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But you, O meagre lead,

which rather threatenest
than dost promise aught,

your paleness moves me more...

than eloquence.

Here choose I.

Joy be the consequence.

0 love, be moderate, aIIay your ecstasy,

I feel too much your blessing -
make it less for fear I surfeit.

What find I here?

- Fair Portia's counterfeit.
- (Cheering)

Oh, what demi-goddess
comes so near creation?

Move these eyes? Or whether, riding on
the balls of mine, seem they in motion?

But her eyes -
how could he see to do them?

But look how far
the substance of my praise

does wrong this shadow
in underpraising it,

so far this shadow
doth limp behind the substance.

(J‘ Jaunty music)

(Laughter)

Here's the scroll -
the continent and summary of my fortune.

“You that choose not by the view

“Chances fair and chooses true

“Since this fortune falls on you

“Be content and seek no new

“If you be well pleased with this

“Then hold your fortune for your bliss

“Turn you where your lady is

“And claim her with a loving kiss“

- (Cheering)
- A gentle scroll!

Fair lady,

by your leave, I come by note

to give.

And to receive.

Like one of two contending in a prize

That thinks he has done well
in people's eyes

Hearing applause and universal shout

Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt

As doubtful whether what I see be true

Until confirmed, signed, ratified

by you

(Applause)

You see me, lord Bassanio,
where I stand, such as I am.

Though for myself alone

I would not be ambitious in my wish
to wish myself much better,

yet for you,

I would be treble twenty times myself.

A thousand times more fair,

ten thousand times more rich,

that only to stand high in your account,
I might in virtues, beauties,

Iivings, friends,

exceed account.

But the full sum of me

is sum of something
which, to term in gross,

is an unlessoned girl,

unschooled, unpractised.

Happy in this,
she is not yet so old that she may learn.

Happier than this,
she is not bred so dull that she may learn.

Happiest of all,

is that her gentle spirit
commits itself to yours to be directed

as by her governor,

her lord,

her king.

This house, these servants,

and this same myself

are yours,

my lord's.

I give them with this ring,

which when you part from,
lose or give away,

let it presage the ruin of your love.

And give me vantage to exclaim on you.

Madam,

you have bereft me of all words.

Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,

there is such confusion in my powers.

But when this ring parts from this finger

then parts life from hence -

O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead.

(Cheering)

(Clears throat)

My lord Bassanio, my gentle lady,

I wish you all the joy that you can wish

and when your honours mean to solemnize
the bargain of your faith,

I do beseech you even at that time,
I may be married, too.

With all my heart.

If you can get a wife.

I thank you, your lordship,
you have got me one.

My eyes, my lord,
can look as swift as yours.

You saw the mistress,

I beheld the maid.

Is it true, Nerissa?

- Madam, it is!
- Oh!

And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?

Yes, faith, my lord.

Our feast shall be much honoured
in your marriage.

(Cheering)

We'll play with them
the first boy for a thousand ducats.

- What, with stake down?
- No.

We shall never win at that sport
with stake down.

(Man) Ho, there! Ho!

But who comes here?

There are some shrewd contents
in yond same paper,

that do steal the colour
from Bassanio's cheek.

Some dear friend dead, else nothing
in the world could turn the constitution

of any constant man.

What, worse and worse!

With leave, Bassanio,

I am half yourself

and I must freely have half of anything
that this same letter brings you.

O sweet Portia,

they are a few of the unpleasantest words
that ever blotted paper.

Gentle lady,

when I did first impart my love to you,

I freely told you
all the wealth I had ran in my veins -

I was a gentleman and then I told you true.

And yet, dear lady,

rating myself at nothing,

you shall see how much I was a braggart.

When I told you my estate was nothing,

I should have told you
I was worse than nothing,

for, indeed, I have engaged myself
to a dear friend,

who engaged my dear friend
to his mere enemy

to feed my means.

Here is a letter, lady.
The paper is the body of my friend

and every word in it a gaping wound
issuing life-blood.

But is it true, Salerio? What,
all his ventures failed? What, not one hit?

From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England?

Not one, my lord.

Besides it appears that if he had
the present money to discharge the Jew,

he would not take it.

