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Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1] |
(stage directions) |
2052 |
[Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk]
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Merchant of Venice
[IV, 1] |
Portia |
2344 |
Clerk, draw a deed of gift.
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3 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Gratiano |
2607 |
[To NERISSA] By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;
In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:
Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Nerissa |
2616 |
What talk you of the posy or the value?
You swore to me, when I did give it you,
That you would wear it till your hour of death
And that it should lie with you in your grave:
Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
You should have been respective and have kept it.
Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Gratiano |
2626 |
Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
No higher than thyself; the judge's clerk,
A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:
I could not for my heart deny it him.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Gratiano |
2644 |
My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed
Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,
That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;
And neither man nor master would take aught
But the two rings.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Nerissa |
2702 |
And I his clerk; therefore be well advised
How you do leave me to mine own protection.
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8 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Nerissa |
2730 |
And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;
For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,
In lieu of this last night did lie with me.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2736 |
Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed:
Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;
It comes from Padua, from Bellario:
There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here
Shall witness I set forth as soon as you
And even but now return'd; I have not yet
Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;
And I have better news in store for you
Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;
There you shall find three of your argosies
Are richly come to harbour suddenly:
You shall not know by what strange accident
I chanced on this letter.
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10 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Gratiano |
2752 |
Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Nerissa |
2753 |
Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
Unless he live until he be a man.
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12 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2760 |
How now, Lorenzo!
My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Gratiano |
2773 |
Let it be so: the first inter'gatory
That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,
Whether till the next night she had rather stay,
Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:
But were the day come, I should wish it dark,
That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
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