206. That’s an excuse many men use to avoid giving gifts.
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PORTIA That ’scuse serves many men to save their gifts.206 An if207 your wife be not a madwoman, And know how well I have deserved this ring, She would not hold out enemy208 for ever For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!
Exeunt PORTIA and NERISSA. 450 209. instructions
ANTONIO My lord Bassanio, let him have the ring. Let his deservings and my love withal Be valued ’gainst your wife’s commandement.209
BASSANIO Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him. Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst, Unto Antonio’s house. Away, make haste.
Exit GRATIANO. 210. go there 455
Come, you and I will thither210 presently, And in the morning early will we both Fly toward Belmont. Come, Antonio.