1 I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.
2 Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
3 And you must cut this flesh from off his breast.
4 I'll be sworn if thou be Launcelet, thou art mine own flesh and blood.
5 A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine, The court awards it and the law doth give it.
6 So do I answer you: The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.'
7 These griefs and losses have so bated me That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh Tomorrow to my bloody creditor.
8 Why, this bond is forfeit, And lawfully by this the Jew may claim A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off Nearest the merchant's heart.
9 There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there is between red wine and Rhenish.
10 When I was with him, I have heard him swear To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen, That he would rather have Antonio's flesh Than twenty times the value of the sum That he did owe him.
11 Go with me to a notary, seal me there Your single bond; and in a merry sport, If you repay me not on such a day, In such a place, such sum or sums as are Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit Be nominated for an equal pound Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken In what part of your body pleaseth me.