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    <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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      <castItem type="role"><role id="duke.">The DUKE OF VENICE</role></castItem>
      <castGroup>
        <head rend="braced"> suitors to Portia.</head>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="mor.">The PRINCE OF MOROCCO</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="ar.">The PRINCE OF ARRAGON</role></castItem>
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      <castItem type="role"><role id="ant.">ANTONIO</role><roleDesc>a merchant of Venice</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="bass.">BASSANIO</role><roleDesc>his friend; suitor likewise to Portia</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castGroup>
        <head rend="braced"> friends to Antonio and Bassanio.</head>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="salan.">SALANIO</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="salar.">SALARINO</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="gra.">GRATIANO</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="saler.">SALERIO</role></castItem>
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      <castItem type="role"><role id="lor.">LORENZO</role><roleDesc>in love with Jessica</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="shy.">SHYLOCK</role><roleDesc>a rich Jew</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="tub.">TUBAL</role><roleDesc>a Jew, his friend</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="laun.">LAUNCELOT GOBBO</role><roleDesc>the clown, servant to Shylock</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="gob.">OLD GOBBO</role><roleDesc>father to Launcelot</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="leon.">LEONARDO</role><roleDesc>servant to Bassanio</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castGroup>
        <head rend="braced"> servants to Portia.</head>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="balth.">BALTHASAR</role></castItem>
        <castItem type="role"><role id="steph.">STEPHANO</role></castItem>
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      <castItem type="role"><role id="por.">PORTIA</role><roleDesc>a rich heiress</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="ner.">NERISSA</role><roleDesc>her waiting-maid</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="jes.">JESSICA</role><roleDesc>daughter to Shylock</roleDesc></castItem>
      <castItem type="list"><role>All</role> <role>Magnificoes of Venice</role>, <role>Officers of the Court of Justice</role>, <role>Gaoler</role>, <role id="serv.">Servants to Portia</role> and <role>other Attendants.</role></castItem>
      <castItem type="role"><role id="all.">All.</role></castItem>
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    <stage type="scene">SCENE: Partly at Venice, and partly at Belmont, the seat of Portia, on the Continent.</stage>
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  <div1 type="act" n="1">
  <head>ACT I</head><lb ed="F1" n="2"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice.   A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="3"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SALANIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="4"/><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="5"/></l><l>It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="6"/></l><l>But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="7"/></l><l>What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="8"/></l><l>I am to learn;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And such a want-wit sadness makes of <lb ed="F1" n="9"/>me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="10"/></l><l>That I have much ado to know myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="11"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="12"/></l><l>There, where your argosies with portly sail,
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="13"/></l><l>Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="14"/></l><l>Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="15"/></l><l>Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="16"/></l><l>That curtsy to them, do them reverence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="17"/></l><l>As they fly by them with their woven wings.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="18"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="19"/></l><l>The better part of my affections would
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="20"/></l><l>Be with my hopes abroad.   I should be still
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="21"/></l><l>Plucking the grass, to know where sits the wind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="22"/></l><l>Peering in maps for ports and piers and roads;
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="23"/></l><l>And every object that might make me fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="24"/></l><l>Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="25"/></l><l part="I">Would make me sad.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="26"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="F">My wind cooling my broth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="27"/></l><l>Would blow me to an ague, when I thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="28"/></l><l>What harm a wind too great at sea might do.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="29"/></l><l>I should not see the sandy hour-glass run,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="30"/></l><l>But I should think of shallows and of flats,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="31"/></l><l>And see my wealthy Andrew dock'd in sand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="32"/></l><l>Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="33"/></l><l>To kiss her burial. Should I go to church
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="34"/></l><l>And see the holy edifice of stone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="35"/></l><l>And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="36"/></l><l>Which touching but my gentle vessel's side,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="37"/></l><l>Would scatter all her spices on the stream,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="38"/></l><l>Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="39"/></l><l>And, in a word, but even now worth this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="40"/></l><l>And now worth nothing?   Shall I have the thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="41"/></l><l>To think on this, and shall I lack the thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="42"/></l><l>That such a thing bechanced would make me sad?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="43"/></l><l>But tell not me; I know, Antonio
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="44"/></l><l>Is sad to think upon his merchandise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="45"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="46"/></l><l>My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="47"/></l><l>Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="48"/></l><l>Upon the fortune of this present year:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="49"/></l><l>Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="50"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="I">Why, then you are in love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="51"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Fie, fie!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="52"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Not in love neither?   Then let us say you are sad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="53"/></l><l>Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="54"/></l><l>For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="55"/></l><l>Because you are not sad.   Now, by two-headed Janus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="56"/></l><l>Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="57"/></l><l>Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="58"/></l><l>And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="59"/></l><l>And other of such vinegar aspect
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="60"/></l><l>That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="61"/></l><l>Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
<lb ed="F1" n="62"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO, and GRATIANO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="63"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>Here comes Bassanio, <lb ed="F1" n="64"/>your most noble kinsman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="65"/></l><l>Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="66"/></l><l>We leave you now with better company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="67"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l n="60">I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="68"/></l><l>If worthier friends had not prevented me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="69"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Your worth is very dear in my regard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="70"/></l><l>I take it, your own business calls on you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="71"/></l><l>And you embrace the occasion to depart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="72"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Good morrow, my good lords.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="73"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="74"/></l><l>You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="75"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>We'll make our leisures to attend on yours.
<lb ed="F1" n="76"/><stage>[Exeunt Salarino and Salanio. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="77"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="78"/></l><l>We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="79"/></l><l>I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="80"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>I will not fail you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="81"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>You look not well, Signior Antonio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="82"/></l><l>You have too much respect upon the world:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="83"/></l><l>They lose it that do buy it with much care:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="84"/></l><l>Believe me, you are marvellously changed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="85"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="86"/></l><l>A stage where every man must play a part,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="87"/></l><l part="I">And mine a sad one.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="88"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="F">Let me play the fool:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="89"/></l><l>With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="90"/></l><l>And let my liver rather heat with wine
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="91"/></l><l>Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="92"/></l><l>Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="93"/></l><l>Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="94"/></l><l>Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="95"/></l><l>By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="96"/></l><l>I love thee, and it is my love that speaks--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="97"/></l><l>There are a sort of men whose visages
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="98"/></l><l>Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="99"/></l><l>And do a wilful stillness entertain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="100"/></l><l>With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="101"/></l><l>Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="102"/></l><l>As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="103"/></l><l>And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="104"/></l><l>O my Antonio, I do know of these
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="105"/></l><l>That therefore only are reputed wise
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="106"/></l><l>For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="107"/></l><l>If they should speak, would almost damn those ears
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="108"/></l><l>Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="109"/></l><l>I'll tell thee more of this another time:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="110"/></l><l>But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="111"/></l><l>For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="112"/></l><l>Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="113"/></l><l>I'll end my exhortation after dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="114"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="115"/></l><l>I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="116"/></l><l>For Gratiano never lets me speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="117"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Well, keep me company but two years moe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="118"/></l><l>Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="119"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l n="110">Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this gear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="120"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Thanks, i' faith, for silence is only commendable
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="121"/></l><l>In a neat's tongue dried and a maid not vendible.
<stage>[Exeunt Gratiano and Lorenzo. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="122"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Is that any thing now?

<lb ed="F1" n="123"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of
<lb ed="G"/>nothing, <lb ed="F1" n="124"/>more than any man in all Venice.
<lb ed="G"/>His reasons are as two <lb ed="F1" n="125"/>grains of wheat hid in
<lb ed="G"/>two bushels of chaff: you shall <lb ed="F1" n="126"/>seek all day
<lb ed="G"/>ere you find them, and when you have them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="127"/><lb ed="G"/>they are not worth the search.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="128"/></p></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Well, tell me now what lady is the same
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="129"/></l><l>To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="130"/></l><l>That you to-day promised to tell me of?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="131"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="132"/></l><l>How much I have disabled mine estate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="133"/></l><l>By something showing a more swelling port
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="134"/></l><l>Than my faint means would grant continuance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="135"/></l><l>Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="136"/></l><l>From such a noble rate; but my chief care
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="137"/></l><l>Is to come fairly off from the great debts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="138"/></l><l>Wherein my time something too prodigal
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="139"/></l><l>Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="140"/></l><l>I owe the most, in money and in love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="141"/></l><l>And from your love I have a warranty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="142"/></l><l>To unburden all my plots and purposes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="143"/></l><l>How to get clear of all the debts I owe.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="144"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="145"/></l><l>And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="146"/></l><l>Within the eye of honor, be assured,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="147"/></l><l>My purse, my person, my extremest means,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="148"/></l><l>Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="149"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="140">In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="150"/></l><l>I shot his fellow of the self-same flight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="151"/></l><l>The self-same way with more advised watch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="152"/></l><l>To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="153"/></l><l>I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="154"/></l><l>Because what follows is pure innocence.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="155"/></l><l>I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="156"/></l><l>That which I owe is lost; but if you please
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="157"/></l><l>To shoot another arrow that self way
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="158"/></l><l>Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="159"/></l><l>As I will watch the aim, or to find both
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="160"/></l><l>Or bring your latter hazard back again
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="161"/></l><l>And thankfully rest debtor for the first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="162"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>You know me well, and herein spend but time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="163"/></l><l>To wind about my love with circumstance;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="164"/></l><l>And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="165"/></l><l>In making question of my uttermost
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="166"/></l><l>Than if you had made waste of all I have:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="167"/></l><l>Then do but say to me what I should do
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="168"/></l><l>That in your knowledge may by me be done,
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="169"/></l><l>And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="170"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>In Belmont is a lady richly left;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="171"/></l><l>And she is fair, and, fairer than that word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="172"/></l><l>Of wondrous virtues: sometimes from her eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="173"/></l><l>I did receive fair speechless messages:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="174"/></l><l>Her name is Portia, nothing undervalued
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="175"/></l><l>To Cato's daughter, Brutus' Portia:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="176"/></l><l>Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="177"/></l><l>For the four winds blow in from every coast
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="178"/></l><l>Renowned suitors, and her sunny locks
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="179"/></l><l>Hang on her temples like a golden fleece;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="180"/></l><l>Which makes her seat of Belmont Colchos' strand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="181"/></l><l>And many Jasons come in quest of her.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="182"/></l><l>O my Antonio, had I but the means
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="183"/></l><l>To hold a rival place with one of them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="184"/></l><l>I have a mind presages me such thrift,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="185"/></l><l>That I should questionless be fortunate!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="186"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="187"/></l><l>Neither have I money nor commodity
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="188"/></l><l>To raise a present sum: therefore go forth;
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="189"/></l><l>Try what my credit can in Venice do:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="190"/></l><l>That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="191"/></l><l>To furnish thee to Belmont, to fair Portia.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="192"/></l><l>Go, presently inquire, and so will I,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="193"/></l><l>Where money is, and I no question make
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="194"/></l><l>To have it of my trust or for my sake.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont.   A room in PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="195"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PORTIA and NERISSA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="196"/><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>By my troth, Nerissa, my little body
<lb ed="G"/>is aweary <lb ed="F1" n="197"/>of this great world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="198"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>You would be, sweet madam, if your
<lb ed="G"/>miseries <lb ed="F1" n="199"/>were in the same abundance as your
<lb ed="G"/>good fortunes are: <lb ed="F1" n="200"/>and yet, for aught I see,
<lb ed="G"/>they are as sick that surfeit with <lb ed="F1" n="201"/>too much as
<lb ed="G"/>they that starve with nothing.   It is no mean
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="202"/><lb ed="G"/>happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean:
<lb ed="G"/>superfluity <lb ed="F1" n="203"/>comes sooner by white hairs, but
<lb ed="G" n="10"/>competency <lb ed="F1" n="204"/>lives longer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="205"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>Good sentences and well pronounced.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="206"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>They would be better, if well followed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="207"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>If to do were as easy as to know what
<lb ed="G"/>were <lb ed="F1" n="208"/>good to do, chapels had been churches
<lb ed="G"/>and poor <lb ed="F1" n="209"/>men's cottages princes' palaces.   It
<lb ed="G"/>is a good divine that <lb ed="F1" n="210"/>follows his own instructions:
<lb ed="G"/>I can easier teach twenty <lb ed="F1" n="211"/>what were
<lb ed="G"/>good to be done, than be one of the twenty <lb ed="F1" n="212"/>to
<lb ed="G"/>follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="213"/><lb ed="G"/>laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps
<lb ed="G"/>o'er a <lb ed="F1" n="214"/>cold decree: such a hare is madness the
<lb ed="G"/>youth, to skip <lb ed="F1" n="215"/>o'er the meshes of good counsel
<lb ed="G"/>the cripple. But this <lb ed="F1" n="216"/>reasoning is not in the
<lb ed="G"/>fashion to choose me a husband. O me, <lb ed="F1" n="217"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>word 'choose!' I may neither choose whom I
<lb ed="G"/>would <lb ed="F1" n="218"/>nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will
<lb ed="G"/>of a living daughter <lb ed="F1" n="219"/>curbed by the will of a
<lb ed="G"/>dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, <lb ed="F1" n="220"/>that I
<lb ed="G" n="29"/>cannot choose one nor refuse none?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="221"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>Your father was ever virtuous; and
<lb ed="G"/>holy men <lb ed="F1" n="222"/>at their death have good inspirations:
<lb ed="G"/>therefore the lottery, <lb ed="F1" n="223"/>that he hath devised
<lb ed="G"/>in these three chests of gold, <lb ed="F1" n="224"/>silver, and
<lb ed="G"/>lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="225"/><lb ed="G"/>chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen
<lb ed="G"/>by any rightly <lb ed="F1" n="226"/>but one who shall rightly love.
<lb ed="G"/>But what warmth <lb ed="F1" n="227"/>is there in your affection towards
<lb ed="G"/>any of these princely <lb ed="F1" n="228"/>suitors that are
<lb ed="G"/>already come?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="229"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>I pray thee, over-name them; and as
<lb ed="G"/>thou namest <lb ed="F1" n="230"/>them, I will describe them; and,
<lb ed="G"/>according to my description, <lb ed="F1" n="231"/>level at my affection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="232"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>First, there is the Neapolitan prince.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="233"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>Ay, that's a colt indeed, for he doth
<lb ed="G"/>nothing but <lb ed="F1" n="234"/>talk of his horse; and he makes it
<lb ed="G"/>a great appropriation <lb ed="F1" n="235"/>to his own good parts,
<lb ed="G"/>that he can shoe him himself.   <lb ed="F1" n="236"/>I am much
<lb ed="G"/>afeard my lady his mother played false <lb ed="F1" n="237"/>with a
<lb ed="G"/>smith.

