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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 I

Bassanio
This were kindness.
Shylock
This kindness will I show.
Go with me to a notary, seal me there
Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,
If you repay me not on such a day,
In such a place, such sum or sums as are
Express’d in the condition, let the forfeit
Be nominated for an equal pound
Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
In what part of your body pleaseth me.
Antonio
Content, i’ faith: I’ll seal to such a bond
And say there is much kindness in the Jew.
Bassanio
You shall not seal to such a bond for me:
I’ll rather dwell in my necessity.
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