Question

Q1. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
SHYLOCK: Three thousand ducats for three month, and Antonio bound.
BASSANIO: Your answer to that.
SHYLOCK: Antonio is a good man.
BASSANIO: Have you heard any imputation to the contrary?
SHYLOCK:
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Ho, no, no, no, no; my meaning in saying he is a
good man is to have you understand me that he is
sufficient. Yet his means are in supposition. He
hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the
Indies; I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he
hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England,
and, other ventures he hath squandered abroad. But ships
are but boards, sailors but men: there be lands - rats
and water - rats, water-thieves and land - thieves - I
mean pirates, and then there is the peril of waters,
winds, and rocks. The man is notwithstanding
sufficient. Three thousand ducats, I think I may
take his bond,
1 - what is occasion for the dialogue in the given extract​

Answer 1

Answer:

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