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Sooth, I know not why I am so sad.

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It wearies me. You say it wearies you,
but how I caught it, found it, or came

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by it, I am to learn. What
have you got to be sad about?

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You\'re a successful man,
everybody loves you.

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Don\'t know why you\'re sad? Maybe it\'s because
you don\'t living in a society where no

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one is what they seem, where
everybody hides secrets.

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Maybe you aren\'t what you seem.
Welcome to Venice,

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in the 1590s. Or... any place in

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the 1990s. Or any time
people put on a false front.

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For instance, here\'s

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Bassanio. Looks like he\'s
doin\' okay, really. In debt

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up to his hairline. About to put the
touch on his kind friend again, and

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why does he need the money? To you,
Antonio, I owe the most in money

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and in love. And from your love, I have
a warranty to unburden all my plots

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and purposes, how to get clear of all the
debts I owe. I pray you, good, Bassanio,

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let me know it. And if it stand, and you
yourself still do within the eye of honor,

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be assured, my purse, my person, my extremist
lie all in lot to your occasions. In Belmont

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is a lady richly left. And
she is fair, oh, and fairer

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than that word, of wondrous virtue.
Sometimes, from her eyes,

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I did receive fair speechless messages.
Nor is the wide world ignorant

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of her worth. For the four
winds blow in from every coast

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renowned suitors. Had I but
the means to hold a rival

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place with one of them, I have a
mind, presages me such thrift,

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that I should question this be fortunate.
Thou knowest that all my fortunes are at sea.

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Neither have I money or commodity
to raise a present sum.

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Therefore, go forth, and try what
my credit can, in Venice, do.

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That shall be racked even to the uttermost,
to furnish thee in Belmont, to fair Portia.

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Great.

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Bassanio wants to pretend to be rich, so that
Portia won\'t think he\'s after her money, but does

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he love her? And who\'s Antonio gonna
try and borrow the money from? Me.

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Even though he looks down on how I make my
living. Well what else am I supposed to do?

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At this time, Jews aren\'t allowed to own land,
and aren\'t allowed into most professions.

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Money-lending is one of the few ways we can make a
living. But the Church says lending money for interest

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is a sin. In Venice, we
have to live in the ghetto,

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and wear this yellow circle.
So the gentle Antonio

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treats me like dirt. Because I\'m
a moneylender, or because I\'m a

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Jew. You be the judge. The point is,

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neither of them is quite what he
pretends to be. And what about this

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Portia, that Bassanio is so hot for?
What are these wondrous virtues he

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prizes in her? We have to
travel to Belmont to find out.

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[sil.]

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By my troth, Nerissa.

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My little body is aweary
of this great world.

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Oh I see what he likes about her,
she talks just like Antonio.

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Boy, these rich people can sure complain.
You would be,

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sweet madame, if your miseries were in the
same abundance as your good fortunes are.

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Absolutely. Must be tough to inherit all
that money, then. Wait around all day for

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princely suitors to show up. But this
reasoning is not in the fashion to choose

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me a husband. Oh, me, the word choose.

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I may neither choose who I would, nor
refuse who I dislike. So is the will of a

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living daughter curbed by the will of a
dead father! Is it not hard, Nerissa?

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That I cannot choose one? Nor refuse none?

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Oh, you\'ll get around it. She acts like

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an unlessoned girl. But she ends up being
craftier than anyone else around her.

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So Portia isn\'t exactly what she seems,
either. And to get what she wants,

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she\'d be perfectly happy to
treat me like dirt. In fact,

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everyone treats me like dirt. Why is that?

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Am I paranoid? Self pitying?

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Or do I have a right to my
anger and to my vengeance?

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You be the judge.

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Three thousand ducats, well... Ay, sir, for

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three months. For three months. Well...
For the which, as I told you,

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Antonio shall be bound.
Antonio shall become bound.

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Well... Shall I know your answer?
Antonio is a good man.

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Yet his means are in supposition. He
hath an argosy bound to Tripolis,

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another to the Indies, a third at
Mexico, fourth for England, and other

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ventures he hath squandered abroad.
But ships

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are but boards. Sailors but men.
There be land rats and

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water rats. Land thieves, water

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thieves Waters, winds, rocks.

