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Enter PORTIA , NERISSA , LORENZO , JESSICA , and BALTHAZAR , a man of PORTIA ’s
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Enter PORTIA , NERISSA , LORENZO , JESSICA , and BALTHAZAR , a man of PORTIA ’s
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LORENZO Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
You have a noble and a true conceit
Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
5 But if you knew to whom you show this honor,
How true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
I know you would be prouder of the work
Than customary bounty can enforce you.
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LORENZO Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
You have a noble and a true conceit
Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
But if you knew to whom you show this honor,
How true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
I know you would be prouder of the work
Than customary bounty can enforce you.
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PORTIA 10 I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now; for in companions
That do converse and waste the time together
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
15 Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit,
Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
How little is the cost I have bestowed
20 In purchasing the semblance of my soul
From out the state of hellish cruelty!
This comes too near the praising of myself.
Therefore no more of it. Hear other things.
Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
25 The husbandry and manage of my house
Until my lord’s return.
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PORTIA I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now; for in companions
That do converse and waste the time together
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit,
Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
How little is the cost I have bestowed
In purchasing the semblance of my soul
From out the state of hellish cruelty!
This comes too near the praising of myself.
Therefore no more of it. Hear other things.
Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
The husbandry and manage of my house
Until my lord’s return.
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For mine own part,
I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
To live in prayer and contemplation,
Only attended by Nerissa here
30 Until her husband and my lord’s return.
There is a monastery two miles off,
And there will we abide. I do desire you
Not to deny this imposition,
The which my love and some necessity
35 Now lays upon you.
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For mine own part,
I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
To live in prayer and contemplation,
Only attended by Nerissa here
Until her husband and my lord’s return.
There is a monastery two miles off,
And there will we abide. I do desire you
Not to deny this imposition,
The which my love and some necessity
Now lays upon you.
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LORENZO Madam, with all my heart.
I shall obey you in all fair commands.
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LORENZO Madam, with all my heart.
I shall obey you in all fair commands.
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PORTIA My people do already know my mind
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
40 So fare you well till we shall meet again.
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PORTIA My people do already know my mind
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
So fare you well till we shall meet again.
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LORENZO Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
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LORENZO Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
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JESSICA I wish your ladyship all heart’s content.
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JESSICA I wish your ladyship all heart’s content.
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PORTIA I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica.
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PORTIA I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica.
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Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
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Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
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45 Now, Balthazar,
As I have ever found thee honest true,
So let me find thee still.
(gives BALTHAZAR a letter)
Take this same letter,
And use thou all th' endeavour of a man
50 In speed to Padua. See thou render this
Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario.
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Now, Balthazar,
As I have ever found thee honest true,
So let me find thee still.
(gives BALTHAZAR a letter)
Take this same letter,
And use thou all th' endeavour of a man
In speed to Padua. See thou render this
Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario.
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And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Unto the traject, to the common ferry
55 Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
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And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Unto the traject, to the common ferry
Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
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BALTHAZAR Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
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BALTHAZAR Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
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Exit BALTHAZAR
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Exit BALTHAZAR
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PORTIA Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. We’ll see our husbands
60 Before they think of us.
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PORTIA Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. We’ll see our husbands
Before they think of us.
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NERISSA Shall they see us?
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NERISSA Shall they see us?
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PORTIA They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
That they shall think we are accomplishèd
With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,
When we are both accoutred like young men,
65 I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
70 Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died—
I could not do withal!—Then I’ll repent
And wish for all that, that I had not killed them.
75 And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks
Which I will practice.
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PORTIA They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
That they shall think we are accomplishèd
With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,
When we are both accoutred like young men,
I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died—
I could not do withal!—Then I’ll repent
And wish for all that, that I had not killed them.
And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks
Which I will practice.
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NERISSA 80 Why, shall we turn to men?
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NERISSA Why, shall we turn to men?
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PORTIA Fie, what a question’s that
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
85 At the park gate. And therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles today.
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PORTIA Fie, what a question’s that
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate. And therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles today.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter PORTIA , NERISSA , LORENZO , JESSICA , and BALTHAZAR , a man of PORTIA ’s
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Enter PORTIA , NERISSA , LORENZO , JESSICA , and BALTHAZAR , a man of PORTIA ’s
|
|
LORENZO Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
You have a noble and a true conceit
Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
5 But if you knew to whom you show this honor,
How true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
I know you would be prouder of the work
Than customary bounty can enforce you.
|
LORENZO Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
You have a noble and a true conceit
Of godlike amity, which appears most strongly
In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
But if you knew to whom you show this honor,
How true a gentleman you send relief,
How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
I know you would be prouder of the work
Than customary bounty can enforce you.
|
|
PORTIA 10 I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now; for in companions
That do converse and waste the time together
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
15 Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit,
Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
How little is the cost I have bestowed
20 In purchasing the semblance of my soul
From out the state of hellish cruelty!
