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Enter LAUNCELOT the clown and JESSICA
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Enter LAUNCELOT the clown and JESSICA
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LAUNCELOT Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.
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LAUNCELOT Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.
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JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?
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JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?
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LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter.
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LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter.
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JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope indeed. So the sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
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JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope indeed. So the sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
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LAUNCELOT Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are gone both ways.
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LAUNCELOT Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are gone both ways.
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JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a
Christian.
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JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a
Christian.
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LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he. We were Christians eno' before, e'en as many as could well live one by another. This making Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
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LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he. We were Christians eno' before, e'en as many as could well live one by another. This making Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
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Enter LORENZO
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Enter LORENZO
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JESSICA I’ll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say. Here he comes.
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JESSICA I’ll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say. Here he comes.
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LORENZO |
LORENZO |
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JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly there is no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew’s daughter, and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
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JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly there is no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew’s daughter, and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
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LORENZO I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting up of the Negro’s belly. The Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.
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LORENZO I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting up of the Negro’s belly. The Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.
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LAUNCELOT |
LAUNCELOT |
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LORENZO How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Go in, sirrah. Bid them prepare for dinner.
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LORENZO How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Go in, sirrah. Bid them prepare for dinner.
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LAUNCELOT That is done, sir. They have all stomachs.
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LAUNCELOT That is done, sir. They have all stomachs.
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LORENZO Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.
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LORENZO Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.
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LAUNCELOT That is done too, sir. Only “Cover!” is the word.
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LAUNCELOT That is done too, sir. Only “Cover!” is the word.
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LORENZO 45 Will you cover then, sir?
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LORENZO Will you cover then, sir?
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LAUNCELOT Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
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LAUNCELOT Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
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LORENZO Yet more quarreling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. Go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
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LORENZO Yet more quarreling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. Go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
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LAUNCELOT For the table, sir, it shall be served in. For the meat, sir, it shall be covered. For your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern.
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LAUNCELOT For the table, sir, it shall be served in. For the meat, sir, it shall be covered. For your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern.
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Exit LAUNCELOT
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Exit LAUNCELOT
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LORENZO O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
50 The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words, and I do know
A many fools that stand in better place,
Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
55 And now, good sweet, say thy opinion.
How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio’s wife?
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LORENZO O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words, and I do know
A many fools that stand in better place,
Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
And now, good sweet, say thy opinion.
How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio’s wife?
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JESSICA Past all expressing. It is very meet
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
For having such a blessing in his lady,
60 He finds the joys of heaven here on earth.
And if on earth he do not merit it,
In reason he should never come to heaven.
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
65 And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawned with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.
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JESSICA Past all expressing. It is very meet
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
For having such a blessing in his lady,
He finds the joys of heaven here on earth.
And if on earth he do not merit it,
In reason he should never come to heaven.
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawned with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.
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LORENZO Even such a husband
Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
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LORENZO Even such a husband
Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
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JESSICA Nay, but ask my opinion too of that!
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JESSICA Nay, but ask my opinion too of that!
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LORENZO 70 I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
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LORENZO I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
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JESSICA Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
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JESSICA Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
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LORENZO No, pray thee, let it serve for table talk.
Then howsome'er thou speak’st ’mong other things
I shall digest it.
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LORENZO No, pray thee, let it serve for table talk.
Then howsome'er thou speak’st ’mong other things
I shall digest it.
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JESSICA Well, I’ll set you forth.
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JESSICA Well, I’ll set you forth.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter LAUNCELOT the clown and JESSICA
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Enter LAUNCELOT the clown and JESSICA
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LAUNCELOT Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.
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LAUNCELOT Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. Therefore I promise ye I fear you. I was always plain with you, and so now I speak my agitation of the matter. Therefore be o' good cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There is but one hope in it that can do you any good, and that is but a kind of bastard hope neither.
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JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?
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JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?
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LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter.
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LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter.
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JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope indeed. So the sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
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JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope indeed. So the sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
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LAUNCELOT Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are gone both ways.