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How like

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a fawning publican he looks.
I hate him for his

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a Christian. But more for
that in low simplicity, he

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lends out money gratis and brings down
the rate of usance here in Venice.

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If I can catch him once upon the hip,

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I will feed fat the ancient
grudge I bear him.

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Rest you fair, good signior. Your
worship was the last man in our mouths.

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Shylock, albeit I never lend nor

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borrow by taking nor by giving in
excess, yet to supply the ripe wants of

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my friend, I\'ll break a custom.
Me thoughts you said you neither

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lend nor borrow money upon advantage.
I do never use it.

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When Jacob grazed his uncle Leban\'s sheep,

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this Jacob from our holy Abram
was, this was a way to thrive,

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and he was blessed and thrift is blessing,
if men steal it not. Mark you this,

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Bassanio, the devil can cite scripture for his
purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness

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is like a villain with a smiling cheek.
A goodly apple rotten at

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the heart. Oh what a goodly
outside falsehood hath.

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Three thousand ducats.

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Tis a good round sum. Three months from

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twelve, then, let me see. The rate...

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Well, Shylock, shall we be beholden to you?
Signior Antonio,

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many a time and oft, you
call me misbeliever,

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cutthroat, dog. And spit
upon my Jewish gaberdine.

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Well then, it now appears you need

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my help. What should I say to you?

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Should I not say, half a dog money?

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Is it possible a cur can
lend three thousand ducats?

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Or, or shall I bend low and in a
bondman\'s key with bated breath

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and whispering humbleness say this, \'Fair sir,
you spat on me on Wednesday last, you spurned

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me such a day, another
time you called me dog!

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And for these courtesies,
I\'ll lend you thus much

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moneys? I am as like to call
thee so again. To spit on

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thee again. To spurn thee, too. If thou wilt
lend this money, let it not as to they friends;

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for when did friendship take a breed for barren
metal of his friend? But lend it rather to

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thine enemy, who, if he
break, thou mayst with better

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

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you and have your love. Forget the shames
that you have stained me with, supply

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your present wants and take no doits of
usance for my moneys, and you\'ll not hear me.

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This is kind I offer. This were kindness.

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[sil.]

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This kindness will I show.

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Go with me to a notary. Seal me
there your single bond and in a

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merry sport, if you repay me not, on
such a day, in such a place, such

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sums or sums as are expressed in the
condition, let the forfeit be nominated

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for an equal pound of your fair flesh.
To be cut off and taken in

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what part of your pleaseth me.
Content in faith. I\'ll seal

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to such a bond. And say there is much kindness in
the Jew. You shall not seal to such a bond for me:

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I\'ll rather dwell in my necessity.
Why fear not man.

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I will not forfeit it. Within these two months,
that\'s a month before this bond expires, I do

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expect return of thrice three times the value
of this bond. Then meet me forthwith at the

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notary\'s. Give him direction for this
merry bond. And I will go and purse

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the ducats straight and presently, I\'ll
be with you. Hie thee, gentle Jew.

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The Hebrew will turn Christian.
He grows kind.

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I like not fair terms in a villain\'s mind.

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[sil.]

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The Prince of Morocco!

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[sil.]

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Mislike me not for my complexion. The
shadowed livery of the burnished sun to

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whom I am a neighbor and near bred.
I tell you this.

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This aspect of mine hath
feared the valiant.

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By my love I swear the best regarded
virgins of our clime have loved it too.

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I would not change this hue.
Except to steal your thoughts,

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my gentle queen. In terms of choice,
I am not solely led by nice

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direction of a maiden\'s eyes.
Besides, the lottery of my

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destiny bars me the right of voluntary
choosing. Yourself, renowned

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prince, stood as fair as any
comer I have looked on yet for

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my affection.

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[sil.]

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Ah,

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this is some test. The only way
you get to marry Portia is if

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you can guess which box
has her picture in it.

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But there\'s more. If you submit to
the test at all and guess wrong,

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you have to swear never
to marry anyone, ever.

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This was Portia\'s father\'s idea.
Before he died, he set this up,

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so that only serious suitors would give it a shot
and Portia wouldn\'t end up with some fortune

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hunter. Some god direct my judgment

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Let me see. What says the

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leaden casket? \'Who chooseth
me must give and hazard all

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he hath.\' Must give. For what? For lead?

