCO
2.7.14	I will survey the inscriptions back again.	MOROCCO
2.7.15	What says this leaden casket?	MOROCCO
2.7.16	'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'	MOROCCO
2.7.17	Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?	MOROCCO
2.7.18	This casket threatens. Men that hazard all	MOROCCO
2.7.19	Do it in hope of fair advantages:	MOROCCO
2.7.20	A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;	MOROCCO
2.7.21	I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.	MOROCCO
2.7.22	What says the silver with her virgin hue?	MOROCCO
2.7.23	'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'	MOROCCO
2.7.24	As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,	MOROCCO
2.7.25	And weigh thy value with an even hand:	MOROCCO
2.7.26	If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,	MOROCCO
2.7.27	Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough	MOROCCO
2.7.28	May not extend so far as to the lady:	MOROCCO
2.7.29	And yet to be afeard of my deserving	MOROCCO
2.7.30	Were but a weak disabling of myself.	MOROCCO
2.7.31	As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:	MOROCCO
2.7.32	I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,	MOROCCO
2.7.33	In graces and in qualities of breeding;	MOROCCO
2.7.34	But more than these, in love I do deserve.	MOROCCO
2.7.35	What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?	MOROCCO
2.7.36	Let's see once more this saying graved in gold	MOROCCO
2.7.37	'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'	MOROCCO
2.7.38	Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;	MOROCCO
2.7.39	From the four corners of the earth they come,	MOROCCO
2.7.40	To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:	MOROCCO
2.7.41	The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds	MOROCCO
2.7.42	Of wide Arabia are as thoroughfares now	MOROCCO
2.7.43	For princes to come view fair Portia:	MOROCCO
2.7.44	The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head	MOROCCO
2.7.45	Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar	MOROCCO
2.7.46	To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,	MOROCCO
2.7.47	As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.	MOROCCO
2.7.48	One of these three contains her heavenly picture.	MOROCCO
2.7.49	Is't like that lead contains her? 'Twere damnation	MOROCCO
2.7.50	To think so base a thought: it were too gross	MOROCCO
2.7.51	To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.	MOROCCO
2.7.52	Or shall I think in silver she's immured,	MOROCCO
2.7.53	Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?	MOROCCO
2.7.54	O sinful thought! Never so rich a gem	MOROCCO
2.7.55	Was set in worse than gold. They have in England	MOROCCO
2.7.56	A coin that bears the figure of an angel	MOROCCO
2.7.57	Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;	MOROCCO
2.7.58	But here an angel in a golden bed	MOROCCO
2.7.59	Lies all within. Deliver me the key:	MOROCCO
2.7.60	Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!	MOROCCO


	PORTIA

2.7.61	There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,	PORTIA
2.7.62	Then I am yours.	PORTIA
	He unlocks the golden casket


	MOROCCO

2.7.63	O hell! what have we here?	MOROCCO
2.7.64	A carrion Death, within whose empty eye	MOROCCO
2.7.65	There is a written scroll! I'll read the writing.	MOROCCO
	Reads
2.7.66	All that glitters is not gold;	Reads
2.7.67	Often have you heard that told:	Reads
2.7.68	Many a man his life hath sold	Reads
2.7.69	But my outside to behold:	Reads
2.7.70	Gilded tombs do worms enfold.	Reads
2.7.71	Had you been as wise as bold,	Reads
2.7.72	Young in limbs, in judgment old,	Reads
2.7.73	Your answer had not been inscroll'd:	Reads
2.7.74	Fare you well; your suit is cold.	Reads
2.7.75	Cold, indeed; and labour lost:	Reads
2.7.76	Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!	Reads
2.7.77	Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart	Reads
2.7.78	To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.	Reads
	Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets


	PORTIA

2.7.79	A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.	PORTIA
2.7.80	Let all of his complexion choose me so.	PORTIA
	Exeunt

	SCENE VIII. Venice. A street.

	Enter SALARINO and SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.1	Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:	SALARINO
2.8.2	With him is Gratiano gone along;	SALARINO
2.8.3	And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.8.4	The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,	SALANIO
2.8.5	Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.6	He came too late, the ship was under sail:	SALARINO
2.8.7	But there the duke was given to understand	SALARINO
2.8.8	That in a gondola were seen together	SALARINO
2.8.9	Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:	SALARINO
2.8.10	Besides, Antonio certified the duke	SALARINO
2.8.11	They were not with Bassanio in his ship.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.8.12	I never heard a passion so confused,	SALANIO
2.8.13	So strange, outrageous, and so variable,	SALANIO
2.8.14	As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:	SALANIO
2.8.15	'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!	SALANIO
2.8.16	Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!	SALANIO
2.8.17	Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!	SALANIO
2.8.18	A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,	SALANIO
2.8.19	Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!	SALANIO
2.8.20	And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,	SALANIO
2.8.21	Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;	SALANIO
2.8.22	She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.'	SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.23	Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,	SALARINO
2.8.24	Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.8.25	Let good Antonio look he keep his day,	SALANIO
2.8.26	Or he shall pay for this.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.27	Marry, well remember'd.	SALARINO
2.8.28	I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,	SALARINO
2.8.29	Who told me, in the narrow seas that part	SALARINO
2.8.30	The French and English, there miscarried	SALARINO
2.8.31	A vessel of our country richly fraught:	SALARINO
2.8.32	I thought upon Antonio when he told me;	SALARINO
2.8.33	And wish'd in silence that it were not his.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.8.34	You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;	SALANIO
2.8.35	Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.36	A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.	SALARINO
2.8.37	I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:	SALARINO
2.8.38	Bassanio told him he would make some speed	SALARINO
2.8.39	Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;	SALARINO
2.8.40	Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio	SALARINO
2.8.41	But stay the very riping of the time;	SALARINO
2.8.42	And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,	SALARINO
2.8.43	Let it not enter in your mind of love:	SALARINO
2.8.44	Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts	SALARINO
2.8.45	To courtship and such fair ostents of love	SALARINO
2.8.46	As shall conveniently become you there:'	SALARINO
2.8.47	And even there, his eye being big with tears,	SALARINO
2.8.48	Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,	SALARINO
2.8.49	And with affection wondrous sensible	SALARINO
2.8.50	He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

2.8.51	I think he only loves the world for him.	SALANIO
2.8.52	I pray thee, let us go and find him out	SALANIO
2.8.53	And quicken his embraced heaviness	SALANIO
2.8.54	With some delight or other.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

2.8.55	Do we so.	SALARINO
	Exeunt

	SCENE IX. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.

	Enter NERISSA with a Servitor


	NERISSA

2.9.1	Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:	NERISSA
2.9.2	The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,	NERISSA
2.9.3	And comes to his election presently.	NERISSA
	Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON, PORTIA, and their trains


	PORTIA

2.9.4	Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:	PORTIA
2.9.5	If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,	PORTIA
2.9.6	Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:	PORTIA
2.9.7	But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,	PORTIA
2.9.8	You must be gone from hence immediately.	PORTIA


	ARRAGON

2.9.9	I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:	ARRAGON
2.9.10	First, never to unfold to any one	ARRAGON
2.9.11	Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail	ARRAGON
2.9.12	Of the right casket, never in my life	ARRAGON
2.9.13	To woo a maid in way of marriage: Lastly,	ARRAGON
2.9.14	If I do fail in fortune of my choice,	ARRAGON
2.9.15	Immediately to leave you and be gone.	ARRAGON


	PORTIA

2.9.16	To these injunctions every one doth swear	PORTIA
2.9.17	That comes to hazard for my worthless self.	PORTIA


	ARRAGON

2.9.18	And so have I address'd me. Fortune now	ARRAGON
2.9.19	To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.	ARRAGON
2.9.20	'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'	ARRAGON
2.9.21	You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.	ARRAGON
2.9.22	What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:	ARRAGON
2.9.23	'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'	ARRAGON
2.9.24	What many men desire! that 'many' may be meant	ARRAGON
2.9.25	By the fool multitude, that choose by show,	ARRAGON
2.9.26	Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;	ARRAGON
2.9.27	Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,	ARRAGON
2.9.28	Builds in the weather on the outward wall,	ARRAGON
2.9.29	Even in the force and road of casualty.	ARRAGON
2.9.30	I will not choose what many men desire,	ARRAGON
2.9.31	Because I will not jump with common spirits	ARRAGON
2.9.32	And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.	ARRAGON
2.9.33	Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;	ARRAGON
2.9.34	Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:	ARRAGON
2.9.35	'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'	ARRAGON
2.9.36	And well said too; for who shall go about	ARRAGON
2.9.37	To cozen fortune and be honourable	ARRAGON
2.9.38	Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume	ARRAGON
2.9.39	To wear an undeserved dignity.	ARRAGON
2.9.40	O, that estates, degrees and offices	ARRAGON
2.9.41	Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour	ARRAGON
2.9.42	Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!	ARRAGON
2.9.43	How many then should cover that stand bare!	ARRAGON
2.9.44	How many be commanded that command!	ARRAGON
2.9.45	How much low peasantry would then be glean'd	ARRAGON
2.9.46	From the true seed of honour! and how much honour	ARRAGON
2.9.47	Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times	ARRAGON
2.9.48	To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:	ARRAGON
2.9.49	'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'	ARRAGON
2.9.50	I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,	ARRAGON
2.9.51	And instantly unlock my fortunes here.	ARRAGON
	He opens the silver casket


	PORTIA

2.9.52	Too long a pause for that which you find there.	PORTIA


	ARRAGON

2.9.53	What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,	ARRAGON
2.9.54	Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.	ARRAGON
2.9.55	How much unlike art thou to Portia!	ARRAGON
2.9.56	How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!	ARRAGON
2.9.57	'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'	ARRAGON
2.9.58	Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?	ARRAGON
2.9.59	Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?	ARRAGON


	PORTIA

2.9.60	To offend, and judge, are distinct offices	PORTIA
2.9.61	And of opposed natures.	PORTIA


	ARRAGON

2.9.62	What is here?	ARRAGON
	Reads
2.9.63	The fire seven times tried this:	Reads
2.9.64	Seven times tried that judgment is,	Reads
2.9.65	That did never choose amiss.	Reads
2.9.66	Some there be that shadows kiss;	Reads
2.9.67	Such have but a shadow's bliss:	Reads
2.9.68	There be fools alive, I wis,	Reads
2.9.69	Silver'd o'er; and so was this.	Reads
2.9.70	Take what wife you will to bed,	Reads
2.9.71	I will ever be your head:	Reads
2.9.72	So be gone: you are sped.	Reads
2.9.73	Still more fool I shall appear	Reads
2.9.74	By the time I linger here	Reads
2.9.75	With one fool's head I came to woo,	Reads
2.9.76	But I go away with two.	Reads
2.9.77	Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,	Reads
2.9.78	Patiently to bear my wroth.	Reads
	Exeunt Arragon and train


	PORTIA

2.9.79	Thus hath the candle singed the moth.	PORTIA
2.9.80	O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,	PORTIA
2.9.81	They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

2.9.82	The ancient saying is no heresy,	NERISSA
2.9.83	Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

2.9.84	Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.	PORTIA
	Enter a Servant


	Servant

2.9.85	Where is my lady?	Servant


	PORTIA

2.9.86	Here: what would my lord?	PORTIA


	Servant

2.9.87	Madam, there is alighted at your gate	Servant
2.9.88	A young Venetian, one that comes before	Servant
2.9.89	To signify the approaching of his lord;	Servant
2.9.90	From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,	Servant
2.9.91	To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,	Servant
2.9.92	Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen	Servant
2.9.93	So likely an ambassador of love:	Servant
2.9.94	A day in April never came so sweet,	Servant
2.9.95	To show how costly summer was at hand,	Servant
2.9.96	As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.	Servant


	PORTIA

2.9.97	No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard	PORTIA
2.9.98	Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,	PORTIA
2.9.99	Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.	PORTIA
2.9.100	Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see	PORTIA
2.9.101	Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

2.9.102	Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!	NERISSA
	Exeunt

	ACT III
	SCENE I. Venice. A street.

