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But just a pound of flesh. If thou tak’st more

Or less than a just pound, be it but so much

As makes it light or heavy in the substance

Or the division of the twentith part

Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn

But in the estimation of a hair,

Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.

Gra.

A second Daniel! a Daniel, Jew!

Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.

Por.

Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.

Shy.

Give me my principal, and let me go.

Bass.

I have it ready for thee, here it is.

Por.

He hath refus’d it in the open court;

He shall have merely justice and his bond.

Gra.

A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

Shy.

Shall I not have barely my principal?

Por.

Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,

To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.

Shy.

Why then the devil give him good of it!

I’ll stay no longer question.

Por.

Tarry, Jew,

The law hath yet another hold on you.

It is enacted in the laws of Venice,

If it be proved against an alien,