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Shylock, the world thinks,
and I think so, too,
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that you but lead"st this fashion
of your malice to the last hour of the act
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and then "tis thought
you"ll show your mercy and remorse,
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more strange than is
your strange apparent cruelty.
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What say you, Jew?
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We all expect a gentle answer.
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I have informed your grace
of what I purpose
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and by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
to have the due and forfeit of my bond.
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If you deny it,
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let the danger light upon your charter
and your city"s freedom.
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You"ll ask me why I rather choose
to have a weight of human flesh
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than to receive three thousand ducats.
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L"ll not answer that.
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But, say, it is my humour - is it answered?
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What if my house be troubled by a rat
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and I am pleased to give
ten thousand ducats to have it killed?
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- What, are you answered yet?
- No.
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Some men there are love not a gaping pig,
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some that are mad if they behold a cat
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and others when the bagpipe sings
in the nose cannot contain their urine.
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For affection, master of passion, sways it
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to the mood of what it likes or loathes.
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Now for your answer.
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As there is no firm reason to be rendered
why he cannot abide a gaping pig,
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why he, a harmless, necessary cat,
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why he a woollen bagpipe,
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but of force must yield
to such inevitable shame
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as to offend himself being offended,
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so can I give no reason,
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nor will I not,
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more than a lodged hate
and a certain loathing I bear Antonio,