	Enter SALANIO and SALARINO


	SALANIO

3.1.1	Now, what news on the Rialto?	SALANIO


	SALARINO

3.1.2	Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath	SALARINO
3.1.3	a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;	SALARINO
3.1.4	the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very	SALARINO
3.1.5	dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many	SALARINO
3.1.6	a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip	SALARINO
3.1.7	Report be an honest woman of her word.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

3.1.8	I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever	SALANIO
3.1.9	knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she	SALANIO
3.1.10	wept for the death of a third husband. But it is	SALANIO
3.1.11	true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the	SALANIO
3.1.12	plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the	SALANIO
3.1.13	honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough	SALANIO
3.1.14	to keep his name company!--	SALANIO


	SALARINO

3.1.15	Come, the full stop.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

3.1.16	Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath	SALANIO
3.1.17	lost a ship.	SALANIO


	SALARINO

3.1.18	I would it might prove the end of his losses.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

3.1.19	Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my	SALANIO
3.1.20	prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.	SALANIO
	Enter SHYLOCK
3.1.21	How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?	Enter SHYLOCK


	SHYLOCK

3.1.22	You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my	SHYLOCK
3.1.23	daughter's flight.	SHYLOCK


	SALARINO

3.1.24	That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor	SALARINO
3.1.25	that made the wings she flew withal.	SALARINO


	SALANIO

3.1.26	And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was	SALANIO
3.1.27	fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all	SALANIO
3.1.28	to leave the dam.	SALANIO


	SHYLOCK

3.1.29	She is damned for it.	SHYLOCK


	SALANIO

3.1.30	That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.	SALANIO


	SHYLOCK

3.1.31	My own flesh and blood to rebel!	SHYLOCK


	SALANIO

3.1.32	Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?	SALANIO


	SHYLOCK

3.1.33	I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.	SHYLOCK


	SALARINO

3.1.34	There is more difference between thy flesh and hers	SALARINO
3.1.35	than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods	SALARINO
3.1.36	than there is between red wine and rhenish. But	SALARINO
3.1.37	tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any	SALARINO
3.1.38	loss at sea or no?	SALARINO


	SHYLOCK

3.1.39	There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a	SHYLOCK
3.1.40	prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the	SHYLOCK
3.1.41	Rialto; a beggar, that was used to come so smug upon	SHYLOCK
3.1.42	the mart; let him look to his bond: he was wont to	SHYLOCK
3.1.43	call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was	SHYLOCK
3.1.44	wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him	SHYLOCK
3.1.45	look to his bond.	SHYLOCK


	SALARINO

3.1.46	Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take	SALARINO
3.1.47	his flesh: what's that good for?	SALARINO


	SHYLOCK

3.1.48	To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else,	SHYLOCK
3.1.49	it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and	SHYLOCK
3.1.50	hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,	SHYLOCK
3.1.51	mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my	SHYLOCK
3.1.52	bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine	SHYLOCK
3.1.53	enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Hath	SHYLOCK
3.1.54	not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,	SHYLOCK
3.1.55	dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with	SHYLOCK
3.1.56	the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject	SHYLOCK
3.1.57	to the same diseases, healed by the same means,	SHYLOCK
3.1.58	warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as	SHYLOCK
3.1.59	a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?	SHYLOCK
3.1.60	if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison	SHYLOCK
3.1.61	us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not	SHYLOCK
3.1.62	revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will	SHYLOCK
3.1.63	resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,	SHYLOCK
3.1.64	what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian	SHYLOCK
3.1.65	wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by	SHYLOCK
3.1.66	Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you	SHYLOCK
3.1.67	teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I	SHYLOCK
3.1.68	will better the instruction.	SHYLOCK
	Enter a Servant


	Servant

3.1.69	Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and	Servant
3.1.70	desires to speak with you both.	Servant


	SALARINO

3.1.71	We have been up and down to seek him.	SALARINO
	Enter TUBAL


	SALANIO

3.1.72	Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be	SALANIO
3.1.73	matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.	SALANIO
	Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant


	SHYLOCK

3.1.74	How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou	SHYLOCK
3.1.75	found my daughter?	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.76	I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.77	Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,	SHYLOCK
3.1.78	cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse	SHYLOCK
3.1.79	never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it	SHYLOCK
3.1.80	till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other	SHYLOCK
3.1.81	precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter	SHYLOCK
3.1.82	were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!	SHYLOCK
3.1.83	would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in	SHYLOCK
3.1.84	her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know	SHYLOCK
3.1.85	not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon	SHYLOCK
3.1.86	loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to	SHYLOCK
3.1.87	find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:	SHYLOCK
3.1.88	nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my	SHYLOCK
3.1.89	shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears	SHYLOCK
3.1.90	but of my shedding.	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.91	Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I	TUBAL
3.1.92	heard in Genoa,--	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.93	What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.94	Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.95	I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.96	I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.97	I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!	SHYLOCK
3.1.98	ha, ha! where? in Genoa?	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.99	Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one	TUBAL
3.1.100	night fourscore ducats.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.101	Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my	SHYLOCK
3.1.102	gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!	SHYLOCK
3.1.103	fourscore ducats!	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.104	There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my	TUBAL
3.1.105	company to Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.106	I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture	SHYLOCK
3.1.107	him: I am glad of it.	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.108	One of them showed me a ring that he had of your	TUBAL
3.1.109	daughter for a monkey.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.110	Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my	SHYLOCK
3.1.111	turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor:	SHYLOCK
3.1.112	I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.	SHYLOCK


	TUBAL

3.1.113	But Antonio is certainly undone.	TUBAL


	SHYLOCK

3.1.114	Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee	SHYLOCK
3.1.115	me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I	SHYLOCK
3.1.116	will have the heart of him, if he forfeit; for, were	SHYLOCK
3.1.117	he out of Venice, I can make what merchandise I	SHYLOCK
3.1.118	will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue;	SHYLOCK
3.1.119	go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.	SHYLOCK
	Exeunt

	SCENE II. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.

	Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and Attendants


	PORTIA

3.2.1	I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two	PORTIA
3.2.2	Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,	PORTIA
3.2.3	I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.	PORTIA
3.2.4	There's something tells me, but it is not love,	PORTIA
3.2.5	I would not lose you; and you know yourself,	PORTIA
3.2.6	Hate counsels not in such a quality.	PORTIA
3.2.7	But lest you should not understand me well,--	PORTIA
3.2.8	And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--	PORTIA
3.2.9	I would detain you here some month or two	PORTIA
3.2.10	Before you venture for me. I could teach you	PORTIA
3.2.11	How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;	PORTIA
3.2.12	So will I never be: so may you miss me;	PORTIA
3.2.13	But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,	PORTIA
3.2.14	That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,	PORTIA
3.2.15	They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;	PORTIA
3.2.16	One half of me is yours, the other half yours,	PORTIA
3.2.17	Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,	PORTIA
3.2.18	And so all yours. O, these naughty times	PORTIA
3.2.19	Put bars between the owners and their rights!	PORTIA
3.2.20	And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,	PORTIA
3.2.21	Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.	PORTIA
3.2.22	I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,	PORTIA
3.2.23	To eke it and to draw it out in length,	PORTIA
3.2.24	To stay you from election.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.25	Let me choose	BASSANIO
3.2.26	For as I am, I live upon the rack.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.27	Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess	PORTIA
3.2.28	What treason there is mingled with your love.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.29	None but that ugly treason of mistrust,	BASSANIO
3.2.30	Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:	BASSANIO
3.2.31	There may as well be amity and life	BASSANIO
3.2.32	'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.33	Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,	PORTIA
3.2.34	Where men enforced do speak anything.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.35	Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.36	Well then, confess and live.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.37	'Confess' and 'love'	BASSANIO
3.2.38	Had been the very sum of my confession:	BASSANIO
3.2.39	O happy torment, when my torturer	BASSANIO
3.2.40	Doth teach me answers for deliverance!	BASSANIO
3.2.41	But let me to my fortune and the caskets.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.42	Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:	PORTIA
3.2.43	If you do love me, you will find me out.	PORTIA
3.2.44	Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.	PORTIA
3.2.45	Let music sound while he doth make his choice;	PORTIA
3.2.46	Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,	PORTIA
3.2.47	Fading in music: that the comparison	PORTIA
3.2.48	May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream	PORTIA
3.2.49	And watery death-bed for him. He may win;	PORTIA
3.2.50	And what is music then? Then music is	PORTIA
3.2.51	Even as the flourish when true subjects bow	PORTIA
3.2.52	To a new-crowned monarch: such it is	PORTIA
3.2.53	As are those dulcet sounds in break of day	PORTIA
3.2.54	That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear,	PORTIA
3.2.55	And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,	PORTIA
3.2.56	With no less presence, but with much more love,	PORTIA
3.2.57	Than young Alcides, when he did redeem	PORTIA
3.2.58	The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy	PORTIA
3.2.59	To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice	PORTIA
3.2.60	The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,	PORTIA
3.2.61	With bleared visages, come forth to view	PORTIA
3.2.62	The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!	PORTIA
3.2.63	Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay	PORTIA
3.2.64	I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.	PORTIA
	Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself

	BASSANIO

3.2.65	SONG.	BASSANIO
3.2.66	Tell me where is fancy bred,	BASSANIO
3.2.67	Or in the heart, or in the head?	BASSANIO
3.2.68	How begot, how nourished?	BASSANIO
3.2.69	Reply, reply.	BASSANIO
3.2.70	It is engender'd in the eyes,	BASSANIO
3.2.71	With gazing fed; and fancy dies	BASSANIO
3.2.72	In the cradle where it lies.	BASSANIO
3.2.73	Let us all ring fancy's knell	BASSANIO
3.2.74	I'll begin it,--Ding, dong, bell.	BASSANIO


