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BASSANIO

          Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?



              SHYLOCK
          Ho no, no, no, no! My meaning in saying he [15] is a good man is to have you
          understand me that he is sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition. He hath
          an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies; I understand, moreover,

          upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other
          [20] ventures he hath squandered abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors
          but men; there be land rats and water rats, water thieves and land thieves, I
          mean pirates; and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The

          man  is,  not-withstanding,  sufficient.  [25]  Three  thousand  ducats;  I  think  I
          may take his bond.



              BASSANIO
          Be assured you may.



              SHYLOCK
          I will be assured I may; and that I may be assured, I will bethink me. May I
          speak with Antonio? [30]



              BASSANIO

          If it please you to dine with us.


              SHYLOCK

          Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite
          conjured the devil into. I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk
          with you, and so following; but I will not [35] eat with you, drink with you,
          nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?



                                                       Enter Antonio.


              BASSANIO

               This is Signor Antonio.



              SHYLOCK
          (aside)
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