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Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong, Never to speak to lady afterward In way of marriage; therefore be advis ' d.
PRINCE OF MOROCCO. Nor will not; come, bring me unto my chance.
PORTIA. First, forward to the temple: after dinner Your hazard shall be made.
PRINCE OF MOROCCO. Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed ' st among men!
[ Cornets, and exeunt.] SCENE 2. Venice. A street [ Enter LAUNCELOT GOBBO.]
LAUNCELOT. Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and tempts me, saying to me ' Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good Launcelot ' or ' good Gobbo ' or ' good Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away.' My conscience says ' No; take heed, honest Launcelot, take heed, honest Gobbo ' or, as aforesaid, ' honest Launcelot Gobbo, do not run; scorn running with thy heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me pack. ' Via!' says the fiend; ' away!' says the fiend. ' For the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,' says the fiend ' and run.' Well, my conscience, hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely to me ' My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest man ' s son '--or rather ' an honest woman ' s son ';--for indeed my father did something smack, something grow to, he had a kind of taste;--well, my conscience says ' Launcelot, budge not.' ' Budge,' says the fiend. ' Budge not,' says my conscience.