The Merchant of Venice
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1:50:00
You"re welcome home, my lord.
1:50:03
I thank you, madam.
Give welcome to my friend.

1:50:06
This is the man, this is Antonio
to whom I am so infinitely bound.

1:50:10
You should in all sense
be much bound to him,

1:50:12
for as I hear he was much bound for you.
1:50:15
No more than I am well acquitted of.
1:50:19
Sir, you are welcome to our house.
1:50:21
It must appear in other ways than words
so I cut short this breathing courtesy.

1:50:34
By yonder moon,
I swear you do me wrong.

1:50:38
In faith I gave it to the judge"s clerk.
1:50:41
Would he were gelded
that had it, for my part,

1:50:43
since you do take it, love,
so much at heart.

1:50:46
A quarrel, ho, already? What"s the matter?
1:50:48
About a hoop of gold,
a paltry ring that she did give me,

1:50:52
whose motto was for all the world
like cutler"s poetry upon a knife.

1:50:57
"Love me and leave me not. "
1:51:00
What talk you of the motto
or the value?

1:51:03
You swore to me when I did give it you
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that you would wear it
till your hour of death

1:51:08
and that it should lie with you
in your grave.

1:51:12
Though not for me
yet for your vehement oaths

1:51:14
you should have been respective
and have kept it.

1:51:18
- Gave it to a judge"s clerk!
- I gave it to a youth,

1:51:22
a kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
no higher than thyself, the judge"s clerk.

1:51:27
You were to blame,
I must be plain with you,

1:51:30
to part so slightly with your wife"s first gift.
1:51:34
I gave my love a ring
and made him swear never to part with it.

1:51:39
And here he stands.
1:51:42
I dare be sworn for him,
he would not lose it

1:51:46
nor pluck it from his finger
for all the wealth that the world masters.

1:51:51
Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
and swear I lost the ring defending it.

1:51:56
- My lord Bassanio gave his ring away.
- Hm?

1:51:59
Unto the judge that begged it
and indeed deserved it, too.


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