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Hazard for lead? This casket threatens.

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Men that hazard all do it in hope of fair
advantages. I\'ll then nor give nor hazard

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aught for lead. What says
the silver in her virgin

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hue? \'Who chooseth me shall
get as much as he deserves.\'

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As much as I deserve.

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Why that\'s the lady. In birth
I do deserve, as in fortune.

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And more than these, in love, I do deserve.

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Let\'s see the

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saying graved in gold.
\'Who chooseth me shall

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gain what many men desire.\' Why that\'s the

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lady. All the world desires her.

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Shall I think in silver she\'s immured.
Being ten times undervalued to tried

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gold. Here do I choose.
And thrive I, as I may.

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There, take it, prince. And if my form lie

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there, then I am yours.

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[sil.]

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Oh hell. What have we here?

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A carrion death, within whose
empty eye there a written

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scroll. I\'ll read the writing.

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\'All that glisters is not gold.
Often have you heard that told.

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Many a man his life hath sold,
but my outside to behold.

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Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Fare you well, your

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suit is cold.\' Cold indeed,

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and labor lost. Then farewell
heat, and welcome frost.

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Portia, adieu. I have too grieved
a heart to bid a tedious

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leave, thus losers part.

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A gentle riddance.

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Draw the curtains,

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go. Let all of his complexion choose me so.

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The Prince of Arragon!

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I am enjoined by oath to
observe three things.

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First, never to re-Uh!

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I am enjoined by oath to
observe three things. First,

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never to reveal to anyone which casket t\'was
I chose. Next, if I fail of the right

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casket, never in my life to woo a maid
in way of marriage. Lastly, if I fail in

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fortune of my choice, immediately
to leave you and be gone.

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To these injunctions every one doth swear
that comes to hazard for my worthless self.

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\'Who chooseth me must give in hazard

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all he hath.\' You should look fairer,

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ere I give or hazard. \'Who
chooseth me shall gain

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what many men desire.\' What many men
desire! That \'many\' may be meant by

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the full multitude that choose by show, not
learning more than the fond eye doth teach,

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what pries not to the interior. I
will not choose what many men desire!

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For I will not jump with common spirits.
Nor rank myself with the barbarous

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multitude. Why, then to thee, thou
silver treasure house. \'Who chooseth

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me shall get as much as he
deserves.\' And well said too!

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For who shall go about to cozen fortune and
be honorable without the stamp of merit?

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Oh, that degrees and offices were not
derived corruptly, and that clear honor

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were-oh, but to my choice.
I will assume desert.

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Give me a key for this, and
instantly unlock my fortunes here.

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[sil.]

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Too long a pause for that
which you find there.

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How much unlike art thou to Portia.

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How much alike my hopes and my

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deservings. Take what wife you will

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to bed, I will ever be

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your head. So begone, you are sped.

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Still more foolish I\'ll
appear, by the time I

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linger here. With one fool\'s
head I came to woo, but I go

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away with two.

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These deliberate fools!

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When they do choose, they have the
wisdom by their wits to lose.

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While Portia is dealing
the suitors, Bassanio

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gets the money that Antonio\'s
borrowed, and prepares to go and try

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his luck with her. His
friend, Gratiano asked

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Bassanio if he can come along too to
Belmont, and Bassanio says, \'Mm, okay.\'

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Meanwhile, Jessica, Shylock\'s
daughter, has fallen

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in love with young Lorenzo, uh,
another friend of Bassanio\'s.

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They all help out the young lovers.
As Jessica steals jewels and money

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from her father and elopes with Lorenzo.
And she can\'t wait to become a

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Christian once she gets married.
Shylock searches

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for his daughter and his money, but,

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they are both gone.

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You knew! None so well as you, of my

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daughter\'s flight. That\'s certain. I, for my
part, knew the tailor that made the wings she

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flew withal. And Shylock, for his part,
knew the bird was fledged. And then

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it is a complexion of them all to
leave the dam. She is damned for it.

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That\'s certain, if the devil be her judge.
My own flesh and blood

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to rebel! There is more
difference between thy flesh and

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hers than between jet and ivory.

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But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio

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have had any loss at sea or no?
There I have another bad match.

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A bankrupt. A prodigal, who
dare scarce show his head.

