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About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring That she did give me, whose poesy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a knife, * Love me, and leave me not' Digitized by Google 136 The Merchant of Venice [Act v Nitrissa, What talk you of the poesy or the value ? You swore, to me, when I did give it you, 150 That you would wear it till the hour of death. And that it should lie with you in your grave ; Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths, You should have been respective and have kept it... Gave it a judge's clerk 1 but w^ll I know The clerk will ne'er wear hair on 's face that had it. Gratiano. He will, an if he live to be a man. Nerissa. Ay, if a woman live to be a man. Gratiano, Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth, A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy, 160 No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk, A prating boy, that begg'd it as "a fee ; I could not for my heart deny it him. Portia, You were to blame,- 1 must be plain with you, To part so slightly with your wife's first gift ; A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger.
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