He plies the duke at morning and at night
and doth impeach the freedom of the state

if they deny him justice.

Twenty merchants, the duke himself

and the magnificoes of greatest port
have all persuaded with him

but none can drive him from the envious
plea of forfeiture, ofjustice, and his bond.

When I was with him,

I have heard him swear
to Tubal and to Cush, his countrymen,

that he would rather have Antonio's flesh

than twenty times the value of the sum
that he did owe him.

And I know, my lord,

if law, authority and power deny not,

it will go hard with poor Antonio.

Is it your dear friend
that is thus in trouble?

The dearest friend to me.

What sum owes he the Jew?

For me, three thousand ducats.

No more?

Pay him six thousand and deface the bond.

Double six thousand and then treble that

before a friend of this description should
lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.

Let me hear the letter of your friend.

“Sweet Bassanio, my ships have
all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel,

“my estate is very low.

“My bond to the Jew is forfeit and since
in paying it, it is impossible I should live,

“all debts are cleared between you and I,

“if I might but see you at my death.

“Notwithstanding, use your pleasure -

“if love do not persuade you to come,
let not my letter."

O love,

dispatch all business and be gone!

First...

go with me to church and call me wife.

Then away to Venice, to your friend.

For never shall you lie by Portia's side
with an unquiet soul.

You shall have gold to pay
the petty debt twenty times over.

When it is paid,
bring your true friend along.

Meantime, myself and Nerissa
will live as maids and widows.

Come, away,

for you shall hence

upon your wedding day.

Gaoler, look to him, tell me not of mercy.

This is the fool that lent out money gratis.
Gaoler, look to him.

Hear me yet, good Shylock.

I'll have my bond.
Speak not against my bond.

I have sworn an oath
that I will have my bond.

You called me dog before you had a cause.

But since I am a dog, beware my fangs.

The duke will grant me justice.

I do wonder, you wicked gaolers,

you are so fond
to come abroad with him at his request.

- I pray you, hear me speak!
- I'll have my bond,

I will not hear you speak.

I'll have my bond, therefore speak no more.

I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,

to shake their head, relent and sigh
and yield to Christian intercessors.

I'll have no speaking, follow not.

I will have my bond.

It is the most impenetrable cur
that ever kept with men.

Let him alone.

I'll follow him no more
with bootless prayers.

He seeks my life.

His reason well I know.

I'm sure the duke will never grant
this forfeiture to hold!

The duke cannot deny the course of law.

For the commodity that strangers have
with us in Venice, if it be denied,

will much impeach the justice of the state.

Therefore, go.

Oh!

These griefs and losses have so bated me

that I shall hardly find a pound of flesh
tomorrow for my bloody creditor.

Pray God Bassanio come
to see me pay his debt.

Then I care not.

Madam, if you knew
to whom you show this honour,

how true a gentleman you send relief,

how dear a lover of my lord your husband,

I know you would be prouder of the work
than customary kindness would allow you.

I never did repent for doing good,
I shall not now.

For in companions that do
converse and waste the time together

there needs must be a like proportion
of Iineaments, of manners and of spirit.

Which makes me think that this Antonio,
being the bosom lover of my lord,

must needs be like my lord.

If it be so, how little
is the cost I have bestowed

in purchasing the semblance of my soul
from out of this state of hellish cruelty.

This comes too near
the praising of myself.

Therefore, no more of it. Hear other things.

Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
the husbandry and manage of my house

until my lord's return.

For my own part, I have towards heaven
breathed a secret vow

to live in prayer and contemplation,
only attended by Nerissa here,

- until my husband and her lord's return.
- Madam, with all my heart,

I shall obey you in all fair commands.

Fair thoughts and happy hours
attend on you.

Go, speed to Padua, render this
into my cousin's hands, old Bellario.

Go!

Is it not so, cousin Bellario?

(J‘ Lute music)

J‘ How sweet the rose... J‘

See, Jessica.

Look how the floor of heaven is
thick inlaid with patterns of bright gold.

Is not the smallest orb that you behold
but in his motion like an angel sings?

Such harmony is in immortal souls.

But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
doth grossly close it in,

- we cannot hear it.
- Hm.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

The reason is your spirits are attentive.