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A beggar that used to come so
smug upon the mart let him look

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to his bond. He was wont to call me
usual, let him look to his bond.

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He was wont to lend money for a Christian
courtesy, let him look to his bond! Why,

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I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not
take his flesh. What\'s that good for?

00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:34.999
To bait fish withal. If it will
feed nothing else, it will

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feed my revenge! He hath disgraced me.

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And hindered me half a million!
Laughed at my losses,

00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:49.999
mocked at my gains, scorned my
nation, thwarted my bargains,

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cooled my friends, heated mine enemies,

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and what\'s his reason? I am a Jew.

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Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands?

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Organs, dimensions, senses,

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affections, passions?

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Fed with the same food, hurt with the same
weapons? Subject to the same diseases?

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Healed by the same means, warmed and cooled

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by the same winter and summer
as a Christian is? If you

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prick us, do we not bleed?

00:21:35.000 --> 00:21:39.999
If you tickle us,

00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:44.999
do we not laugh? If you poison us,

00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:49.999
do we not die? And if you
wrong us, shall we not

00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.999
revenge? Here comes another of the the

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tribe. A third

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cannot be matched unless the
devil himself turn Jew.

00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:09.999
How now, Tubal. What news from,
uh, Genoa, hast thou found

00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.999
my daughter? I often came where I did
hear of her, but cannot find her.

00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:19.999
The curse never fell upon
our nation till now.

00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:24.999
I never felt it till now. Would my daughter

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were dead at my foot, and
the jewels in her ear,

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would she were hearsed at my foot,
and the ducats in her coffin.

00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:39.999
Why, thou loss upon loss.

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The thief gone with so much, and so
much and so much to find the thief

00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:49.999
and, no satisfaction. No
revenge, nor no in luck

00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.999
stirring but what lights
on my shoulders. Yes,

00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:59.999
other men have ill luck too.
Antonio, as I heard in Genoa.

00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:04.999
What, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
Hat an argosy

00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:09.999
cast away, coming from Tripolis.
I thank God!

00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.999
Is it true? Is it true? I spoke with some
of the sailors that escaped the wreck.

00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:19.999
I thank thee, good Tubal. Thank-,
good news, huh? Good news. Heard

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in Genoa. Your daughter spent in

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Genoa, as I heard, in one
night fourscore ducats.

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Thou stickest a dagger in me. I

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shall never see my gold again.
Fourscore ducats at

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a sitting! There came diverse of Antonio\'s
creditors in my company to Venice, that

00:23:45.000 --> 00:23:49.999
swear he cannot choose but brace. I\'m
glad of it. I\'ll plague him. I\'ll

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torture him. One of them showed me a
ring that he had of your daughter

00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.999
for a monkey. Out upon her.

00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:04.999
It was my turquoise.

00:24:05.000 --> 00:24:09.999
I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor.

00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.999
I would not have given it for a wilderness

00:24:15.000 --> 00:24:19.999
of monkeys. But Antonio is

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.999
certainly undone. Oh yes, that\'s true.

00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:29.999
That\'s very true. I will have
the heart of him if he forfeit.

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.999
For were he out of Venice, I can make

00:24:35.000 --> 00:24:39.999
what merchandise I will.

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:44.999
I pray you, tarry. Pause a day or two,

00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:49.999
before you hazard. For in choosing wrong,
I lose your company. Therefore forbear

00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.999
awhile. I could teach you how
to choose right. Oh but then

00:24:55.000 --> 00:24:59.999
I am forsworn, so so shall I never be.
Beshrew your eyes.

00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:04.999
They have overlooked me and divided me. One
half of me is yours, the other half is

00:25:05.000 --> 00:25:09.999
yours. I speak to long, but
tis to peize the time. To eke

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it and to draw it out at length. To stay you from
election. I pray you, let me choose. For as I am, I live

00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:19.999
upon the rack. Away then. I
am locked in one of them.

00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.999
If you love me you will find me out.

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:29.999
Let music sound

00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:34.999
while he doth make his choice.
Then if he lose,

00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.999
he makes a swan-like end. Fading in music.

00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:44.999
Tell me where is fancy bred? Or
in the heart, or in the head?

00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:49.999
Where begot how nourished? Reply, reply.

00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:54.999
It is engendered in the
eyes, with gazing fed and

00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:59.999
fancy dies. In the cradle where it lies.

