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The Merchant of Venice Scene 4 The palace of justice Antonio: Hear me yet, good Shylock Shylock: I'll have my bond, not against my bond; I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. You call me dog before you baldest a cause. But since I am a dog, beware my fangs. The Duke shall grant me justice... Antonio: I pray you’re hearing me speak Shylock: I'll have your bond; I will not hear you speak Duke: Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too. You but lead this fashion on your malice. To the last hour of act and then it is ought, and you’ll show your mercy and remorse more strange than is your strange apparent cruelty. We’ll all expect a gentle answer, Jew? Shylock: What judgment shall I dread doing no wrong? You have among you many a purchased slave which likes your asses and your dogs and mules. You use in abject and in slavish parts .Because you bought them, Shall I say to you" let them be free! Marry them to your heirs!" you will answer" the slaves are ours!" So do I answer you: The pound of flesh which I demand of him is dearly bought as mine and I will have it. If you deny me, fie upon your law！There is no force in the decrees(法令) of Venice. I stand for judgment. Answer, shall I have it? (Portia化装成Balthazar，带着Bellario的信件上场) Balthazar: Here is the letter form Bellario. Duck: Hear the learned Bellario, what he writes: Your Grace shall understand that I am very sick but in loving visitation is a young doctor. His name is Balthazar, He is furnished with my opinion which is bettered with his own learning comes with him to fill up your grace a request in my stead. And here I take it is the doctor .Came you from old Bellario. Balthazar: I did, my lord. Duck: Antonio and old shylock, both stand forth. Balthazar: Is your name Shylock? Shylock: Shylock is my name! Balthazar: Of a strange nature is the suit you follow. Yet in such rule that the Venetian law cannot condemn you as you do proceed. You stand within his danger, do not? Antonio: Ay, so he says Balthazar: Do you confess the bond? Antonio: I do Balthazar: Then must the Jew be merciful Shylock: On what compulsion must I? Tell me that Balthazar: The quality of mercy is not strained .It drops as the gentle rain from heaven. It is twice blest. The earthly power do then show likes God's when mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, Youth justice be your plea, consider this. That in the course of justice, none of us, none of us should see salvation(拯救). We do pray for mercy Shylock: My deeds upon my head! I crave the law. The penalty and forfeit is my bond. Balthazar: There is no power in Venice can alter a decree established. And lawfully by this the Jew may claim a pound of flesh, to be by him cut off nearest the merchant's heart. Antonio: Be merciful, most heartily I do beseech the court to give the judgments! Balthazar: Are there balance here to weigh the flesh? Shylock: I have them ready. Balthazar: Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge, to stop his wounds lest he do bleed to death. Shylock: Is it so nominated in the bond? Balthazar: It is not so expressed but what of that? There good you， you do so much for charity. Shylock: I cannot find it; it is not in the bond Balthazar: you, merchant, has any thing to say? Antonio: But little, I am armed and well prepared Balthazar: A pound of that, same merchant’s flesh is yours. The court awards it and the law doth give it. Shylock: Most learned judge, a sentence! Come prepare! Balthazar: Wait a moment. There is something else. This bond do give you here no bit of blood. The words expressly area’s pound of flesh .Take then your bond, take you the pound of flesh, But in the cutting it, if you do shed one drop of Christian blood, your lands and goods will be by the laws of Venice confiscate. Shylock: Is that the law? Balthazar: You shall see the act. Take your forfeiture! Shylock: Give me my principal, and let me go. Balthazar: you shall have nothing but the forfeiture tube so taken at thy peril Shylock: why then the devil gives him food of it! I'll stay no longer question. Balthazar: wait, Jew! The law has yet another hold on you. It is enacted in the laws of Venice, If it be proved against an alien that by direct or indirect attempt he seek the life of any citizen in Venice .The party gains the which he doth contrive shall seize one half his goods, the other half comes to the privy doffer of the state and the offender's life lies in the mercy of the Duke. Therefore beg the mercy of the Duke. Duke: That Youth shall see the difference of our spirit I pardon you your life before you ask it. For half your wealth, it is Antonio's, the other half comes to the general state which humbleness may drive to a fine. Antonio:So please my lord the Duke and all the court to quit the fine for one half of his goods, I am content. Provided more, that for this favor, He presently become a Christian, Balthazar: Are you contented, Jew? What do you say? Shylock: I am content. I pray you give me leave to go from hence. I am not well. Send the deed after to me, and I will sign it. Duke: Get your gone, but do it! Portia: Antonio. I have better news in store for you than you expect. Unseal this letter There you shall find three of your argosies are richly come to harbor suddenly. You shall not know by what strange accident I chanced on this letter. Antonio: I am dumb. Were you the doctor, and I knew you not? Portia: It is almost morning and yet I am sure you are not satisfied of these events at full. Let us go in. Then we will answer all things faithfully.