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The Merchant of Venice, III. iv

I'll have no speaking; I will have my bond.

Exit Jew.

Salar. It is the most impenetrable cur

That ever kept with men.

Ant.Let him alone:

I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.

He seeks my life; his reason well I know.

I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures

Many that have at times made moan to me;

Therefore he hates me.

Salar. I am sure the duke

Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.

Ant. The duke cannot deny the course of law:

For the commodity that strangers have

With us in Venice, if it be denied,

'Twill much impeach the justice of the state;

Since that the trade and profit of the city

Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:

These griefs and losses have so bated me,

That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh

To-morrow to my bloody creditor.

Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come

To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!

Exeunt.

Lor. Madam, although I speak it in your presence,

You have a noble and a true conceit

 19 kept: dwelt

26 deny: refuse

27 commodity: trading facilities

30 trade and profit: profitable trade

32 bated: thinned

 2 conceit: conception 