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The Merchant of Venice, III. ii

before. I will have the heart of him, if he for-

feit; for, were he out of Venice, I can make what

merchandise I will. Go, go, Tubal, and meet me

at our synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our syna-

gogue, Tubal.

Por. I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two

Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,

I lose your company: therefore, forbear awhile.

There's something tells me, but it is not love,

I would not lose you; and you know yourself,

Hate counsels not in such a quality.

But lest you should not understand me well,—

And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,—

I would detain you here some month or two

Before you venture for me. I could teach you

How to choose right, but then I am forsworn;

So will I never be: so may you miss me;

But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,

That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,

They have o'erlook'd me and divided me:

One half of me is yours, the other half yours,

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours. O! these naughty times

Put bars between the owners and their rights;

And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,

 137 merchandise: business

 6 Hate prompts no such advice

15 o'erlook'd: looked over, i.e., bewitched

20, 21 Prove it so, etc.; cf. n. 