Monologue

Portia Monologue from The Merchant of Venice

From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

female · defiant · 57 sec

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I thank you for your wish, and am well pleas’d To wish it back on you. Fare you well, Jessica. (Exeunt Jessica and Lorenzo.) Now, Balthazar, As I have ever found thee honest-true, So let me find thee still. Take this same letter, And use thou all th’ endeavour of a man In speed to Padua, see thou render this Into my cousin’s hands, Doctor Bellario; And look what notes and garments he doth give thee, Bring them, I pray thee, with imagin’d speed Unto the traject, to the common ferry Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words, But get thee gone. I shall be there before thee.

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Portia is instructing Balthazar to deliver an important letter to Doctor Bellario in Padua, showing her trust in him and her determination to act swiftly.

20s · determination · trust · family · honor

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