00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:04.999
So may the outward shows be least

00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:09.999
themselves. The world
is still deceived with

00:26:10.000 --> 00:26:14.999
ornament. There is no vice so simple, but
assumes some mark of virtue on its outward

00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.999
parts. The seeming truth which
cunning times puts on to entrap the

00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:24.999
wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold, I will

00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:29.999
none of thee. Nor none of thee,
thou pale and common drudge.

00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:34.999
\'Tween man and man. But thou, thou meager

00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.999
lead. Thy paleness moves
me more than eloquence.

00:26:40.000 --> 00:26:44.999
And here choose I. Joy, be the consequence.

00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:49.999
Oh, love

00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:54.999
be moderate. Allay thy ecstasy.
In measure rein they joy.

00:26:55.000 --> 00:26:59.999
Scant this excess.

00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:04.999
I feel too much thy blessing. Make it less.

00:27:05.000 --> 00:27:09.999
[sil.]

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What find I here?

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.999
Fair Portia\'s counterfeit.

00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:24.999
Here\'s a scroll the summary
and content of my fortune?

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:29.999
You that choose not by the view,
chance as fair and choose as true.

00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:34.999
Since this fortune falls to you, be content

00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:39.999
and seek no new. You see me,

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.999
Lord Bassanio, where I stand. Such
as I am, though for myself alone,

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:49.999
I would not be ambitious to
wish myself much better.

00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:54.999
Yet, for you, I would be trebled

00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:59.999
20 times myself. A thousand times more

00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:04.999
fair, ten thousand times more rich!
That only to stand

00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:09.999
high in your account, I might in
virtues, beauties, livings, friends,

00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.999
exceed amount! But the full

00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:19.999
sum of me is an unlessoned girl.
Unschooled,

00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:24.999
unpracticed. This house,

00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:29.999
these servants, and this same

00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:34.999
myself are yours, my lord\'s.

00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:39.999
I give them with this ring.

00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:44.999
Which when you part from.
Lose, or give away,

00:28:45.000 --> 00:28:49.999
let it presage the ruin of your love.
Madam, you have

00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.999
bereft me of all words. Only my
blood speaks to you in my veins.

00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.999
Where every something, being blent
together, turns to a wild of

00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:04.999
nothing, save of joy,
expressed and not expressed.

00:29:05.000 --> 00:29:09.999
But when this ring parts from
this finger, then parts life from

00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:14.999
hence. Oh, then be bold
to say Bassanio\'s dead.

00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:19.999
[sil.]

00:29:20.000 --> 00:29:24.999
Yeah, fine.

00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:29.999
Then, Grasiano says that he

00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:34.999
and Nerissa are gonna get married,
too, and she hands him a ring as well.

00:29:35.000 --> 00:29:39.999
So great, the lovers are all happy,
but let\'s not forget about the plot.

00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:44.999
Bassanio finds out that all of
Antonio\'s ships have been lost at

00:29:45.000 --> 00:29:49.999
sea. Three months have gone by, and Antonio can\'t
pay Shylock back, so he now owes him a pound

00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:54.999
of flesh. Bassanio has to admit

00:29:55.000 --> 00:29:59.999
to Portia that he\'s misrepresented himself,
that he has nothing, less than nothing,

00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:04.999
debts. Portia offers to pay the
debt that threatens Antonio after

00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:09.999
Bassanio marries her, so she\'s no idiot.
And then he takes off for

00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:14.999
Venice. Then Portia gets an idea.

00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:19.999
And she leaves Jessica and Lorenzo in charge
of her house while she goes to have a little

00:30:20.000 --> 00:30:24.999
word with Nerissa about a trip.

00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:29.999
Come on, Nerissa. I have a work
in hand that you yet know not of.

00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:34.999
We\'ll see our husbands before they think of us.
Shall they see us? Oh they shall, Nerissa.

00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:39.999
But in such a habit, that they shall think
that we are accomplished with that we lack.

00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.999
I\'ll hold thee any wager, when we

00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:49.999
are both accoutred like
young men, I\'ll prove the

00:30:50.000 --> 00:30:54.999
prettier fellow of the two. And
speak between the change of man

00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:59.999
and boy. And speak a phrase
like a fine, bragging youth.