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LAUNCELOT Truly then I fear you are damned both by father and mother. Thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother. Well, you are gone both ways.
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JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a
Christian.
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JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband. He hath made me a
Christian.
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LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he. We were Christians eno' before, e'en as many as could well live one by another. This making Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
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LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he. We were Christians eno' before, e'en as many as could well live one by another. This making Christians will raise the price of hogs. If we grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a rasher on the coals for money.
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Enter LORENZO
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Enter LORENZO
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JESSICA I’ll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say. Here he comes.
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JESSICA I’ll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you say. Here he comes.
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LORENZO |
LORENZO |
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JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly there is no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew’s daughter, and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
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JESSICA Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly there is no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew’s daughter, and he says you are no good member of the commonwealth, for in converting Jews to Christians you raise the price of pork.
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LORENZO I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting up of the Negro’s belly. The Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.
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LORENZO I shall answer that better to the commonwealth than you can the getting up of the Negro’s belly. The Moor is with child by you, Launcelot.
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LAUNCELOT |
LAUNCELOT |
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LORENZO How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Go in, sirrah. Bid them prepare for dinner.
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LORENZO How every fool can play upon the word! I think the best grace of wit will shortly turn into silence, and discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. Go in, sirrah. Bid them prepare for dinner.
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LAUNCELOT That is done, sir. They have all stomachs.
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LAUNCELOT That is done, sir. They have all stomachs.
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LORENZO Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.
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LORENZO Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! Then bid them prepare dinner.
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LAUNCELOT That is done too, sir. Only “Cover!” is the word.
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LAUNCELOT That is done too, sir. Only “Cover!” is the word.
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LORENZO 45 Will you cover then, sir?
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LORENZO Will you cover then, sir?
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LAUNCELOT Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
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LAUNCELOT Not so, sir, neither. I know my duty.
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LORENZO Yet more quarreling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. Go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
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LORENZO Yet more quarreling with occasion! Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. Go to thy fellows, bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
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LAUNCELOT For the table, sir, it shall be served in. For the meat, sir, it shall be covered. For your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern.
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LAUNCELOT For the table, sir, it shall be served in. For the meat, sir, it shall be covered. For your coming in to dinner, sir, why, let it be as humours and conceits shall govern.
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Exit LAUNCELOT
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Exit LAUNCELOT
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LORENZO O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
50 The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words, and I do know
A many fools that stand in better place,
Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
55 And now, good sweet, say thy opinion.
How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio’s wife?
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LORENZO O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
The fool hath planted in his memory
An army of good words, and I do know
A many fools that stand in better place,
Garnished like him, that for a tricksy word
Defy the matter. How cheerest thou, Jessica?
And now, good sweet, say thy opinion.
How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio’s wife?
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JESSICA Past all expressing. It is very meet
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
For having such a blessing in his lady,
60 He finds the joys of heaven here on earth.
And if on earth he do not merit it,
In reason he should never come to heaven.
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
65 And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawned with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.
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JESSICA Past all expressing. It is very meet
The Lord Bassanio live an upright life,
For having such a blessing in his lady,
He finds the joys of heaven here on earth.
And if on earth he do not merit it,
In reason he should never come to heaven.
Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
And on the wager lay two earthly women,
And Portia one, there must be something else
Pawned with the other, for the poor rude world
Hath not her fellow.
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LORENZO Even such a husband
Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
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LORENZO Even such a husband
Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
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JESSICA Nay, but ask my opinion too of that!
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JESSICA Nay, but ask my opinion too of that!
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LORENZO 70 I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
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LORENZO I will anon. First let us go to dinner.
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JESSICA Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
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JESSICA Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.
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LORENZO No, pray thee, let it serve for table talk.
Then howsome'er thou speak’st ’mong other things
I shall digest it.
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LORENZO No, pray thee, let it serve for table talk.
Then howsome'er thou speak’st ’mong other things
I shall digest it.
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JESSICA Well, I’ll set you forth.
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JESSICA Well, I’ll set you forth.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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