<lb ed="G" n="49"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="238"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>Then there is the County Palatine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="239"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>He doth nothing but frown, as who
<lb ed="G"/>should <lb ed="F1" n="240"/>say 'If you will not have me, choose:'
<lb ed="G"/>he hears merry <lb ed="F1" n="241"/>tales and smiles not: I fear he
<lb ed="G"/>will prove the weeping <lb ed="F1" n="242"/>philosopher when he
<lb ed="G"/>grows old, being so full of unmannerly <lb ed="F1" n="243"/>sadness
<lb ed="G"/>in his youth. I had rather be married <lb ed="F1" n="244"/>to
<lb ed="G"/>a death's-head with a bone in his mouth than
<lb ed="G"/>to either <lb ed="F1" n="245"/>of these.   God defend me from these
<lb ed="G"/>two!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="246"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>How say you by the French lord,
<lb ed="G" n="59"/>Monsieur <lb ed="F1" n="247"/>Le Bon?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="248"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>God made him, and therefore let him
<lb ed="G"/>pass for a <lb ed="F1" n="249"/>man. In truth, I know it is a sin to
<lb ed="G"/>be a mocker: but, he! <lb ed="F1" n="250"/>why, he hath a horse
<lb ed="G"/>better than the Neapolitan's, a better <lb ed="F1" n="251"/>bad
<lb ed="G"/>habit of frowning than the Count Palatine; he
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="252"/><lb ed="G"/>is every man in no man; if a throstle sing, he
<lb ed="G"/>falls straight <lb ed="F1" n="253"/>a capering: he will fence with
<lb ed="G"/>his own shadow: if I should <lb ed="F1" n="254"/>marry him, I
<lb ed="G"/>should marry twenty husbands. If he <lb ed="F1" n="255"/>would
<lb ed="G"/>despise me I would forgive him, for if he love
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>me <lb ed="F1" n="256"/>to madness, I shall never requite him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="257"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>What say you, then, to Falconbridge,
<lb ed="G"/>the young <lb ed="F1" n="258"/>baron of England?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="259"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>You know I say nothing to him, for
<lb ed="G"/>he understands <lb ed="F1" n="260"/>not me, nor I him: he hath
<lb ed="G"/>neither Latin, French, <lb ed="F1" n="261"/>nor Italian, and you
<lb ed="G"/>will come into the court and swear <lb ed="F1" n="262"/>that I have
<lb ed="G"/>a poor pennyworth in the English.   He is a
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="263"/><lb ed="G"/>proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse
<lb ed="G"/>with a <lb ed="F1" n="264"/>dumb-show?   How oddly he is
<lb ed="G"/>suited!   I think he bought <lb ed="F1" n="265"/>his doublet in Italy,
<lb ed="G"/>his round hose in France, his bonnet <lb ed="F1" n="266"/>in Germany
<lb ed="G"/>and his behavior every where.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="267"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>What think you of the Scottish lord,
<lb ed="G"/>his <lb ed="F1" n="268"/>neighbor?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="269"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>That he hath a neighborly charity in
<lb ed="G"/>him, for <lb ed="F1" n="270"/>he borrowed a box of the ear of the
<lb ed="G"/>Englishman and <lb ed="F1" n="271"/>swore he would pay him
<lb ed="G"/>again when he was able: I <lb ed="F1" n="272"/>think the Frenchman
<lb ed="G"/>became his surety and sealed under <lb ed="F1" n="273"/>for
<lb ed="G"/>another.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="274"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>How like you the young German, the
<lb ed="G" n="91"/>Duke of <lb ed="F1" n="275"/>Saxony's nephew?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="276"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>Very vilely in the morning, when he
<lb ed="G"/>is sober, <lb ed="F1" n="277"/>and most vilely in the afternoon,
<lb ed="G"/>when he is drunk: <lb ed="F1" n="278"/>when he is best, he is a
<lb ed="G"/>little worse than a man, and when <lb ed="F1" n="279"/>he is worst,
<lb ed="G"/>he is little better than a beast: and the worst
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="280"/><lb ed="G"/>fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift
<lb ed="G"/>to go without <lb ed="F1" n="281"/>him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="282"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>If he should offer to choose, and
<lb ed="G"/>choose the right <lb ed="F1" n="283"/>casket, you should refuse to
<lb ed="G"/>perform your father's will, <lb ed="F1" n="284"/>if you should refuse
<lb ed="G"/>to accept him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="285"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>Therefore, for fear of the worst, I
<lb ed="G"/>pray thee, set <lb ed="F1" n="286"/>a deep glass of rhenish wine on
<lb ed="G"/>the contrary casket, <lb ed="F1" n="287"/>for if the devil be within
<lb ed="G"/>and that temptation without, <lb ed="F1" n="288"/>I know he will
<lb ed="G"/>choose it. I will do any thing, Nerissa, <lb ed="F1" n="289"/>ere I'll
<lb ed="G"/>be married to a sponge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="290"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>You need not fear, lady, the having
<lb ed="G"/>any of <lb ed="F1" n="291"/>these lords: they have acquainted me
<lb ed="G"/>with their determinations; <lb ed="F1" n="292"/>which is, indeed,
<lb ed="G"/>to return to their home <lb ed="F1" n="293"/>and to trouble you
<lb ed="G"/>with no more suit, unless you may <lb ed="F1" n="294"/>be won by
<lb ed="G"/>some other sort than your father's imposition
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="295"/><lb ed="G"/>depending on the caskets.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="296"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will
<lb ed="G"/>die as <lb ed="F1" n="297"/>chaste as Diana, unless I be obtained by
<lb ed="G"/>the manner <lb ed="F1" n="298"/>of my father's will.   I am glad this
<lb ed="G"/>parcel of wooers <lb ed="F1" n="299"/>are so reasonable, for there
<lb ed="G"/>is not one among them but <lb ed="F1" n="300"/>I dote on his very
<lb ed="G"/>absence, and I pray God grant them a fair <lb ed="F1" n="301"/>departure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="302"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>Do you not remember, lady, in your
<lb ed="G"/>father's <lb ed="F1" n="303"/>time, a Venetian, a scholar and a
<lb ed="G"/>soldier, that <lb ed="F1" n="304"/>came hither in company of the
<lb ed="G"/>Marquis of <lb ed="F1" n="305"/>Montferrat?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="306"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>Yes, yes, it was Bassanio; as I think,
<lb ed="G"/>he was so <lb ed="F1" n="307"/>called.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="308"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><p>True, madam: he, of all the men that
<lb ed="G"/>ever my <lb ed="F1" n="309"/>foolish eyes looked upon, was the best
<lb ed="G" n="131"/>deserving a fair <lb ed="F1" n="310"/>lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="311"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>I remember him well, and I remember
<lb ed="G"/>him worthy <lb ed="F1" n="312"/>of thy praise.
<lb ed="F1" n="313"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Serving-man.</stage> How now! what news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="314"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>The four strangers seek for you,
<lb ed="G"/>madam, to take <lb ed="F1" n="315"/>their leave: and there is a
<lb ed="G"/>forerunner come from a fifth, <lb ed="F1" n="316"/>the Prince of
<lb ed="G"/>Morocco, who brings word the prince his
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="317"/><lb ed="G" n="139"/>master will be here to-night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="318"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><p>If I could bid the fifth welcome with
<lb ed="G"/>so good a <lb ed="F1" n="319"/>heart as I can bid the other four
<lb ed="G"/>farewell, I should be <lb ed="F1" n="320"/>glad of his approach: if
<lb ed="G"/>he have the condition of a saint <lb ed="F1" n="321"/>and the complexion
<lb ed="G"/>of a devil, I had rather he should
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="322"/><lb ed="G"/>shrive me than wive me.
<lb ed="G"/>Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="323"/><lb ed="G"/>Whiles we shut the gates upon one wooer, another
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="324"/><lb ed="G"/>knocks at the'door.
<stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A public place. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="325"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="326"/><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Three thousand ducats; well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="327"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Ay, sir, for three months.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="328"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>For three months; well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="329"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>For the which, as I told you, <lb ed="F1" n="330"/>Antonio
<lb ed="G"/>shall be bound.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="331"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Antonio shall become bound; well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="332"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>May you stead me? will you pleasure
<lb ed="G"/>me? <lb ed="F1" n="333"/>shall I know your answer?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="334"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Three thousand ducats for three
<lb ed="G" n="10"/>months <lb ed="F1" n="335"/>and Antonio bound.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="336"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Your answer to that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="337"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Antonio is a good man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="338"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Have you heard any imputation to
<lb ed="G"/>the <lb ed="F1" n="339"/>contrary?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="340"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Oh, no, no, no, no: my meaning in
<lb ed="G"/>saying he is a <lb ed="F1" n="341"/>good man is to have you understand
<lb ed="G"/>me that he is sufficient.   <lb ed="F1" n="342"/>Yet his means
<lb ed="G"/>are in supposition: he hath an argosy <lb ed="F1" n="343"/>bound
<lb ed="G"/>to Tripolis, another to the Indies; I understand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="344"/><lb ed="G"/>moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a
<lb ed="G"/>third at Mexico, <lb ed="F1" n="345"/>a fourth for England, and
<lb ed="G"/>other ventures he hath, <lb ed="F1" n="346"/>squandered abroad.
<lb ed="G"/>But ships are but boards, sailors but <lb ed="F1" n="347"/>men:
<lb ed="G"/>there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="348"/><lb ed="G"/>and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and then
<lb ed="G"/>there is the <lb ed="F1" n="349"/>peril of waters, winds and rocks.
<lb ed="G"/>The man is, notwithstanding, <lb ed="F1" n="350"/>sufficient. Three
<lb ed="G"/>thousand ducats; I think I may <lb ed="F1" n="351"/>take his bond.

<lb ed="G" n="29"/><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="352"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Be assured you may.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="353"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>I will be assured I may; and, that I
<lb ed="G"/>may be assured, <lb ed="F1" n="354"/>I will bethink me. May I
<lb ed="G"/>speak with <lb ed="F1" n="355"/>Antonio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="356"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>If it please you to dine with us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="357"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="358"/><lb ed="G"/>which your prophet the Nazarite conjured
<lb ed="G"/>the devil <lb ed="F1" n="359"/>into. I will buy with you, sell
<lb ed="G"/>with you, talk with <lb ed="F1" n="360"/>you, walk with you, and so
<lb ed="G"/>following, but I will <lb ed="F1" n="361"/>not eat with you, drink
<lb ed="G"/>with you, nor pray with you. <lb ed="F1" n="362"/>What news on the
<lb ed="G" n="40"/>Rialto? Who is he comes here?
<lb ed="F1" n="363"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ANTONIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="364"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>This is Signior Antonio.
</p></sp>
<sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="365"/><l>How like a fawning publican he looks!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="366"/></l><l>I hate him for he is a Christian,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="367"/></l><l>But more for that in low simplicity
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="368"/></l><l>He lends out money gratis and brings down
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="369"/></l><l>The rate of usance here with us in Venice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="370"/></l><l>If I can catch him once upon the hip,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="371"/></l><l>I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="372"/></l><l>He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="373"/></l><l>Even there where merchants most do congregate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="374"/></l><l>On me, my bargains and my well-won thrift,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="375"/></l><l>Which he calls interest. Cursed be my tribe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="376"/></l><l part="I">If I forgive him!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="377"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Shylock, do you hear?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="378"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I am debating of my present store,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="379"/></l><l>And, by the near guess of my memory,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="380"/></l><l>I cannot instantly raise up the gross
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="381"/></l><l>Of full three thousand ducats. What of that?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="382"/></l><l>Tubal, a wealthy Hebrew of my tribe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="383"/></l><l>Will furnish me. But soft! how many months
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="384"/></l><l>Do you desire?  <stage>[To Ant.]</stage> Rest you fair, good signior;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="385"/></l><l>Your worship was the last man in our mouths.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="386"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Shylock, although I neither lend nor borrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="387"/></l><l>By taking nor by giving of excess,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="388"/></l><l>Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="389"/></l><l>I'll break a custom. Is he yet possess'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="390"/></l><l part="I">How much ye would?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="391"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="392"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>And for three months.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="393"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I had forgot; three months; you told me so.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="394"/></l><l>Well then, your bond; and let me see; but hear you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="395"/></l><l>Methought you said you neither lend nor borrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="396"/></l><l part="I">Upon advantage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="397"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I do never use it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="398"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>When Jacob grazed his uncle Laban's sheep--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="399"/></l><l>This Jacob from our holy Abram was,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="400"/></l><l>As his wise mother wrought in his behalf,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="401"/></l><l>The third possessor; ay, he was the third--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="402"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>And what of him? did he take interest?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="403"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>No, not take interest, not, as you would say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="404"/></l><l>Directly interest: mark what Jacob did.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="405"/></l><l>When Laban and himself were compromised
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="406"/></l><l>That all the eanlings which were streak'd and pied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="407"/></l><l>Should fall as Jacob's hire, the ewes, being rank,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="408"/></l><l>In the end of autumn turned to the rams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="409"/></l><l>And, when the work of generation was
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="410"/></l><l>Between these woolly breeders in the act,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="411"/></l><l>The skilful shepherd peel'd me certain wands
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="412"/></l><l>And, in the doing of the deed of kind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="413"/></l><l>He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="414"/></l><l>Who then conceiving did in eaning time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="415"/></l><l>Fall parti-color'd lambs, and those were Jacob's.
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="416"/></l><l>This was a way to thrive, and he was blest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="417"/></l><l>And thrift is blessing, if men steal it not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="418"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="419"/></l><l>A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="420"/></l><l>But sway'd and fashion'd by the hand of heaven.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="421"/></l><l>Was this inserted to make interest good?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="422"/></l><l>Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="423"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="424"/></l><l part="I">But note me, signior.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="425"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Mark you this, Bassanio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="426"/></l><l>The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
<lb ed="G" n="100"/><lb ed="F1" n="427"/></l><l>An evil soul producing holy witness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="428"/></l><l>Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="429"/></l><l>A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="430"/></l><l>O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="431"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Three thousand ducats; 'tis a good round sum.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="432"/></l><l>Three months from twelve; then, let me see; the rate--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="433"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="434"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Signior Antonio, many a time and oft
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="435"/></l><l>In the Rialto you have rated me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="436"/></l><l>About my moneys and my usances:
<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="437"/></l><l>Still have I borne it with a patient shrug,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="438"/></l><l>For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="439"/></l><l>You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="440"/></l><l>And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="441"/></l><l>And all for use of that which is mine own.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="442"/></l><l>Well then, it now appears you need my help:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="443"/></l><l>Go to, then; you come to me, and you say
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="444"/></l><l>'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="445"/></l><l>You, that did void your rheum upon my beard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="446"/></l><l>And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="447"/></l><l>Over your threshold: moneys is your suit.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="448"/></l><l>What should I say to you? Should I not say
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="449"/></l><l>'Hath a dog money? is it possible
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="450"/></l><l>A cur can lend three thousand ducats?' Or
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="451"/></l><l>Shall I bend low and in a bondman's key,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="452"/></l><l>With bated breath and whispering humbleness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="453"/></l><l>Say this;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>'Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="454"/></l><l>You spurn'd me such a day; another time
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="455"/></l><l>You call'd me dog; and for these courtesies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="456"/></l><l>I'll lend you thus much moneys'?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="457"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I am as like to call thee so again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="458"/></l><l>To spit on thee again, to spurn thee too.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="459"/></l><l>If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="460"/></l><l>As to thy friends; for when did friendship take
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="461"/></l><l>A breed for barren metal of his friend?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="462"/></l><l>But lend it rather to thine enemy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="463"/></l><l>Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="464"/></l><l part="I">Exact the penalty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="465"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">Why, look you, how you storm!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="466"/></l><l>I would be friends with you and have your love,
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="467"/></l><l>Forget the shames that you have stain'd me with,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="468"/></l><l>Supply your present wants and take no doit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="469"/></l><l>Of usance for my moneys, and you'll not hear me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="470"/></l><l>This is kind I offer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="471"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="I">This were kindness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="472"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">This kindness will I show.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="473"/></l><l>Go with me to a notary, seal me there
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="474"/></l><l>Your single bond; and, in a merry sport,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="475"/></l><l>If you repay me not on such a day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="476"/></l><l>In such a place, such sum or sums as are
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="477"/></l><l>Express'd in the condition, let the forfeit
<lb ed="G" n="150"/><lb ed="F1" n="478"/></l><l>Be nominated for an equal pound
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="479"/></l><l>Of your fair flesh, to be cut off and taken
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="480"/></l><l>In what part of your body pleaseth me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="481"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Content, i' faith; I'll seal to such a bond
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="482"/></l><l>And say there is much kindness in the Jew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="483"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>You shall not seal to such a bond for me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="484"/></l><l>I'll rather dwell in my necessity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="485"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Why, fear not, man; I will not forfeit it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="486"/></l><l>Within these two months, that's a month before
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="487"/></l><l>This bond expires, I do expect return
<lb ed="G" n="160"/><lb ed="F1" n="488"/></l><l>Of thrice three times the value of this bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="489"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>O father Abram, what these Christians are,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="490"/></l><l>Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="491"/></l><l>The thoughts of others! Pray you, tell me this;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="492"/></l><l>If he should break his day, what should I gain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="493"/></l><l>By the exaction of the forfeiture?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="494"/></l><l>A pound of man's flesh taken from a man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="495"/></l><l>Is not so estimable, profitable neither,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="496"/></l><l>As flesh of muttons, beefs, or goats.   I say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="497"/></l><l>To buy his favor, I extend this friendship:
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="498"/></l><l>If he will take it, so; if not, adieu;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="499"/></l><l>And, for my love, I pray you wrong me not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="500"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Yes, Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="501"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Then meet me forthwith at the notary's;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="502"/></l><l>Give him direction for this merry bond,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="503"/></l><l>And I will go and purse the ducats straight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="504"/></l><l>See to my house, left in the fearful guard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="505"/></l><l>Of an unthrifty knave, and presently
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="506"/></l><l>I will be with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="507"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Hie thee, gentle Jew.
<stage>[Exit Shylock.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="508"/></l><l>The Hebrew will turn Christian: he grows kind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="509"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="181">I like not fair terms and a villain's mind.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="510"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Come on: in this there can be no dismay;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="511"/></l><l>My ships come home a month before the day.
<lb ed="F1" n="512"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 type="act" n="2">
    <head>ACT II</head><lb ed="F1" n="513"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont.   A room in PORTIA'S  house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="514"/><stage type="entrance">Flourish of cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF MOROCCO and his train; PORTIA, NERISSA, and others attending.</stage><lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="515"/><lb ed="F1" n="516"/><lb ed="F1" n="517"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="518"/><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l>Mislike me not for my complexion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="519"/></l><l>The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="520"/></l><l>To whom I am a neighbor and near bred.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="521"/></l><l>Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="522"/></l><l>Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="523"/></l><l>And let us make incision for your love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="524"/></l><l>To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="525"/></l><l>I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="526"/></l><l>Hath fear'd the valiant: by my love I swear
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="527"/></l><l>The best-regarded virgins of our clime
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="528"/></l><l>Have loved it too: I would not change this hue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="529"/></l><l>Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="530"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>In terms of choice I am not solely led
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="531"/></l><l>By nice direction of a maiden's eyes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="532"/></l><l>Besides, the lottery of my destiny
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="533"/></l><l>Bars me the right of voluntary choosing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="534"/></l><l>But if my father had not scanted me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="535"/></l><l>And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="536"/></l><l>His wife who wins me by that means I told you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="537"/></l><l>Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="538"/></l><l>As any comer I have look'd on yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="539"/></l><l part="I">For my affection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="540"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l part="F">Even for that I thank you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="541"/></l><l>Therefore, I pray you, lead me to the caskets
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="542"/></l><l>To try my fortune. By this scimitar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="543"/></l><l>That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="544"/></l><l>That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="545"/></l><l>I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="546"/></l><l>Outbrave the heart most daring on the earth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="547"/></l><l>Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="548"/></l><l>Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="549"/></l><l>To win thee, lady. But, alas the while!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="550"/></l><l>If Hercules and Lichas play at dice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="551"/></l><l>Which is the better man, the greater throw
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="552"/></l><l>May turn by fortune from the weaker hand:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="553"/></l><l>So is Alcides beaten by his page;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="554"/></l><l>And so may I, blind fortune leading me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="555"/></l><l>Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="556"/></l><l part="I">And die with grieving.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="557"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">You must take your chance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="558"/></l><l>And either not attempt to choose at all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="559"/></l><l>Or swear before you choose, if you choose wrong
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="560"/></l><l>Never to speak to lady afterward
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="561"/></l><l>In way of marriage: therefore be advised.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="562"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l>Nor will not. Come, bring me unto my chance.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="563"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>First, forward to the temple: after dinner
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="564"/></l><l part="I">Your hazard shall be made.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="565"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l part="F">Good fortune then!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="566"/></l><l>To make me blest or cursed'st among men.