00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.999
And tell quaint lies. How
honorable ladies sought

00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:09.999
my love, which I, denying,
they fell sick and died.

00:31:10.000 --> 00:31:14.999
I have within my mind a thousand
raw tricks, which I will practice.

00:31:15.000 --> 00:31:19.999
Why, shall we turn to men?

00:31:20.000 --> 00:31:28.000
[sil.]

00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:54.999
Shylock, the world thinks,

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:59.999
and I think so too, thou wilt show thy

00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.999
mercy thy mercy and remorse more strange
than is thy strange apparent cruelty.

00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:09.999
And where thou now exact\'st the penalty, which
is a pound of a, of this poor merchant\'s

00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:14.999
flesh, thou wilt no only loose
the forfeiture, but touched with

00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:19.999
human gentleness and love,
forgive a moiety of the

00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:24.999
principal. Glancing and eye
of pity on his losses.

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:29.999
We all expect a gentle answer,

00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.999
Jew. I have possessed your grace of what

00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.999
I purpose. And by the holy
sabbath have I sworn to

00:32:40.000 --> 00:32:44.999
have the due and forfeit of my bond.
This is no answer, thou unfeeling man.

00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.999
To excuse the current of thy cruelty. I\'m
not bound to please thee with my answers.

00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:54.999
For thy three thousand ducats, here is six.

00:32:55.000 --> 00:32:59.999
If every ducat in six thousand ducats
were in six parts and every part a ducat,

00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:04.999
I would not draw them,
I would have my bond.

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:09.999
How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering

00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:14.999
none? What judgment shall
I dread doing no wrong?

00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.999
You have among you many a purchased

00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:24.999
slave. Which like your asses and
your dogs and mules, you use in

00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:29.999
abject and in slavish parts
because you bought them. Shall

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.999
I say to you, let them be free. Marry
them to your heirs, why sweat they under

00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:39.999
burdens? You will answer,
\'The slaves are ours.\' So do

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:44.999
I answer you. The pound of flesh, which I
demand of him is dearly bought, it is mine,

00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:49.999
and I will have it. Upon my
power, I may dismiss this court.

00:33:50.000 --> 00:33:54.999
Unless Bellario, a learned doctor, whom
I have sent for to determine this, come

00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:59.999
here today. This letter

00:34:00.000 --> 00:34:04.999
from Bellario doth commend a young and
learned doctor to our court. Where is he?

00:34:05.000 --> 00:34:13.000
[sil.]

00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:19.999
You are welcome. Take your place.

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:24.999
Are you acquainted with the difference that
holds this present question in the court?

00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:29.999
I am thoroughly informed of the cause.
Which is the merchant here, and

00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.999
which the Jew? Antonio and
Shylock, both stand forth.

00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:39.999
[sil.]

00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.999
Is your name Shylock? Shylock is my name.

00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:49.999
You stand within his danger, do you not?

00:34:50.000 --> 00:34:54.999
Ay, so he says. Do you confess the bond?

00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:59.999
I do. Then must the Jew be merciful.

00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:04.999
On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.

00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:09.999
The quality of mercy is not strained.
It droppeth as the gentle

00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:14.999
rain from heaven upon the place beneath.
It is twice blessed.

00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:19.999
It blesseth him that gives and him

00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.999
that takes. \'Tis mightiest
in the mightiest.

00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:29.999
It becomes the throned monarch
better than his crown.

00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:34.999
His scepter shows the
force of temporal power.

00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:39.999
But mercy is above this
sceptered sway. It is

00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:44.999
enthroned in the hearts of kings.
It is an attribute to

00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.999
God himself. And earthly justice doth

00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:54.999
then show likest God\'s when
mercy seasons justice.

00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:59.999
Therefore, Jew, though justice be thy

00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:04.999
plea, consider this. That in the
course of justice, none of us

00:36:05.000 --> 00:36:09.999
should see salvation. We do pray

00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:14.999
for mercy. And that same prayer

00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:19.999
doth teach us all to render
the deeds of mercy. My deeds

00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:24.999
upon my head. I crave the law. The
penalty and forfeit of my bond.

