The Merchant of Venice

ACT IV SCENE II	The same. A street.
	Enter PORTIA and NERISSA.
PORTIA	Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
	And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
	And be a day before our husbands home:
	This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.	5
	Enter GRATIANO.
GRATIANO	Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en
	My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
	Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
	Your company at dinner.
PORTIA	That cannot be:	10
	His ring I do accept most thankfully:
	And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
	I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.
GRATIANO	That will I do.
NERISSA	Sir, I would speak with you.	15
	Aside to PORTIA.
	I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
	Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
PORTIA	Aside to NERISSA
	We shall have old swearing
	That they did give the rings away to men;
	But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.	20
	Aloud
	Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.
NERISSA	Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
	Exeunt

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