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To Christian intercessors. Follow not,

I’ll have no speaking, I will have my bond.

Exit Jew.

Sol.

It is the most impenetrable cur

That ever kept with men.

Ant.

Let him alone,

I’ll follow him no more with bootless prayers.

He seeks my life; his reason well I know:

I oft deliver’d from his forfeitures

Many that have at times made moan to me;

Therefore he hates me.

[Sol.]

I am sure the Duke

Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.

Ant.

The Duke cannot deny the course of law;

For the commodity that strangers have

With us in Venice, if it be denied,

Will much impeach the justice of the state,

Since that the trade and profit of the city

Consisteth of all nations. Therefore go.

These griefs and losses have so bated me

That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh

To-morrow to my bloody creditor.

Well, jailer, on. Pray God Bassanio come

To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!

Exeunt.

¶

Enter Portia, Nerissa, Lorenzo, Jessica, and [Balthazar,] a man of Portia’s.

Lor.