<stage>[Cornets, and exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="567"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LAUNCELOT.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="568"/><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Certainly my conscience will serve
<lb ed="G"/>me to run <lb ed="F1" n="569"/>from this Jew my master.   The fiend
<lb ed="G"/>is at mine elbow <lb ed="F1" n="570"/>and tempts me saying to me
<lb ed="G"/>'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good <lb ed="F1" n="571"/>Launcelot,'
<lb ed="G"/>or, 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot Gobbo,
<lb ed="G"/>use <lb ed="F1" n="572"/>your legs, take the start, run away. My
<lb ed="G"/>conscience says <lb ed="F1" n="573"/>'No; take heed,' honest
<lb ed="G"/>Launcelot; take heed, honest Gobbo, <lb ed="F1" n="574"/>or, as
<lb ed="G"/>aforesaid, 'honest Launcelot Gobbo; do not
<lb ed="G"/>run; <lb ed="F1" n="575"/>scorn running with thy heels.' Well, the
<lb ed="G"/>most courageous <lb ed="F1" n="576"/>fiend bids me pack: 'Via!'
<lb ed="G"/>says the fiend; 'away!' says <lb ed="F1" n="577"/>the fiend; 'for
<lb ed="G"/>the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,' says <lb ed="F1" n="578"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience, hanging
<lb ed="G"/>about <lb ed="F1" n="579"/>the neck of my heart, says very wisely to
<lb ed="G"/>me 'My honest <lb ed="F1" n="580"/>friend Launcelot, being an
<lb ed="G"/>honest man's son,' or rather <lb ed="F1" n="581"/>an honest woman's
<lb ed="G"/>son; for, indeed, my father did <lb ed="F1" n="582"/>something
<lb ed="G"/>smack, something grow to, he had a kind of
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="583"/><lb ed="G"/>taste; well, my conscience says 'Launcelot,
<lb ed="G"/>budge not.' 'Budge,' <lb ed="F1" n="584"/>says the fiend. 'Budge
<lb ed="G"/>not,' says my conscience. 'Conscience,' <lb ed="F1" n="585"/>say I,
<lb ed="G"/>'you counsel well;' 'Fiend,' say I, 'you counsel
<lb ed="G"/>well:' <lb ed="F1" n="586"/>to be ruled by my conscience, I
<lb ed="G"/>should stay with the Jew <lb ed="F1" n="587"/>my master, who, God
<lb ed="G"/>bless the mark, is a kind of devil; <lb ed="F1" n="588"/>and, to run
<lb ed="G"/>away from the Jew, I should be ruled by <lb ed="F1" n="589"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil
<lb ed="G"/>himself. <lb ed="F1" n="590"/>Certainly the Jew is the very devil
<lb ed="G"/>incarnal; <lb ed="F1" n="591"/>and, in my conscience, my conscience
<lb ed="G"/>is but a kind of hard <lb ed="F1" n="592"/>conscience, to
<lb ed="G"/>offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. <lb ed="F1" n="593"/>The
<lb ed="G"/>fiend gives the more friendly counsel: I will
<lb ed="G"/>run, <lb ed="F1" n="594"/>fiend; my heels are at your command; I
<lb ed="G"/>will <lb ed="F1" n="595"/>run.
<lb ed="F1" n="596"/><stage type="entrance">Enter Old GOBBO, with a basket.  </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="597"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Master young man, you, I pray you,
<lb ed="G"/>which is the <lb ed="F1" n="598"/>way to master Jew's?
</p></sp>
<sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker> <stage>[Aside]</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="599"/><p>O heavens, this is my true-begotten
<lb ed="G"/>father! who, <lb ed="F1" n="600"/>being more than sand-blind,
<lb ed="G"/>high-gravel blind, knows <lb ed="F1" n="601"/>me not: I will
<lb ed="G"/>try confusions with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="602"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Master young gentleman, I pray you,
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>which is <lb ed="F1" n="603"/>the way to master Jew's?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="604"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Turn up on your right hand at the
<lb ed="G"/>next turning, <lb ed="F1" n="605"/>but, at the next turning of all, on
<lb ed="G"/>your left; marry, <lb ed="F1" n="606"/>at the very next turning, turn
<lb ed="G"/>of no hand, but turn down <lb ed="F1" n="607"/>indirectly to the
<lb ed="G"/>Jew's house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="608"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way
<lb ed="G"/>to hit. Can <lb ed="F1" n="609"/>you tell me whether one Launcelot,
<lb ed="G" n="49"/>that dwells with him, <lb ed="F1" n="610"/>dwell with him or no?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="611"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Talk you of young Master Launcelot?
<stage>[Aside]</stage> Mark <lb ed="F1" n="612"/>me now; now will I raise
<lb ed="G"/>the waters. Talk you of young <lb ed="F1" n="613"/>Master Launcelot?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="614"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>No master, sir, but a poor man's
<lb ed="G"/>son: his father, <lb ed="F1" n="615"/>though I say it, is an honest
<lb ed="G"/>exceeding poor man <lb ed="F1" n="616"/>and, God be thanked,
<lb ed="G"/>well to live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="617"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Well, let his father be what a' will,
<lb ed="G"/>we talk of <lb ed="F1" n="618"/>young Master Launcelot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="619"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Your worship's friend and Launcelot,
<lb ed="G"/>sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="620"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo,
<lb ed="G"/>I beseech you, <lb ed="F1" n="621"/>talk you of young Master Launcelot?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="622"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Of Launcelot, an't please your
<lb ed="G"/>mastership.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="623"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of
<lb ed="G"/>Master Launcelot, <lb ed="F1" n="624"/>father; for the young gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/>according to Fates and <lb ed="F1" n="625"/>Destinies and
<lb ed="G"/>such odd sayings, the Sisters Three and such
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="626"/><lb ed="G"/>branches of learning, is indeed deceased, or, as
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="627"/>would say in plain terms, gone to heaven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="628"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Marry, God forbid! the boy was the
<lb ed="G" n="70"/>very staff <lb ed="F1" n="629"/>of my age, my very prop.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="630"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Do I look like a cudgel or a hovel-post,
<lb ed="G"/>a staff <lb ed="F1" n="631"/>or a prop?   Do you know me,
<lb ed="G"/>father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="632"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Alack the day, I know you not,
<lb ed="G"/>young gentleman: <lb ed="F1" n="633"/>but, I pray you, tell me, is
<lb ed="G"/>my boy, God rest his soul, <lb ed="F1" n="634"/>alive or dead?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="635"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Do you not know me, father?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="636"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Alack, sir, I am sand-blind; I know
<lb ed="G"/>you not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="637"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Nay, indeed, if you had your eyes,
<lb ed="G"/>you might <lb ed="F1" n="638"/>fail of the knowing me: it is a wise
<lb ed="G"/>father that knows <lb ed="F1" n="639"/>his own child. Well, old
<lb ed="G"/>man, I will tell you news of <lb ed="F1" n="640"/>your son: give me
<lb ed="G"/>your blessing: truth will come to light; <lb ed="F1" n="641"/>murder
<lb ed="G"/>cannot be hid long; a man's son may, but
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="642"/><lb ed="G"/>at the length truth will out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="643"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure
<lb ed="G"/>you are not <lb ed="F1" n="644"/>Launcelot, my boy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="645"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Pray you, let's have no more fooling
<lb ed="G"/>about <lb ed="F1" n="646"/>it, but give me your blessing: I am
<lb ed="G"/>Launcelot, your <lb ed="F1" n="647"/>boy that was, your son that is,
<lb ed="G" n="91"/>your child that <lb ed="F1" n="648"/>shall be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="649"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>I cannot think you are my son.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="650"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>I know not what I shall think of
<lb ed="G"/>that: but I am <lb ed="F1" n="651"/>Launcelot, the Jew's man, and
<lb ed="G"/>I am sure Margery your wife <lb ed="F1" n="652"/>is my mother.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="653"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be
<lb ed="G"/>sworn, if <lb ed="F1" n="654"/>thou be Launcelot, thou art mine
<lb ed="G"/>own flesh and blood. <lb ed="F1" n="655"/>Lord worshipped might
<lb ed="G"/>he be! what a beard hast thou got! <lb ed="F1" n="656"/>thou hast
<lb ed="G"/>got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="657"/><lb ed="G" n="101"/>fill-horse has on his tail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="658"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>It should seem, then, that Dobbin's
<lb ed="G"/>tail <lb ed="F1" n="659"/>grows backward: I am sure he had more
<lb ed="G"/>hair of his <lb ed="F1" n="660"/>tail than I have of my face when I
<lb ed="G"/>last saw him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="661"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>Lord, how art thou changed!   How
<lb ed="G"/>dost thou <lb ed="F1" n="662"/>and thy master agree?  I have
<lb ed="G"/>brought him a present. How <lb ed="F1" n="663"/>'gree you now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="664"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Well, well: but, for mine own part,
<lb ed="G"/>as I have set <lb ed="F1" n="665"/>up my rest to run away, so I will
<lb ed="G"/>not rest till I have run <lb ed="F1" n="666"/>some ground. My master's
<lb ed="G"/>a very Jew: give him a present! <lb ed="F1" n="667"/>give him
<lb ed="G"/>a halter: I am famished in his service; you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="668"/><lb ed="G"/>may tell every finger I have with my ribs. Father,
<lb ed="G"/>I am <lb ed="F1" n="669"/>glad you are come: give me your
<lb ed="G"/>present to one Master <lb ed="F1" n="670"/>Bassanio, who, indeed,
<lb ed="G"/>gives rare new liveries: if I serve <lb ed="F1" n="671"/>not him, I
<lb ed="G"/>will run as far as God has any ground.  O rare
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="672"/><lb ed="G"/>fortune! here comes the man: to him, father;
<lb ed="G"/>for I am a <lb ed="F1" n="673"/>Jew, if I serve the Jew any longer.
<lb ed="F1" n="674"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BASSANIO, with LEONARDO and other followers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="675"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>You may do so; but let it be so
<lb ed="G"/>hasted that <lb ed="F1" n="676"/>supper be ready at the farthest by
<lb ed="G"/>five of the clock. <lb ed="F1" n="677"/>See these letters delivered;
<lb ed="G"/>put the liveries to making, <lb ed="F1" n="678"/>and desire Gratiano
<lb ed="G"/>to come anon to my <lb ed="F1" n="679"/>lodging.  <stage>[Exit a Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="680"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>To him, father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="681"/></l></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><l>God bless your worship!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="682"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Gramercy! wouldst thou aught with
<lb ed="G"/>me?

<lb ed="F1" n="683"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p n="129">Here's my son, sir, a poor boy,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="684"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich
<lb ed="G"/>Jew's man; that <lb ed="F1" n="685"/>would, sir, as my father shall
<lb ed="G"/>specify--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="686"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>He hath a great infection, sir, as one
<lb ed="G"/> would say, <lb ed="F1" n="687"/>to serve,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="688"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Indeed, the short and the long is, I
<lb ed="G"/>serve the <lb ed="F1" n="689"/>Jew, and have a desire, as my father
<lb ed="G"/>shall specify--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="690"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>His master and he, saving your worship's
<lb ed="G" n="139"/>reverence, <lb ed="F1" n="691"/>are scarce cater-cousins--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="692"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>To be brief, the very truth is that
<lb ed="G"/>the Jew, <lb ed="F1" n="693"/>having done me wrong, doth cause
<lb ed="G"/>me, as my father, being, <lb ed="F1" n="694"/>I hope, an old man,
<lb ed="G"/>shall frutify unto you--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="695"/></p></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><p>I have here a dish of doves that I
<lb ed="G"/>would bestow <lb ed="F1" n="696"/>upon your worship, and my suit is--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="697"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>In very brief, the suit is impertinent
<lb ed="G"/>to myself, <lb ed="F1" n="698"/>as your worship shall know by this
<lb ed="G"/>honest old man; <lb ed="F1" n="699"/>and, though I say it, though
<lb ed="G"/>old man, yet poor man, my <lb ed="F1" n="700"/>father.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="701"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>One speak for both. What would you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="702"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l n="151">Serve you, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="703"/></l></sp><sp who="gob."><speaker>Gob.</speaker><l>That is the very defect of the matter, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="704"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>I know thee well; thou hast obtain'd thy suit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="705"/></l><l>Shylock thy master spoke with me this day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="706"/></l><l>And hath preferr'd thee, if it be preferment
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="707"/></l><l>To leave a rich Jew's service, to become
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="708"/></l><l>The follower of so poor a gentleman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="709"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>The old proverb is very well parted
<lb ed="G"/>between <lb ed="F1" n="710"/>my master Shylock and you, sir: you
<lb ed="G"/>have the grace of <lb ed="F1" n="711"/>God, sir, and he hath
<lb ed="G"/>enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="712"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="161">Thou speak'st it well. Go, father, with thy son.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="713"/></l><l>Take leave of thy old master and inquire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="714"/></l><l>My lodging out. Give him a livery
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="715"/></l><l>More guarded than his fellows': see it done.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="716"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Father, in. I cannot get a service,
<lb ed="G"/>no; I have ne'er <lb ed="F1" n="717"/>a tongue in my head. Well, if
<lb ed="G"/>any man in Italy have a <lb ed="F1" n="718"/>fairer table which
<lb ed="G"/>doth offer to swear upon a book, I <lb ed="F1" n="719"/>shall have
<lb ed="G"/>good fortune. Go to, here's a simple line <lb ed="F1" n="720"/>of
<lb ed="G"/>life: here's a small trifle of wives: alas, fifteen
<lb ed="G"/>wives <lb ed="F1" n="721"/>is nothing! eleven widows and nine
<lb ed="G"/>maids is a simple <lb ed="F1" n="722"/>coming-in for one man: and
<lb ed="G"/>then to 'scape drowning <lb ed="F1" n="723"/>thrice, and to be in
<lb ed="G"/>peril of my life with the edge <lb ed="F1" n="724"/>of a feather-bed;
<lb ed="G"/>here are simple scapes. Well, if Fortune <lb ed="F1" n="725"/>be a
<lb ed="G"/>woman, she's a good wench for this gear. Father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="726"/><lb ed="G"/>come; I'll take my leave of the Jew in
<lb ed="G"/>the twinkling of an eye.
<lb ed="F1" n="727"/><stage>[Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="728"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="729"/></l><l>These things being bought and orderly bestow'd,
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="730"/></l><l>Return in haste, for I do feast to-night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="731"/></l><l>My best-esteem'd acquaintance: hie thee, go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="732"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l>My best endeavours shall be done herein.
<lb ed="F1" n="733"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GRATIANO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="734"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="I">Where is your master?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="735"/></l></sp><sp who="leon."><speaker>Leon.</speaker><l part="F">Yonder, sir, he walks. <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="736"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Signior Bassanio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="737"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Gratiano!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="738"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="I">I have a suit to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="739"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">You have obtain'd it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="740"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><p>You must not deny me: I must go
<lb ed="G"/>with you to <lb ed="F1" n="741"/>Belmont.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="742"/></p></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="743"/></l><l>Thou art too wild, too rude and bold of voice;
<lb ed="G" n="191"/><lb ed="F1" n="744"/></l><l>Parts that become thee happily enough
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="745"/></l><l>And in such eyes as ours appear not faults;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="746"/></l><l>But where thou art not known, why, there they show
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="747"/></l><l>Something too liberal. Pray thee, take pain
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="748"/></l><l>To allay with some cold drops of modesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="749"/></l><l>Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="750"/></l><l>I be misconstrued in the place I go to,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="751"/></l><l part="I">And lose my hopes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="752"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="F">Signior Bassanio, hear me:
<lb ed="G" n="199"/><lb ed="F1" n="753"/></l><l>If I do not put on a sober habit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="754"/></l><l>Talk with respect and swear but now and then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="755"/></l><l>Wear prayer-books in my pocket, look demurely,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="756"/></l><l>Nay more, while grace is saying, hood mine eyes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="757"/></l><l>Thus with my hat, and sigh and say 'amen,'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="758"/></l><l>Use all the observance of civility,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="759"/></l><l>Like one well studied in a sad ostent
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="760"/></l><l>To please his grandam, never trust me more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="761"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Well, we shall see your bearing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="762"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="763"/></l><l part="I">By what we do to-night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="764"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">No, that were pity:
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="765"/></l><l>I would entreat you rather to put on
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="766"/></l><l>Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="767"/></l><l>That purpose merriment. But fare you well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="768"/></l><l>I have some business.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="769"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>And I must to Lorenzo and the rest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="770"/></l><l>But we will visit you at supper-time. <stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="771"/><stage type="entrance">Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="772"/><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="773"/></l><l>Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="774"/></l><l>Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="775"/></l><l>But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="776"/></l><l>And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="777"/></l><l>Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="778"/></l><l>Give him this letter; do it secretly;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="779"/></l><l>And so farewell: I would not have my father
<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="780"/></l><l>See me in talk with thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="781"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Adieu! tears exhibit my tongue.