00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:29.999
Is he not able to discharge the money?
Yes, here I tender

00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:34.999
if for him in the court. Yea, twice
the sum. If that will not suffice, I

00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.999
will be bound to pay it ten times over. If
this will not suffice, it must appear that

00:36:40.000 --> 00:36:44.999
malice bears down truth, and I beseech
you, wrest once the law to your

00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:49.999
authority. To do a great
right, do a little wrong.

00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.999
It must not be. There is no power in Venice can
alter a decree established. T\'will be recorded

00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:59.999
for a precedent. I pray you,
let me look upon the bond.

00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.999
Here it is, most reverent
doctor, here it is.

00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:09.999
Shylock, there\'s thrice they money

00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:14.999
offered thee. Take thrice thy money.
Bid me tear

00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:19.999
the bond. When it is paid,
according to the tenor.

00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:24.999
Most heartily, I do beseech the court to
give the judgment Why then, thus it is.

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:29.999
You must prepare your bosom for his knife.

00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.999
Oh, noble judge. Oh excellent young man.
How much more elder

00:37:35.000 --> 00:37:39.999
art thou than thy looks. Have
by some surgeon, Shylock,

00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.999
on your charge, to stop his wounds, lest
he do bleed to death. Is it so nominated

00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:49.999
in the bond? It is not so expressed, but
what of that? T\'were good you do so much

00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:54.999
for charity. I cannot find

00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.999
it, tis not in the bond.

00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.999
You merchant. Have you anything to say.

00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:09.999
But little. I am armed and

00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.999
well prepared. Give me your hand

00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:19.999
Bassanio.

00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:24.999
Fare you well. Grieve not that
I am fallen to this for you.

00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:29.999
Commend me to your honorable
wife, tell her the process

00:38:30.000 --> 00:38:34.999
of Antonio\'s end. Say how I loved you.

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.999
Speak me fair in death. And when the tale

00:38:40.000 --> 00:38:44.999
is told, let her be judge,
whether Bassanio had not

00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:49.999
once a love. Antonio,

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:54.999
I am married to a wife
which is as dear to me as

00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.999
life itself. But life itself, my wife,

00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:04.999
and all the world are not with
me esteemed above thy life.

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:09.999
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice
them all here to this

00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:14.999
devil to deliver you. Your
wife would give you little

00:39:15.000 --> 00:39:19.999
thanks for that if she were by to
hear you make the offer. Come!

00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:24.999
Prepare.

00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:33.000
[sil.]

00:39:40.000 --> 00:39:44.999
Tarry a little, there is something else.
This bond

00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:49.999
doth give the here no jot of
blood, the words expressly are

00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:54.999
\'a pound of flesh.\' But in the cutting it,

00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.999
if thou dost shed one drop of
Christian blood, by thy lands and

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.999
goods are, by the state Venice,
confiscate unto the state of Venice.

00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:09.999
Is that the law? Thyself shall see the act.

00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:14.999
For as thou urgest justice, be assured.

00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:19.999
Thou shalt have justice.
More than thou desirest.

00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.999
I take this offer, then.
Pay the bond thrice and

00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.999
let the Christian go. Here is the money.
Soft! The Jew shall

00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.999
have all justice. Soft, no haste.
He shall have nothing but the

00:40:35.000 --> 00:40:39.999
penalty. Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood, nor cut the less nor more but just a

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:44.999
pound of flesh.

00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:49.999
If thou takes more or
less than a just pound,

00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.999
thou diest. Give me my principal,

00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:59.999
let me go. I have it ready for thee.
Here it is.

00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:04.999
He hath refused it in the open court.
Shall I not have barely my principal?

00:41:05.000 --> 00:41:09.999
Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture.
To be so taken at

00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:14.999
thy peril, Jew.

00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:19.999
Why then,

00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:24.999
the devil give him good of it.

00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:29.999
I\'ll stay no longer question.

00:41:30.000 --> 00:41:34.999
Tarry, Jew.

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The law hath yet another hold on you.

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It is enacted in the laws of Venice, if
it be proved against an alien he seek

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the life of any citizen, the party
\'gainst the which he doth conspire,

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shall seize one half his goods.
The other half comes to the privy

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coffers of the state. And the offender\'s
life lies in the mercy of the duke

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only, against all other voice.
Down, therefore. And

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beg mercy of the duke.

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That thou shalt see the
difference of our spirit,

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I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it.

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For half thy wealth, it is Antonio\'s.
The other half comes to the general

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state, which humbleness
may drive into a fine.

