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PORTIA Is this true, Nerissa?
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PORTIA Is that true, Nerissa?
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NERISSA Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.
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NERISSA Yes, madam, it is, if it’s all right with you.
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BASSANIO
215And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?
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BASSANIO And do you mean what you’re saying, Gratiano?
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GRATIANO Yes, faith, my lord.
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GRATIANO Yes, my lord.
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BASSANIO Our feast shall be much honored in your marriage.
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BASSANIO Then we’d be honored to have you join us in our wedding ceremony.
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GRATIANO
(to NERISSA)
We’ll play with them the first boy for a
thousand ducats.
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GRATIANO
(to NERISSA)
Let’s bet them a thousand ducats that we will have a son first.
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NERISSA
220What, and stake down?
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NERISSA You want to stake the money down now?
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GRATIANO No, we shall ne'er win at that sport and stake down.
But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel? What, and
my old Venetian friend Salerio?
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GRATIANO Hey, if I lay down my “
stakeGratiano puns on “stake” as both money that is bet and penis. stake ,” I’ll never be able to have a son. But who’s this coming? Lorenzo and his pagan girlfriend? What, and my old Venetian friend Salerio? |
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Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and
SALERIO, a messenger from Venice
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LORENZO and JESSICA enter with
SALERIO, a messenger from Venice.
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BASSANIO Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither,
225If that the youth of my new interest here
Have power to bid you welcome.
(to
PORTIA)
By your leave,
I bid my very friends and countrymen,
Sweet Portia, welcome.
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BASSANIO Welcome, Lorenzo and Salerio. I hope my position in this new house is firm enough to
allow me the right to welcome my friends.
(to PORTIA) With your
permission, Portia, I welcome my good friends and countrymen.
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