This comes too near the praising of myself.
Therefore no more of it. Hear other things.
Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
25 The husbandry and manage of my house
Until my lord’s return.
|
PORTIA I never did repent for doing good,
Nor shall not now; for in companions
That do converse and waste the time together
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit,
Which makes me think that this Antonio,
Being the bosom lover of my lord,
Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
How little is the cost I have bestowed
In purchasing the semblance of my soul
From out the state of hellish cruelty!
This comes too near the praising of myself.
Therefore no more of it. Hear other things.
Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
The husbandry and manage of my house
Until my lord’s return.
|
|
For mine own part,
I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
To live in prayer and contemplation,
Only attended by Nerissa here
30 Until her husband and my lord’s return.
There is a monastery two miles off,
And there will we abide. I do desire you
Not to deny this imposition,
The which my love and some necessity
35 Now lays upon you.
|
For mine own part,
I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
To live in prayer and contemplation,
Only attended by Nerissa here
Until her husband and my lord’s return.
There is a monastery two miles off,
And there will we abide. I do desire you
Not to deny this imposition,
The which my love and some necessity
Now lays upon you.
|
|
LORENZO Madam, with all my heart.
I shall obey you in all fair commands.
|
LORENZO Madam, with all my heart.
I shall obey you in all fair commands.
|
|
PORTIA My people do already know my mind
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
40 So fare you well till we shall meet again.
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PORTIA My people do already know my mind
And will acknowledge you and Jessica
In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
So fare you well till we shall meet again.
|
|
LORENZO Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
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LORENZO Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!
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JESSICA I wish your ladyship all heart’s content.
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JESSICA I wish your ladyship all heart’s content.
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PORTIA I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica.
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PORTIA I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica.
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Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
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Exeunt JESSICA and LORENZO
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45 Now, Balthazar,
As I have ever found thee honest true,
So let me find thee still.
(gives BALTHAZAR a letter)
Take this same letter,
And use thou all th' endeavour of a man
50 In speed to Padua. See thou render this
Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario.
|
Now, Balthazar,
As I have ever found thee honest true,
So let me find thee still.
(gives BALTHAZAR a letter)
Take this same letter,
And use thou all th' endeavour of a man
In speed to Padua. See thou render this
Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario.
|
|
And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Unto the traject, to the common ferry
55 Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
|
And look what notes and garments he doth give thee,
Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
Unto the traject, to the common ferry
Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.
|
|
BALTHAZAR Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
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BALTHAZAR Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
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Exit BALTHAZAR
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Exit BALTHAZAR
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PORTIA Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. We’ll see our husbands
60 Before they think of us.
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PORTIA Come on, Nerissa, I have work in hand
That you yet know not of. We’ll see our husbands
Before they think of us.
|
|
NERISSA Shall they see us?
|
NERISSA Shall they see us?
|
|
PORTIA They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
That they shall think we are accomplishèd
With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,
When we are both accoutred like young men,
65 I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
70 Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died—
I could not do withal!—Then I’ll repent
And wish for all that, that I had not killed them.
75 And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks
Which I will practice.
|
PORTIA They shall, Nerissa, but in such a habit
That they shall think we are accomplishèd
With that we lack. I’ll hold thee any wager,
When we are both accoutred like young men,
I’ll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
And speak between the change of man and boy
With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
How honorable ladies sought my love,
Which I denying, they fell sick and died—
I could not do withal!—Then I’ll repent
And wish for all that, that I had not killed them.
And twenty of these puny lies I’ll tell,
That men shall swear I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth. I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging jacks
Which I will practice.
|
|
NERISSA 80 Why, shall we turn to men?
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NERISSA Why, shall we turn to men?
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|
PORTIA Fie, what a question’s that
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
85 At the park gate. And therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles today.
|
PORTIA Fie, what a question’s that
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I’ll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate. And therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles today.
|
|
Exeunt
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Exeunt
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