Re-Ask Question re: 'pound of flesh'

[maj]

As per the responses to my previously posted question 'pound of flesh' - It wasn't a properly posited question. My question is what's the exact phrase or saying that has something to do with 'pound of flesh?' Thanks for the previous replies.

[Quizmonster]

"If you repay me not on such a day, in such a place, such sum or sums as are express'd in the condition, let the forfeit be nominated for an equal pound of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken in what part of your body pleases me." That is the quote - from Shylock - that first refers to the 'pound of flesh' pledge. There are, of course, later references to it in the play.

[mikewith]

The phrase is used to paraphradsed several times in The Merchant of Venice, most concisely when Portia delivers the ruling referred to in the previous answer (Act IV, Scene I):

This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;
But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate
Unto the state of Venice.

Source: Bill Shakespeare! http://the-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/merchant/full.
html

[mikewith]

Oh, hello Quizmonster, didn't see you there!