<lb ed="G"/>Most beautiful <lb ed="F1" n="782"/>pagan, most sweet Jew! if a
<lb ed="G"/>Christian did not play the <lb ed="F1" n="783"/>knave and get thee,
<lb ed="G"/>I am much deceived. But, adieu: these <lb ed="F1" n="784"/>foolish
<lb ed="G"/>drops do something drown my manly spirit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="785"/><lb ed="G"/>adieu.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="786"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Farewell, good Launcelot.
<lb ed="G"/>                         <stage>[Exit Launcelot.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="787"/></l><l>Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="788"/></l><l>To be ashamed to be my father's child!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="789"/></l><l>But though I am a daughter to his blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="790"/></l><l>I am not to his manners.   O Lorenzo,
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="791"/></l><l>If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="792"/></l><l>Become a Christian and thy loving wife. <stage>[Exit.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="793"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, and SALANIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="794"/><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Nay, we will slink away in suppertime,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="795"/></l><l>Disguise us at my lodging and return,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>All in an hour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="796"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>We have not made good preparation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="797"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>We have not spoke us yet of torchbearers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="798"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>'Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="799"/></l><l>And better in my mind not undertook.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="800"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="801"/></l><l part="I">To furnish us. <stage type="entrance">Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Friend Launcelot, what's the news?
<lb ed="F1" n="802"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="803"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>An it shall please you to break up
<lb ed="G" n="11"/>this, it shall <lb ed="F1" n="804"/>seem to signify.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="805"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>I know the hand: in faith, 'tis a fair hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="806"/></l><l>And whiter than the paper it writ on
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="807"/></l><l part="I">Is the fair hand that writ.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="808"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="F">Love-news, in faith.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="809"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>By your leave, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="810"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Whither goest thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="811"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, to bid my old master the
<lb ed="G"/>Jew to sup <lb ed="F1" n="812"/>to-night with my new master the
<lb ed="G"/>Christian.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="813"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="814"/></l><l>I will not fail her; speak it privately.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="815"/></l><l>Go, gentlemen,      <stage>[Exit Launcelot.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Will you prepare you for this masque <lb ed="F1" n="816"/>to-night?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="817"/></l><l>I am provided of a torch-bearer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="818"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Ay, marry, I'll be gone about it straight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="819"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l part="I">And so will I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="820"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Meet me and Gratiano
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>At Gratiano's lodging <lb ed="F1" n="821"/>some hour hence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="822"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>'Tis good we do so.
<stage>[Exeunt Salar. and Salan.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="823"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Was not that letter from fair Jessica?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="824"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l n="30">I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="825"/></l><l>How I shall take her from her father's house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="826"/></l><l>What gold and jewels she is furnish'd with,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="827"/></l><l>What page's suit she hath in readiness.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="828"/></l><l>If e'er the Jew her father come to heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="829"/></l><l>It will be for his gentle daughter's sake:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="830"/></l><l>And never dare misfortune cross her foot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="831"/></l><l>Unless she do it under this excuse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="832"/></l><l>That she is issue to a faithless Jew.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="833"/></l><l>Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="834"/></l><l>Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">The same.   Before SHYLOCK'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="835"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="836"/><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="837"/></l><l>The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio:--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="838"/></l><l>What, Jessica!--thou shalt not gormandise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="839"/></l><l>As thou hast done with me: What, Jessica!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="840"/></l><l>And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out;--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="841"/></l><l part="I">Why, Jessica, I say!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="842"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l part="F">Why, Jessica!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="843"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Who bids thee call?   I do not bid thee call.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="844"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>Your worship was wont to tell me that
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="845"/></l><l>I could do nothing without bidding.
<lb ed="F1" n="846"/><stage type="entrance">Enter JESSICA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="847"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l n="10">Call you? what is your will?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="848"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="849"/></l><l>There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="850"/></l><l>I am not bid for love; they flatter me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="851"/></l><l>But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="852"/></l><l>The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="853"/></l><l>Look to my house. I am right loath to go:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="854"/></l><l>There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="855"/></l><l>For I did dream of money-bags to-night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="856"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>I beseech you, sir, go: my young
<lb ed="G" n="20"/>master <lb ed="F1" n="857"/>doth expect your reproach.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="858"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>So do I his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="859"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>An they have conspired together, I
<lb ed="G"/>will not say <lb ed="F1" n="860"/>you shall see a masque; but if you
<lb ed="G"/>do, then it was not for <lb ed="F1" n="861"/>nothing that my nose
<lb ed="G"/>fell a-bleeding on Black-Monday <lb ed="F1" n="862"/>last at six
<lb ed="G"/>o'clock i' the morning, falling out that year on
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="863"/><lb ed="G"/>Ash-Wednesday was four year, in the afternoon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="864"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="865"/></l><l>Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="866"/></l><l>And the vile squealing of the wry-neck'd fife,
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="867"/></l><l>Clamber not you up to the casements then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="868"/></l><l>Nor thrust your head into the public street
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="869"/></l><l>To gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="870"/></l><l>But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="871"/></l><l>Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="872"/></l><l>My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="873"/></l><l>I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="874"/></l><l>But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="875"/></l><l>Say I will come.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="876"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>I will go before, sir. <lb ed="F1" n="877"/>Mistress, look
<lb ed="G" n="41"/>out at window for all this;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="878"/><lb ed="G"/>There will come a Christian by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="879"/><lb ed="G"/>Will be worth a Jewess' eye. <stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="880"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, <lb ed="F1" n="881"/>ha?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="882"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>His words were 'Farewell, mistress;' nothing else.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="883"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="884"/></l><l>Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="885"/></l><l>More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="886"/></l><l>Therefore I part with him, and part with him
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="887"/></l><l>To one that I would have him help to waste
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="888"/></l><l>His borrow'd purse. Well, Jessica, go in;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="889"/></l><l>Perhaps I will return immediately:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="890"/></l><l>Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Fast bind, fast <lb ed="F1" n="891"/>find;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="892"/></l><l>A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="893"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Farewell; and if my fortune be not crost,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="894"/></l><l>I have a father, you a daughter, lost. <stage>[Exit.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="6">
<head>SCENE VI</head>
<stage type="setting">The same.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="895"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GRATIANO and SALARINO, masqued.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="896"/><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>This is the pent-house under which Lorenzo
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="897"/></l><l part="I">Desired us to make stand.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="898"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="F">His hour is almost past.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="899"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>And it is marvel he out-dwells his hour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="900"/></l><l>For lovers ever run before the clock.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="901"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>O, ten times faster Venus' pigeons fly
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="902"/></l><l>To seal love's bonds new-made, than they are wont
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="903"/></l><l>To keep obliged faith unforfeited!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="904"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>That ever holds: who riseth from a feast
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="905"/></l><l>With that keen appetite that he sits down?
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="906"/></l><l>Where is the horse that doth untread again
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="907"/></l><l>His tedious measures with the unbated fire
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="908"/></l><l>That he did pace them first? All things that are,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="909"/></l><l>Are with more spirit chased then enjoy'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="910"/></l><l>How like a younker or a prodigal
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="911"/></l><l>The scarfed bark puts from her native bay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="912"/></l><l>Hugg'd and embraced by the strumpet wind!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="913"/></l><l>How like the prodigal doth she return,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="914"/></l><l>With over-weather'd ribs and ragged sails,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="915"/></l><l>Lean, rent and beggar'd by the strumpet wind!
<lb ed="F1" n="916"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="917"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l n="20">Here comes Lorenzo: more of this <lb ed="F1" n="918"/>hereafter.
<stage type="entrance">Enter LORENZO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="919"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Sweet friends, your patience for my long <lb ed="F1" n="920"/>abode;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="921"/></l><l>Not I, but my affairs, have made you wait:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="922"/></l><l>When you shall please to play the thieves for wives,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="923"/></l><l>I'll watch as long for you then. Approach;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="924"/></l><l>Here dwells my father Jew.   Ho! who's within?
<lb ed="F1" n="925"/><stage type="entrance">Enter JESSICA, above, in boy's clothes.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="926"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Who are you? Tell me, for more certainty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="927"/></l><l>Albeit I'll swear that I do know your tongue.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="928"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Lorenzo, and thy love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="929"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Lorenzo, certain, and my love indeed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="930"/></l><l>For who love I so much? And now who knows
<lb ed="G" n="31"/><lb ed="F1" n="931"/></l><l>But you, Lorenzo, whether I am yours?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="932"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Heaven and thy thoughts are witness that thou <lb ed="F1" n="933"/>art.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="934"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Here, catch this casket; it is worth the pains.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="935"/></l><l>I am glad 'tis night, you do not look on me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="936"/></l><l>For I am much ashamed of my exchange:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="937"/></l><l>But love is blind and lovers cannot see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="938"/></l><l>The pretty follies that themselves commit;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="939"/></l><l>For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="940"/></l><l>To see me thus transformed to a boy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="941"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l n="40">Descend, for you must be my torchbearer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="942"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>What, must I hold a candle to my shames?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="943"/></l><l>They in themselves, good sooth, are too too light.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="944"/></l><l>Why, 'tis an office of discovery, love;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="945"/></l><l part="I">And I should be obscured.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="946"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">So are you, sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="947"/></l><l>Even in the lovely garnish of a boy.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But come at once;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="948"/></l><l>For the close night doth play the runaway,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="949"/></l><l>And we are stay'd for at Bassanio's feast.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="950"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>I will make fast the doors, and gild myself
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="951"/></l><l>With some more ducats, and be with you straight.
<stage>[Exit above. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="952"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Now, by my hood, a Gentile and no Jew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="953"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Beshrew me but I love her heartily;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="954"/></l><l>For she is wise, if I can judge of her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="955"/></l><l>And fair she is, if that mine eyes be true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="956"/></l><l>And true she is, as she hath proved herself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="957"/></l><l>And therefore, like herself, wise, fair and true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="958"/></l><l>Shall she be placed in my constant soul.
<lb ed="F1" n="959"/><stage type="entrance">Enter, JESSICA, below.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="960"/></l><l>What, art thou come?   On, gentlemen; away!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="961"/></l><l>Our masquing mates by this time for us stay.
<stage>[Exit with Jessica and Salarino.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="962"/><stage type="entrance">Enter ANTONIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="963"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l n="60">Who's there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="964"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Signior Antonio!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="965"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Fie, fie, Gratiano! where are all the rest?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="966"/></l><l>'Tis nine o'clock: our friends all stay for you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="967"/></l><l>No masque to-night: the wind is come about;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="968"/></l><l>Bassanio presently will go aboard:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="969"/></l><l>I have sent twenty out to seek for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="970"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>I am glad on't: I desire no more delight
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="971"/></l><l>Than to be under sail and gone to-night.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="7">
<head>SCENE VII</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="972"/><stage type="entrance">Flourish of cornets.   Enter PORTIA, with the PRINCE OF MOROCCO, and their trains.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="973"/><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Go draw aside the curtains and discover
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="974"/></l><l>The several caskets to this noble prince.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="975"/></l><l>Now make your choice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="976"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l>The first, of gold, who this inscription bears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="977"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire;'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="978"/></l><l>The second, silver, which this promise carries,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="979"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves;'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="980"/></l><l>This third, dull lead, with warning all as blunt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="981"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="982"/></l><l>How shall I know if I do choose the right?
<lb ed="F1" n="983"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="984"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>The one of them contains my picture, prince:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="985"/></l><l>If you choose that, then I am yours withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="986"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l>Some god direct my judgement! Let me see;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="987"/></l><l>I will survey the inscriptions back again.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="988"/></l><l>What says this leaden casket?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="989"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="990"/></l><l>Must give: for what? for lead? hazard for lead?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="991"/></l><l>This casket threatens. Men that hazard all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="992"/></l><l>Do it in hope of fair advantages:
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="993"/></l><l>A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="994"/></l><l>I'll then nor give nor hazard aught for lead.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="995"/></l><l>What says the silver with her virgin hue?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="996"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="997"/></l><l>As much as he deserves! Pause there, Morocco,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="998"/></l><l>And weigh thy value with an even hand:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="999"/></l><l>If thou be'st rated by thy estimation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1000"/></l><l>Thou dost deserve enough; and yet enough
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1001"/></l><l>May not extend so far as to the lady:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1002"/></l><l>And yet to be afeard of my deserving
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1003"/></l><l>Were but a weak disabling of myself.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1004"/></l><l>As much as I deserve! Why, that's the lady:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1005"/></l><l>I do in birth deserve her, and in fortunes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1006"/></l><l>In graces and in qualities of breeding;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1007"/></l><l>But more than these, in love I do deserve.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1008"/></l><l>What if I stray'd no further, but chose here?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1009"/></l><l>Let's see once more this saying graved in gold;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1010"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1011"/></l><l>Why, that's the lady; all the world desires her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1012"/></l><l>From the four corners of the earth they come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1013"/></l><l>To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
<lb ed="G" n="41"/><lb ed="F1" n="1014"/></l><l>The Hyrcanian deserts and the vasty wilds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1015"/></l><l>Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1016"/></l><l>For princes to come view fair Portia:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1017"/></l><l>The watery kingdom, whose ambitious head
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1018"/></l><l>Spits in the face of heaven, is no bar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1019"/></l><l>To stop the foreign spirits, but they come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1020"/></l><l>As o'er a brook, to see fair Portia.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1021"/></l><l>One of these three contains her heavenly picture.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1022"/></l><l>Is't like that lead contains her?   'Twere damnation
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1023"/></l><l>To think so base a thought: it were too gross
<lb ed="G" n="51"/><lb ed="F1" n="1024"/></l><l>To rib her cerecloth in the obscure grave.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1025"/></l><l>Or shall I think in silver she's immured,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1026"/></l><l>Being ten times undervalued to tried gold?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1027"/></l><l>O sinful thought!   Never so rich a gem
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1028"/></l><l>Was set in worse than gold. They have in England
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1029"/></l><l>A coin that bears the figure of an angel
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1030"/></l><l>Stamped in gold, but that's insculp'd upon;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1031"/></l><l>But here an angel in a golden bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1032"/></l><l>Lies all within. Deliver me the key:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1033"/></l><l>Here do I choose, and thrive I as I may!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1034"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>There, take it, prince; and if my form lie there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1035"/></l><l part="I">Then I am yours.
<stage>[He unlocks the golden casket.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1036"/></l></sp><sp who="mor."><speaker>Mor.</speaker><l part="F">O hell! what have we here?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A carrion Death, <lb ed="F1" n="1037"/>within whose empty eye
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>There is a written scroll! <lb ed="F1" n="1038"/>I'll read the writing.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1039"/></l><l><stage>[Reads]</stage> All that glisters is not gold;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1040"/></l><l>Often have you heard that told:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1041"/></l><l>Many a man his life hath sold
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1042"/></l><l>But my outside to behold:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1043"/></l><l>Gilded tombs do worms infold.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1044"/></l><l>Had you been as wise as bold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1045"/></l><l>Young in limbs, in judgement old,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1046"/></l><l>Your answer had not been inscroll'd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1047"/></l><l>Fare you well; your suit is cold.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1048"/></l><l>Cold, indeed; and labor lost:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1049"/></l><l>Then, farewell, heat, and welcome, frost!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1050"/></l><l>Portia, adieu. I have too grieved a heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1051"/></l><l>To take a tedious leave: thus losers part.
