The Merchant of Venice
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that which today
you promised to tell me of.

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"Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
how much I have disabled mine estate,

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but my chief care is to come
squarely out of the great debts

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wherein my youth, something too prodigal,
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has left me pledged.
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To you, Antonio,
I owe the most in money and in love,

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and from your love I have a warranty
to unburden all my plots and purposes

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how to get clear of all the debts I owe.
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Pray, good Bassanio, let me know it.
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And, if it stand, as you yourself still do,
within the eye of honour,

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be assured my purse, my person,
my extremest means

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lie all unlocked to your occasion.
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In Belmont is a lady richly left -
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and she is fair, and fairer than that word -
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of wondrous virtues.
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Sometimes, from her eyes
I did receive fair...

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speechless messages.
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Her name is Portia, no less a beauty
than Cato"s daughter, Brutus" Portia.

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Nor is the wide world
ignorant of her worth,

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for the four winds blow in from every coast
renowned suitors.

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O my Antonio,
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had I but the means
to hold a rival place with one of them


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