A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine

Portia, as Balthazar
A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine:
The court awards it, and the law doth give it.
Shylock
Most rightful judge!
Portia, as Balthazar
And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
The law allows it, and the court awards it.

Thyself shalt see the act.
For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir’st.

Shylock
Most learnèd judge! A sentence!—Come, prepare.
Portia, as Balthazar
Tarry a little. There is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood.
The words expressly are “a pound of flesh.”
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,
But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are by the laws of Venice confiscate
Unto the state of Venice.
Gratiano
O upright judge!—Mark, Jew.—O learnèd judge!
Shylock
Is that the law?
Portia, as Balthazar
Thyself shalt see the act.
For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
Thou shalt have justice more than thou desir’st.
Gratiano
O learnèd judge!—Mark, Jew, a learnèd judge!
Shylock
I take this offer then. Pay the bond thrice
And let the Christian go.
Bassanio
Here is the money.
Portia, as Balthazar
Soft! The Jew shall have all justice. Soft, no haste!
He shall have nothing but the penalty.
Gratiano
O Jew, an upright judge, a learnèd judge!
Portia, as Balthazar
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.
Gratiano
A second Daniel! A Daniel, Jew!
Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.