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For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,

I’ll pay it instantly with all my heart.

Bass.

Antonio, I am married to a wife

Which is as dear to me as life itself,

But life itself, my wife, and all the world,

Are not with me esteem’d above thy life.

I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all

Here to this devil, to deliver you.

Por.

Your wife would give you little thanks for that

If she were by to hear you make the offer.

Gra.

I have a wife who I protest I love;

I would she were in heaven, so she could

Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.

Ner.

’Tis well you offer it behind her back,

The wish would make else an unquiet house.

Shy. [Aside.]

These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter—

Would any of the stock of Barrabas

Had been her husband rather than a Christian!

– We trifle time. I pray thee pursue sentence.

Por.

A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine,

The court awards it, and the law doth give it.

Shy.

Most rightful judge!

Por.

And you must cut this flesh from off his breast,