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I could not do withal. Then I ' ll repent, And wish for all that, that I had not kill ' d them. And twenty of these puny lies I ' ll tell, That men shall swear I have discontinu ' d school About a twelvemonth. I have within my mind A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks, Which I will practise.
NERISSA. Why, shall we turn to men?
PORTIA. Fie, what a question ' s that, If thou wert near a lewd interpreter! But come, I ' ll tell thee all my whole device When I am in my coach, which stays for us At the park gate; and therefore haste away, For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
[ Exeunt.] SCENE 5. The same. A garden. [ Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA.]
LAUNCELOT. Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children; therefore, I promise you, I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter; therefore be of good cheer, for truly I think you are damn ' d. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.
JESSICA. And what hope is that, I pray thee?