TPTT The Merchant of Venice: ACT IV
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
SCENE I. Venice. A court of justice.
SCENE II. The same. A street.
ACT V
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SCENE II. The same. A street.
Enter PORTIA and NERISSA
PORTIA
      Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
      And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
      And be a day before our husbands home:
      This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
Enter GRATIANO
GRATIANO
5     Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en
      My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
      Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
      Your company at dinner.
PORTIA
      That cannot be:
10    His ring I do accept most thankfully:
      And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
      I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.
GRATIANO
      That will I do.
NERISSA
      Sir, I would speak with you.

Aside to PORTIA

15    I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
      Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
PORTIA
      (Aside to NERISSA) Thou mayst, I warrant.
      We shall have old swearing
      That they did give the rings away to men;
20    But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.

Aloud

      Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.
NERISSA
      Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
Exeunt
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