. And you must cut this flesh from off his breast!

The law allows it, and the court awards it.

Shy

. Most learned judge!—A sentence; come, prepare.

Por

. 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:

Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;

But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed