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Which is the better man, the greater throw May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:(35) So is Alcides beaten by his page; And so may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving. PORTIA: You must take your chance;(40) And either not attempt to choose at all, Or swear, before you choose,—if you choose wrong, Never to speak to lady afterward In way of marriage; therefore be advis'd. MOROCCO: Nor will not; come, bring me unto my chance.(45) PORTIA: First, forward to the temple; after dinner Your hazard shall be made. MOROCCO: Good fortune, then! Cornets. To make me bless'd, or cursed'st among men. Exeunt. Scene II [Venice] Enter the clown [Launcelot] alone. [LAUNCELOT:] Certainly, my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew, my master. The fiend is at mine elbow, and tempts me; saying to me,—Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot, or good Gobbo, or good Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away.—My(5) conscience says, no; take heed, honest Launcelot; take heed, honest Gobbo; or, (as aforesaid) honest Launcelot Gobbo; do not run: scorn running with thy heels: well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack; Via! says the fiend; away! says the fiend, for the heavens rouse up a(10) brave mind, says the fiend, and run. Well, my conscience, hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me,—my honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man's son: or rather an honest woman's son;—for, indeed, my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a(15) kind of taste;—well, my conscience says, Launcelot, budge Scene I 24
not: budge, says the fiend; budge not, says my conscience: Conscience, say I, you counsel well; fiend, say I, you counsel well: to be ruled by my conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master, who, (God bless the mark!) is a kind of(20) devil; and to run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil himself. Certainly, the Jew is the very devil incarnation: and, in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew: the fiend gives(25) the more friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are at your command, I will run. Enter old Gobbo with a Basket. GOBBO: Master, young man, you; I pray you, which is the way to master Jew's LAUNCELOT: O heavens, this is my true-begotten father! who,(30) being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not: I will try confusions with him. GOBBO: Master, young gentleman, I pray you which is the way to master Jew's LAUNCELOT: Turn up on your right hand at the next turning,(35) but, at the next turning of all, on your left; marry, at the very next turning, turn of no hand, but turn down indirectly to the Jew's house. GOBBO: By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can you tell me whether one Launcelot, that dwells with him, dwell(40) with him, or no LAUNCELOT: Talk you of young Master Launcelot—Mark me now—now will I raise the waters.—Talk you of young master Launcelot GOBBO: No master, sir, but a poor man's son: his father, though(45) I say it, is an honest exceeding poor man, and, God be thanked, well to live. LAUNCELOT: Well, let his father be what a will, we talk of young master Launcelot. Scene II 25
Page 1 and 2: The Merchant of Venice by William S
Page 3 and 4: Strategies for Understanding Shakes
Page 5 and 6: O God! a beast that wants discourse
Page 7 and 8: ♦ Shakespeare had the same love o
Page 9 and 10: Dramatis Personæ • ANTONIO, a me
Page 11 and 12: Enrobe the roaring waters with my s
Page 13 and 14: I'll tell thee more of this another
Page 15 and 16: I have a mind presages me such thri
Page 17 and 18: fence with his own shadow: if I sho
Page 19 and 20: Exeunt. Scene III [Venice] Enter Ba
Page 21 and 22: Do you desire—Rest you fair, good
Page 23 and 24: ANTONIO: I am as like to call thee
Page 25: Act II Scene I [Belmont] Enter Moro
Page 29 and 30: Pray you, let's have no more foolin
Page 31 and 32: And hath preferr'd thee, if it be p
Page 33 and 34: And I must to Lorenzo and the rest;
Page 35 and 36: SALERIO: Ay, marry, I'll be gone ab
Page 37 and 38: [LAUNCELOT:] I will go before, sir.
Page 39 and 40: But love is blind, and lovers canno
Page 41 and 42: Who chooseth me, shall get as much
Page 43 and 44: Fled with a Christian—O my Christ
Page 45 and 46: Even in the force and road of casua
Page 47 and 48: Exeunts. Scene IX 45
Page 49 and 50: That's certain. I, for my part, kne
Page 51 and 52: TUBAL: Yes, other men have ill luck
Page 53 and 54: None, but that ugly treason of mist
Page 55 and 56: PORTIA: How all the other passions
Page 57 and 58: GRATIANO: I thank your lordship, yo
Page 59 and 60: I freely told you, all the wealth I
Page 61 and 62: Enter the Jew, and Solanio, and Ant
Page 63 and 64: Until her husband and my lord's ret
Page 65 and 66: And what hope is that, I pray thee
Page 67 and 68: Past all expressing. It is very mee
Page 69 and 70: Forgive a moiety of the principal;
Page 71 and 72: DUKE: Upon my power, I may dismiss
Page 73 and 74: You hear the learn'd Bellario, what
Page 75 and 76: SHYLOCK: Here, 'tis, most reverend
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Antonio, I am married to a wife, Wh
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BASSANIO: I have it ready for thee;
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Get thee gone, but do it. GRATIANO:
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Exit Gratiano. Come, you and I will
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Act V Scene I [Belmont] Enter Loren
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LAUNCELOT: Sola! Where where LORENZ
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LORENZO: Dear lady, welcome home. P
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Nor pluck it from his finger, for t
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I swear to thee, even by thine own
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And we will answer all things faith
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