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The Merchant of Venice - Act 4, scene 2
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The Merchant of Venice - Act 4, scene 2Act 4, scene 2
⌜Scene 2⌝
Synopsis:
Gratiano gives the disguised Portia Bassanio’s ring. Nerissa decides to try to obtain from Gratiano the ring that she had given him.
Enter ⌜Portia and⌝ Nerissa, ⌜still in disguise.⌝PORTIA
2385 Inquire the Jew’s house out; give him this deed
2386 And let him sign it. ⌜She gives Nerissa a paper.⌝ We’ll
2387 away tonight,
2388 And be a day before our husbands home.
2389 5 This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
Enter Gratiano.
GRATIANO
2390 Fair sir, you are well o’erta’en.
2391 My Lord Bassanio, upon more advice,
2392 Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
2393 Your company at dinner.⌜He gives her a ring.⌝
PORTIA, ⌜as Balthazar⌝ 2394 10 That cannot be.
2395 His ring I do accept most thankfully,
2396 And so I pray you tell him. Furthermore,
2397 I pray you show my youth old Shylock’s house.
GRATIANO
2398 That will I do.
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NERISSA, ⌜as Clerk⌝
2399
15 Sir, I would speak with you.2400 ⌜Aside to Portia.⌝ I’ll see if I can get my husband’s
2401 ring,
2402 Which I did make him swear to keep forever.
PORTIA, ⌜aside to Nerissa⌝
2403 Thou mayst, I warrant! We shall have old swearing
2404 20 That they did give the rings away to men;
2405 But we’ll outface them, and outswear them, too.—
2406 Away, make haste! Thou know’st where I will tarry.
⌜She exits.⌝
NERISSA, ⌜as Clerk⌝
2407 Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
⌜They exit.⌝