	ALL

3.2.75	Ding, dong, bell.	ALL


	BASSANIO

3.2.76	So may the outward shows be least themselves:	BASSANIO
3.2.77	The world is still deceived with ornament.	BASSANIO
3.2.78	In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,	BASSANIO
3.2.79	But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,	BASSANIO
3.2.80	Obscures the show of evil? In religion,	BASSANIO
3.2.81	What damned error, but some sober brow	BASSANIO
3.2.82	Will bless it and approve it with a text,	BASSANIO
3.2.83	Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?	BASSANIO
3.2.84	There is no vice so simple but assumes	BASSANIO
3.2.85	Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:	BASSANIO
3.2.86	How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false	BASSANIO
3.2.87	As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins	BASSANIO
3.2.88	The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;	BASSANIO
3.2.89	Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;	BASSANIO
3.2.90	And these assume but valour's excrement	BASSANIO
3.2.91	To render them redoubted! Look on beauty,	BASSANIO
3.2.92	And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;	BASSANIO
3.2.93	Which therein works a miracle in nature,	BASSANIO
3.2.94	Making them lightest that wear most of it:	BASSANIO
3.2.95	So are those crisped snaky golden locks	BASSANIO
3.2.96	Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,	BASSANIO
3.2.97	Upon supposed fairness, often known	BASSANIO
3.2.98	To be the dowry of a second head,	BASSANIO
3.2.99	The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.	BASSANIO
3.2.100	Thus ornament is but the guiled shore	BASSANIO
3.2.101	To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf	BASSANIO
3.2.102	Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,	BASSANIO
3.2.103	The seeming truth which cunning times put on	BASSANIO
3.2.104	To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,	BASSANIO
3.2.105	Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;	BASSANIO
3.2.106	Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge	BASSANIO
3.2.107	'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,	BASSANIO
3.2.108	Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,	BASSANIO
3.2.109	Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;	BASSANIO
3.2.110	And here choose I; joy be the consequence!	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.111	[Aside] How all the other passions fleet to air,	PORTIA
3.2.112	As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,	PORTIA
3.2.113	And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy! O love,	PORTIA
3.2.114	Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,	PORTIA
3.2.115	In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.	PORTIA
3.2.116	I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,	PORTIA
3.2.117	For fear I surfeit.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.118	What find I here?	BASSANIO
	Opening the leaden casket

	BASSANIO

3.2.119	Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god	BASSANIO
3.2.120	Hath come so near creation? Move these eyes?	BASSANIO
3.2.121	Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,	BASSANIO
3.2.122	Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips,	BASSANIO
3.2.123	Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar	BASSANIO
3.2.124	Should sunder such sweet friends. Here in her hairs	BASSANIO
3.2.125	The painter plays the spider and hath woven	BASSANIO
3.2.126	A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,	BASSANIO
3.2.127	Faster than gnats in cobwebs; but her eyes,--	BASSANIO
3.2.128	How could he see to do them? having made one,	BASSANIO
3.2.129	Methinks it should have power to steal both his	BASSANIO
3.2.130	And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far	BASSANIO
3.2.131	The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow	BASSANIO
3.2.132	In underprizing it, so far this shadow	BASSANIO
3.2.133	Doth limp behind the substance. Here's the scroll,	BASSANIO
3.2.134	The continent and summary of my fortune.	BASSANIO
	Reads
3.2.135	You that choose not by the view,	Reads
3.2.136	Chance as fair and choose as true!	Reads
3.2.137	Since this fortune falls to you,	Reads
3.2.138	Be content and seek no new,	Reads
3.2.139	If you be well pleased with this	Reads
3.2.140	And hold your fortune for your bliss,	Reads
3.2.141	Turn you where your lady is	Reads
3.2.142	And claim her with a loving kiss.	Reads
3.2.143	A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;	Reads
3.2.144	I come by note, to give and to receive.	Reads
3.2.145	Like one of two contending in a prize,	Reads
3.2.146	That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,	Reads
3.2.147	Hearing applause and universal shout,	Reads
3.2.148	Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt	Reads
3.2.149	Whether these pearls of praise be his or no;	Reads
3.2.150	So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;	Reads
3.2.151	As doubtful whether what I see be true,	Reads
3.2.152	Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you.	Reads


	PORTIA

3.2.153	You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,	PORTIA
3.2.154	Such as I am: though for myself alone	PORTIA
3.2.155	I would not be ambitious in my wish,	PORTIA
3.2.156	To wish myself much better; yet, for you	PORTIA
3.2.157	I would be trebled twenty times myself;	PORTIA
3.2.158	A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more rich;	PORTIA
3.2.159	That only to stand high in your account,	PORTIA
3.2.160	I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,	PORTIA
3.2.161	Exceed account; but the full sum of me	PORTIA
3.2.162	Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,	PORTIA
3.2.163	Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;	PORTIA
3.2.164	Happy in this, she is not yet so old	PORTIA
3.2.165	But she may learn; happier than this,	PORTIA
3.2.166	She is not bred so dull but she can learn;	PORTIA
3.2.167	Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit	PORTIA
3.2.168	Commits itself to yours to be directed,	PORTIA
3.2.169	As from her lord, her governor, her king.	PORTIA
3.2.170	Myself and what is mine to you and yours	PORTIA
3.2.171	Is now converted: but now I was the lord	PORTIA
3.2.172	Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,	PORTIA
3.2.173	Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,	PORTIA
3.2.174	This house, these servants and this same myself	PORTIA
3.2.175	Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;	PORTIA
3.2.176	Which when you part from, lose, or give away,	PORTIA
3.2.177	Let it presage the ruin of your love	PORTIA
3.2.178	And be my vantage to exclaim on you.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.179	Madam, you have bereft me of all words,	BASSANIO
3.2.180	Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;	BASSANIO
3.2.181	And there is such confusion in my powers,	BASSANIO
3.2.182	As after some oration fairly spoke	BASSANIO
3.2.183	By a beloved prince, there doth appear	BASSANIO
3.2.184	Among the buzzing pleased multitude;	BASSANIO
3.2.185	Where every something, being blent together,	BASSANIO
3.2.186	Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,	BASSANIO
3.2.187	Express'd and not express'd. But when this ring	BASSANIO
3.2.188	Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:	BASSANIO
3.2.189	O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!	BASSANIO


	NERISSA

3.2.190	My lord and lady, it is now our time,	NERISSA
3.2.191	That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,	NERISSA
3.2.192	To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

3.2.193	My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,	GRATIANO
3.2.194	I wish you all the joy that you can wish;	GRATIANO
3.2.195	For I am sure you can wish none from me:	GRATIANO
3.2.196	And when your honours mean to solemnize	GRATIANO
3.2.197	The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,	GRATIANO
3.2.198	Even at that time I may be married too.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

3.2.199	With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

3.2.200	I thank your lordship, you have got me one.	GRATIANO
3.2.201	My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:	GRATIANO
3.2.202	You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;	GRATIANO
3.2.203	You loved, I loved for intermission.	GRATIANO
3.2.204	No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.	GRATIANO
3.2.205	Your fortune stood upon the casket there,	GRATIANO
3.2.206	And so did mine too, as the matter falls;	GRATIANO
3.2.207	For wooing here until I sweat again,	GRATIANO
3.2.208	And sweating until my very roof was dry	GRATIANO
3.2.209	With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,	GRATIANO
3.2.210	I got a promise of this fair one here	GRATIANO
3.2.211	To have her love, provided that your fortune	GRATIANO
3.2.212	Achieved her mistress.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

3.2.213	Is this true, Nerissa?	PORTIA


	NERISSA

3.2.214	Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.	NERISSA


	BASSANIO

3.2.215	And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

3.2.216	Yes, faith, my lord.	GRATIANO


	BASSANIO

3.2.217	Our feast shall be much honour'd in your marriage.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

3.2.218	We'll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

3.2.219	What, and stake down?	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

3.2.220	No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and stake down.	GRATIANO
3.2.221	But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What,	GRATIANO
3.2.222	and my old Venetian friend Salerio?	GRATIANO
	Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO, a Messenger from Venice


	BASSANIO

3.2.223	Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;	BASSANIO
3.2.224	If that the youth of my new interest here	BASSANIO
3.2.225	Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,	BASSANIO
3.2.226	I bid my very friends and countrymen,	BASSANIO
3.2.227	Sweet Portia, welcome.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.228	So do I, my lord:	PORTIA
3.2.229	They are entirely welcome.	PORTIA


	LORENZO

3.2.230	I thank your honour. For my part, my lord,	LORENZO
3.2.231	My purpose was not to have seen you here;	LORENZO
3.2.232	But meeting with Salerio by the way,	LORENZO
3.2.233	He did entreat me, past all saying nay,	LORENZO
3.2.234	To come with him along.	LORENZO


	SALERIO

3.2.235	I did, my lord;	SALERIO
3.2.236	And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio	SALERIO
3.2.237	Commends him to you.	SALERIO
	Gives Bassanio a letter


	BASSANIO

3.2.238	Ere I ope his letter,	BASSANIO
3.2.239	I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.	BASSANIO


	SALERIO

3.2.240	Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;	SALERIO
3.2.241	Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there	SALERIO
3.2.242	Will show you his estate.	SALERIO


	GRATIANO

3.2.243	Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.	GRATIANO
3.2.244	Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?	GRATIANO
3.2.245	How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?	GRATIANO
3.2.246	I know he will be glad of our success;	GRATIANO
3.2.247	We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.	GRATIANO


	SALERIO

3.2.248	I would you had won the fleece that he hath lost.	SALERIO


	PORTIA

3.2.249	There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper,	PORTIA
3.2.250	That steals the colour from Bassanio's cheek:	PORTIA
3.2.251	Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world	PORTIA
3.2.252	Could turn so much the constitution	PORTIA
3.2.253	Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!	PORTIA
3.2.254	With leave, Bassanio: I am half yourself,	PORTIA
3.2.255	And I must freely have the half of anything	PORTIA
3.2.256	That this same paper brings you.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.257	O sweet Portia,	BASSANIO
3.2.258	Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words	BASSANIO
3.2.259	That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,	BASSANIO
3.2.260	When I did first impart my love to you,	BASSANIO
3.2.261	I freely told you, all the wealth I had	BASSANIO
3.2.262	Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;	BASSANIO
3.2.263	And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,	BASSANIO
3.2.264	Rating myself at nothing, you shall see	BASSANIO
3.2.265	How much I was a braggart. When I told you	BASSANIO
3.2.266	My state was nothing, I should then have told you	BASSANIO
3.2.267	That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,	BASSANIO
3.2.268	I have engaged myself to a dear friend,	BASSANIO
3.2.269	Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,	BASSANIO
3.2.270	To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;	BASSANIO
3.2.271	The paper as the body of my friend,	BASSANIO
3.2.272	And every word in it a gaping wound,	BASSANIO
3.2.273	Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?	BASSANIO
3.2.274	Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?	BASSANIO
3.2.275	From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,	BASSANIO
3.2.276	From Lisbon, Barbary and India?	BASSANIO
3.2.277	And not one vessel 'scape the dreadful touch	BASSANIO
3.2.278	Of merchant-marring rocks?	BASSANIO


	SALERIO

3.2.279	Not one, my lord.	SALERIO
3.2.280	Besides, it should appear, that if he had	SALERIO
3.2.281	The present money to discharge the Jew,	SALERIO
3.2.282	He would not take it. Never did I know	SALERIO
3.2.283	A creature, that did bear the shape of man,	SALERIO
3.2.284	So keen and greedy to confound a man:	SALERIO
3.2.285	He plies the duke at morning and at night,	SALERIO
3.2.286	And doth impeach the freedom of the state,	SALERIO
3.2.287	If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,	SALERIO
3.2.288	The duke himself, and the magnificoes	SALERIO
3.2.289	Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;	SALERIO
3.2.290	But none can drive him from the envious plea	SALERIO
3.2.291	Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.	SALERIO


	JESSICA

3.2.292	When I was with him I have heard him swear	JESSICA
3.2.293	To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,	JESSICA
3.2.294	That he would rather have Antonio's flesh	JESSICA
3.2.295	Than twenty times the value of the sum	JESSICA
3.2.296	That he did owe him: and I know, my lord,	JESSICA
3.2.297	If law, authority and power deny not,	JESSICA
3.2.298	It will go hard with poor Antonio.	JESSICA


