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And yet, dear lady,
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rating myself at nothing,
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you shall see how much I was a braggart.
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When I told you my estate was nothing,
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I should have told you
I was worse than nothing,
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for, indeed, I have engaged myself
to a dear friend,
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who engaged my dear friend
to his mere enemy
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to feed my means.
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Here is a letter, lady.
The paper is the body of my friend
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and every word in it a gaping wound
issuing life-blood.
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But is it true, Salerio? What,
all his ventures failed? What, not one hit?
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From Tripolis, from Mexico, from England?
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Not one, my lord.
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Besides it appears that if he had
the present money to discharge the Jew,
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he would not take it.
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He plies the duke at morning and at night
and doth impeach the freedom of the state
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if they deny him justice.
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Twenty merchants, the duke himself
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and the magnificoes of greatest port
have all persuaded with him
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but none can drive him from the envious
plea of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond.
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When I was with him,
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I have heard him swear
to Tubal and to Cush, his countrymen,
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that he would rather have Antonio"s flesh
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than twenty times the value of the sum
that he did owe him.
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And I know, my lord,
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if law, authority and power deny not,
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it will go hard with poor Antonio.
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Is it your dear friend
that is thus in trouble?
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The dearest friend to me.
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What sum owes he the Jew?
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For me, three thousand ducats.
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No more?