The man that hath no music in himself

nor is not moved
with concord of sweet sounds

is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

The motions of his spirit are
as dull as night

and his affections are as dark as Erebus.

Let no such man be trusted.

Mark the music.

J‘ Sweet rose... J‘

(Portia) We shall see our husbands
before they think of us.

Shall they see us?

They shall, Nerissa,

but in such a habit that they shall think
we are accomplished with what we lack.

I'll hold you any wager, when we are both
accoutred like young men,

I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two.

(Duke) Go one and call the Jew
to the court.

Make room and let him stand
before our face.

He is come, my lord.

Shylock, the world thinks,
and I think so, too,

that you but Iead'st this fashion
of your malice to the last hour of the act

and then 'tis thought
you'll show your mercy and remorse,

more strange than is
your strange apparent cruelty.

What say you, Jew?

We all expect a gentle answer.

I have informed your grace
of what I purpose

and by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
to have the due and forfeit of my bond.

If you deny it,

let the danger light upon your charter
and your city's freedom.

You'll ask me why I rather choose
to have a weight of human flesh

than to receive three thousand ducats.

I'll not answer that.

But, say, it is my humour - is it answered?

What if my house be troubled by a rat

and I am pleased to give
ten thousand ducats to have it killed?

- What, are you answered yet?
- (Crowd) No.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig,

some that are mad if they behold a cat

and others when the bagpipe sings
in the nose cannot contain their urine.

- (Laughter)
- For affection, master of passion, sways it

to the mood of what it likes or Ioathes.

Now for your answer.

As there is no firm reason to be rendered
why he cannot abide a gaping pig,

why he, a harmless, necessary cat,

why he a woollen bagpipe,

but of force must yield
to such inevitable shame

as to offend himself being offended,

so can I give no reason,

nor will I not,

more than a lodged hate
and a certain loathing I bear Antonio,

that I follow thus
this losing suit against him.

- Are you answered?
- (All) No!

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

I am not bound to please you
with my answers.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

Every offence is not a hate at first.

You would have a serpent sting you twice?

(Crowd shout in derision)

I pray you,

think you question with the Jew:

you may as well go stand upon the beach

and bid the main flood lower
its usual height.

(Sighs)

You may as well question with the wolf

why he has made
the ewe bleat for the lamb.

You may as well do anything most hard

as seek to soften that

than which what's harder, his Jewish heart.

Therefore I do beseech you, make
no more offers, use no farther means,

but with all just and plain conveniency
let me have judgment

and the Jew his will.

(Au) No! No!

You loaned three thousand ducats.

Here is six.

(Crowd gasps)

If every ducat in six thousand ducats

were in six parts and every part a ducat

I would not draw them,
I would have my bond.

(Duke) How shall you hope for mercy,
giving none?

Whatjudgment should I fear,
doing no wrong?

You have among you
many a purchased slave,

which like your asses
and your dogs and mules,

you use in abject and in slavish parts
because you bought them.

Shall I say to you, let them be free?

Marry them to your heirs.

Why sweat they under burdens?

Let their beds be made as soft as yours.

Their palates seasoned with your food.

You will answer, “The slaves are ours.“

So do I answer you.

The pound of flesh that I demand of him

is dearly bought.

'Tis mine.

'Tis mine!

'Tis mine.

And I will have it.

If you deny me, fie upon your law.

There is no force in the decrees of Venice.

I stand forjudgment.

Answer.

- Shall I have it?
- (Crowd gasp)

(Crowd shouting)

Silence! Silence!

Silence! Upon my power
I may dismiss this court

unless Bellario, a learned doctor
that I have sent for to determine this,

- come here today.
- My lord!

Here stays without a messenger
with letters from the doctor

new come from Padua.

Come you from Padua, from old Bellario?

From both, my lord.
Bellario greets your grace.

Why do you whet your knife so earnestly?

To cut the forfeiture
from that bankrupt there.

Can no prayers pierce you?

No, none that you have
wit enough to make.

Be you damned, inexecrable dog
and for your life Ietjustice be accused.

Till you can rail the seal from off my bond,

you but offend your lungs
to speak so loud.

Prepare your wit, good youth,
or it will fall to cureless ruin.