	PORTIA

3.2.299	Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.300	The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,	BASSANIO
3.2.301	The best-condition'd and unwearied spirit	BASSANIO
3.2.302	In doing courtesies, and one in whom	BASSANIO
3.2.303	The ancient Roman honour more appears	BASSANIO
3.2.304	Than any that draws breath in Italy.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.305	What sum owes he the Jew?	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.306	For me three thousand ducats.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.307	What, no more?	PORTIA
3.2.308	Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;	PORTIA
3.2.309	Double six thousand, and then treble that,	PORTIA
3.2.310	Before a friend of this description	PORTIA
3.2.311	Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.	PORTIA
3.2.312	First go with me to church and call me wife,	PORTIA
3.2.313	And then away to Venice to your friend;	PORTIA
3.2.314	For never shall you lie by Portia's side	PORTIA
3.2.315	With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold	PORTIA
3.2.316	To pay the petty debt twenty times over:	PORTIA
3.2.317	When it is paid, bring your true friend along.	PORTIA
3.2.318	My maid Nerissa and myself meantime	PORTIA
3.2.319	Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!	PORTIA
3.2.320	For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:	PORTIA
3.2.321	Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:	PORTIA
3.2.322	Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.	PORTIA
3.2.323	But let me hear the letter of your friend.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.324	[Reads] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all	BASSANIO
3.2.325	miscarried, my creditors grow cruel, my estate is	BASSANIO
3.2.326	very low, my bond to the Jew is forfeit; and since	BASSANIO
3.2.327	in paying it, it is impossible I should live, all	BASSANIO
3.2.328	debts are cleared between you and I, if I might but	BASSANIO
3.2.329	see you at my death. Notwithstanding, use your	BASSANIO
3.2.330	pleasure: if your love do not persuade you to come,	BASSANIO
3.2.331	let not my letter.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

3.2.332	O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

3.2.333	Since I have your good leave to go away,	BASSANIO
3.2.334	I will make haste: but, till I come again,	BASSANIO
3.2.335	No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,	BASSANIO
3.2.336	No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.	BASSANIO
	Exeunt

	SCENE III. Venice. A street.

	Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, and Gaoler


	SHYLOCK

3.3.1	Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;	SHYLOCK
3.3.2	This is the fool that lent out money gratis:	SHYLOCK
3.3.3	Gaoler, look to him.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

3.3.4	Hear me yet, good Shylock.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

3.3.5	I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:	SHYLOCK
3.3.6	I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.	SHYLOCK
3.3.7	Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;	SHYLOCK
3.3.8	But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:	SHYLOCK
3.3.9	The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,	SHYLOCK
3.3.10	Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond	SHYLOCK
3.3.11	To come abroad with him at his request.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

3.3.12	I pray thee, hear me speak.	ANTONIO


	SHYLOCK

3.3.13	I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:	SHYLOCK
3.3.14	I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.	SHYLOCK
3.3.15	I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,	SHYLOCK
3.3.16	To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield	SHYLOCK
3.3.17	To Christian intercessors. Follow not;	SHYLOCK
3.3.18	I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.	SHYLOCK
	Exit


	SALARINO

3.3.19	It is the most impenetrable cur	SALARINO
3.3.20	That ever kept with men.	SALARINO


	ANTONIO

3.3.21	Let him alone:	ANTONIO
3.3.22	I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.	ANTONIO
3.3.23	He seeks my life; his reason well I know:	ANTONIO
3.3.24	I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures	ANTONIO
3.3.25	Many that have at times made moan to me;	ANTONIO
3.3.26	Therefore he hates me.	ANTONIO


	SALARINO

3.3.27	I am sure the duke	SALARINO
3.3.28	Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.	SALARINO


	ANTONIO

3.3.29	The duke cannot deny the course of law:	ANTONIO
3.3.30	For the commodity that strangers have	ANTONIO
3.3.31	With us in Venice, if it be denied,	ANTONIO
3.3.32	Will much impeach the justice of his state;	ANTONIO
3.3.33	Since that the trade and profit of the city	ANTONIO
3.3.34	Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:	ANTONIO
3.3.35	These griefs and losses have so bated me,	ANTONIO
3.3.36	That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh	ANTONIO
3.3.37	To-morrow to my bloody creditor.	ANTONIO
3.3.38	Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come	ANTONIO
3.3.39	To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!	ANTONIO
	Exeunt

	SCENE IV. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.

	Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and BALTHASAR


	LORENZO

3.4.1	Madam, although I speak it in your presence,	LORENZO
3.4.2	You have a noble and a true conceit	LORENZO
3.4.3	Of godlike amity; which appears most strongly	LORENZO
3.4.4	In bearing thus the absence of your lord.	LORENZO
3.4.5	But if you knew to whom you show this honour,	LORENZO
3.4.6	How true a gentleman you send relief,	LORENZO
3.4.7	How dear a lover of my lord your husband,	LORENZO
3.4.8	I know you would be prouder of the work	LORENZO
3.4.9	Than customary bounty can enforce you.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

3.4.10	I never did repent for doing good,	PORTIA
3.4.11	Nor shall not now: for in companions	PORTIA
3.4.12	That do converse and waste the time together,	PORTIA
3.4.13	Whose souls do bear an equal yoke Of love,	PORTIA
3.4.14	There must be needs a like proportion	PORTIA
3.4.15	Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;	PORTIA
3.4.16	Which makes me think that this Antonio,	PORTIA
3.4.17	Being the bosom lover of my lord,	PORTIA
3.4.18	Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,	PORTIA
3.4.19	How little is the cost I have bestow'd	PORTIA
3.4.20	In purchasing the semblance of my soul	PORTIA
3.4.21	From out the state of hellish misery!	PORTIA
3.4.22	This comes too near the praising of myself;	PORTIA
3.4.23	Therefore no more of it: hear other things.	PORTIA
3.4.24	Lorenzo, I commit into your hands	PORTIA
3.4.25	The husbandry and manage of my house	PORTIA
3.4.26	Until my lord's return: for mine own part,	PORTIA
3.4.27	I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow	PORTIA
3.4.28	To live in prayer and contemplation,	PORTIA
3.4.29	Only attended by Nerissa here,	PORTIA
3.4.30	Until her husband and my lord's return:	PORTIA
3.4.31	There is a monastery two miles off;	PORTIA
3.4.32	And there will we abide. I do desire you	PORTIA
3.4.33	Not to deny this imposition;	PORTIA
3.4.34	The which my love and some necessity	PORTIA
3.4.35	Now lays upon you.	PORTIA


	LORENZO

3.4.36	Madam, with all my heart;	LORENZO
3.4.37	I shall obey you in all fair commands.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

3.4.38	My people do already know my mind,	PORTIA
3.4.39	And will acknowledge you and Jessica	PORTIA
3.4.40	In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.	PORTIA
3.4.41	And so farewell, till we shall meet again.	PORTIA


	LORENZO

3.4.42	Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.4.43	I wish your ladyship all heart's content.	JESSICA


	PORTIA

3.4.44	I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased	PORTIA
3.4.45	To wish it back on you: fare you well Jessica.	PORTIA
	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.46	Now, Balthasar,	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.47	As I have ever found thee honest-true,	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.48	So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.49	And use thou all the endeavour of a man	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.50	In speed to Padua: see thou render this	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.51	Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.52	And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.53	Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.54	Unto the tranect, to the common ferry	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.55	Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
3.4.56	But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.	Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO


	BALTHASAR

3.4.57	Madam, I go with all convenient speed.	BALTHASAR
	Exit


	PORTIA

3.4.58	Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand	PORTIA
3.4.59	That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands	PORTIA
3.4.60	Before they think of us.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

3.4.61	Shall they see us?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

3.4.62	They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,	PORTIA
3.4.63	That they shall think we are accomplished	PORTIA
3.4.64	With that we lack. I'll hold thee any wager,	PORTIA
3.4.65	When we are both accoutred like young men,	PORTIA
3.4.66	I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,	PORTIA
3.4.67	And wear my dagger with the braver grace,	PORTIA
3.4.68	And speak between the change of man and boy	PORTIA
3.4.69	With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps	PORTIA
3.4.70	Into a manly stride, and speak of frays	PORTIA
3.4.71	Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,	PORTIA
3.4.72	How honourable ladies sought my love,	PORTIA
3.4.73	Which I denying, they fell sick and died;	PORTIA
3.4.74	I could not do withal; then I'll repent,	PORTIA
3.4.75	And wish for all that, that I had not killed them;	PORTIA
3.4.76	And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,	PORTIA
3.4.77	That men shall swear I have discontinued school	PORTIA
3.4.78	Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind	PORTIA
3.4.79	A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,	PORTIA
3.4.80	Which I will practise.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

3.4.81	Why, shall we turn to men?	NERISSA


	PORTIA

3.4.82	Fie, what a question's that,	PORTIA
3.4.83	If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!	PORTIA
3.4.84	But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device	PORTIA
3.4.85	When I am in my coach, which stays for us	PORTIA
3.4.86	At the park gate; and therefore haste away,	PORTIA
3.4.87	For we must measure twenty miles to-day.	PORTIA
	Exeunt

	SCENE V. The same. A garden.

	Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.1	Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father	LAUNCELOT
3.5.2	are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I	LAUNCELOT
3.5.3	promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with	LAUNCELOT
3.5.4	you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter:	LAUNCELOT
3.5.5	therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you	LAUNCELOT
3.5.6	are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do	LAUNCELOT
3.5.7	you any good; and that is but a kind of bastard	LAUNCELOT
3.5.8	hope neither.	LAUNCELOT


	JESSICA

3.5.9	And what hope is that, I pray thee?	JESSICA


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.10	Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you	LAUNCELOT
3.5.11	not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.	LAUNCELOT


	JESSICA

3.5.12	That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the	JESSICA
3.5.13	sins of my mother should be visited upon me.	JESSICA


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.14	Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and	LAUNCELOT
3.5.15	mother: thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I	LAUNCELOT
3.5.16	fall into Charybdis, your mother: well, you are	LAUNCELOT
3.5.17	gone both ways.	LAUNCELOT


	JESSICA

3.5.18	I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a	JESSICA
3.5.19	Christian.	JESSICA


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.20	Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians	LAUNCELOT
3.5.21	enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by	LAUNCELOT
3.5.22	another. This making Christians will raise the	LAUNCELOT
3.5.23	price of hogs: if we grow all to be pork-eaters, we	LAUNCELOT
3.5.24	shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.	LAUNCELOT
	Enter LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.25	I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say: here he comes.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

3.5.26	I shall grow jealous of you shortly, Launcelot, if	LORENZO
3.5.27	you thus get my wife into corners.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.28	Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo: Launcelot and I	JESSICA
3.5.29	are out. He tells me flatly, there is no mercy for	JESSICA
3.5.30	me in heaven, because I am a Jew's daughter: and he	JESSICA
3.5.31	says, you are no good member of the commonwealth,	JESSICA
3.5.32	for in converting Jews to Christians, you raise the	JESSICA
3.5.33	price of pork.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

3.5.34	I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than	LORENZO
3.5.35	you can the getting up of the negro's belly: the	LORENZO
3.5.36	Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.37	It is much that the Moor should be more than reason:	LAUNCELOT
3.5.38	but if she be less than an honest woman, she is	LAUNCELOT
3.5.39	indeed more than I took her for.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

