The Children's portion : entertaining, instructive and elevating stories (1895)
Shoppell, R. W. (Robert W.) · New York : The Christian Herald · leaf 44
—said, It iswell you wish this ]:)ehind her back. But Shylock was impatient to be revengedon his victim, and cried out that time wasbeing lost. So Portia asked if the scaleswere in readiness; and if some surgeonwere near, lest Antonio should bleed todeath. The Merchaiit of Venice. 49 It is not so… … ■But Portia bade hint tarry; there 7vas something more tohear. Portia bade him tarry ; there was some-thing more to hear. Though the law,indeed, gave him a pound of flesh, it didnot give him one single drop of blood ; andif, in cutting off the flesh, he shed one dropof Antonio\s blood, his…
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