The Merchant of Venice
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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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"Fair sir, you spat on me
on Wednesday last,

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"you spurned me such a day,
another time you called me dog.

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"For these courtesies,
I"ll lend you thus much moneys. "

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I"m as like to call you so again,
to spit on you again, to spurn you too.

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If you would lend this money,
lend it not unto your friends.

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For when did friendship take
a breed for barren metal from his friends?

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Lend it rather to your enemy who,
if he break,

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you may with better face exact the penalty.
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Why, look how you storm.
I would be friends with you

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and have your love.
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Forget the stains
that you have shamed me with.

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Supply your present wants, and take not
a drop of interest for my moneys...

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...and you"ll not hear me.
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This is kind I offer.
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- This is kindness.
- No...

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This kindness I will show.

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