[321] But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut’st more
[322] Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
[323] As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
[324] Or the division of the twentieth part
[325] 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.
Gra. A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
[329] Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.
[330] Por. Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.