3.5.40	How every fool can play upon the word! I think the	LORENZO
3.5.41	best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence,	LORENZO
3.5.42	and discourse grow commendable in none only but	LORENZO
3.5.43	parrots. Go in, sirrah; bid them prepare for dinner.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.44	That is done, sir; they have all stomachs.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

3.5.45	Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! then bid	LORENZO
3.5.46	them prepare dinner.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.47	That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

3.5.48	Will you cover then, sir?	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.49	Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

3.5.50	Yet more quarrelling with occasion! Wilt thou show	LORENZO
3.5.51	the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray	LORENZO
3.5.52	tree, understand a plain man in his plain meaning:	LORENZO
3.5.53	go to thy fellows; bid them cover the table, serve	LORENZO
3.5.54	in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

3.5.55	For the table, sir, it shall be served in; for the	LAUNCELOT
3.5.56	meat, sir, it shall be covered; for your coming in	LAUNCELOT
3.5.57	to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and	LAUNCELOT
3.5.58	conceits shall govern.	LAUNCELOT
	Exit


	LORENZO

3.5.59	O dear discretion, how his words are suited!	LORENZO
3.5.60	The fool hath planted in his memory	LORENZO
3.5.61	An army of good words; and I do know	LORENZO
3.5.62	A many fools, that stand in better place,	LORENZO
3.5.63	Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word	LORENZO
3.5.64	Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?	LORENZO
3.5.65	And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,	LORENZO
3.5.66	How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.67	Past all expressing. It is very meet	JESSICA
3.5.68	The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;	JESSICA
3.5.69	For, having such a blessing in his lady,	JESSICA
3.5.70	He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;	JESSICA
3.5.71	And if on earth he do not mean it, then	JESSICA
3.5.72	In reason he should never come to heaven	JESSICA
3.5.73	Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match	JESSICA
3.5.74	And on the wager lay two earthly women,	JESSICA
3.5.75	And Portia one, there must be something else	JESSICA
3.5.76	Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world	JESSICA
3.5.77	Hath not her fellow.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

3.5.78	Even such a husband	LORENZO
3.5.79	Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.80	Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

3.5.81	I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.82	Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

3.5.83	No, pray thee, let it serve for table-talk;	LORENZO
3.5.84	' Then, howso'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things	LORENZO
3.5.85	I shall digest it.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

3.5.86	Well, I'll set you forth.	JESSICA
	Exeunt

	ACT IV
	SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.

	Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO, GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others


	DUKE

4.1.1	What, is Antonio here?	DUKE


	ANTONIO

4.1.2	Ready, so please your grace.	ANTONIO


	DUKE

4.1.3	I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer	DUKE
4.1.4	A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch	DUKE
4.1.5	uncapable of pity, void and empty	DUKE
4.1.6	From any dram of mercy.	DUKE


	ANTONIO

4.1.7	I have heard	ANTONIO
4.1.8	Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify	ANTONIO
4.1.9	His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate	ANTONIO
4.1.10	And that no lawful means can carry me	ANTONIO
4.1.11	Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose	ANTONIO
4.1.12	My patience to his fury, and am arm'd	ANTONIO
4.1.13	To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,	ANTONIO
4.1.14	The very tyranny and rage of his.	ANTONIO


	DUKE

4.1.15	Go one, and call the Jew into the court.	DUKE


	SALERIO

4.1.16	He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.	SALERIO
	Enter SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.17	Make room, and let him stand before our face.	DUKE
4.1.18	Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,	DUKE
4.1.19	That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice	DUKE
4.1.20	To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought	DUKE
4.1.21	Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange	DUKE
4.1.22	Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;	DUKE
4.1.23	And where thou now exact'st the penalty,	DUKE
4.1.24	Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,	DUKE
4.1.25	Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,	DUKE
4.1.26	But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,	DUKE
4.1.27	Forgive a moiety of the principal;	DUKE
4.1.28	Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,	DUKE
4.1.29	That have of late so huddled on his back,	DUKE
4.1.30	Enow to press a royal merchant down	DUKE
4.1.31	And pluck commiseration of his state	DUKE
4.1.32	From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,	DUKE
4.1.33	From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd	DUKE
4.1.34	To offices of tender courtesy.	DUKE
4.1.35	We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.	DUKE


	SHYLOCK

4.1.36	I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;	SHYLOCK
4.1.37	And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn	SHYLOCK
4.1.38	To have the due and forfeit of my bond:	SHYLOCK
4.1.39	If you deny it, let the danger light	SHYLOCK
4.1.40	Upon your charter and your city's freedom.	SHYLOCK
4.1.41	You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have	SHYLOCK
4.1.42	A weight of carrion flesh than to receive	SHYLOCK
4.1.43	Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:	SHYLOCK
4.1.44	But, say, it is my humour: is it answer'd?	SHYLOCK
4.1.45	What if my house be troubled with a rat	SHYLOCK
4.1.46	And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats	SHYLOCK
4.1.47	To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?	SHYLOCK
4.1.48	Some men there are love not a gaping pig;	SHYLOCK
4.1.49	Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;	SHYLOCK
4.1.50	And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,	SHYLOCK
4.1.51	Cannot contain their urine: for affection,	SHYLOCK
4.1.52	Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood	SHYLOCK
4.1.53	Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:	SHYLOCK
4.1.54	As there is no firm reason to be render'd,	SHYLOCK
4.1.55	Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;	SHYLOCK
4.1.56	Why he, a harmless necessary cat;	SHYLOCK
4.1.57	Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force	SHYLOCK
4.1.58	Must yield to such inevitable shame	SHYLOCK
4.1.59	As to offend, himself being offended;	SHYLOCK
4.1.60	So can I give no reason, nor I will not,	SHYLOCK
4.1.61	More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing	SHYLOCK
4.1.62	I bear Antonio, that I follow thus	SHYLOCK
4.1.63	A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

4.1.64	This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,	BASSANIO
4.1.65	To excuse the current of thy cruelty.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.66	I am not bound to please thee with my answers.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

4.1.67	Do all men kill the things they do not love?	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.68	Hates any man the thing he would not kill?	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

4.1.69	Every offence is not a hate at first.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.70	What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

4.1.71	I pray you, think you question with the Jew:	ANTONIO
4.1.72	You may as well go stand upon the beach	ANTONIO
4.1.73	And bid the main flood bate his usual height;	ANTONIO
4.1.74	You may as well use question with the wolf	ANTONIO
4.1.75	Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;	ANTONIO
4.1.76	You may as well forbid the mountain pines	ANTONIO
4.1.77	To wag their high tops and to make no noise,	ANTONIO
4.1.78	When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;	ANTONIO
4.1.79	You may as well do anything most hard,	ANTONIO
4.1.80	As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--	ANTONIO
4.1.81	His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,	ANTONIO
4.1.82	Make no more offers, use no farther means,	ANTONIO
4.1.83	But with all brief and plain conveniency	ANTONIO
4.1.84	Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

4.1.85	For thy three thousand ducats here is six.	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.86	What judgment shall I dread, doing	SHYLOCK
4.1.87	Were in six parts and every part a ducat,	SHYLOCK
4.1.88	I would not draw them; I would have my bond.	SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.89	How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?	DUKE


	SHYLOCK

4.1.90	What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong?	SHYLOCK
4.1.91	You have among you many a purchased slave,	SHYLOCK
4.1.92	Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,	SHYLOCK
4.1.93	You use in abject and in slavish parts,	SHYLOCK
4.1.94	Because you bought them: shall I say to you,	SHYLOCK
4.1.95	Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?	SHYLOCK
4.1.96	Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds	SHYLOCK
4.1.97	Be made as soft as yours and let their palates	SHYLOCK
4.1.98	Be season'd with such viands? You will answer	SHYLOCK
4.1.99	'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:	SHYLOCK
4.1.100	The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,	SHYLOCK
4.1.101	Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.	SHYLOCK
4.1.102	If you deny me, fie upon your law!	SHYLOCK
4.1.103	There is no force in the decrees of Venice.	SHYLOCK
4.1.104	I stand for judgment: answer; shall I have it?	SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.105	Upon my power I may dismiss this court,	DUKE
4.1.106	Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,	DUKE
4.1.107	Whom I have sent for to determine this,	DUKE
4.1.108	Come here to-day.	DUKE


	SALERIO

4.1.109	My lord, here stays without	SALERIO
4.1.110	A messenger with letters from the doctor,	SALERIO
4.1.111	New come from Padua.	SALERIO


	DUKE

4.1.112	Bring us the letter; call the messenger.	DUKE


	BASSANIO

4.1.113	Good cheer, Antonio! What, man, courage yet!	BASSANIO
4.1.114	The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,	BASSANIO
4.1.115	Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

4.1.116	I am a tainted wether of the flock,	ANTONIO
4.1.117	Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit	ANTONIO
4.1.118	Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me	ANTONIO
4.1.119	You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,	ANTONIO
4.1.120	Than to live still and write mine epitaph.	ANTONIO
	Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk


	DUKE

4.1.121	Came you from Padua, from Bellario?	DUKE


	NERISSA

4.1.122	From both, my lord. Bellario greets your grace.	NERISSA
	Presenting a letter


	BASSANIO

4.1.123	Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?	BASSANIO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.124	To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.	SHYLOCK


	GRATIANO

4.1.125	Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,	GRATIANO
4.1.126	Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,	GRATIANO
4.1.127	No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness	GRATIANO
4.1.128	Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee?	GRATIANO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.129	No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.	SHYLOCK


	GRATIANO

4.1.130	O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!	GRATIANO
4.1.131	And for thy life let justice be accused.	GRATIANO
4.1.132	Thou almost makest me waver in my faith	GRATIANO
4.1.133	To hold opinion with Pythagoras,	GRATIANO
4.1.134	That souls of animals infuse themselves	GRATIANO
4.1.135	Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit	GRATIANO
4.1.136	Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,	GRATIANO
4.1.137	Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,	GRATIANO
4.1.138	And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,	GRATIANO
4.1.139	Infused itself in thee; for thy desires	GRATIANO
4.1.140	Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.	GRATIANO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.141	Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,	SHYLOCK
4.1.142	Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:	SHYLOCK
4.1.143	Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall	SHYLOCK
4.1.144	To cureless ruin. I stand here for law.	SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.145	This letter from Bellario doth commend	DUKE
4.1.146	A young and learned doctor to our court.	DUKE
4.1.147	Where is he?	DUKE


	NERISSA

4.1.148	He attendeth here hard by,	NERISSA
4.1.149	To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.	NERISSA


	DUKE

4.1.150	With all my heart. Some three or four of you	DUKE
4.1.151	Go give him courteous conduct to this place.	DUKE
4.1.152	Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.	DUKE


	Clerk

4.1.153	[Reads]	Clerk
4.1.154	Your grace shall understand that at the receipt of	Clerk
4.1.155	your letter I am very sick: but in the instant that	Clerk
4.1.156	your messenger came, in loving visitation was with	Clerk
4.1.157	me a young doctor of Rome; his name is Balthasar. I	Clerk
4.1.158	acquainted him with the cause in controversy between	Clerk
4.1.159	the Jew and Antonio the merchant: we turned o'er	Clerk
4.1.160	many books together: he is furnished with my	Clerk
4.1.161	opinion; which, bettered with his own learning, the	Clerk
4.1.162	greatness whereof I cannot enough commend, comes	Clerk
4.1.163	with him, at my importunity, to fill up your grace's	Clerk
4.1.164	request in my stead. I beseech you, let his lack of	Clerk
4.1.165	years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend	Clerk
4.1.166	estimation; for I never knew so young a body with so	Clerk
4.1.167	old a head. I leave him to your gracious	Clerk
4.1.168	acceptance, whose trial shall better publish his	Clerk
4.1.169	commendation.	Clerk


