The Merchant of Venice
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Launcelot.
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The rates.
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Three months... from twelve.
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Let me see the rate.
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Well, Shylock,
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shall we be beholden to you?
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Signior Antonio...
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many a time, and oft in the Rialto,
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you have reviled me
about my moneys and my usances.

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Still, I have borne it with a patient shrug,
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for sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
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You call me misbeliever,
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cut-throat dog,
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and spit upon my Jewish gaberdine.
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And all for use of that which is my own.
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Well, it now appears you need my help.
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You come to me and you say,
"Shylock, we would have money. "

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You say so. You, that did void
your rheum upon my beard

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and kick me as you spurn a stranger cur
over your threshold.

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Money is your suit.
What should I say to you?

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Should I not say, "Hath a dog money?
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"Is it possible a cur can lend
three thousand ducats?"

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Or shall I bend low
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and, in a slavish voice, with bated breath
and whispering humbleness say this -


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