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This letter from Bellario doth commend A young and learned doctor to our court. Where is he? Nerissa. He attendeth here hard by, To know your answer, whether you'll admit him. Duke. With all my heart. Some three or four of you Go give him courteous conduct to this place. Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.
The duke marveled at the extremely youthful appearance of this stranger, but granted Bellario's request; and Portia, disguised in flowing robes and large wig, gazed round the court, where she saw Bassanio standing beside his friend.
"Angela Angela," pleaded the tender voice, "do you forget that afternoon at the play, and how you wept over Bellario's fidelity the fond girl-page who followed him she loved; risked name and virtue; counted not the cost, in that large simplicity of love which gives all it has to give, unquestioning? Remember Bellario."
But the money-lender's only answer was "If every ducat in six thousand ducats, Were in six parts, and every part a ducat, I would not draw them, I would have my bond." It was then that Portia arrived in her disguise, and not even her own husband knew her. The Duke gave her welcome on account of the great Bellario's introduction, and left the settlement of the case to her.
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