<stage>[Exit with his train. Flourish of cornets.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1052"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>A gentle riddance.   Draw the curtains, go.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1053"/></l><l>Let all of his complexion choose me so.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="8">
<head>SCENE VIII</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1054"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SALARINO and SALANIO. </stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1055"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1056"/><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1057"/></l><l>With him is Gratiano gone along;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1058"/></l><l>And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1059"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1060"/></l><l>Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1061"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>He came too late, the ship was under sail:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1062"/></l><l>But there the duke was given to understand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1063"/></l><l>That in a gondola were seen together
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1064"/></l><l>Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1065"/></l><l>Besides, Antonio certified the duke
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1066"/></l><l>They were not with Bassanio in his ship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1067"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>I never heard a passion so confused,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1068"/></l><l>So strange, outrageous, and so variable,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1069"/></l><l>As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1070"/></l><l>'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1071"/></l><l>Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1072"/></l><l>Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1073"/></l><l>A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1074"/></l><l>Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1075"/></l><l>And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1076"/></l><l>Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1077"/></l><l>She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1078"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1079"/></l><l>Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1080"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1081"/></l><l part="I">Or he shall pay for this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1082"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="F">Marry, well remember'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1083"/></l><l>I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1084"/></l><l>Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1085"/></l><l>The French and English, there miscarried
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1086"/></l><l>A vessel of our country richly fraught:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1087"/></l><l>I thought upon Antonio when he told me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1088"/></l><l>And wish'd in silence that it were not his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1089"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1090"/></l><l>Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1091"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1092"/></l><l>I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1093"/></l><l>Bassanio told him he would make some speed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1094"/></l><l>Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1095"/></l><l>Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio,
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1096"/></l><l>But stay the very riping of the time;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1097"/></l><l>And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1098"/></l><l>Let it not enter in your mind of love:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1099"/></l><l>Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1100"/></l><l>To courtship and such fair ostents of love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1101"/></l><l>As shall conveniently become you there:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1102"/></l><l>And even there, his eye being big with tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1103"/></l><l>Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1104"/></l><l>And with affection wondrous sensible
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1105"/></l><l>He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1106"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l n="50">I think he only loves the world for him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1107"/></l><l>I pray thee, let us go and find him out
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1108"/></l><l>And quicken his embraced heaviness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1109"/></l><l part="I">With some delight or other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1110"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="F">Do we so.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="9">
<head>SCENE IX</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1111"/><stage type="entrance">Enter NERISSA with a Servitor. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1112"/><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>Quick, quick, I pray thee; draw the curtain straight:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1113"/></l><l>The Prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1114"/></l><l>And comes to his election presently.
<lb ed="F1" n="1115"/><stage type="entrance">Flourish of cornets.   Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON, PORTIA, and their trains.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1116"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1117"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1118"/></l><l>If you choose that wherein I am contain'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1119"/></l><l>Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1120"/></l><l>But if you fail, without more speech, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1121"/></l><l>You must be gone from hence immediately.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1122"/></l></sp><sp who="ar."><speaker>Ar.</speaker><l>I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1123"/></l><l>First, never to unfold to any one
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1124"/></l><l>Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1125"/></l><l>Of the right casket, never in my life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1126"/></l><l>To woo a maid in way of marriage:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1127"/></l><l>Lastly,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>If I do fail in fortune of my choice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1128"/></l><l>Immediately to leave you and be gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1129"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>To these injunctions every one doth swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1130"/></l><l>That comes to hazard for my worthless self.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1131"/></l></sp><sp who="ar."><speaker>Ar.</speaker><l>And so have I address'd me. Fortune now
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1132"/></l><l>To my heart's hope! Gold; silver; and base lead.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1133"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1134"/></l><l>You shall look fairer, ere I give or hazard.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1135"/></l><l>What says the golden chest? ha! let me see:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1136"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall gain what many men desire.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1137"/></l><l>What many men desire that 'many' may be meant
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1138"/></l><l>By the fool multitude, that choose by show,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1139"/></l><l>Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1140"/></l><l>Which pries not to the interior, but, like the martlet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1141"/></l><l>Builds in the weather on the outward wall,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1142"/></l><l>Even in the force and road of casualty.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1143"/></l><l>I will not choose what many men desire,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1144"/></l><l>Because I will not jump with common spirits
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1145"/></l><l>And rank me with the barbarous multitudes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1146"/></l><l>Why, then to thee, thou silver treasure-house;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1147"/></l><l>Tell me once more what title thou dost bear:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1148"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1149"/></l><l>And well said too; for who shall go about
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1150"/></l><l>To cozen fortune and be honorable
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1151"/></l><l>Without the stamp of merit? Let none presume
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1152"/></l><l>To wear an undeserved dignity.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1153"/></l><l>O, that estates, degrees and offices
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1154"/></l><l>Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1155"/></l><l>Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1156"/></l><l>How many then should cover that stand bare!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1157"/></l><l>How many be commanded that command!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1158"/></l><l>How much low peasantry would then be glean'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1159"/></l><l>From the true seed of honor! and how much honor
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1160"/></l><l>Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1161"/></l><l>To be new-varnish'd! Well, but to my choice:
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1162"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall get as much as he deserves.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1163"/></l><l>I will assume desert. Give me a key for this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1164"/></l><l>And instantly unlock my fortunes here.
<stage>[He opens the silver casket.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1165"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Too long a pause for that which you find there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1166"/></l></sp><sp who="ar."><speaker>Ar.</speaker><l>What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1167"/></l><l>Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1168"/></l><l>How much unlike art thou to Portia!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1169"/></l><l>How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1170"/></l><l>'Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves.'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1171"/></l><l>Did I deserve no more than a fool's head?
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1172"/></l><l>Is that my prize? are my deserts no better?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1173"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>To offend, and judge, are distinct offices
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1174"/></l><l part="I">And of opposed natures.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1175"/></l></sp><sp who="ar."><speaker>Ar.</speaker><l part="F">What is here?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1176"/></l><l><stage>[Reads]</stage> The fire seven times tried this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1177"/></l><l>Seven times tried that judgement is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1178"/></l><l>That did never choose amiss.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1179"/></l><l>Some there be that shadows kiss;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1180"/></l><l>Such have but a shadow's bliss:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1181"/></l><l>There be fools alive, I wis,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1182"/></l><l>Silver'd o'er; and so was this.
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1183"/></l><l>Take what wife you will to bed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1184"/></l><l>I will ever be your head:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1185"/></l><l>So be gone: you are sped.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1186"/></l><l>Still more fool I shall appear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1187"/></l><l>By the time I linger here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1188"/></l><l>With one fool's head I came to woo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1189"/></l><l>But I go away with two.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1190"/></l><l>Sweet, adieu. I'll keep my oath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1191"/></l><l>Patiently to bear my wroth.
<stage>[Exeunt Arragon and train.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1192"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Thus hath the candle singed the moth.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1193"/></l><l>O, these deliberate fools! when they do choose,
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="1194"/></l><l>They have the wisdom by their wit to lose.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1195"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>The ancient saying is no heresy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1196"/></l><l>Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1197"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Come, draw the curtain, Nerissa.
<lb ed="F1" n="1198"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1199"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l part="I">Where is my lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1200"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Here: what would my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1201"/></l></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><l>Madam, there is alighted at your gate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1202"/></l><l>A young Venetian, one that comes before
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1203"/></l><l>To signify the approaching of his lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1204"/></l><l>From whom he bringeth sensible regreets,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1205"/></l><l>To wit, besides commends and courteous breath,
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="1206"/></l><l>Gifts of rich value. Yet I have not seen
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1207"/></l><l>So likely an ambassador of love:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1208"/></l><l>A day in April never came so sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1209"/></l><l>To show how costly summer was at hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1210"/></l><l>As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1211"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1212"/></l><l>Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1213"/></l><l>Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.
<lb ed="G" n="99"/><lb ed="F1" n="1214"/></l><l>Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1215"/></l><l>Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1216"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 type="act" n="3">
    <head>ACT III</head><lb ed="F1" n="1217"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1218"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SALANIO and SALARINO. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1219"/><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><l>Now, what news on the Rialto?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1220"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>Why, yet it lives there unchecked
<lb ed="G"/>that Antonio <lb ed="F1" n="1221"/>hath a ship of rich lading
<lb ed="G"/>wrecked on the narrow seas; the <lb ed="F1" n="1222"/>Goodwins,
<lb ed="G"/>I think they call the place; a very dangerous
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1223"/><lb ed="G"/>flat and fatal, where the carcases of many a
<lb ed="G"/>tall ship lie <lb ed="F1" n="1224"/>buried, as they say, if my gossip
<lb ed="G"/>Report be an honest woman <lb ed="F1" n="1225"/>of her word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1226"/></p></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>I would she were as lying a gossip in
<lb ed="G"/>that as ever <lb ed="F1" n="1227"/>knapped ginger or made her neighbors
<lb ed="G"/>believe she wept <lb ed="F1" n="1228"/>for the death of a third
<lb ed="G"/>husband. But it is true, without <lb ed="F1" n="1229"/>any slips of
<lb ed="G"/>prolixity or crossing the plain highway of <lb ed="F1" n="1230"/>talk,
<lb ed="G"/>that the good Antonio, the honest Antonio,--
<lb ed="G"/>O that <lb ed="F1" n="1231"/>I had a title good enough to keep his
<lb ed="G"/>name company!--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1232"/></p></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>Come, the full stop.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1233"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>Ha! what sayest thou?   Why, the
<lb ed="G"/>end is, he hath lost <lb ed="F1" n="1234"/>a ship.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1235"/></p></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>I would it might prove the end of his
<lb ed="G" n="21"/>losses.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1236"/></p></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the
<lb ed="G"/>devil cross <lb ed="F1" n="1237"/>my prayer, for here he comes in
<lb ed="G"/>the likeness of a Jew.
<lb ed="G"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SHYLOCK.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/>How <lb ed="F1" n="1238"/>now, Shylock! what news among the
<lb ed="G"/>merchants?
<lb ed="F1" n="1239"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1240"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>You knew, none so well, none so well
<lb ed="G"/>as you, of <lb ed="F1" n="1241"/>my daughter's flight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1242"/></p></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>That's certain: I, for my part,
<lb ed="G"/>knew the tailor <lb ed="F1" n="1243"/>that made the wings she flew withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1244"/></p></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>And Shylock, for his own part,
<lb ed="G"/>knew the bird was <lb ed="F1" n="1245"/>fledged; and then it is the
<lb ed="G"/>complexion of them all to leave <lb ed="F1" n="1246"/>the dam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1247"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>She is damned for it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1248"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>That's certain, if the devil may be
<lb ed="G"/>her judge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1249"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>My own flesh and blood to rebel!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1250"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it
<lb ed="G"/>at these years?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1251"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l n="40">I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1252"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>There is more difference between
<lb ed="G"/>thy flesh and <lb ed="F1" n="1253"/>hers than between jet and ivory;
<lb ed="G"/>more between your <lb ed="F1" n="1254"/>bloods than there is between
<lb ed="G"/>red wine and rhenish. But <lb ed="F1" n="1255"/>tell us, do you
<lb ed="G"/>hear whether Antonio have had any <lb ed="F1" n="1256"/>loss at sea
<lb ed="G"/>or no?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1257"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>There I have another bad match: a
<lb ed="G"/>bankrupt, a <lb ed="F1" n="1258"/>prodigal, who dare scarce show his
<lb ed="G"/>head on the Rialto; <lb ed="F1" n="1259"/>a beggar, that was used to
<lb ed="G"/>come so smug upon the mart; <lb ed="F1" n="1260"/>let him look to
<lb ed="G"/>his bond: he was wont to call me usurer; <lb ed="F1" n="1261"/>let
<lb ed="G"/>him look to his bond: he was wont to lend
<lb ed="G"/>money <lb ed="F1" n="1262"/>for a Christian courtesy; let him look
<lb ed="G"/>to his bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1263"/></p></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><p>Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou
<lb ed="G"/>wilt not take <lb ed="F1" n="1264"/>his flesh; what's that good for?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1265"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>To bait fish withal: if it will feed
<lb ed="G"/>nothing <lb ed="F1" n="1266"/>else, it will feed my revenge. He hath
<lb ed="G"/>disgraced me, and <lb ed="F1" n="1267"/>hindered me half a million;
<lb ed="G"/>laughed at my losses, mocked at <lb ed="F1" n="1268"/>my gains,
<lb ed="G"/>scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1269"/><lb ed="G"/>cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and
<lb ed="G"/>what's his <lb ed="F1" n="1270"/>reason? I am a Jew. Hath not a
<lb ed="G"/>Jew eyes? hath not a <lb ed="F1" n="1271"/>Jew hands, organs, dimensions,
<lb ed="G"/>senses, affections, passions? <lb ed="F1" n="1272"/>fed with
<lb ed="G"/>the same food, hurt with the same weapons,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1273"/><lb ed="G"/>subject to the same diseases, healed by the
<lb ed="G"/>same <lb ed="F1" n="1274"/>means, warmed and cooled by the same
<lb ed="G"/>winter and <lb ed="F1" n="1275"/>summer, as a Christian is?   If you
<lb ed="G"/>prick us, do we not <lb ed="F1" n="1276"/>bleed? if you tickle us, do
<lb ed="G"/>we not laugh? if you poison <lb ed="F1" n="1277"/>us, do we not die?
<lb ed="G"/>and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?   <lb ed="F1" n="1278"/>If
<lb ed="G"/>we are like you in the rest, we will resemble
<lb ed="G"/>you <lb ed="F1" n="1279"/>in that.   If a Jew wrong a Christian, what
<lb ed="G"/>is his humility? <lb ed="F1" n="1280"/>Revenge. If a Christian wrong
<lb ed="G"/>a Jew, what should this sufferance <lb ed="F1" n="1281"/>be by Christian
<lb ed="G"/>example?   Why, revenge.   The villany <lb ed="F1" n="1282"/>you
<lb ed="G"/>teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1283"/><lb ed="G"/>but I will better the instruction.
<lb ed="F1" n="1284"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1285"/></p></sp><sp who="serv."><speaker>Serv.</speaker><p>Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at
<lb ed="G"/>his house and <lb ed="F1" n="1286"/>desires to speak with you both.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1287"/></p></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>We have been up and down to seek him.
<lb ed="F1" n="1288"/><stage type="entrance">Enter TUBAL.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1289"/></l></sp><sp who="salan."><speaker>Salan.</speaker><p>Here comes another of the tribe: a
<lb ed="G"/>third cannot <lb ed="F1" n="1290"/>be matched, unless the devil himself
<lb ed="G"/>turn Jew.
<lb ed="F1" n="1291"/><stage>[Exeunt Salan., Salar., and Servant.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1292"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>How now, Tubal! what news from
<lb ed="G"/>Genoa? hast <lb ed="F1" n="1293"/>thou found my daughter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1294"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>I often came where I did hear of her,
<lb ed="G"/>but cannot <lb ed="F1" n="1295"/>find her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1296"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond
<lb ed="G"/>gone, <lb ed="F1" n="1297"/>cost me two thousand ducats in
<lb ed="G"/>Frankfort!   The curse never <lb ed="F1" n="1298"/>fell upon our nation
<lb ed="G"/>till now; I never felt it till now: <lb ed="F1" n="1299"/>two
<lb ed="G"/>thousand ducats in that; and other precious,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1300"/><lb ed="G"/>precious jewels. I would my daughter were
<lb ed="G"/>dead at my foot, <lb ed="F1" n="1301"/>and the jewels in her ear!
