Reading The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare

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Por.

Tarry a little, there is something else,

This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud,

The words expresly are a pound of flesh:

Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,

But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed

One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods

Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate

Vnto the state of Venice.

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