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His borrow ' d purse. Well, Jessica, go in; Perhaps I will return immediately: Do as I bid you, shut doors after you: ' Fast bind, fast find,' A proverb never stale in thrifty mind.
[ Exit.]
JESSICA. Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost, I have a father, you a daughter, lost.
[ Exit.] SCENE 6. The same. [ Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued.]
GRATIANO. This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo Desir ' d us to make stand.
SALARINO. His hour is almost past.
GRATIANO. And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour, For lovers ever run before the clock.
SALARINO. O! ten times faster Venus ' pigeons fly To seal love ' s bonds new made than they are wont To keep obliged faith unforfeited!
GRATIANO. That ever holds: who riseth from a feast