<lb ed="G"/>would she were hearsed at my <lb ed="F1" n="1302"/>foot, and the
<lb ed="G"/>ducats in her coffin!   No news of them?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1303"/><lb ed="G"/>Why, so: and I know not what's spent in the
<lb ed="G"/>search: <lb ed="F1" n="1304"/>why, thou loss upon loss! the thief
<lb ed="G"/>gone with so <lb ed="F1" n="1305"/>much, and so much to find the
<lb ed="G"/>thief; and no satisfaction, <lb ed="F1" n="1306"/>no revenge; nor no
<lb ed="G"/>ill luck stirring but what lights <lb ed="F1" n="1307"/>on my shoulders;
<lb ed="G"/>no sighs but of my breathing; no tears
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1308"/><lb ed="G" n="101"/>but of my shedding.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1309"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><l>Yes, other men have ill luck too:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Antonio, as I <lb ed="F1" n="1310"/>heard in Genoa,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1311"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1312"/></l></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>Hath an argosy cast away, coming
<lb ed="G"/>from <lb ed="F1" n="1313"/>Tripolis.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1314"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>I thank God, I thank God. Is't true,
<lb ed="G"/>is't true?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1315"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>I spoke with some of the sailors that
<lb ed="G" n="110"/>escaped <lb ed="F1" n="1316"/>the wreck.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1317"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>I thank thee, good Tubal: good news,
<lb ed="G"/>good <lb ed="F1" n="1318"/>news! ha, ha! where? in Genoa?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1319"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I
<lb ed="G"/>heard, in one <lb ed="F1" n="1320"/>night fourscore ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1321"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall
<lb ed="G"/>never see my <lb ed="F1" n="1322"/>gold again: fourscore ducats at
<lb ed="G"/>a sitting! fourscore <lb ed="F1" n="1323"/>ducats!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1324"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>There came divers of Antonio's creditors
<lb ed="G"/>in my <lb ed="F1" n="1325"/>company to Venice, that swear he
<lb ed="G" n="120"/>cannot choose but <lb ed="F1" n="1326"/>break.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1327"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>I am very glad of it: I'll plague him;
<lb ed="G"/>I'll torture <lb ed="F1" n="1328"/>him: I am glad of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1329"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><p>One of them showed me a ring that
<lb ed="G"/>he had of <lb ed="F1" n="1330"/>your daughter for a monkey.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1331"/></p></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Out upon her!   Thou torturest me,
<lb ed="G"/>Tubal: it was <lb ed="F1" n="1332"/>my turquoise: I had it of Leah
<lb ed="G"/>when I was a bachelor: I <lb ed="F1" n="1333"/>would not have
<lb ed="G"/>given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1334"/></p></sp><sp who="tub."><speaker>Tub.</speaker><l>But Antonio is certainly undone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1335"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><p>Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go,
<lb ed="G"/>Tubal, fee <lb ed="F1" n="1336"/>me an officer; bespeak him a fortnight
<lb ed="G"/>before.   I will <lb ed="F1" n="1337"/>have the heart of him, if
<lb ed="G"/>he forfeit; for, were he out of Venice, <lb ed="F1" n="1338"/>I can
<lb ed="G"/>make what merchandise I will. Go, go, Tubal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1339"/><lb ed="G"/>and meet me at our synagogue; go, good
<lb ed="G"/>Tubal; at our <lb ed="F1" n="1340"/>synagogue, Tubal. <stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</p></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont.   A room in PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1341"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO,
NERISSA, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1342"/><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1343"/></l><l>Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1344"/></l><l>I lose your company: therefore forbear a while.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1345"/></l><l>There's something tells me, but it is not love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1346"/></l><l>I would not lose you; and you know yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1347"/></l><l>Hate counsels not in such a quality.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1348"/></l><l>But lest you should not understand me well,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1349"/></l><l>And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,--
<lb ed="G" n="9"/><lb ed="F1" n="1350"/></l><l>I would detain you here some month or two
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1351"/></l><l>Before you venture for me. I could teach you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1352"/></l><l>How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1353"/></l><l>So will I never be: so may you miss me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1354"/></l><l>But if you do, you'll make me wish a sin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1355"/></l><l>That I had been forsworn.   Beshrew your eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1356"/></l><l>They have o'erlook'd me and divided me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1357"/></l><l>One half of me is yours, the other half yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1358"/></l><l>Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1359"/></l><l>And so all yours. O, these naughty times
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1360"/></l><l>Put bars between the owners and their rights!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1361"/></l><l>And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so,
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="1362"/></l><l>Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1363"/></l><l>I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1364"/></l><l>To eke it and to draw it out in length,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1365"/></l><l part="I">To stay you from election.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1366"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Let me choose;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1367"/></l><l>For as I am, I live upon the rack.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1368"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1369"/></l><l>What treason there is mingled with your love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1370"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>None but that ugly treason of mistrust,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1371"/></l><l>Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love:
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1372"/></l><l>There may as well be amity and life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1373"/></l><l>'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1374"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1375"/></l><l>Where men enforced do speak anything.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1376"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1377"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="I">Well then, confess and live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1378"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">'Confess' and 'love'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1379"/></l><l>Had been the very sum of my confession:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1380"/></l><l>O happy torment, when my torturer
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1381"/></l><l>Doth teach me answers for deliverance!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1382"/></l><l>But let me to my fortune and the caskets.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1383"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="40">Away, then! I am lock'd in one of them:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1384"/></l><l>If you do love me, you will find me out.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1385"/></l><l>Nerissa and the rest, stand all aloof.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1386"/></l><l>Let music sound while he doth make his choice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1387"/></l><l>Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1388"/></l><l>Fading in music: that the comparison
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1389"/></l><l>May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1390"/></l><l>And watery death-bed for him.   He may win;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1391"/></l><l>And what is music then?   Then music is
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1392"/></l><l>Even as the flourish when true subjects bow
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1393"/></l><l>To a new-crowned monarch; such it is
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1394"/></l><l>As are those dulcet sounds in break of day
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1395"/></l><l>That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1396"/></l><l>And summon him to marriage. Now he goes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1397"/></l><l>With no less presence, but with much more love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1398"/></l><l>Than young Alcides, when he did redeem
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1399"/></l><l>The virgin tribute paid by howling Troy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1400"/></l><l>To the sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1401"/></l><l>The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1402"/></l><l>With bleared visages, come forth to view
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="1403"/></l><l>The issue of the exploit. Go, Hercules!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1404"/></l><l>Live thou, I live: with much, much more dismay
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1405"/></l><l>I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.
<lb ed="F1" n="1406"/><stage>Music, <lb ed="F1" n="1407"/>whilst BASSANIO comments on the <lb ed="F1" n="1408"/>caskets to himself.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l><stage>SONG.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1409"/></l><l>Tell me where is fancy bred,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1410"/></l><l>Or in the heart, or in the head?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1411"/></l><l>How begot, how nourished?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Reply, reply.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1412"/></l><l>It is engender'd in the eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1413"/></l><l>With gazing fed; and fancy dies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1414"/></l><l>In the cradle where it lies.
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1415"/></l><l>Let us all ring fancy's knell:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1416"/></l><l>I'll begin it--<lb ed="F1" n="1417"/>Ding, dong, bell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1418"/></l></sp><sp who="all."><speaker>All.</speaker><l>Ding, dong, bell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1419"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>So may the outward shows be least themselves:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1420"/></l><l>The world is still deceived with ornament.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1421"/></l><l>In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1422"/></l><l>But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1423"/></l><l>Obscures the show of evil?   In religion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1424"/></l><l>What damned error, but some sober brow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1425"/></l><l>Will bless it and approve it with a text,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1426"/></l><l>Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1427"/></l><l>There is no vice so simple but assumes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1428"/></l><l>Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1429"/></l><l>How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1430"/></l><l>As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1431"/></l><l>The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1432"/></l><l>Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1433"/></l><l>And these assume but valor's excrement
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1434"/></l><l>To render them redoubted!   Look on beauty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1435"/></l><l>And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="1436"/></l><l>Which therein works a miracle in nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1437"/></l><l>Making them lightest that wear most of it:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1438"/></l><l>So are those crisped snaky golden locks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1439"/></l><l>Which make such wanton gambols with the wind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1440"/></l><l>Upon supposed fairness, often known
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1441"/></l><l>To be the dowry of a second head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1442"/></l><l>The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1443"/></l><l>Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1444"/></l><l>To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1445"/></l><l>Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1446"/></l><l>The seeming truth which cunning time puts on
<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="1447"/></l><l>To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou gaudy gold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1448"/></l><l>Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1449"/></l><l>Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1450"/></l><l>'Tween man and man: but thou, thou meagre lead,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1451"/></l><l>Which rather threatenest than dost promise aught,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1452"/></l><l>Thy paleness moves me more than eloquence;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1453"/></l><l>And here choose I: joy be the consequence!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1454"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l><stage>[Aside]</stage> How all the other passions fleet to air,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1455"/></l><l>As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1456"/></l><l>And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1457"/></l><l>O love,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Be moderate; allay thy ecstasy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1458"/></l><l>In measure rein thy joy; scant this excess.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1459"/></l><l>I feel too much thy blessing: make it less,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1460"/></l><l part="I">For fear I surfeit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1461"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">What find I here?
<stage>[Opening the leaden casket.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1462"/></l><l>Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi-god
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1463"/></l><l>Hath come so near creation?   Move these eyes?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1464"/></l><l>Or whether, riding on the balls of mine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1465"/></l><l>Seem they in motion?   Here are sever'd lips,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1466"/></l><l>Parted with sugar breath: so sweet a bar
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1467"/></l><l>Should sunder such sweet friends.   Here in her hairs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1468"/></l><l>The painter plays the spider and hath woven
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1469"/></l><l>A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1470"/></l><l>Faster than gnats in cobwebs: but her eyes,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1471"/></l><l>How could he see to do them? having made one,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1472"/></l><l>Methinks it should have power to steal both his
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1473"/></l><l>And leave itself unfurnish'd. Yet look, how far
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1474"/></l><l>The substance of my praise doth wrong this shadow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1475"/></l><l>In underprizing it, so far this shadow
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="1476"/></l><l>Doth limp behind the substance.   Here's the scroll,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1477"/></l><l>The continent and summary of my fortune.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1478"/></l><l> <stage>Reads</stage> You that choose not by the view,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1479"/></l><l>Chance as fair and choose as true!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1480"/></l><l>Since this fortune falls to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1481"/></l><l>Be content and seek no new,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1482"/></l><l>If you be well pleased with this
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1483"/></l><l>And hold your fortune for your bliss,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1484"/></l><l>Turn you where your lady is
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1485"/></l><l>And claim her with a loving kiss.
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="1486"/></l><l>A gentle scroll. Fair lady, by your leave;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1487"/></l><l>I come by note, to give and to receive.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1488"/></l><l>Like one of two contending in a prize,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1489"/></l><l>That thinks he hath done well in people's eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1490"/></l><l>Hearing applause and universal shout,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1491"/></l><l>Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1492"/></l><l>Whether those pearls of praise be his or no;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1493"/></l><l>So, thrice fair lady, stand I, even so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1494"/></l><l>As doubtful whether what I see be true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1495"/></l><l>Until confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you,

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1496"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="150">You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1497"/></l><l>Such as I am: though for myself alone
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1498"/></l><l>I would not be ambitious in my wish,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1499"/></l><l>To wish myself much better; yet, for you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1500"/></l><l>I would be trebled twenty times myself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1501"/></l><l>A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1502"/></l><l>More rich;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That only to stand high in your account,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1503"/></l><l>I might in virtue, beauties, livings, friends,
<lb ed="G" n="159"/><lb ed="F1" n="1504"/></l><l>Exceed account; but the full sum of me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1505"/></l><l>Is sum of something, which, to term in gross,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1506"/></l><l>Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractised;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1507"/></l><l>Happy in this, she is not yet so old
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1508"/></l><l>But she may learn; happier than this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1509"/></l><l>She is not bred so dull but she can learn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1510"/></l><l>Happiest of all is that her gentle spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1511"/></l><l>Commits itself to yours to be directed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1512"/></l><l>As from her lord, her governor, her king.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1513"/></l><l>Myself and what is mine to you and yours
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1514"/></l><l>Is now converted: but now I was the lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1515"/></l><l>Of this fair mansion, master of my servants,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1516"/></l><l>Queen o'er myself: and even now, but now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1517"/></l><l>This house, these servants and this same myself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1518"/></l><l>Are yours, my lord: I give them with this ring;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1519"/></l><l>Which when you part from, lose, or give away,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1520"/></l><l>Let it presage the ruin of your love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1521"/></l><l>And be my vantage to exclaim on you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1522"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Madam, you have bereft me of all words,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1523"/></l><l>Only my blood speaks to you in my veins;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1524"/></l><l>And there is such confusion in my powers,
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="1525"/></l><l>As after some oration fairly spoke
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1526"/></l><l>By a beloved prince, there doth appear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1527"/></l><l>Among the buzzing pleased multitude;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1528"/></l><l>Where every something, being blent together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1529"/></l><l>Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1530"/></l><l>Express'd and not express'd.   But when this ring
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1531"/></l><l>Parts from this finger, then parts life from hence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1532"/></l><l>O, then be bold to say Bassanio's dead!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1533"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>My lord and lady, it is now our time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1534"/></l><l>That have stood by and seen our wishes prosper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1535"/></l><l>To cry, good joy: good joy, my lord and lady!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1536"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1537"/></l><l>I wish you all the joy that you can wish;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1538"/></l><l>For I am sure you can wish none from me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1539"/></l><l>And when your honors mean to solemnize
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1540"/></l><l>The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1541"/></l><l>Even at that time I may be married too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1542"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>With all my heart, so thou canst get a wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1543"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>I thank your lordship, you have got me one.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1544"/></l><l>My eyes, my lord, can look as swift as yours:
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="1545"/></l><l>You saw the mistress, I beheld the maid;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1546"/></l><l>You loved, I loved for intermission.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1547"/></l><l>No more pertains to me, my lord, than you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1548"/></l><l>Your fortune stood upon the casket there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1549"/></l><l>And so did mine too, as the matter falls;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1550"/></l><l>For wooing here until I sweat again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1551"/></l><l>And swearing till my very roof was dry
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1552"/></l><l>With oaths of love, at last, if promise last,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1553"/></l><l>I got a promise of this fair one here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1554"/></l><l>To have her love, provided that your fortune
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1555"/></l><l part="I">Achieved her mistress.

<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="1556"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Is this true, Nerissa?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1557"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>Madam, it is, so you stand pleased withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1558"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1559"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Yes, faith, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1560"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p>Our feast shall be much honour'd in
<lb ed="G"/>your <lb ed="F1" n="1561"/>marriage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1562"/></p></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><p>We'll play with them the first boy for
<lb ed="G"/>a thousand <lb ed="F1" n="1563"/>ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1564"/></p></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>What, and stake down?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1565"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><p>No; we shall ne'er win at that sport,
<lb ed="G" n="220"/>and stake <lb ed="F1" n="1566"/>down.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1567"/></p><l>But who comes here?   Lorenzo and his infidel?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1568"/></l><l>What, and my old Venetian friend Salerio?
<lb ed="F1" n="1569"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORENZO, JESSICA, and SALERIO,
<lb ed="G"/>           a Messenger from Venice. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1570"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1571"/></l><l>If that the youth of my new interest here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1572"/></l><l>Have power to bid you welcome.   By your leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1573"/></l><l>I bid my friends and countrymen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1574"/></l><l part="I">Sweet Portia, welcome.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1575"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">So do I, my lord:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>They are entirely welcome.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1576"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>I thank your honor. For my part, my lord,
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="1577"/></l><l>My purpose was not to have seen you here;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1578"/></l><l>But meeting with Salerio by the way,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1579"/></l><l>He did entreat me, past all saying nay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1580"/></l><l part="I">To come with him along.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1581"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l part="F">I did, my lord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1582"/></l><l>And I have reason for it. Signior Antonio
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1583"/></l><l part="I">Commends him to you.
                       <stage>[Gives Bassanio a letter.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1584"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Ere I ope his letter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1585"/></l><l>I pray you, tell me how my good friend doth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1586"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l>Not sick, my lord, unless it be in mind;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1587"/></l><l>Nor well, unless in mind: his letter there
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1588"/></l><l>Will show you his estate.
<lb ed="F1" n="1589"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1590"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l n="240">Nerissa, cheer yon stranger; bid her welcome.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1591"/></l><l>Your hand, Salerio: what's the news from Venice?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1592"/></l><l>How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1593"/></l><l>I know he will be glad of our success;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1594"/></l><l>We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1595"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l>I would you had won the fleece that he hath <lb ed="F1" n="1596"/>lost.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1597"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>There are some shrewd contents in yon same <lb ed="F1" n="1598"/>paper,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1599"/></l><l>That steals the color from Bassanio's cheek:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1600"/></l><l>Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1601"/></l><l>Could turn so much the constitution
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1602"/></l><l>Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!
<lb ed="G" n="251"/><lb ed="F1" n="1603"/></l><l>With leave, Bassanio; I am half yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1604"/></l><l>And I must freely have the half of anything
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1605"/></l><l part="I">That this same paper brings you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1606"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">O sweet Portia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1607"/></l><l>Here are a few of the unpleasant'st words
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1608"/></l><l>That ever blotted paper! Gentle lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1609"/></l><l>When I did first impart my love to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1610"/></l><l>I freely told you, all the wealth I had
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1611"/></l><l>Ran in my veins, I was a gentleman;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1612"/></l><l>And then I told you true: and yet, dear lady,
<lb ed="G" n="260"/><lb ed="F1" n="1613"/></l><l>Rating myself at nothing, you shall see
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1614"/></l><l>How much I was a braggart. When I told you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1615"/></l><l>My state was nothing, I should then have told you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1616"/></l><l>That I was worse than nothing; for, indeed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1617"/></l><l>I have engaged myself to a dear friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1618"/></l><l>Engaged my friend to his mere enemy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1619"/></l><l>To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1620"/></l><l>The paper as the body of my friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1621"/></l><l>And every word in it a gaping wound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1622"/></l><l>Issuing life-blood. But is it true, Salerio?