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Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that.

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You take my house when you do take
the prop that doth sustain my

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house. You take my life
when you do take the means

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whereby I live!

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What mercy can you render him

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Antonio? Two things provided more,

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that for this favor, he
presently become a Christian.

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The other,

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that he do record a gift here in this court
of all he dies possessed unto his son

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Lorenzo and his daughter.

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He shall do this. Or else I do
recant the pardon that I late

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pronounced here. Art thou contented,

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Jew? What dost thou say?

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[sil.]

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That light we see is burning
in my hall. How far

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that little candle throws his beams! So
shines a good deed in a naughty world.

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I know what you\'re thinking.

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With the cruelty I showed Shylock,
what do I know about good deeds? Well,

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I had fun pretending to be a lawyer. And if I
tricked him out of his justice and his money,

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arriving back home,
Portia instructs Lorenzo,

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Jessica, and the servants act as if she and
Nerissa had never left. Their husbands

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and Antonio arrive soon after, and Portia acts
as if she\'s meeting him for the first time.

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[sil.]

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By yonder moon, I swear you do me wrong.

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In faith, I gave it to the judge\'s clerk.
Oh, did I mention, after the trial,

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Bassanio wanted to give me something for my fine work,
so I asked him to give me the ring he was wearing.

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And my clerk asked Gratiano for his ring.
You swore to me,

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when I did give it to you, that you would wear it till your
hour of death, and that it should lie with you in your grave!

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Now, by this hand, I gave it
to a youth, a kind of boy,

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a little scrubbed boy, no higher
than thyself. The judge\'s clerk.

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A prating boy! That begged it as

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his fee! I could not for
my heart deny it him.

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You were to blame, I must be plain with you. 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, I dare be sworn
for him, he would not leave it.

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Nor pluck it from his finger for
the wealth that the world masters!

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Why, I were best to cut off my left
hand and and swear my lost the

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ring to defending it. My lord Bassanio gave
away his ring, and to the judge that begged it!

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And indeed, deserved it too.

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What ring gave you, my lord? Not that,
I hope, which you received of me.

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By heaven I will never come into your bed until I
see the ring. Nor I in yours til I again see mine.

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I\'ll die for it but that some woman had the
ring. No, by my honor madam, by my soul,

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no woman had it, but a civil doctor! Even he
that held up the very life of my dear friend.

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What should I say, sweet lady? Had you been there, I think you
would have begged the ring of me to give the worthy doctor.

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Let not that doctor e\'er
come near my house.

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Since he hath got the jewel that I
loved, and that you did swear to

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keep for me, I\'ll not
deny him anything I have.

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No, not my body, nor my husband\'s bed.
Know him I shall, I am well

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sure of it. I\'ll have that doctor for my
bedfellow. And I his clerk. Therefore be well

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advised how you leave me to mine
own protection. Well, do you so?

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Let me not take him, then. For if I
do, I\'ll mar the young clerk\'s pen!

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I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels. Sir,
grieve not you. You are welcome notwithstanding.

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Pardon this fault, and by my soul I
swear I never will break oath with

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thee again. I once did lend my body for his
wealth, which but for him that had your husband\'s

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ring, had quite miscarried. I dare be bound
again, my soul upon the forfeit, that your

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lord will never more break faith advisedly.

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Then you shall be his surety.

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Give him this, and bid him
keep it better than the

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other. Here,

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Lord Bassanio. Swear to keep this ring.

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By my heaven! It is the
same I gave the doctor!

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I had it of him. Pardon me, Bassanio, but
by this ring the doctor lay with me.

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And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano,
for that same same scrubbed boy the

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doctor\'s clerk, in lieu of this
last night did lie with me.

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Why,

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this is like the mending of highways.

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In the summer where the way s
are fair enough! What? Are we

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cuckolds ere we have deserved it?
Figuring they\'ve suffered enough for now,

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Portia then tells the men that she and Nerissa
were in disguise as the lawyer and his clerk.

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And she tells Antonio the good news that three
of his ships have come safely to harbor.

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And she tells Jessica and Lorenzo that they\'re going
to inherit all of Shylock\'s money when he dies!

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So, as the play ends, Portia exercises
her power to make everyone happy.

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Everyone she cares about.

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[music]