Reading The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare

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Shy.

What are □heir maskes? heare you me Iessica,

Lock vp my doores, and when you heare the drum

And the vile squealing of the wry‑neckt Fife,

Clamber not you vp to the casements then,

Nor thrust your head into the publique streete

To gaze on Christian fooles with varnisht faces:

But stop my houses eares, I meane my casements,

Let not the sound of shallow fopperie enter

My sober house. By Iacobs staffe I sweare,

I haue no minde of feasting forth to night:

But I will goe: goe you before me sirra,

Say I will come.

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