I stand here for law.

- I stand for law!
- Silence! Silence!

(Crowd quietens)

This letter does commend
a young and learned doctor to our court.

- Well, where is he?
- He attendeth here hard by

to know your answer,
whether you'll admit him.

Go, give him
courteous conduct to this place.

Meantime, the court
shall hear Bellario's letter.

“Your grace shall understand that
at the receipt of your letter, I am very sick

“but in the instant your messenger came
there was with me a young doctor of Rome

“whose name is Balthasar.

“He comes at my asking to take my place.

“I beseech you,
let his lack of years be no impediment,

“for I never knew so young a body
with so old a head.

“I leave him to your gracious acceptance.“

You heard Bellario, what he writes.
Oh, and here, I take it, is the doctor come.

You are welcome.

Take your place.

Are you acquainted with the difference that
holds this present question in the court?

I am informed thoroughly of the case.

Which is the merchant here
and which the Jew?

Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.

- Is your name Shylock?
- Shylock is my name.

Of a strange nature is the suit you follow,

yet in such rule that the Venetian law
cannot deny you as you do proceed.

-You stand within his power, do you not?
- Ay, so he says.

- Do you confess the bond?
- I do.

Then must the Jew be merciful.

On what compulsion must I? Tell me that.

The quality of mercy is not strained,

it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
upon the place beneath.

It is twice blessed -

it blesseth him that gives
and him that takes.

'Tis mightiest in the mighty.

It becomes the throned monarch
better than his crown.

His sceptre shows the force
of temporal power,

the attribute to awe and majesty wherein
doth sit the dread and fear of kings.

But mercy is above this sceptred sway.

It is enthroned in the heart of kings.

It is an attribute to God himself

and earthly power doth then show
Iikest God's

when mercy seasons justice.

Therefore, Jew,
though justice be your plea,

consider this.

That in the course ofjustice,
none of us should see salvation.

We do pray for mercy

and that same prayer doth teach us all
to render the deeds of mercy.

I have spoke thus much
to mitigate the justice of your plea,

which if you follow
this strict course of Venice

must needs give sentence
against the merchant there.

My deeds upon my head.

I crave the law,

the penalty and forfeit of my bond.

- Is he not able to discharge the money?
-Yes, here I tender it for him in court,

yea, twice the sum.

If that is not enough,
I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er

on forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart!

If this is not enough it must appear
that malice bears down on truth.

I beseech you,
wrest once the law to your authority -

to do a great right, do a little wrong
and curb this cruel devil of his will.

It must not be. There is no power in Venice
can alter a decree established.

'Twill be recorded for a precedent

and many an error of the same example
will rush into the state.

- It cannot be.
- A Daniel come to judgment.

Yea, a Daniel.

O wise young judge, how I do honour you.

I pray you, let me look upon the bond.

Most reverend doctor, here it is.

Shylock, there is twice the money
offered you.

An oath, an oath.

I have an oath in heaven.

Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?

No. Not for Venice.

Why, this bond is forfeit

and lawfully at this time
the Jew may claim a pound of flesh

to be by him cut off
nearest the merchant's heart.

Be merciful.

Take twice your money,
bid me tear the bond.

When it is paid, according to the terms.

Most heartily I do beseech the court

to give the judgment.

(Whispering)

Then thus it is. You must prepare
your bosom for his knife.

O noble judge, excellent young man.

For the intent and purpose of the law
has full relation to the penalty

which here appeareth due upon the bond.

'Tis very true, O wise and upright judge.

How much more elder are you
than you look.

- Therefore, lay bare your bosom.
- Ay, his breast.

So says the bond, does it not,
noble judge?

Nearest the heart.

- Those are the very words.
- It is so.

Are there balances here
to weigh the flesh?

I have them here.

(Crowd gasp)

(Knife unsheathing)

Have by some surgeon, Shylock,
on your charge

to stop his wounds
lest he should bleed to death.

Is it so nominated in the bond?

It is not so expressed but what of that?
'Twere good you do so much for charity.

I cannot find it. 'Tis not in the bond.

You, merchant, have you anything to say?

But little.

I am armed and well prepared.

Give me your hand, Bassanio.

