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then I should questionless be fortunate.
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Thou knowest my fortunes are at sea.
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Neither have I money nor commodity
to raise a present sum.
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Therefore, go forth.
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Try what my credit can in Venice do.
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It shall be racked, even to the uttermost,
to furnish you to Belmont,
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and fair Portia.
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I swear to you, Nerissa,
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- I am more weary of this great world.
- You would be, sweet madam,
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if your miseries were as plentiful
as your good fortunes are.
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And yet, from what I see,
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they are as sick that have it in excess
as those that starve with nothing.
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If doing were as easy
as knowing what were good to do,
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chapels had been churches,
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and poor men"s cottages princes" palaces.
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But this reasoning is
not in the way to choose me a husband.
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O me, the word "choose"!
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I may neither choose who I would
nor refuse who I dislike.
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So is the will of a living daughter
ruled by a dead father.
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Is it not hard, Nerissa,
that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?
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Your father was always virtuous,
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and holy men, at their death,
have good inspirations.