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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 III

Salanio
Let me say “amen” betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
Shylock
You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter’s flight.
Salarino
That’s certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal.
Salanio
And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Shylock
She is damned for it.
Salanio
That’s certain, if the devil may be her judge.
Shylock
My own flesh and blood to rebel!
Salanio
Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?
Shylock
I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.
Salarino
There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods than there is between red wine and rhenish. But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no?
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