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PORTIA. A pound of that same merchant ' s flesh is thine. The court awards it and the law doth give it.
SHYLOCK. Most rightful judge!
PORTIA. And you must cut this flesh from off his breast. The law allows it and the court awards it.
SHYLOCK. Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare.
PORTIA. Tarry a little; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh ': Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
GRATIANO. O upright judge! Mark, Jew: O learned judge!
SHYLOCK. Is that the law?
PORTIA. Thyself shalt see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assur ' d Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir ' st.