ACT I.
I. 1 Scene I.
Enter Duke, , Gaoler, , and other Attendants.
Æge. Proceed, , to procure my fall,
And by the doom of death end woes and all.
Duke. Merchant of Syracusa, plead no more;
I am not partial to infringe our laws:
The enmity and discord which of late
5 Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke
To merchants, our well-dealing countrymen,
Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives,
Have seal’d his...
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