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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?
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Pay him six thousand and deface the bond.
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Double six thousand and then treble that
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before a friend of this description should
lose a hair through Bassanio"s fault.
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Let me hear the letter of your friend.
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"Sweet Bassanio, my ships have
all miscarried, my creditors grow cruel,
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"my estate is very low.
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"My bond to the Jew is forfeit and since
in paying it, it is impossible I should live,
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"all debts are cleared between you and I,
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"if I might but see you at my death.
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"Notwithstanding, use your pleasure -
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"if love do not persuade you to come,
let not my letter. "
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O love,
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dispatch all business and be gone!
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First...
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go with me to church and call me wife.