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="1623"/></l><l>Have all his ventures fail'd? What, not one hit?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1624"/></l><l>From Tripolis, from Mexico and England,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1625"/></l><l>From Lisbon, Barbary and India?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1626"/></l><l>And not one vessel 'scaped the dreadful touch
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1627"/></l><l part="I">Of merchant-marring rocks?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1628"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l part="F">Not one, my lord.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1629"/></l><l>Besides, it should appear, that if he had
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1630"/></l><l>The present money to discharge the Jew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1631"/></l><l>He would not take it. Never did I know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1632"/></l><l>A creature, that did bear the shape of man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1633"/></l><l>So keen and greedy to confound a man:
<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="1634"/></l><l>He plies the duke at morning and at night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1635"/></l><l>And doth impeach the freedom of the state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1636"/></l><l>If they deny him justice: twenty merchants,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1637"/></l><l>The duke himself, and the magnificoes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1638"/></l><l>Of greatest port, have all persuaded with him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1639"/></l><l>But none can drive him from the envious plea
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1640"/></l><l>Of forfeiture, of justice and his bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1641"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>When I was with him I have heard him swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1642"/></l><l>To Tubal and to Chus, his countrymen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1643"/></l><l>That he would rather have Antonio's flesh
<lb ed="G" n="290"/><lb ed="F1" n="1644"/></l><l>Than twenty times the value of the sum
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1645"/></l><l>That he did owe him: and I know, my lord.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1646"/></l><l>If law, authority and power deny not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1647"/></l><l>It will go hard with poor Antonio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1648"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Is it your dear friend that is thus in trouble?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1649"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>The dearest friend to me, the kindest man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1650"/></l><l>The best condition'd and unwearied spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1651"/></l><l>In doing courtesies, and one in whom
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1652"/></l><l>The ancient Roman honor more appears
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1653"/></l><l>Than any that draws breath in Italy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1654"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="300">What sum owes he the Jew?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1655"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="I">For me three thousand ducats.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1656"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">What, no more?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1657"/></l><l>Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1658"/></l><l>Double six thousand, and then treble that,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1659"/></l><l>Before a friend of this description
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1660"/></l><l>Shall lose a hair through Bassanio's fault.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1661"/></l><l>First go with me to church and call me wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1662"/></l><l>And then away to Venice to your friend;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1663"/></l><l>For never shall you lie by Portia's side
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1664"/></l><l>With an unquiet soul. You shall have gold
<lb ed="G" n="310"/><lb ed="F1" n="1665"/></l><l>To pay the petty debt twenty times over:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1666"/></l><l>When it is paid, bring your true friend along.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1667"/></l><l>My maid Nerissa and myself meantime
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1668"/></l><l>Will live as maids and widows. Come, away!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1669"/></l><l>For you shall hence upon your wedding-day:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1670"/></l><l>Bid your friends welcome, show a merry cheer:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1671"/></l><l>Since you are dear bought, I will love you dear.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1672"/></l><l>But let me hear the letter of your friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1673"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads]</stage> Sweet Bassanio, my ships
<lb ed="G"/>have all miscarried, my creditors <lb ed="F1" n="1674"/>grow cruel,
<lb ed="G"/>my estate is very low, my bond to the Jew is
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1675"/><lb ed="G"/>forfeit; and since in paying it, it is impossible
<lb ed="G"/>I should live, all <lb ed="F1" n="1676"/>debts are cleared between you
<lb ed="G"/>and I, if I might but see you at my <lb ed="F1" n="1677"/>death. Notwithstanding,
<lb ed="G"/>use your pleasure: if your love
<lb ed="G"/>do not <lb ed="F1" n="1678"/>persuade you to come, let not my letter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1679"/></p></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>O love, dispatch all business, and be gone!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1680"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Since I have your good leave to go away,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1681"/></l><l>I will make haste: but, till I come again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1682"/></l><l>No bed shall e'er be guilty of my stay,
<lb ed="G" n="330"/><lb ed="F1" n="1683"/></l><l>No rest be interposer 'twixt us twain.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1684"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SHYLOCK, SALARINO, ANTONIO, <lb ed="F1" n="1685"/>and Gaoler.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1686"/><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Gaoler, look to him: tell not me of mercy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1687"/></l><l>This is the fool that lent out money gratis:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1688"/></l><l part="I">Gaoler, look to him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1689"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Hear me yet, good Shylock.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1690"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I'll have my bond; speak not against my bond:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1691"/></l><l>I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1692"/></l><l>Thou call'dst me dog before thou hadst a cause;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1693"/></l><l>But, since I am a dog, beware my fangs:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1694"/></l><l>The duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1695"/></l><l>Thou naughty gaoler, that thou art so fond
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1696"/></l><l>To come abroad with him at his request.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1697"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I pray thee, hear me speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1698"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1699"/></l><l>I'll have my bond; and therefore speak no more.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1700"/></l><l>I'll not be made a soft and dull-eyed fool,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1701"/></l><l>To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1702"/></l><l>To Christian intercessors. Follow not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1703"/></l><l>I'll have no speaking: I will have my bond.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1704"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l>It is the most impenetrable cur
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1705"/></l><l part="I">That ever kept with men.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1706"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">Let him alone:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1707"/></l><l>I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
<lb ed="G" n="21"/><lb ed="F1" n="1708"/></l><l>He seeks my life; his reason well I know:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1709"/></l><l>I oft deliver'd from his forfeitures
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1710"/></l><l>Many that have at times made moan to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1711"/></l><l part="I">Therefore he hates me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1712"/></l></sp><sp who="salar."><speaker>Salar.</speaker><l part="F">I am sure the duke
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1713"/></l><l>Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1714"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>The duke cannot deny the course of law:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1715"/></l><l>For the commodity that strangers have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1716"/></l><l>With us in Venice, if it be denied,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1717"/></l><l>Will much impeach the justice of his state;
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1718"/></l><l>Since that the trade and profit of the city
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1719"/></l><l>Consisteth of all nations. Therefore, go:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1720"/></l><l>These griefs and losses have so bated me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1721"/></l><l>That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1722"/></l><l>To-morrow to my bloody creditor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1723"/></l><l>Well, gaoler, on. Pray God, Bassanio come
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1724"/></l><l>To see me pay his debt, and then I care not!
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
<head>SCENE IV</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont. A   room in PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1725"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PORTIA, NERISSA, LORENZO, JESSICA, and BALTHASAR.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1726"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1727"/><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Madam, although I speak it in your presence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1728"/></l><l>You have a noble and a true conceit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1729"/></l><l>Of god-like amity; which appears most strongly
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1730"/></l><l>In bearing thus the absence of your lord.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1731"/></l><l>But if you knew to whom you show this honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1732"/></l><l>How true a gentleman you send relief,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1733"/></l><l>How dear a lover of my lord your husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1734"/></l><l>I know you would be prouder of the work
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1735"/></l><l>Than customary bounty can enforce you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1736"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="10">I never did repent for doing good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1737"/></l><l>Nor shall not now: for in companions
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1738"/></l><l>That do converse and waste the time together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1739"/></l><l>Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1740"/></l><l>There must be needs a like proportion
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1741"/></l><l>Of lineaments, of manners and of spirit;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1742"/></l><l>Which makes me think that this Antonio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1743"/></l><l>Being the bosom lover of my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1744"/></l><l>Must needs be like my lord. If it be so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1745"/></l><l>How little is the cost I have bestow'd
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1746"/></l><l>In purchasing the semblance of my soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1747"/></l><l>From out the state of hellish misery!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1748"/></l><l>This comes too near the praising of myself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1749"/></l><l>Therefore no more of it: hear other things.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1750"/></l><l>Lorenzo, I commit into your hands
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1751"/></l><l>The husbandry and manage of my house
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1752"/></l><l>Until my lord's return: for mine own part,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1753"/></l><l>I have toward heaven breathed a secret vow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1754"/></l><l>To live in prayer and contemplation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1755"/></l><l>Only attended by Nerissa here,
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1756"/></l><l>Until her husband and my lord's return:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1757"/></l><l>There is a monastery two miles off;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1758"/></l><l>And there will we abide. I do desire you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1759"/></l><l>Not to deny this imposition;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1760"/></l><l>The which my love and some necessity
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1761"/></l><l part="I">Now lays upon you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1762"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Madam, with all my heart;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1763"/></l><l>I shall obey you in all fair commands.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1764"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>My people do already know my mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1765"/></l><l>And will acknowledge you and Jessica
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1766"/></l><l>In place of Lord Bassanio and myself.
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1767"/></l><l>And so farewell, till we shall meet again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1768"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1769"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>I wish your ladyship all heart's content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1770"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I thank you for your wish, and am well pleased
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1771"/></l><l>To wish it back on you: fare you well, Jessica.
<stage>[Exeunt Jessica and Lorenzo.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1772"/></l><l>Now, Balthasar,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>As I have ever found thee honest-true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1773"/></l><l>So let me find thee still. Take this same letter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1774"/></l><l>And use thou all the endeavour of a man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1775"/></l><l>In speed to Padua: see thou render this
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1776"/></l><l>Into my cousin's hand, Doctor Bellario;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1777"/></l><l>And, look, what notes and garments he doth give thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1778"/></l><l>Bring them, I pray thee, with imagined speed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1779"/></l><l>Unto the tranect; to the common ferry
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1780"/></l><l>Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1781"/></l><l>But get thee gone: I shall be there before thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1782"/></l></sp><sp who="balth."><speaker>Balth.</speaker><l>Madam, I go with all convenient speed.
<stage>[Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1783"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1784"/></l><l>That you yet know not of: we'll see our husbands
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1785"/></l><l part="I">Before they think of us.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1786"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l part="F">Shall they see us?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1787"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="60">They shall, Nerissa; but in such a habit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1788"/></l><l>That they shall think we are accomplished
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1789"/></l><l>With that we lack.   I'll hold thee any wager,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1790"/></l><l>When we are both accoutred like young men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1791"/></l><l>I'll prove the prettier fellow of the two,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1792"/></l><l>And wear my dagger with the braver grace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1793"/></l><l>And speak between the change of man and boy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1794"/></l><l>With a reed voice, and turn two mincing steps
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1795"/></l><l>Into a manly stride, and speak of frays
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1796"/></l><l>Like a fine bragging youth, and tell quaint lies,
<lb ed="G" n="70"/><lb ed="F1" n="1797"/></l><l>How honorable ladies sought my love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1798"/></l><l>Which I denying, they fell sick and died;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1799"/></l><l>I could not do withal; then I'll repent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1800"/></l><l>And wish, for all that, that I had not kill'd them;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1801"/></l><l>And twenty of these puny lies I'll tell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1802"/></l><l>That men shall swear I have discontinued school
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1803"/></l><l>Above a twelvemonth.   I have within my mind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1804"/></l><l>A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1805"/></l><l part="I">Which I will practise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1806"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l part="F">Why, shall we turn to men?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1807"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Fie, what a question's that,
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1808"/></l><l>If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1809"/></l><l>But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1810"/></l><l>When I am in my coach, which stays for us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1811"/></l><l>At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1812"/></l><l>For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="5">
<head>SCENE V</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. A garden.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1813"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1814"/><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of
<lb ed="G"/>the father <lb ed="F1" n="1815"/>are to be laid upon the children:
<lb ed="G"/>therefore, I promise <lb ed="F1" n="1816"/>ye, I fear you.   I was always
<lb ed="G"/>plain with you, and so <lb ed="F1" n="1817"/>now I speak my
<lb ed="G"/>agitation of the matter: therefore be of <lb ed="F1" n="1818"/>good
<lb ed="G"/>cheer, for truly I think you are damned. There
<lb ed="G"/>is <lb ed="F1" n="1819"/>but one hope in it that can do you any
<lb ed="G"/>good; and that is <lb ed="F1" n="1820"/>but a kind of bastard hope
<lb ed="G"/>neither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1821"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l n="10">And what hope is that, I pray thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1822"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Marry, you may partly hope that
<lb ed="G"/>your father <lb ed="F1" n="1823"/>got you not, that you are not the
<lb ed="G"/>Jew's daughter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1824"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><p>That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed:
<lb ed="G"/>so the <lb ed="F1" n="1825"/>sins of my mother should be
<lb ed="G"/>visited upon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1826"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Truly then I fear you are damned
<lb ed="G"/>both by father <lb ed="F1" n="1827"/>and mother: thus when I shun
<lb ed="G"/>Scylla, your father, I <lb ed="F1" n="1828"/>fall in Charybdis, your
<lb ed="G" n="20"/>mother: well, you are gone both <lb ed="F1" n="1829"/>ways.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1830"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><p>I shall be saved by my husband; he
<lb ed="G"/>hath made me <lb ed="F1" n="1831"/>a Christian.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1832"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Truly, the more to blame he: we
<lb ed="G"/>were Christians <lb ed="F1" n="1833"/>enow before; e'en as many as
<lb ed="G"/>could well live, one by another.   <lb ed="F1" n="1834"/>This making
<lb ed="G"/>of Christians will raise the price of <lb ed="F1" n="1835"/>hogs: if we
<lb ed="G"/>grow all to be pork-eaters, we shall not <lb ed="F1" n="1836"/>shortly
<lb ed="G"/>have a rasher on the coals for money.
<lb ed="F1" n="1837"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORENZO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1838"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><p>I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what
<lb ed="G" n="30"/>you say: here <lb ed="F1" n="1839"/>he comes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1840"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>I shall grow jealous of you shortly,
<lb ed="G"/>Launcelot, <lb ed="F1" n="1841"/>if you thus get my wife into corners.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1842"/></p></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><p>Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo:
<lb ed="G"/>Launcelot <lb ed="F1" n="1843"/>and I are out.   He tells me flatly,
<lb ed="G"/>there is no mercy for me <lb ed="F1" n="1844"/>in heaven, because I
<lb ed="G"/>am a Jew's daughter: and he says, <lb ed="F1" n="1845"/>you are no
<lb ed="G"/>good member of the commonwealth, for <lb ed="F1" n="1846"/>in
<lb ed="G"/>converting Jews to Christians, you raise the
<lb ed="G" n="39"/>price <lb ed="F1" n="1847"/>of pork.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1848"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>I shall answer that better to the commonwealth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1849"/><lb ed="G"/>than you can the getting up of the
<lb ed="G"/>negro's belly: <lb ed="F1" n="1850"/>the Moor is with child by you,
<lb ed="G"/>Launcelot.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1851"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>It is much that the Moor should be
<lb ed="G"/>more than <lb ed="F1" n="1852"/>reason: but if she be less than an
<lb ed="G"/>honest woman, she is <lb ed="F1" n="1853"/>indeed more than I took
<lb ed="G"/>her for.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1854"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>How every fool can play upon the
<lb ed="G"/>word!   I <lb ed="F1" n="1855"/>think the best grace of wit will shortly
<lb ed="G"/>turn into silence, <lb ed="F1" n="1856"/>and discourse grow commendable
<lb ed="G"/>in none only <lb ed="F1" n="1857"/>but parrots.   Go in,
<lb ed="G" n="52"/>sirrah; bid them prepare dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1858"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>That is done, sir; they have all
<lb ed="G"/>stomachs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1859"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are
<lb ed="G"/>you! <lb ed="F1" n="1860"/>then bid them prepare dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1861"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>That is done too, sir; only 'cover' is the word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1862"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>Will you cover then, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1863"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l n="59">Not so, sir, neither; I know my duty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1864"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><p>Yet more quarrelling with occasion!
<lb ed="G"/>Wilt thou <lb ed="F1" n="1865"/>show the whole wealth of thy wit in
<lb ed="G"/>an instant?   I pray <lb ed="F1" n="1866"/>thee, understand a plain
<lb ed="G"/>man in his plain meaning: go <lb ed="F1" n="1867"/>to thy fellows;
<lb ed="G"/>bid them cover the table, serve in the <lb ed="F1" n="1868"/>meat, and
<lb ed="G"/>we will come in to dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1869"/></p></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>For the table, sir, it shall be served
<lb ed="G"/>in; for the <lb ed="F1" n="1870"/>meat, sir, it shall be covered; for
<lb ed="G"/>your coming in to <lb ed="F1" n="1871"/>dinner, sir, why, let it be as
<lb ed="G"/>humors and conceits shall <lb ed="F1" n="1872"/>govern.  <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1873"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l n="70">O dear discretion, how his words are suited!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1874"/></l><l>The fool hath planted in his memory
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1875"/></l><l>An army of good words; and I do know
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1876"/></l><l>A many fools, that stand in better place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1877"/></l><l>Garnish'd like him, that for a tricksy word
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1878"/></l><l>Defy the matter. How cheer'st thou, Jessica?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1879"/></l><l>And now, good sweet, say thy opinion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1880"/></l><l>How dost thou like the Lord Bassanio's wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1881"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Past all expressing.   It is very meet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1882"/></l><l>The Lord Bassanio live an upright life;
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="1883"/></l><l>For, having such a blessing in his lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1884"/></l><l>He finds the joys of heaven here on earth;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1885"/></l><l>And if on earth he do not mean it, then
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1886"/></l><l>In reason he should never come to heaven.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1887"/></l><l>Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1888"/></l><l>And on the wager lay two earthly women,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1889"/></l><l>And Portia one, there must be something else
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1890"/></l><l>Pawn'd with the other, for the poor rude world
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1891"/></l><l part="I">Hath not her fellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1892"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Even such a husband
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1893"/></l><l>Hast thou of me as she is for a wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1894"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l n="90">Nay, but ask my opinion too of that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1895"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>I will anon: first, let us go to dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1896"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>Nay, let me praise you while I have a stomach.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1897"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>No, pray thee, let it serve for tabletalk;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1898"/></l><l>Then, howsoe'er thou speak'st, 'mong other things
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1899"/></l><l part="I">I shall digest it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1900"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l part="F">Well, I'll set you forth.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 type="act" n="4">
    <head>ACT IV</head><lb ed="F1" n="1901"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice. A court of justice.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="1902"/><stage type="entrance">Enter the DUKE, the Magnificoes, ANTONIO, BASSANIO, <lb ed="F1" n="1903"/>GRATIANO, SALERIO, and others.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1904"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>What, is Antonio here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1905"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Ready, so please your grace.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1906"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I am sorry for thee: thou art come to answer
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1907"/></l><l>A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1908"/></l><l>Uncapable of pity, void and empty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1909"/></l><l part="I">From any dram of mercy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1910"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I have heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1911"/></l><l>Your grace hath ta'en great pains to qualify
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1912"/></l><l>His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1913"/></l><l>And that no lawful means can carry me
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="1914"/></l><l>Out of his envy's reach, I do oppose
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1915"/></l><l>My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1916"/></l><l>To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1917"/></l><l>The very tyranny and rage of his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1918"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Go one, and call the Jew into the court.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1919"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l>He is ready at the door: he comes, my lord.
