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The Merchant of Venice

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Salerio

Verse

My wind cooling my broth
Would blow me to an ague when I thought

I i 25

Gratiano

Verse

Let me play the fool
with mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come

I i 85

Bassanio
intercut

Verse

Tis not unknown to you Antonio

I i 124

Shylock

Verse

Signior Antonio, many a time and oft

I iii 88

Morocco
intercut

Verse

Mislike me not for my complexion

II i 1

Launcelot

Prose

Certainly my conscience will serve me to run

II ii 1

Morocco

Verse

Some god direct my judgement. Let me see

II vii 15

Arragon
intercut

Verse

And so have I address'd me. Fortune Now

II ix 23

Shylock

Prose

To bait fish withal, if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge.

III I 23

Shylock

Prose

Why, there, there, there, there! A diamond gone,
cost me two thousand ducats in Frankford!

III i 83

Bassanio
intercut

Verse

So may the outward shows be least themselves

III ii 67

Bassanio

Verse

What find I here?
Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demigod

III ii 114

Bassanio

Verse

O sweet Portia
Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words

III ii 242

Shylock

Verse

I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose

IV i 39

Antonio

Verse

But little; I am arm'd and well prepar'd

IV i 264

Lorenzo
intercut

Verse

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank

V i 63

Bassanio

Verse

Sweet Portia,
if you did know to whom I gave the ring

V i 211

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