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1  I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
2  Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
3  Three thousand ducats, 'tis a good round sum.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love, And I should be obscur'd.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
5  I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me, For I am much asham'd of my exchange.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
6  I know the hand, in faith 'tis a fair hand, And whiter than the paper it writ on Is the fair hand that writ.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
7  So do I answer you: The pound of flesh which I demand of him Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
8  I speak too long, but 'tis to peise the time, To eche it, and to draw it out in length, To stay you from election.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
10  Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchas'd by the weight, Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III