Main Event
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Bassanio visits Antonio and tries to borrow money from him, in order to travel to Belmont to court the beautiful and wealthy Portia.
- "O my Antonio, had I but the means
To hold a rival place with one of them,
I have a mind presages me such thrift
That I should questionless be fortunate!" (1.1.173-176)