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To help his friend Bassanio woo the beautiful Portia, the Venetian merchant Antonio borrows a large sum from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender.

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Act V

Gratiano
Well, do you so; let not me take him, then;
For if I do, I’ll mar the young clerk’s pen.
Antonio
I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.
Portia
Sir, grieve not you; you are welcome notwithstanding.
Bassanio
Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;
And, in the hearing of these many friends,
I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
Wherein I see myself⁠—
Portia
Mark you but that!
In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;
In each eye, one: swear by your double self,
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