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1  Why, that's the lady, all the world desires her.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  I desire no more delight Than to be under sail and gone tonight.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
3  Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
4  Indeed the short and the long is, I serve the Jew, and have a desire, as my father shall specify.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
5  I do desire you Not to deny this imposition, The which my love and some necessity Now lays upon you.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  See these letters delivered, put the liveries to making, and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
7  I humbly do desire your Grace of pardon, I must away this night toward Padua, And it is meet I presently set forth.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
8  I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
9  Thy currish spirit Govern'd a wolf who, hang'd for human slaughter, Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet, And whilst thou layest in thy unhallowed dam, Infus'd itself in thee; for thy desires Are wolfish, bloody, starv'd and ravenous.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV