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Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT
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SHYLOCK |
Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,
The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--
What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,
As thou hast done with me:--What, Jessica!--
And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--
Why, Jessica, I say! |
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LAUNCELOT |
Why, Jessica! |
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SHYLOCK |
Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.
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LAUNCELOT |
Your worship was wont to tell me that
I could do nothing without bidding. |
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[Enter Jessica] |
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JESSICA |
Call you? what is your will? |
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SHYLOCK |
I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:
There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
I am not bid for love; they flatter me:
But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
Look to my house. I am right loath to go:
There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night. |
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LAUNCELOT |
I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect
your reproach. |
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SHYLOCK |
So do I his. |
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LAUNCELOT |
An they have conspired together, I will not say you
shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not
for nothing that my nose fell a-bleeding on
Black-Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning,
falling out that year on Ash-Wednesday was four
year, in the afternoon. |
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SHYLOCK |
What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,
I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;
Say I will come. |
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LAUNCELOT |
I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at
window, for all this, There will come a Christian
boy, will be worth a Jewess' eye. |
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[Exit] |
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SHYLOCK |
What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?
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JESSICA |
His words were 'Farewell mistress;' nothing else.
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SHYLOCK |
The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;
Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
More than the wild-cat: drones hive not with me;
Therefore I part with him, and part with him
To one that would have him help to waste
His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;
Perhaps I will return immediately:
Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:
Fast bind, fast find;
A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. |
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[Exit] |
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JESSICA |
Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,
I have a father, you a daughter, lost. |
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[Exit] |
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Act II, Scene 8
Venice A Street |
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Act I, Scene 1
Venice A Street. |
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Belmont A room in Portia's House |
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Act I, Scene 2
Belmont A room in Portia's House. |
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1 Venice a street |
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Act I, Scene 3
Venice A public place. |
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Act II, Scene 1
Belmont A room in Portia's House. |
Act III, Scene
3 Venice a street |
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Act II, Scene 2
Venice a street |
Act III, Scene
4 Belmont A room in Portia's House |
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Act II, Scene 3
Venice A room in Shylock's house. |
Act III, Scene
5 The Same A garden |
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Act II, Scene 4
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Venice A court of Justice |
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Act IV, Scene 2
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1Avenue to Portia's House |
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Belmont A room in Portia's House |
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