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Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Gratiano |
114 |
Well, keep me company but two years moe,
Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.
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2 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 3] |
Jessica |
790 |
Farewell, good Launcelot.
[Exit Launcelot]
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife.
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3 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 6] |
Salarino |
914 |
O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont
To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
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4 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 8] |
Salanio |
1096 |
Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
Or he shall pay for this.
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5 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 9] |
Prince of Arragon |
1193 |
What is here?
[Reads]
The fire seven times tried this:
Seven times tried that judgment is,
That did never choose amiss.
Some there be that shadows kiss;
Such have but a shadow's bliss:
There be fools alive, I wis,
Silver'd o'er; and so was this.
Take what wife you will to bed,
I will ever be your head:
So be gone: you are sped.
Still more fool I shall appear
By the time I linger here
With one fool's head I came to woo,
But I go away with two.
Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,
Patiently to bear my wroth.
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6 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 1] |
Salanio |
1246 |
I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she
wept for the death of a third husband. But it is
true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the
plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the
honest Antonio,—O that I had a title good enough
to keep his name company!—
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7 |
Merchant of Venice
[IV, 2] |
Nerissa |
2431 |
Sir, I would speak with you.
[Aside to PORTIA]
I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
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8 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2691 |
Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:
Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
And that which you did swear to keep for me,
I will become as liberal as you;
I'll not deny him any thing I have,
No, not my body nor my husband's bed:
Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:
Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:
If you do not, if I be left alone,
Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,
I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.
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9 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2724 |
Then you shall be his surety. Give him this
And bid him keep it better than the other.
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10 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Antonio |
2726 |
Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.
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