	DUKE

4.1.170	You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:	DUKE
4.1.171	And here, I take it, is the doctor come.	DUKE
	Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws

	DUKE

4.1.172	Give me your hand. Come you from old Bellario?	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.173	I did, my lord.	PORTIA


	DUKE

4.1.174	You are welcome: take your place.	DUKE
4.1.175	Are you acquainted with the difference	DUKE
4.1.176	That holds this present question in the court?	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.177	I am informed thoroughly of the cause.	PORTIA
4.1.178	Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?	PORTIA


	DUKE

4.1.179	Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.180	Is your name Shylock?	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.181	Shylock is my name.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.182	Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;	PORTIA
4.1.183	Yet in such rule that the Venetian law	PORTIA
4.1.184	Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.	PORTIA
4.1.185	You stand within his danger, do you not?	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

4.1.186	Ay, so he says.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

4.1.187	Do you confess the bond?	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

4.1.188	I do.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

4.1.189	Then must the Jew be merciful.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.190	On what compulsion must I? tell me that.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.191	The quality of mercy is not strain'd,	PORTIA
4.1.192	It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven	PORTIA
4.1.193	Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;	PORTIA
4.1.194	It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:	PORTIA
4.1.195	'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes	PORTIA
4.1.196	The throned monarch better than his crown;	PORTIA
4.1.197	His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,	PORTIA
4.1.198	The attribute to awe and majesty,	PORTIA
4.1.199	Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;	PORTIA
4.1.200	But mercy is above this sceptred sway;	PORTIA
4.1.201	It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,	PORTIA
4.1.202	It is an attribute to God himself;	PORTIA
4.1.203	And earthly power doth then show likest God's	PORTIA
4.1.204	When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,	PORTIA
4.1.205	Though justice be thy plea, consider this,	PORTIA
4.1.206	That, in the course of justice, none of us	PORTIA
4.1.207	Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;	PORTIA
4.1.208	And that same prayer doth teach us all to render	PORTIA
4.1.209	The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much	PORTIA
4.1.210	To mitigate the justice of thy plea;	PORTIA
4.1.211	Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice	PORTIA
4.1.212	Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.213	My deeds upon my head! I crave the law,	SHYLOCK
4.1.214	The penalty and forfeit of my bond.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.215	Is he not able to discharge the money?	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

4.1.216	Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;	BASSANIO
4.1.217	Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,	BASSANIO
4.1.218	I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,	BASSANIO
4.1.219	On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:	BASSANIO
4.1.220	If this will not suffice, it must appear	BASSANIO
4.1.221	That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,	BASSANIO
4.1.222	Wrest once the law to your authority:	BASSANIO
4.1.223	To do a great right, do a little wrong,	BASSANIO
4.1.224	And curb this cruel devil of his will.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.225	It must not be; there is no power in Venice	PORTIA
4.1.226	Can alter a decree established:	PORTIA
4.1.227	'Twill be recorded for a precedent,	PORTIA
4.1.228	And many an error by the same example	PORTIA
4.1.229	Will rush into the state: it cannot be.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.230	A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!	SHYLOCK
4.1.231	O wise young judge, how I do honour thee!	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.232	I pray you, let me look upon the bond.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.233	Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.234	Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.235	An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:	SHYLOCK
4.1.236	Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?	SHYLOCK
4.1.237	No, not for Venice.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.238	Why, this bond is forfeit;	PORTIA
4.1.239	And lawfully by this the Jew may claim	PORTIA
4.1.240	A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off	PORTIA
4.1.241	Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:	PORTIA
4.1.242	Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.243	When it is paid according to the tenor.	SHYLOCK
4.1.244	It doth appear you are a worthy judge;	SHYLOCK
4.1.245	You know the law, your exposition	SHYLOCK
4.1.246	Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,	SHYLOCK
4.1.247	Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,	SHYLOCK
4.1.248	Proceed to judgment: by my soul I swear	SHYLOCK
4.1.249	There is no power in the tongue of man	SHYLOCK
4.1.250	To alter me: I stay here on my bond.	SHYLOCK


	ANTONIO

4.1.251	Most heartily I do beseech the court	ANTONIO
4.1.252	To give the judgment.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

4.1.253	Why then, thus it is:	PORTIA
4.1.254	You must prepare your bosom for his knife.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.255	O noble judge! O excellent young man!	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.256	For the intent and purpose of the law	PORTIA
4.1.257	Hath full relation to the penalty,	PORTIA
4.1.258	Which here appeareth due upon the bond.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.259	'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!	SHYLOCK
4.1.260	How much more elder art thou than thy looks!	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.261	Therefore lay bare your bosom.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.262	Ay, his breast:	SHYLOCK
4.1.263	So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?	SHYLOCK
4.1.264	'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.265	It is so. Are there balance here to weigh	PORTIA
4.1.266	The flesh?	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.267	I have them ready.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.268	Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,	PORTIA
4.1.269	To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.270	Is it so nominated in the bond?	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.271	It is not so express'd: but what of that?	PORTIA
4.1.272	'Twere good you do so much for charity.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.273	I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.274	You, merchant, have you any thing to say?	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

4.1.275	But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.	ANTONIO
4.1.276	Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!	ANTONIO
4.1.277	Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;	ANTONIO
4.1.278	For herein Fortune shows herself more kind	ANTONIO
4.1.279	Than is her custom: it is still her use	ANTONIO
4.1.280	To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,	ANTONIO
4.1.281	To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow	ANTONIO
4.1.282	An age of poverty; from which lingering penance	ANTONIO
4.1.283	Of such misery doth she cut me off.	ANTONIO
4.1.284	Commend me to your honourable wife:	ANTONIO
4.1.285	Tell her the process of Antonio's end;	ANTONIO
4.1.286	Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;	ANTONIO
4.1.287	And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge	ANTONIO
4.1.288	Whether Bassanio had not once a love.	ANTONIO
4.1.289	Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,	ANTONIO
4.1.290	And he repents not that he pays your debt;	ANTONIO
4.1.291	For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,	ANTONIO
4.1.292	I'll pay it presently with all my heart.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

4.1.293	Antonio, I am married to a wife	BASSANIO
4.1.294	Which is as dear to me as life itself;	BASSANIO
4.1.295	But life itself, my wife, and all the world,	BASSANIO
4.1.296	Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:	BASSANIO
4.1.297	I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all	BASSANIO
4.1.298	Here to this devil, to deliver you.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.299	Your wife would give you little thanks for that,	PORTIA
4.1.300	If she were by, to hear you make the offer.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.301	I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:	GRATIANO
4.1.302	I would she were in heaven, so she could	GRATIANO
4.1.303	Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

4.1.304	'Tis well you offer it behind her back;	NERISSA
4.1.305	The wish would make else an unquiet house.	NERISSA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.306	These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;	SHYLOCK
4.1.307	Would any of the stock of Barrabas	SHYLOCK
4.1.308	Had been her husband rather than a Christian!	SHYLOCK
	Aside
4.1.309	We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.	Aside


	PORTIA

4.1.310	A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:	PORTIA
4.1.311	The court awards it, and the law doth give it.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.312	Most rightful judge!	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.313	And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:	PORTIA
4.1.314	The law allows it, and the court awards it.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.315	Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare!	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.316	Tarry a little; there is something else.	PORTIA
4.1.317	This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;	PORTIA
4.1.318	The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'	PORTIA
4.1.319	Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;	PORTIA
4.1.320	But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed	PORTIA
4.1.321	One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods	PORTIA
4.1.322	Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate	PORTIA
4.1.323	Unto the state of Venice.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.324	O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!	GRATIANO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.325	Is that the law?	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.326	Thyself shalt see the act:	PORTIA
4.1.327	For, as thou urgest justice, be assured	PORTIA
4.1.328	Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.329	O learned judge! Mark, Jew: a learned judge!	GRATIANO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.330	I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice	SHYLOCK
4.1.331	And let the Christian go.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

4.1.332	Here is the money.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.333	Soft!	PORTIA
4.1.334	The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:	PORTIA
4.1.335	He shall have nothing but the penalty.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.336	O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

4.1.337	Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.	PORTIA
4.1.338	Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more	PORTIA
4.1.339	But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more	PORTIA
4.1.340	Or less than a just pound, be it but so much	PORTIA
4.1.341	As makes it light or heavy in the substance,	PORTIA
4.1.342	Or the division of the twentieth part	PORTIA
4.1.343	Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn	PORTIA
4.1.344	But in the estimation of a hair,	PORTIA
4.1.345	Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.346	A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!	GRATIANO
4.1.347	Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

4.1.348	Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.349	Give me my principal, and let me go.	SHYLOCK


	BASSANIO

4.1.350	I have it ready for thee; here it is.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.351	He hath refused it in the open court:	PORTIA
4.1.352	He shall have merely justice and his bond.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.353	A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!	GRATIANO
4.1.354	I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.	GRATIANO


	SHYLOCK

4.1.355	Shall I not have barely my principal?	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.356	Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,	PORTIA
4.1.357	To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.358	Why, then the devil give him good of it!	SHYLOCK
4.1.359	I'll stay no longer question.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.360	Tarry, Jew:	PORTIA
4.1.361	The law hath yet another hold on you.	PORTIA
4.1.362	It is enacted in the laws of Venice,	PORTIA
4.1.363	If it be proved against an alien	PORTIA
4.1.364	That by direct or indirect attempts	PORTIA
4.1.365	He seek the life of any citizen,	PORTIA
4.1.366	The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive	PORTIA
4.1.367	Shall seize one half his goods; the other half	PORTIA
4.1.368	Comes to the privy coffer of the state;	PORTIA
4.1.369	And the offender's life lies in the mercy	PORTIA
4.1.370	Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.	PORTIA
4.1.371	In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;	PORTIA
4.1.372	For it appears, by manifest proceeding,	PORTIA
4.1.373	That indirectly and directly too	PORTIA
4.1.374	Thou hast contrived against the very life	PORTIA
4.1.375	Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd	PORTIA
4.1.376	The danger formerly by me rehearsed.	PORTIA
4.1.377	Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.378	Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:	GRATIANO
4.1.379	And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,	GRATIANO
4.1.380	Thou hast not left the value of a cord;	GRATIANO
4.1.381	Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.	GRATIANO


	DUKE

4.1.382	That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,	DUKE
4.1.383	I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:	DUKE
4.1.384	For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;	DUKE
4.1.385	The other half comes to the general state,	DUKE
4.1.386	Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.387	Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.388	Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:	SHYLOCK
4.1.389	You take my house when you do take the prop	SHYLOCK
4.1.390	That doth sustain my house; you take my life	SHYLOCK
4.1.391	When you do take the means whereby I live.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.392	What mercy can you render him, Antonio?	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.1.393	A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.	GRATIANO


	ANTONIO

4.1.394	So please my lord the duke and all the court	ANTONIO
4.1.395	To quit the fine for one half of his goods,	ANTONIO
4.1.396	I am content; so he will let me have	ANTONIO
4.1.397	The other half in use, to render it,	ANTONIO
4.1.398	Upon his death, unto the gentleman	ANTONIO
4.1.399	That lately stole his daughter:	ANTONIO
4.1.400	Two things provided more, that, for this favour,	ANTONIO
4.1.401	He presently become a Christian;	ANTONIO
4.1.402	The other, that he do record a gift,	ANTONIO
4.1.403	Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,	ANTONIO
4.1.404	Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.	ANTONIO


