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jlgloverComment by HarveyG: Por: Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
Shed thou no blood;
nor cut thou less, nor more,
But just a pound of flesh: if thou tak'st more,
Or less, than a just pound, be it but so much
As makes it light, or heavy, in the substance,
Or the division of the twentieth part
Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
But in the estimation of a hair,
Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
Act IV Scene I. Venice. A Court of Justice.
Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
