The Merchant of Venice
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1:22:00
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,

1:23:04
that I follow thus
this losing suit against him.

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- Are you answered?
- No!

1:23:17
This is no answer, you unfeeling man,
to excuse the current of your cruelty.

1:23:22
I am not bound to please you
with my answers.

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Do all men kill the things they do not love?
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Hates any man the thing he would not kill?
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Every offence is not a hate at first.
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You would have a serpent sting you twice?
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I pray you,
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think you question with the Jew:
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You may as well go stand upon the beach
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and bid the main flood lower
its usual height.


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