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Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.
[Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and BALTHASAR]
LORENZO
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Madam,| although | I speak it | in your |
presence,
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You have | a nob|le and | a true | conceit
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Of godlike am|ity, which | appears | most
strongly
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In bear|ing thus | the ab|sence of | your lord.
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But if | you knew | to whom | you show | this
honor,
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How true | a gent|leman | you send | relief,
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How dear | a lov|er of my | lord your | husband,
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I know | you would | be proud|er of | the work
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Than cust|omar|y bount|y can | enforce || you.
PORTIA
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I nev|er did | repent | for do|ing good,
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Nor shall | not^now:| for in com|panions
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That do | converse | and waste | the time |
together,
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Whose^souls | do bear | an eq|ual yoke | of love,
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There must | be needs | a like | propor|tion
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Of lin|eaments,| of man|ners, and | of spirit;
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Which makes | me think | that this | Anton|io
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Being | the bos|om lov|er of | my lord,
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Must needs | be like | my lord.| If it | be so,
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How lit|tle is | the cost | I have | bestowed
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In purch|asing | the semb|lance of | my soul;
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From out | the state | of hell|ish cru|elty,
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This comes | too near | the prais|ing of |
myself,
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Therefore | no more | of it:/ hear oth|er things
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Loren|zo I | commit | into | your hands,
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The hus|bandry | and man|age of | my house,
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Until | my lord's | return;| for mine^/own part
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I have | toward heaven breathed | a sec|ret vow,
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To live | in prayer | and con|templa|tion,
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Only | attend|ed by | Neris|sa here,
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Until | her hus|band and | my lord's | return:
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There is | a mon|astery | two miles off,
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And there | will we | abide.| I do | desire ||
you
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Not | to deny | this im|posi|tion,
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The which | my love | and some | neces|sity
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Now lays upon | you.
LORENZO
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Madam,| with all | my heart,
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I shall | obey | you in / all fair | commands.
PORTIA
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My peop|le do | alread|y know | my mind,
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And will | acknow|ledge you | and Jes|sica
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In place | of Lord | Bassan|io and | myself.
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And so | farewell,| till we | shall meet | again.
LORENZO
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Fair thoughts and hap|py hours | attend on you.
JESSICA
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I wish | your la|dyship^|all heart's | content.
PORTIA
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I thank | you for | your wish,| and am / well
pleased
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To wish | it back | on you:| fare you well |
Jessica. ??
[Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO]
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Now Balth|asar,| as I have / ever found | thee
hon|est true,
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So let | me find | thee still:| Take this same |
letter, (hex with prev)
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And use | thou all | the endeav|or of | a man,
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In speed | to Man|tua, see | thou rend|er this
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Into my | cousin's | hand, Doc/tor Bel|lario,
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And look | what notes | and gar|ments he doth |
give thee,
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Bring them | I pray | thee with | imag|ined speed
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Unto the | tranect,| to the | common | ferry
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Which trades | to Ven|ice; Waste | no time in
words,
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But get | thee gone.| I shall be | there be|fore
thee.
BALTHASAR
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Madam,| I go | with all | conven|ient speed.
[Exit]
PORTIA
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Come on | Neris|sa, I | have work | in hand
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That you | yet^know | not^of;| we'll see^our |
husbands
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Before | they think | of us?
NERISSA
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Shall they | see us?
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They shall | Neris|sa: but | in such | a habit,
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That they | shall think | we are | accomp|lished
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With that | we lack;| I'll hold | thee an|y wager
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When we are | both ac|coutred | like young men,
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I'll prove | the pret|tier fel|low of | the two,
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And wear | my dag|ger with | the brav|er grace,
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And speak | between | the change | of man | and
boy,
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With a reed | voice, and | turn two minc|ing
steps
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Into | a man|ly stride;| and speak | of frays
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Like a fine brag|ging youth:| and tell quaint
lies
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How hon|orab|le lad|ies sought | my love,
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Which^I | deny|ing, they / fell sick | and died,
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I could | not do | withal:| then I'll | repent,
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And wish | for all | that, that I | had not |
killed them;
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And twen|ty of | these pun|y lies | I'll tell,
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That men | shall swear | I have dis|contin|ued
school
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Above | a twelvemonth: I | have within | my mind
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A thous|and raw | tricks of | these brag|ging
Jacks,
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Which I | will prac|tice.
NERISSA
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Why,| shall we turn | to men?
PORTIA
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Fie, what | a ques|tion's that? \\
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If thou | wert near | a lewd | inter|preter:
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But come,| I'll tell | thee all | my whole |
device
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When I | am in | my coach,| which stays | for us
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At the / park gate;| and there|fore haste | away,
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For we | must meas|ure twen|ty miles | today.
[Exeunt]