	DUKE

4.1.405	He shall do this, or else I do recant	DUKE
4.1.406	The pardon that I late pronounced here.	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.407	Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.408	I am content.	SHYLOCK


	PORTIA

4.1.409	Clerk, draw a deed of gift.	PORTIA


	SHYLOCK

4.1.410	I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;	SHYLOCK
4.1.411	I am not well: send the deed after me,	SHYLOCK
4.1.412	And I will sign it.	SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.413	Get thee gone, but do it.	DUKE


	GRATIANO

4.1.414	In christening shalt thou have two god-fathers:	GRATIANO
4.1.415	Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,	GRATIANO
4.1.416	To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.	GRATIANO
	Exit SHYLOCK


	DUKE

4.1.417	Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.	DUKE


	PORTIA

4.1.418	I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:	PORTIA
4.1.419	I must away this night toward Padua,	PORTIA
4.1.420	And it is meet I presently set forth.	PORTIA


	DUKE

4.1.421	I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.	DUKE
4.1.422	Antonio, gratify this gentleman,	DUKE
4.1.423	For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.	DUKE
	Exeunt Duke and his train


	BASSANIO

4.1.424	Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend	BASSANIO
4.1.425	Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted	BASSANIO
4.1.426	Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,	BASSANIO
4.1.427	Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,	BASSANIO
4.1.428	We freely cope your courteous pains withal.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

4.1.429	And stand indebted, over and above,	ANTONIO
4.1.430	In love and service to you evermore.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

4.1.431	He is well paid that is well satisfied;	PORTIA
4.1.432	And I, delivering you, am satisfied	PORTIA
4.1.433	And therein do account myself well paid:	PORTIA
4.1.434	My mind was never yet more mercenary.	PORTIA
4.1.435	I pray you, know me when we meet again:	PORTIA
4.1.436	I wish you well, and so I take my leave.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

4.1.437	Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:	BASSANIO
4.1.438	Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,	BASSANIO
4.1.439	Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,	BASSANIO
4.1.440	Not to deny me, and to pardon me.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.441	You press me far, and therefore I will yield.	PORTIA
	To ANTONIO
4.1.442	Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;	To ANTONIO
	To BASSANIO
4.1.443	And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:	To BASSANIO
4.1.444	Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;	To BASSANIO
4.1.445	And you in love shall not deny me this.	To BASSANIO


	BASSANIO

4.1.446	This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!	BASSANIO
4.1.447	I will not shame myself to give you this.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.448	I will have nothing else but only this;	PORTIA
4.1.449	And now methinks I have a mind to it.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

4.1.450	There's more depends on this than on the value.	BASSANIO
4.1.451	The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,	BASSANIO
4.1.452	And find it out by proclamation:	BASSANIO
4.1.453	Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.454	I see, sir, you are liberal in offers	PORTIA
4.1.455	You taught me first to beg; and now methinks	PORTIA
4.1.456	You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

4.1.457	Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;	BASSANIO
4.1.458	And when she put it on, she made me vow	BASSANIO
4.1.459	That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

4.1.460	That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.	PORTIA
4.1.461	An if your wife be not a mad-woman,	PORTIA
4.1.462	And know how well I have deserved the ring,	PORTIA
4.1.463	She would not hold out enemy for ever,	PORTIA
4.1.464	For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!	PORTIA
	Exeunt Portia and Nerissa


	ANTONIO

4.1.465	My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:	ANTONIO
4.1.466	Let his deservings and my love withal	ANTONIO
4.1.467	Be valued against your wife's commandment.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

4.1.468	Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;	BASSANIO
4.1.469	Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,	BASSANIO
4.1.470	Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.	BASSANIO
	Exit Gratiano
4.1.471	Come, you and I will thither presently;	Exit Gratiano
4.1.472	And in the morning early will we both	Exit Gratiano
4.1.473	Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio.	Exit Gratiano
	Exeunt

	SCENE II. The same. A street.

	Enter PORTIA and NERISSA


	PORTIA

4.2.1	Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed	PORTIA
4.2.2	And let him sign it: we'll away to-night	PORTIA
4.2.3	And be a day before our husbands home:	PORTIA
4.2.4	This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.	PORTIA
	Enter GRATIANO


	GRATIANO

4.2.5	Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en	GRATIANO
4.2.6	My Lord Bassanio upon more advice	GRATIANO
4.2.7	Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat	GRATIANO
4.2.8	Your company at dinner.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

4.2.9	That cannot be:	PORTIA
4.2.10	His ring I do accept most thankfully:	PORTIA
4.2.11	And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,	PORTIA
4.2.12	I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

4.2.13	That will I do.	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

4.2.14	Sir, I would speak with you.	NERISSA
	Aside to PORTIA
4.2.15	I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,	Aside to PORTIA
4.2.16	Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.	Aside to PORTIA


	PORTIA

4.2.17	[Aside to NERISSA] Thou mayst, I warrant.	PORTIA
4.2.18	We shall have old swearing	PORTIA
4.2.19	That they did give the rings away to men;	PORTIA
4.2.20	But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.	PORTIA
	Aloud
4.2.21	Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.	Aloud


	NERISSA

4.2.22	Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?	NERISSA
	Exeunt

	ACT V
	SCENE I. Belmont. Avenue to PORTIA'S house.

	Enter LORENZO and JESSICA


	LORENZO

5.1.1	The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,	LORENZO
5.1.2	When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees	LORENZO
5.1.3	And they did make no noise, in such a night	LORENZO
5.1.4	Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls	LORENZO
5.1.5	And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,	LORENZO
5.1.6	Where Cressid lay that night.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

5.1.7	In such a night	JESSICA
5.1.8	Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew	JESSICA
5.1.9	And saw the lion's shadow ere himself	JESSICA
5.1.10	And ran dismay'd away.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

5.1.11	In such a night	LORENZO
5.1.12	Stood Dido with a willow in her hand	LORENZO
5.1.13	Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love	LORENZO
5.1.14	To come again to Carthage.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

5.1.15	In such a night	JESSICA
5.1.16	Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs	JESSICA
5.1.17	That did renew old AEson.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

5.1.18	In such a night	LORENZO
5.1.19	Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew	LORENZO
5.1.20	And with an unthrift love did run from Venice	LORENZO
5.1.21	As far as Belmont.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

5.1.22	In such a night	JESSICA
5.1.23	Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,	JESSICA
5.1.24	Stealing her soul with many vows of faith	JESSICA
5.1.25	And ne'er a true one.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

5.1.26	In such a night	LORENZO
5.1.27	Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,	LORENZO
5.1.28	Slander her love, and he forgave it her.	LORENZO


	JESSICA

5.1.29	I would out-night you, did no body come;	JESSICA
5.1.30	But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.	JESSICA
	Enter STEPHANO


	LORENZO

5.1.31	Who comes so fast in silence of the night?	LORENZO


	STEPHANO

5.1.32	A friend.	STEPHANO


	LORENZO

5.1.33	A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?	LORENZO


	STEPHANO

5.1.34	Stephano is my name; and I bring word	STEPHANO
5.1.35	My mistress will before the break of day	STEPHANO
5.1.36	Be here at Belmont; she doth stray about	STEPHANO
5.1.37	By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays	STEPHANO
5.1.38	For happy wedlock hours.	STEPHANO


	LORENZO

5.1.39	Who comes with her?	LORENZO


	STEPHANO

5.1.40	None but a holy hermit and her maid.	STEPHANO
5.1.41	I pray you, is my master yet return'd?	STEPHANO


	LORENZO

5.1.42	He is not, nor we have not heard from him.	LORENZO
5.1.43	But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,	LORENZO
5.1.44	And ceremoniously let us prepare	LORENZO
5.1.45	Some welcome for the mistress of the house.	LORENZO
	Enter LAUNCELOT


	LAUNCELOT

5.1.46	Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

5.1.47	Who calls?	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

5.1.48	Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?	LAUNCELOT
5.1.49	Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

5.1.50	Leave hollaing, man: here.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

5.1.51	Sola! where? where?	LAUNCELOT


	LORENZO

5.1.52	Here.	LORENZO


	LAUNCELOT

5.1.53	Tell him there's a post come from my master, with	LAUNCELOT
5.1.54	his horn full of good news: my master will be here	LAUNCELOT
5.1.55	ere morning.	LAUNCELOT
	Exit


	LORENZO

5.1.56	Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.	LORENZO
5.1.57	And yet no matter: why should we go in?	LORENZO
5.1.58	My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,	LORENZO
5.1.59	Within the house, your mistress is at hand;	LORENZO
5.1.60	And bring your music forth into the air.	LORENZO
	Exit Stephano
5.1.61	How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!	Exit Stephano
5.1.62	Here will we sit and let the sounds of music	Exit Stephano
5.1.63	Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night	Exit Stephano
5.1.64	Become the touches of sweet harmony.	Exit Stephano
5.1.65	Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven	Exit Stephano
5.1.66	Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:	Exit Stephano
5.1.67	There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st	Exit Stephano
5.1.68	But in his motion like an angel sings,	Exit Stephano
5.1.69	Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;	Exit Stephano
5.1.70	Such harmony is in immortal souls;	Exit Stephano
5.1.71	But whilst this muddy vesture of decay	Exit Stephano
5.1.72	Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.	Exit Stephano
	Enter Musicians
5.1.73	Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn!	Enter Musicians
5.1.74	With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear,	Enter Musicians
5.1.75	And draw her home with music.	Enter Musicians
	Music


	JESSICA

5.1.76	I am never merry when I hear sweet music.	JESSICA


	LORENZO

5.1.77	The reason is, your spirits are attentive:	LORENZO
5.1.78	For do but note a wild and wanton herd,	LORENZO
5.1.79	Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,	LORENZO
5.1.80	Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,	LORENZO
5.1.81	Which is the hot condition of their blood;	LORENZO
5.1.82	If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,	LORENZO
5.1.83	Or any air of music touch their ears,	LORENZO
5.1.84	You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,	LORENZO
5.1.85	Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze	LORENZO
5.1.86	By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet	LORENZO
5.1.87	Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;	LORENZO
5.1.88	Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,	LORENZO
5.1.89	But music for the time doth change his nature.	LORENZO
5.1.90	The man that hath no music in himself,	LORENZO
5.1.91	Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,	LORENZO
5.1.92	Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;	LORENZO
5.1.93	The motions of his spirit are dull as night	LORENZO
5.1.94	And his affections dark as Erebus:	LORENZO
5.1.95	Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.	LORENZO
	Enter PORTIA and NERISSA


	PORTIA

5.1.96	That light we see is burning in my hall.	PORTIA
5.1.97	How far that little candle throws his beams!	PORTIA
5.1.98	So shines a good deed in a naughty world.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.99	When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

5.1.100	So doth the greater glory dim the less:	PORTIA
5.1.101	A substitute shines brightly as a king	PORTIA
5.1.102	Unto the king be by, and then his state	PORTIA
5.1.103	Empties itself, as doth an inland brook	PORTIA
5.1.104	Into the main of waters. Music! hark!	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.105	It is your music, madam, of the house.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

5.1.106	Nothing is good, I see, without respect:	PORTIA
5.1.107	Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.108	Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.	NERISSA


