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Swift footed Time

Summary:

I saw someone do this with Hamlet for a school project and we've just finished The Merchant of Venice so I gave it a try and i was really happy with how it turned out.
I took lines from other Shakespeare plays and made a scene. This one is meant to go before Bassanio and Shylock start arguing in Act 4 scene 1, in the court scene. It's a conversation between Antonio and Bassanio.
No beta we die like Shylock's wife

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

Work Text:

ANTONIO: Swift footed Time
How many years a mortal man may live?
O God! Methinks it were a happy life
No enemy
But winter and rough weather
Blow winds! Crack your cheeks!
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain
Love is all truth

BASSANIO: You'd be so lean that blasts of January
Would blow you through and through
The appetite may sicken and die?

ANTONIO: The Jew sees more devils than vast hell can hold

BASSANIO (tearful): And pay the debt I never promised?

ANTONIO: I will answer it straight, I have done all this
More I could tell but more I dare not say
Consider it not so deeply
I love you now
I may slumber an eternal sleep
So may you miss me
If thou entertainest my love
And not before

Notes:

Swift footed Time - Sonnet 19
How many years a mortal man may live - Henry VI, Part 3 Act 2 Scene 5
O God! Methinks it were a happy life - Henry VI, Part 3 Act 2 Scene 5
No enemy / But winter and rough weather - As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 5
Blow winds! Crack your cheeks! - King Lear, Act 3 Scene 2
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain - Venus and Adonis, Line 799
Love is all truth - Venus and Adonis, Line 804
You'd be so lean that blasts of January
Would blow you through and through - The Winters Tale, Act 4 Scene 4
The appetite may sicken and die? - Twelfth Night, Act 1 Scene 5
The Jew - The Merchant of Venice, Act 2 Scene 2
sees more devils than vast hell can hold - A Midsummer night's Dream, Act 5 Scene 1
And pay the debt I never promised? - Henry IV, Part 1 Act 1 Scene 2
I will answer it straight, I have done all this - The Winter's Tale, Act 4 Scene 4
More I could tell but more I dare not say - Venis and Adonis, Line 805
Consider it not so deeply - Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
I love you now - Troilus and Cressida, Act 3 Scene 4
I may slumber an eternal sleep - Titus Andronucis, Act 2 Scene 4
So may you miss me - The Merchant of Venice, Act 3 Scene 2
If thou entertainest my love - Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 5
And not before - The Taming of The Shrew, Act 1 Scene 2