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GRATIANO. O learned judge! Mark, Jew: alearned judge!
SHYLOCK. I take this offer then: pay the bond thrice, And let the Christian go.
BASSANIO. Here is the money.
PORTIA. Soft! The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:-- He shall have nothing but the penalty.
GRATIANO. O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!
PORTIA. Therefore, prepare thee to cut off the flesh. Shed thou no blood; nor cut thou less nor more, But just a pound of flesh: if thou tak ' st more, Or less, than a just pound, be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple; nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.
GRATIANO. A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew! Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
PORTIA. Why doth the Jew pause? Take thy forfeiture.