Fare thee well.

Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you.

For herein doth Fortune show herself
more kind than is her custom.

Commend me to thy honourable wife.

Tell her the process of Antonio's end.

Say how I loved you,
speak me fair in death.

And when the tale is told,

bid her be judge
whether Bassanio had not once a love.

Repent but you
that you shall lose your friend

and you repent not that he pays your debt.

For if the Jew do cut but deep enough

I'll pay it instantly with all my heart.

Antonio, I am married to a wife

which is as dear to me as life itself.

But life itself, my wife and all the world

are not with me esteemed above your life.

I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,
here to this devil

to deliver you.

I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love -

I would she were in heaven,
so she could entreat some power

to change this cursed Jew!

I have a daughter!

Would that any of the stock of Barrabas
been her husband

rather than a Christian.

We trifle time. I pray you, pursue sentence.

You may proceed.

A pound of that same
merchant's flesh is yours.

The court awards it
and the law does give it.

Most rightful judge.

And you must cut this flesh
from off his breast.

The court awards it and the law allows it.

Most learned judge.

A sentence.

Come.

(Shylock) Prepare.

(Prays)

- Tarry a little!
- Aah!

There is something else.

This bond does give you here
no drop of blood.

The words expressly are a pound of flesh.

Take then your bond,
take then your pound of flesh,

but in the cutting of it,
if you do shed one drop of Christian blood,

your lands and goods
are by the laws of Venice confiscate

unto the state of Venice.

O upright judge!

Mark, Jew. Learned judge!

Is that the law?

Yourself shall see the act.

For as you urge on justice,

be assured you shall have justice
more than you desire.

Well.

I take the offer, then.

Pay the bond twice

and let the Christian go.

- Here is the money.
- Soft. The Jew shall have all justice.

No haste. He shall have nothing
but the penalty.

(Crowd murmurs)

Therefore, prepare you to cut off the flesh.

Shed then no blood

nor cut you less nor more
but just a pound of flesh.

be it but so much
as makes it light or heavy

in the substance or division
of the twentieth part of one poor scruple,

nay, if the scale do turn
but in the estimation of a hair,

you die

and all your goods are confiscate.

- (Gratiano) A second Daniel!
- (Laughter)

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!

Why does the Jew pause?

Shall I not have even my principal?

You shall have nothing but your forfeiture,
to be so taken at your peril, Jew.

Why, then the devil give him good of it.

- I'll stay no longer question.
- Tarry, Jew.

The law has yet another hold on you.

It is enacted in the laws of Venice,

if it be proved against an alien
that by direct or indirect attempts

he seek the life of any citizen,

the party 'gainst which he does contrive
shall seize one half of his goods.

The other half comes
to the privy coffer of the state

and the offender's life
lies in the mercy of the Duke only,

'gainst all other voice.

In which predicament, I say you stand.

Down, therefore,

and beg mercy of the Duke.

Beg that you may have leave
to hang yourself.

(Duke) That you shall see the difference
in our spirit, I pardon you your life

before you ask it.

For half your wealth, it is Antonio's, the
other half shall come to the general state.

Nay, take my life and all -

pardon not that.

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

You take my life

when you take the means whereby I live.

What mercy can you render him, Antonio?

A halter gratis,
nothing else, for God's sake.

So please my lord the Duke
and all the court

forego the fine of one half of his goods.

I am content so he will let me use
the other half, in trust,

relinquish it upon his death

unto the gentleman
that lately stole his daughter.

One thing provided more,
that, for this favour,

he shall presently become a Christian.

(Contained sobbing)

(Duke) He shall do this
or else I do recant the pardon

I late pronounced here.

(Portia) Are you contented, Jew?

What do you say?

Oh...

I am contented.

Clerk, prepare a deed of gift.

I pray you, give me leave to go from hence.

I... I am not well.

I will... Send a deed after me
and I will sign it.

Get you gone, then, but do it.

Court dismissed.

(Sighs)

- (Giggles)
- Most worthy gentleman,

I and my friend have by your wisdom

been this day acquitted
of most grievous penalties,

in lieu whereof, three thousand ducats,
due unto the Jew

we freely pay your courteous pains withal.

