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What talk you of the motto
or the value?
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You swore to me when I did give it you
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that you would wear it
till your hour of death
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and that it should lie with you
in your grave.
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Though not for me
yet for your vehement oaths
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you should have been respective
and have kept it.
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- Gave it to a judge"s clerk!
- I gave it to a youth,
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a kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
no higher than thyself, the judge"s clerk.
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You were to blame,
I must be plain with you,
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to part so slightly with your wife"s first gift.
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I gave my love a ring
and made him swear never to part with it.
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And here he stands.
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I dare be sworn for him,
he would not lose it
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nor pluck it from his finger
for all the wealth that the world masters.
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Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
and swear I lost the ring defending it.
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- My lord Bassanio gave his ring away.
- Hm?
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Unto the judge that begged it
and indeed deserved it, too.
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And then the boy, his clerk, that took
some pain in writing, he begged mine
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and neither man nor master
would take aught but the two rings.
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If I could add a lie onto a fault
I would deny it
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but you see my finger
has not the ring upon it, it is... gone.
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Even so void is your false heart of truth.
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By heaven, I will ne"er come into your bed
until I see the ring.
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Nor I in yours till I again see mine.
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Sweet Portia, if you did know
to whom I gave the ring,
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if you did know for whom I gave the ring,
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and would conceive
for what I gave the ring
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and how unwillingly I left the ring when
nought would be accepted but the ring,
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you would abate the strength
of your displeasure.
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If you had known the virtue of the ring