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Say how I lov ' d you; speak me fair in death; And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge Whether Bassanio had not once a love. Repent but you that you shall lose your friend, And he repents not that he pays your debt; For if the Jew do cut but deep enough, I ' ll pay it instantly with all my heart.
BASSANIO. Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem ' d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all Here to this devil, to deliver you.
PORTIA. Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.
GRATIANO. I have a wife whom, I protest, I love; I would she were in heaven, so she could Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.
NERISSA. ' Tis well you offer it behind her back; The wish would make else an unquiet house.
SHYLOCK. These be the Christian husbands! I have a daughter; Would any of the stock of Barabbas Had been her husband, rather than a Christian! We trifle time; I pray thee, pursue sentence.