PLATE XXVIII.

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                   Act If. Scene V


         VENICE. BEFORE SHYLOCK'S HOUSE.


    SHYLOCK, 7ESSICA, and LAUNCELOT.


 Sltylock.-What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
And the vile squealing of the wry-~eck'd fife,
Clamber not you up to the casements then,
Nor thrust your head into the public street
To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
My sober house.


           Painted by ROBERT SMIRKE, R. A.

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