The Merchant of Venice recorded Performance

Bassanio:

Why I were best to cut my left hand off

And swear I lost the ring defending it.

Gratianio:

My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away

Unto the judge that begged it, and indeed

Deserved it, too. And then, the boy, his clerk

That took some pains in writing, begged mine,

And neither man nor master would take aught

But the two rings

Portia:

What ring gave you my lord?

Not that, I hope, which you received of me.

Bassanio:

If I could add a lie unto my fault,

I would deny it, but you see my finger

Hath not the ring upon it. It is gone.

Portia:

Even so void is your false heart of truth.

By heaven, I will ne’er come in your bed

Until I see the ring!

Nerissa: (to Gratianio) Nor I in yours

Till I again see mine!

Bassanio: Sweet Portia,

If you did know to whom I gave the ring

If you did know for whom I gave the ring

And would conceive for what I gave the ring

And how unwillingly I left the ring

When naught would be accepted but the ring

You would abate the strength of your displeasure

Portia:

If you had known the virtue of the ring,

Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,

Or your own honor to contain the ring,

You would not then have parted with the ring.

What man is there so much unreasonable,

If you had pleased to have defended it

With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty

To urge the thing held as a ceremony?

Nerissa teaches me what to believe:

I’ll die for’t, but some woman hath the ring!

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Gratianio:

….

Well, while I live, I’ll fear no other thing

So sore as keeping safe Nerissa’s ring!

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