- Mm.
- And stand indebted, over and above,

in love and service to you ever more.

He is well paid that is well satisfied

and I, delivering you, am satisfied

and therein do account myself well paid -
fare you well.

Dear sir, of force
I must attempt you further.

Take some remembrance of us,
as a tribute, not as a fee.

Run me two things, I pray you.

Not to deny me and to pardon me.

You press me far, therefore I will yield.

Give me your gloves.
I'll wear them for your sake.

And for your love,
I'll take this ring from you.

Do not draw back your hand,
I'll take no more,

and you, in love, shall not deny me this.

This ring... Good sir, alas, it is a trifle,
I would not shame myself to give you this.

I will have nothing else but only this.

There's more depends on this
than on the value.

The dearest ring in all of Venice will I give
to you, and find it out by proclamation,

only for this, I pray you, pardon me.

Oh, I see, sir.

You are liberal in offers,
you taught me first to beg,

and now methinks you teach me
how a beggar should be answered.

This ring was given me by my wife.

Oh!

And when she put it on she made me vow
that I should neither sell nor give

nor lose it.

That 'scuse serves many men
to save their gifts

and if your wife be not a madwoman,

then know her well
I have deserved this ring.

She would not hold out enemy forever
for giving it to me.

My lord Bassanio, let him have the ring.

Let not his deserving and my love as well

be valued 'gainst
your wife's commandment.

Enquire the Jew's house out.
Give him this deed and let him sign it.

Ho! My lord Bassanio upon more advice
has sent you here this ring.

He does entreat your company at dinner.

That cannot be.

His ring I do accept most thankfully.

I pray you tell him.

Furthermore, I pray you show my youth
to old Shylock's house.

(Chuckles) That will I do.

I'll see ifl can get my husband's ring which
I did make him swear to keep forever.

(J‘ Countertenor singing)

(Lorenzo) Dear ladies, welcome home.

(Portia) We have been praying
for our husbands' welfare,

whose speed
we hope the better for our words.

This night, methinks,
is but the daylight sick.

It looks a little paler.

'Tis a day such as the day is
when the sun is hid.

- (Man) Ho!
- Peace.

You're welcome home, my lord.

I thank you, madam.
Give welcome to my friend.

This is the man, this is Antonio
to whom I am so infinitely bound.

You should in all sense
be much bound to him,

for as I hear he was much bound for you.

No more than I am well acquitted of.

Sir, you are welcome to our house.

It must appear in other ways than words
so I cut short this breathing courtesy.

By yonder moon,
I swear you do me wrong.

In faith I gave it to the judge's clerk.

Would he were gelded
that had it, for my part,

since you do take it, love,
so much at heart.

A quarrel, ho, already? What's the matter?

About a hoop of gold,
a paltry ring that she did give me,

whose motto was for all the world
like cutler's poetry upon a knife.

“Love me and leave me not.“

(Nerissa) What talk you of the motto
or the value?

You swore to me when I did give it you

that you would wear it
till your hour of death

and that it should lie with you
in your grave.

Though not for me
yet for your vehement oaths

you should have been respective
and have kept it.

- Gave it to a judge's clerk!
- I gave it to a youth,

a kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
no higher than thyself, the judge's clerk.

You were to blame,
I must be plain with you,

to part so slightly with your wife's first gift.

I gave my love a ring
and made him swear never to part with it.

And here he stands.

I dare be sworn for him,
he would not lose it

nor pluck it from his finger
for all the wealth that the world masters.

Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
and swear I lost the ring defending it.

- My lord Bassanio gave his ring away.
- Hm?

Unto the judge that begged it
and indeed deserved it, too.

And then the boy, his clerk, that took
some pain in writing, he begged mine

and neither man nor master
would take aught but the two rings.

IfI could add a lie onto a fault
I would deny it

but you see my finger
has not the ring upon it, it is...gone.

Even so void is your false heart of truth.

By heaven, I will ne'er come into your bed
until I see the ring.

Nor I in yours till I again see mine.

Sweet Portia, if you did know
to whom I gave the ring,

if you did know for whom I gave the ring,

and would conceive
for what I gave the ring

and how unwillingly I left the ring when
nought would be accepted but the ring,

you would abate the strength
of your displeasure.

