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1  I have a wife who I protest I love.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
2  When I am absent, then lie with my wife.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
3  With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
4  Even such a husband Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
5  Let his deservings and my love withal Be valued 'gainst your wife's commandment.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
6  First go with me to church and call me wife, And then away to Venice to your friend.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  Your wife would give you little thanks for that If she were by to hear you make the offer.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
8  Take what wife you will to bed, I will ever be your head: So be gone; you are sped.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
9  O Lorenzo, If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife, Become a Christian and thy loving wife.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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10  Now, in faith, Gratiano, You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief, An 'twere to me I should be mad at it.'
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
11  I know not what I shall think of that; but I am Launcelet, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your wife is my mother.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
12  Commend me to your honourable wife, Tell her the process of Antonio's end, Say how I lov'd you, speak me fair in death.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
13  Let me give light, but let me not be light, For a light wife doth make a heavy husband, And never be Bassanio so for me.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
14  Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife, And when she put it on, she made me vow That I should neither sell, nor give, nor lose it.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
15  And if your wife be not a mad-woman, And know how well I have deserv'd this ring, She would not hold out enemy for ever For giving it to me.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
16  Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself, But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem'd above thy life.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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17  But if my father had not scanted me And hedg'd me by his wit to yield myself His wife who wins me by that means I told you, Yourself, renowned Prince, then stood as fair As any comer I have look'd on yet For my affection.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
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