The Merchant of Venice
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the harbour. So these tragical beginnings of this rich merchant's story were all forgotten in the unexpected good fortune which ensued; and there was leisure to laugh at the comical adventure of the rings, and the husbands that did not know their own wives: Gratiano merrily swearing, in a sort of rhyming speech, that
while he lived, he'd fear no other thing
So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