If you had known the virtue of the ring

or half her worthiness
who did give the ring,

or your own honour to contain the ring,

you would not then
have parted with the ring.

Nerissa teaches me what to believe.

I'll die for it but some woman has that ring.

No, by honour, madam,
by my soul, no woman had it

but a civil doctor,

which did refuse three thousand ducats
of me and begged the ring

the which I did refuse him,
and suffered him, displeased, to go away,

even he that had held up
the very life of my dear friend.

What should I say, sweet lady?

I was enforced to send it after him.

Let not that doctor come near my house.

Since he has got the jewel that I loved and
that which you did swear to keep for me,

I will become as liberal as you -

I'll not deny him anything I have.

No, not since my body,
nor my husband's bed,

know him I shall, I am sure of that.

Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong

and in the hearing of these many friends,
I swear to you, even by thine own fair eyes,

I never more will break an oath with thee.

(Antonio) I once did lend my body
for his wealth.

I dare be bound again,
my soul upon the forfeit,

that your lord...

will never more break faith advisedly.

Then you shall be his surety.

Give him this.

- (Sighs)
- And bid him keep it better

than the other.

My lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring.

By heaven, 'tis the same I gave the doctor.

I had it of him. Pardon me, Bassanio,

for, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.

And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano,

for that same scrubbed boy,
the doctor's clerk,

in lieu of this last night did lie with me.

Why...

(Gigglingl

This is like
the mending of the highways in summer,

when the ways are fair enough.

What, are we cuckolds
ere we have deserved it?

Speak not so grossly.

You are all amazed.

Bassanio...

Here is a letter,
it comes from Padua, from old Bellario.

There you shall read
that Portia was the doctor,

Nerissa there her clerk.

Lorenzo here shall witness
I set forth as soon as you

and onlyjust now returned.

Were you the doctor and I knew you not?

Were you the clerk
that is to make me a cuckold?

Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it
unless he live to be a man.

Sweet doctor,

When I am absent, then lie with my wife.

How now, Lorenzo?

My clerk has some good comforts too
for you.

Ay, there do I give to you and Jessica
from the rich Jew

a special deed of gift after his death
of all he dies possessed of.

(Lorenzo) Oh!

Fair ladies, you drop manna
in the way of starved people.

It is almost morning

and yet, I am sure you are not satisfied
with these events at full.

Let us go in.

And I will answer all things faithfully.

Well, let it be so.

The first inter'gatory
that my Nerissa shall be sworn on is

whether till the next night
she had rather stay or go to bed now,

being two hours today.

But were the day come,
I should wish it dark

till I were couching the doctor's clerk.

Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
so sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.

(Gigglingl

J‘ The world was all before them

J‘Ah

J‘ Where to choose their place of rest

J‘Ah

J‘ And Providence their guide

J‘ They hand in hand

J‘ Took their wand'ring steps

J‘ And slow

J‘ Through Eden

J‘ Took their solitary way

J‘ Ah... J‘

J‘ The ring is on my hand

J‘ And the wreath is on my brow

J‘ Satin and jewels grand

J‘ Are all at my command

J‘ And I am happy now

J‘ And my lord, he loves me well

J‘ But when first he breathed his vow

J‘ I felt my bosom swell

J‘ For the words rang as a knell

J‘ And the voice seemed his who fell

J‘ In the battle down the dell

J‘ And who is happy now

J‘ But he spoke to reassure me

J‘ And he kissed my pallid brow

J‘ While a reverie came o'er me

J‘ And to the churchyard bore me

J‘ And I sighed to him before me

J‘ Thinking him dead D'Elormie

J‘ “Oh, I am happy now!“

J‘ Ah...

J‘ And I am happy now

J‘ And thus the words were spoken

J‘ And this the plighted vow

J‘ And though my faith be broken

J‘ And though my heart be broken

J‘ Here is a ring, as token

J‘ That I am happy now

J‘ Would God I could awaken

J‘ For I dream I know not how

J‘ And my soul is sorely shaken

J‘ Lest an evil step be taken

J‘ Lest the dead who is forsaken

J‘ May not be happy now

J‘ Ah... J‘

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