	PORTIA

5.1.109	The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark,	PORTIA
5.1.110	When neither is attended, and I think	PORTIA
5.1.111	The nightingale, if she should sing by day,	PORTIA
5.1.112	When every goose is cackling, would be thought	PORTIA
5.1.113	No better a musician than the wren.	PORTIA
5.1.114	How many things by season season'd are	PORTIA
5.1.115	To their right praise and true perfection!	PORTIA
5.1.116	Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion	PORTIA
5.1.117	And would not be awaked.	PORTIA
	Music ceases


	LORENZO

5.1.118	That is the voice,	LORENZO
5.1.119	Or I am much deceived, of Portia.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

5.1.120	He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo,	PORTIA
5.1.121	By the bad voice.	PORTIA


	LORENZO

5.1.122	Dear lady, welcome home.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

5.1.123	We have been praying for our husbands' healths,	PORTIA
5.1.124	Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.	PORTIA
5.1.125	Are they return'd?	PORTIA


	LORENZO

5.1.126	Madam, they are not yet;	LORENZO
5.1.127	But there is come a messenger before,	LORENZO
5.1.128	To signify their coming.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

5.1.129	Go in, Nerissa;	PORTIA
5.1.130	Give order to my servants that they take	PORTIA
5.1.131	No note at all of our being absent hence;	PORTIA
5.1.132	Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.	PORTIA
	A tucket sounds


	LORENZO

5.1.133	Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:	LORENZO
5.1.134	We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

5.1.135	This night methinks is but the daylight sick;	PORTIA
5.1.136	It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,	PORTIA
5.1.137	Such as the day is when the sun is hid.	PORTIA
	Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and their followers


	BASSANIO

5.1.138	We should hold day with the Antipodes,	BASSANIO
5.1.139	If you would walk in absence of the sun.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.140	Let me give light, but let me not be light;	PORTIA
5.1.141	For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,	PORTIA
5.1.142	And never be Bassanio so for me:	PORTIA
5.1.143	But God sort all! You are welcome home, my lord.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.144	I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.	BASSANIO
5.1.145	This is the man, this is Antonio,	BASSANIO
5.1.146	To whom I am so infinitely bound.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.147	You should in all sense be much bound to him.	PORTIA
5.1.148	For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

5.1.149	No more than I am well acquitted of.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

5.1.150	Sir, you are very welcome to our house:	PORTIA
5.1.151	It must appear in other ways than words,	PORTIA
5.1.152	Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

5.1.153	[To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;	GRATIANO
5.1.154	In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:	GRATIANO
5.1.155	Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,	GRATIANO
5.1.156	Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

5.1.157	A quarrel, ho, already! what's the matter?	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

5.1.158	About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring	GRATIANO
5.1.159	That she did give me, whose posy was	GRATIANO
5.1.160	For all the world like cutler's poetry	GRATIANO
5.1.161	Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

5.1.162	What talk you of the posy or the value?	NERISSA
5.1.163	You swore to me, when I did give it you,	NERISSA
5.1.164	That you would wear it till your hour of death	NERISSA
5.1.165	And that it should lie with you in your grave:	NERISSA
5.1.166	Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,	NERISSA
5.1.167	You should have been respective and have kept it.	NERISSA
5.1.168	Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,	NERISSA
5.1.169	The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

5.1.170	He will, an if he live to be a man.	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

5.1.171	Ay, if a woman live to be a man.	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

5.1.172	Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,	GRATIANO
5.1.173	A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,	GRATIANO
5.1.174	No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,	GRATIANO
5.1.175	A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:	GRATIANO
5.1.176	I could not for my heart deny it him.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

5.1.177	You were to blame, I must be plain with you,	PORTIA
5.1.178	To part so slightly with your wife's first gift:	PORTIA
5.1.179	A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger	PORTIA
5.1.180	And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.	PORTIA
5.1.181	I gave my love a ring and made him swear	PORTIA
5.1.182	Never to part with it; and here he stands;	PORTIA
5.1.183	I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it	PORTIA
5.1.184	Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth	PORTIA
5.1.185	That the world masters. Now, in faith, Gratiano,	PORTIA
5.1.186	You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:	PORTIA
5.1.187	An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.188	[Aside] Why, I were best to cut my left hand off	BASSANIO
5.1.189	And swear I lost the ring defending it.	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

5.1.190	My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away	GRATIANO
5.1.191	Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed	GRATIANO
5.1.192	Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,	GRATIANO
5.1.193	That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;	GRATIANO
5.1.194	And neither man nor master would take aught	GRATIANO
5.1.195	But the two rings.	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

5.1.196	What ring gave you my lord?	PORTIA
5.1.197	Not that, I hope, which you received of me.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.198	If I could add a lie unto a fault,	BASSANIO
5.1.199	I would deny it; but you see my finger	BASSANIO
5.1.200	Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.201	Even so void is your false heart of truth.	PORTIA
5.1.202	By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed	PORTIA
5.1.203	Until I see the ring.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.204	Nor I in yours	NERISSA
5.1.205	Till I again see mine.	NERISSA


	BASSANIO

5.1.206	Sweet Portia,	BASSANIO
5.1.207	If you did know to whom I gave the ring,	BASSANIO
5.1.208	If you did know for whom I gave the ring	BASSANIO
5.1.209	And would conceive for what I gave the ring	BASSANIO
5.1.210	And how unwillingly I left the ring,	BASSANIO
5.1.211	When nought would be accepted but the ring,	BASSANIO
5.1.212	You would abate the strength of your displeasure.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.213	If you had known the virtue of the ring,	PORTIA
5.1.214	Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,	PORTIA
5.1.215	Or your own honour to contain the ring,	PORTIA
5.1.216	You would not then have parted with the ring.	PORTIA
5.1.217	What man is there so much unreasonable,	PORTIA
5.1.218	If you had pleased to have defended it	PORTIA
5.1.219	With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty	PORTIA
5.1.220	To urge the thing held as a ceremony?	PORTIA
5.1.221	Nerissa teaches me what to believe:	PORTIA
5.1.222	I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.223	No, by my honour, madam, by my soul,	BASSANIO
5.1.224	No woman had it, but a civil doctor,	BASSANIO
5.1.225	Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me	BASSANIO
5.1.226	And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him	BASSANIO
5.1.227	And suffer'd him to go displeased away;	BASSANIO
5.1.228	Even he that did uphold the very life	BASSANIO
5.1.229	Of my dear friend. What should I say, sweet lady?	BASSANIO
5.1.230	I was enforced to send it after him;	BASSANIO
5.1.231	I was beset with shame and courtesy;	BASSANIO
5.1.232	My honour would not let ingratitude	BASSANIO
5.1.233	So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;	BASSANIO
5.1.234	For, by these blessed candles of the night,	BASSANIO
5.1.235	Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd	BASSANIO
5.1.236	The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.237	Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:	PORTIA
5.1.238	Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,	PORTIA
5.1.239	And that which you did swear to keep for me,	PORTIA
5.1.240	I will become as liberal as you;	PORTIA
5.1.241	I'll not deny him any thing I have,	PORTIA
5.1.242	No, not my body nor my husband's bed:	PORTIA
5.1.243	Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:	PORTIA
5.1.244	Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:	PORTIA
5.1.245	If you do not, if I be left alone,	PORTIA
5.1.246	Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,	PORTIA
5.1.247	I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.248	And I his clerk; therefore be well advised	NERISSA
5.1.249	How you do leave me to mine own protection.	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

5.1.250	Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;	GRATIANO
5.1.251	For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.	GRATIANO


	ANTONIO

5.1.252	I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

5.1.253	Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.254	Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;	BASSANIO
5.1.255	And, in the hearing of these many friends,	BASSANIO
5.1.256	I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,	BASSANIO
5.1.257	Wherein I see myself--	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.258	Mark you but that!	PORTIA
5.1.259	In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;	PORTIA
5.1.260	In each eye, one: swear by your double self,	PORTIA
5.1.261	And there's an oath of credit.	PORTIA


	BASSANIO

5.1.262	Nay, but hear me:	BASSANIO
5.1.263	Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear	BASSANIO
5.1.264	I never more will break an oath with thee.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

5.1.265	I once did lend my body for his wealth;	ANTONIO
5.1.266	Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,	ANTONIO
5.1.267	Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,	ANTONIO
5.1.268	My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord	ANTONIO
5.1.269	Will never more break faith advisedly.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

5.1.270	Then you shall be his surety. Give him this	PORTIA
5.1.271	And bid him keep it better than the other.	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

5.1.272	Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

5.1.273	By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!	BASSANIO


	PORTIA

5.1.274	I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;	PORTIA
5.1.275	For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.276	And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;	NERISSA
5.1.277	For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,	NERISSA
5.1.278	In lieu of this last night did lie with me.	NERISSA


	GRATIANO

5.1.279	Why, this is like the mending of highways	GRATIANO
5.1.280	In summer, where the ways are fair enough:	GRATIANO
5.1.281	What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?	GRATIANO


	PORTIA

5.1.282	Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:	PORTIA
5.1.283	Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;	PORTIA
5.1.284	It comes from Padua, from Bellario:	PORTIA
5.1.285	There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,	PORTIA
5.1.286	Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here	PORTIA
5.1.287	Shall witness I set forth as soon as you	PORTIA
5.1.288	And even but now return'd; I have not yet	PORTIA
5.1.289	Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;	PORTIA
5.1.290	And I have better news in store for you	PORTIA
5.1.291	Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;	PORTIA
5.1.292	There you shall find three of your argosies	PORTIA
5.1.293	Are richly come to harbour suddenly:	PORTIA
5.1.294	You shall not know by what strange accident	PORTIA
5.1.295	I chanced on this letter.	PORTIA


	ANTONIO

5.1.296	I am dumb.	ANTONIO


	BASSANIO

5.1.297	Were you the doctor and I knew you not?	BASSANIO


	GRATIANO

5.1.298	Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?	GRATIANO


	NERISSA

5.1.299	Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,	NERISSA
5.1.300	Unless he live until he be a man.	NERISSA


	BASSANIO

5.1.301	Sweet doctor, you shall be my bed-fellow:	BASSANIO
5.1.302	When I am absent, then lie with my wife.	BASSANIO


	ANTONIO

5.1.303	Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;	ANTONIO
5.1.304	For here I read for certain that my ships	ANTONIO
5.1.305	Are safely come to road.	ANTONIO


	PORTIA

5.1.306	How now, Lorenzo!	PORTIA
5.1.307	My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.	PORTIA


	NERISSA

5.1.308	Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.	NERISSA
5.1.309	There do I give to you and Jessica,	NERISSA
5.1.310	From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,	NERISSA
5.1.311	After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.	NERISSA


	LORENZO

5.1.312	Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way	LORENZO
5.1.313	Of starved people.	LORENZO


	PORTIA

5.1.314	It is almost morning,	PORTIA
5.1.315	And yet I am sure you are not satisfied	PORTIA
5.1.316	Of these events at full. Let us go in;	PORTIA
5.1.317	And charge us there upon inter'gatories,	PORTIA
5.1.318	And we will answer all things faithfully.	PORTIA


	GRATIANO

5.1.319	Let it be so: the first inter'gatory	GRATIANO
5.1.320	That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,	GRATIANO
5.1.321	Whether till the next night she had rather stay,	GRATIANO
5.1.322	Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:	GRATIANO
5.1.323	But were the day come, I should wish it dark,	GRATIANO
5.1.324	That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.	GRATIANO
5.1.325	Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing	GRATIANO
5.1.326	So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.	GRATIANO
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