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1  Your worship's friend, and Launcelet, sir.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
2  But let me hear the letter of your friend.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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3  When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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4  Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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5  Ere I ope his letter, I pray you tell me how my good friend doth.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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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
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7  I would have stay'd till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not prevented me.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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8  Repent but you that you shall lose your friend And he repents not that he pays your debt.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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9  Some dear friend dead, else nothing in the world Could turn so much the constitution Of any constant man.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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10  I would entreat you rather to put on Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends That purpose merriment.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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11  Here is a letter, lady, The paper as the body of my friend, And every word in it a gaping wound Issuing life-blood.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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12  Double six thousand, and then treble that, Before a friend of this description Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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13  Shylock, albeit I neither lend nor borrow By taking nor by giving of excess, Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend, I'll break a custom.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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14  The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best condition'd and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies, and one in whom The ancient Roman honour more appears Than any that draws breath in Italy.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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15  When I told you My state was nothing, I should then have told you That I was worse than nothing; for indeed I have engag'd myself to a dear friend, Engag'd my friend to his mere enemy, To feed my means.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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16  Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted Of grievous penalties, in lieu whereof, Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
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17  No, by my honour, madam, by my soul, No woman had it, but a civil doctor, Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me, And begg'd the ring, the which I did deny him, And suffer'd him to go displeas'd away, Even he that had held up the very life Of my dear friend.
The Merchant of Venice By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
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