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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

Portia
Is this true, Nerissa?
Nerissa
Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.
Bassanio
And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?
Gratiano
Yes, faith, my lord.
Bassanio
Our feast shall be much honour’d in your marriage.
Gratiano
We’ll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.
Nerissa
What, and stake down?
Gratiano
No; we shall ne’er win at that sport, and stake down.
But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel?
What, and my old Venetian friend Salerio?
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