<lb ed="F1" n="1920"/><stage type="entrance">Enter SHYLOCK.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1921"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Make room, and let him stand before our face.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1922"/></l><l>Shylock, the world thinks, and I think so too,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1923"/></l><l>That thou but lead'st this fashion of thy malice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1924"/></l><l>To the last hour of act; and then 'tis thought
<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="1925"/></l><l>Thou'lt show thy mercy and remorse more strange
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1926"/></l><l>Than is thy strange apparent cruelty;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1927"/></l><l>And where thou now exact'st the penalty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1928"/></l><l>Which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1929"/></l><l>Thou wilt not only loose the forfeiture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1930"/></l><l>But, touch'd with human gentleness and love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1931"/></l><l>Forgive a moiety of the principal;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1932"/></l><l>Glancing an eye of pity on his losses,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1933"/></l><l>That have of late so huddled on his back,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1934"/></l><l>Enow to press a royal merchant down
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="1935"/></l><l>And pluck commiseration of his state
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1936"/></l><l>From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1937"/></l><l>From stubborn Turks and Tartars, never train'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1938"/></l><l>To offices of tender courtesy.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1939"/></l><l>We all expect a gentle answer, Jew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1940"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I have possess'd your grace of what I purpose;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1941"/></l><l>And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1942"/></l><l>To have the due and forfeit of my bond:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1943"/></l><l>If you deny it, let the danger light
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1944"/></l><l>Upon your charter and your city's freedom.
<lb ed="G" n="40"/><lb ed="F1" n="1945"/></l><l>You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1946"/></l><l>A weight of carrion flesh than to receive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1947"/></l><l>Three thousand ducats: I'll not answer that:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1948"/></l><l>But, say, it is my humor: is it answer'd?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1949"/></l><l>What if my house be troubled with a rat
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1950"/></l><l>And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1951"/></l><l>To have it baned?   What, are you answer'd yet?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1952"/></l><l>Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1953"/></l><l>Some, that are mad if they behold a cat;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1954"/></l><l>And others, when the bagpipe sings i' the nose,
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="1955"/></l><l>Cannot contain their urine: for affection,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1956"/></l><l>Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1957"/></l><l>Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1958"/></l><l>As there is no firm reason to be render'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1959"/></l><l>Why he cannot abide a gaping pig;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1960"/></l><l>Why he, a harmless necessary cat;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1961"/></l><l>Why he, a woollen bagpipe; but of force
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1962"/></l><l>Must yield to such inevitable shame
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1963"/></l><l>As to offend, himself being offended;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1964"/></l><l>So can I give no reason, nor I will not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1965"/></l><l>More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
<lb ed="G" n="61"/><lb ed="F1" n="1966"/></l><l>I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1967"/></l><l>A losing suit against him. Are you answer'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1968"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>This is no answer, thou unfeeling man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1969"/></l><l>To excuse the current of thy cruelty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1970"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I am not bound to please thee with my answers.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1971"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Do all men kill the things they do not love?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1972"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1973"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Every offence is not a hate at first.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1974"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee <lb ed="F1" n="1975"/>twice?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1976"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l n="70">I pray you, think you question with the Jew:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1977"/></l><l>You may as well go stand upon the beach
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1978"/></l><l>And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1979"/></l><l>You may as well use question with the wolf
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1980"/></l><l>Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1981"/></l><l>You may as well forbid the mountain pines
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1982"/></l><l>To wag their high tops and to make no noise,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1983"/></l><l>When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1984"/></l><l>You may as well do any thing most hard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1985"/></l><l>As seek to soften that--than which what's harder?--
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1986"/></l><l>His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,
<lb ed="G" n="81"/><lb ed="F1" n="1987"/></l><l>Make no more offers, use no farther means,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1988"/></l><l>But with all brief and plain conveniency
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1989"/></l><l>Let me have judgement and the Jew his will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1990"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>For thy three thousand ducats here is six.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1991"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>If every ducat in six thousand ducats
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1992"/></l><l>Were in six parts and every part a ducat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1993"/></l><l>I would not draw them; I would have my bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1994"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1995"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>What judgement shall I dread, doing no wrong?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1996"/></l><l>You have among you many a purchased slave,
<lb ed="G" n="91"/><lb ed="F1" n="1997"/></l><l>Which, like your asses and your dogs and mules,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1998"/></l><l>You use in abject and in slavish parts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="1999"/></l><l>Because you bought them: shall I say to you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2000"/></l><l>Let them be free, marry them to your heirs?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2001"/></l><l>Why sweat they under burthens? let their beds
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2002"/></l><l>Be made as soft as yours and let their palates
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2003"/></l><l>Be season'd with such viands?   You will answer
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2004"/></l><l>'The slaves are ours:' so do I answer you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2005"/></l><l>The pound of flesh, which I demand of him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2006"/></l><l>Is dearly bought; 'tis mine and I will have it.
<lb ed="G" n="101"/><lb ed="F1" n="2007"/></l><l>If you deny me, fie upon your law!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2008"/></l><l>There is no force in the decrees of Venice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2009"/></l><l>I stand for judgement: answer; shall I have it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2010"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Upon my power I may dismiss this court,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2011"/></l><l>Unless Bellario, a learned doctor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2012"/></l><l>Whom I have sent for to determine this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2013"/></l><l part="I">Come here to-day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2014"/></l></sp><sp who="saler."><speaker>Saler.</speaker><l part="F">My lord, here stays without
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2015"/></l><l>A messenger with letters from the doctor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2016"/></l><l>New come from Padua.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2017"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l n="110">Bring us the letter; call the messenger.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2018"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Good cheer, Antonio!   What, man, courage yet!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2019"/></l><l>The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones and all,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2020"/></l><l>Ere thou shalt lose for me one drop of blood.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2021"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I am a tainted wether of the flock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2022"/></l><l>Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2023"/></l><l>Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2024"/></l><l>You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2025"/></l><l>Than to live still and write mine epitaph.
<lb ed="F1" n="2026"/><stage type="entrance">Enter NERISSA, dressed like a lawyer's clerk.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2027"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Came you from Padua, from Bellario?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2028"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l n="120">From both, <lb ed="F1" n="2029"/>my lord. Bellario greets your grace.
<stage>[Presenting a letter. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2030"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Why dost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2031"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>To cut the forfeiture from that bankrupt there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2032"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2033"/></l><l>Thou makest thy knife keen; but no metal can,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2034"/></l><l>No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2035"/></l><l>Of thy sharp envy.   Can no prayers pierce thee?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2036"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2037"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>O, be thou damn'd, inexecrable dog!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2038"/></l><l>And for thy life let justice be accused.
<lb ed="G" n="130"/><lb ed="F1" n="2039"/></l><l>Thou almost makest me waver in my faith
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2040"/></l><l>To hold opinion with Pythagoras,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2041"/></l><l>That souls of animals infuse themselves
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2042"/></l><l>Into the trunks of men: thy currish spirit
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2043"/></l><l>Govern'd a wolf, who, hang'd for human slaughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2044"/></l><l>Even from the gallows did his fell soul fleet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2045"/></l><l>And, whilst thou lay'st in thy unhallow'd dam,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2046"/></l><l>Infused itself in thee; for thy desires
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2047"/></l><l>Are wolvish, bloody, starved and ravenous.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2048"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2049"/></l><l>Thou but offend'st thy lungs to speak so loud:
<lb ed="G" n="141"/><lb ed="F1" n="2050"/></l><l>Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2051"/></l><l>To cureless ruin.   I stand here for law.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2052"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>This letter from Bellario doth commend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2053"/></l><l>A young and learned doctor to our court.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2054"/></l><l part="I">Where is he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2055"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l part="F">He attendeth here hard by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2056"/></l><l>To know your answer, whether you'll admit him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2057"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>With all my heart. Some three or four of you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2058"/></l><l>Go give him courteous conduct to this place.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2059"/></l><l>Meantime the court shall hear Bellario's letter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2060"/></l></sp><sp who="clerk."><speaker>Clerk.</speaker><p><stage>[Reads]</stage> Your grace shall understand
<lb ed="G"/>that at the receipt of your <lb ed="F1" n="2061"/>letter I am
<lb ed="G"/>very sick: but in the instant that your messenger
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2062"/><lb ed="G"/>came, in loving visitation was with me
<lb ed="G"/>a young doctor <lb ed="F1" n="2063"/>of Rome; his name is Balthasar.
<lb ed="G"/>I acquainted him with <lb ed="F1" n="2064"/>the cause in
<lb ed="G"/>controversy between the Jew and Antonio <lb ed="F1" n="2065"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>merchant: we turned o'er many books together:
<lb ed="G"/>he is <lb ed="F1" n="2066"/>furnished with my opinion;
<lb ed="G"/>which, bettered with his own learning, <lb ed="F1" n="2067"/>the
<lb ed="G"/>greatness whereof I cannot enough commend,
<lb ed="G"/>comes <lb ed="F1" n="2068"/>with him, at my importunity, to fill up
<lb ed="G"/>your grace's request in <lb ed="F1" n="2069"/>my stead. I beseech
<lb ed="G"/>you, let his lack of years be no impediment <lb ed="F1" n="2070"/>to
<lb ed="G"/>let him lack a reverend estimation; for I never
<lb ed="G"/>knew so <lb ed="F1" n="2071"/>young a body with so old a head. I
<lb ed="G"/>leave him to your gracious <lb ed="F1" n="2072"/>acceptance, whose
<lb ed="G"/>trial shall better publish his commendation.
<lb ed="F1" n="2073"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2074"/></p></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2075"/></l><l>And here, I take it, is the doctor come.
<stage type="entrance">Enter PORTIA, dressed like a doctor of laws.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2076"/></l><l>Give me your hand.   Come you from old Bellario?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2077"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I did, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2078"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>You are welcome: take your place.
<lb ed="G" n="171"/><lb ed="F1" n="2079"/></l><l>Are you acquainted with the difference
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2080"/></l><l>That holds this present question in the court?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2081"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I am informed throughly of the cause.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2082"/></l><l>Which is the merchant here, and which the Jew?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2083"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Antonio and old Shylock, both stand forth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2084"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="I">Is your name Shylock?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2085"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">Shylock is my name.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2086"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Of a strange nature is the suit you follow;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2087"/></l><l>Yet in such rule that the Venetian law
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2088"/></l><l>Cannot impugn you as you do proceed.
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="2089"/></l><l>You stand within his danger, do you not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2090"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="I">Ay, so he says.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2091"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Do you confess the bond?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2092"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="I">I do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2093"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Then must the Jew be merciful.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2094"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>On what compulsion must I? tell me that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2095"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>The quality of mercy is not strain'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2096"/></l><l>It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2097"/></l><l>Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2098"/></l><l>It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2099"/></l><l>'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2100"/></l><l>The throned monarch better than his crown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2101"/></l><l>His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,
<lb ed="G" n="191"/><lb ed="F1" n="2102"/></l><l>The attribute to awe and majesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2103"/></l><l>Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2104"/></l><l>But mercy is above this sceptred sway;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2105"/></l><l>It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2106"/></l><l>It is an attribute to God himself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2107"/></l><l>And earthly power doth then show likest God's
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2108"/></l><l>When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2109"/></l><l>Though justice be thy plea, consider this,
<lb ed="G" n="199"/><lb ed="F1" n="2110"/></l><l>That, in the course of justice, none of us
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2111"/></l><l>Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2112"/></l><l>And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2113"/></l><l>The deeds of mercy. I have spoke thus much
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2114"/></l><l>To mitigate the justice of thy plea;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2115"/></l><l>Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2116"/></l><l>Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2117"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>My deeds upon my head!   I crave the law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2118"/></l><l>The penalty and forfeit of my bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2119"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Is he not able to discharge the money?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2120"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Yes, here I tender it for him in the court;
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="2121"/></l><l>Yea, twice the sum: if that will not suffice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2122"/></l><l>I will be bound to pay it ten times o'er,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2123"/></l><l>On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2124"/></l><l>If this will not suffice, it must appear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2125"/></l><l>That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2126"/></l><l>Wrest once the law to your authority:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2127"/></l><l>To do a great right, do a little wrong,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2128"/></l><l>And curb this cruel devil of his will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2129"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>It must not be; there is no power in Venice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2130"/></l><l>Can alter a decree established:
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="2131"/></l><l>'Twill be recorded for a precedent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2132"/></l><l>And many an error by the same example
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2133"/></l><l>Will rush into the state: it cannot be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2134"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>A Daniel come to judgement! yea, a Daniel!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2135"/></l><l>O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2136"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I pray you, let me look upon the bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2137"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Here 'tis, most reverend doctor, here it is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2138"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Shylock, there's thrice thy money offer'd thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2139"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>An oath, an oath, I have an oath in heaven:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2140"/></l><l>Shall I lay perjury upon my soul?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2141"/></l><l part="I">No, not, for Venice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2142"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Why, this bond is forfeit;
<lb ed="G" n="231"/><lb ed="F1" n="2143"/></l><l>And lawfully by this the Jew may claim
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2144"/></l><l>A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2145"/></l><l>Nearest the merchant's heart. Be merciful:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2146"/></l><l>Take thrice thy money; bid me tear the bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2147"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>When it is paid according to the tenor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2148"/></l><l>It doth appear you are a worthy judge;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2149"/></l><l>You know the law, your exposition
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2150"/></l><l>Hath been most sound: I charge you by the law,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2151"/></l><l>Whereof you are a well-deserving pillar,
<lb ed="G" n="240"/><lb ed="F1" n="2152"/></l><l>Proceed to judgement: by my soul I swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2153"/></l><l>There is no power in the tongue of man
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2154"/></l><l>To alter me: I stay here on my bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2155"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Most heartily I do beseech the court
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2156"/></l><l part="I">To give the judgement.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2157"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Why then, thus it is:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2158"/></l><l>You must prepare your bosom for his knife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2159"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>O noble judge!   O excellent young man!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2160"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>For the intent and purpose of the law
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2161"/></l><l>Hath full relation to the penalty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2162"/></l><l>Which here appeareth due upon the bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2163"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l n="250">'Tis very true: O wise and upright judge!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2164"/></l><l>How much more elder art thou than thy looks!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2165"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="I">Therefore lay bare your bosom.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2166"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, his breast:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2167"/></l><l>So says the bond: doth it not, noble judge?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2168"/></l><l>'Nearest his heart:' those are the very words.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2169"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>It is so. Are there balance here to weigh
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">The <lb ed="F1" n="2170"/>flesh?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2171"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="F">I have them ready.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2172"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Have by some surgeon, Shylock, on your charge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2173"/></l><l>To stop his wounds lest he do bleed to death.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2174"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Is it so nominated in the bond?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2175"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>It is not so express'd: but what of that?
<lb ed="G" n="261"/><lb ed="F1" n="2176"/></l><l>'Twere good you do so much for charity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2177"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2178"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>You, merchant, have you any thing to say?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2179"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>But little: I am arm'd and well prepared.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2180"/></l><l>Give me your hand, Bassanio: fare you well!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2181"/></l><l>Grieve not that I am fallen to this for you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2182"/></l><l>For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2183"/></l><l>Than is her custom: it is still her use
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2184"/></l><l>To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2185"/></l><l>To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2186"/></l><l>An age of poverty; from which lingering penance
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2187"/></l><l>Of such misery doth she cut me off.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2188"/></l><l>Commend me to your honorable wife:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2189"/></l><l>Tell her the process of Antonio's end;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2190"/></l><l>Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2191"/></l><l>And, when the tale is told, bid her be judge
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2192"/></l><l>Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2193"/></l><l>Repent but you that you shall lose your friend,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2194"/></l><l>And he repents not that he pays your debt;
<lb ed="G" n="280"/><lb ed="F1" n="2195"/></l><l>For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2196"/></l><l>I'll pay it presently with all my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2197"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Antonio, I am married to a wife
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2198"/></l><l>Which is as dear to me as life itself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2199"/></l><l>But life itself, my wife, and all the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2200"/></l><l>Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2201"/></l><l>I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2202"/></l><l>Here to this devil, to deliver you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2203"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2204"/></l><l>If she were by, to hear you make the offer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2205"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
<lb ed="G" n="291"/><lb ed="F1" n="2206"/></l><l>I would she were in heaven, so she could
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2207"/></l><l>Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2208"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>'Tis well you offer it behind her back;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2209"/></l><l>The wish would make else an unquiet house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2210"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>These be the Christian husbands.   I have a daughter;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2211"/></l><l>Would any of the stock of Barrabas
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2212"/></l><l>Had been her husband rather than a Christian! <stage>[Aside.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2213"/></l><l>We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2214"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>A pound of that same merchant's flesh is thine:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2215"/></l><l>The court awards it, and the law doth give it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2216"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l n="301">Most rightful judge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2217"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>And you must cut this flesh from off his breast:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2218"/></l><l>The law allows it, and the court awards it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2219"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Most learned judge!   A sentence! Come, prepare!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2220"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Tarry a little; there is something else.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2221"/></l><l>This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2222"/></l><l>The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh:'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2223"/></l><l>Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2224"/></l><l>But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
<lb ed="G" n="310"/><lb ed="F1" n="2225"/></l><l>One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2226"/></l><l>Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate'
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2227"/></l><l>Unto the state of Venice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2228"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>O upright judge!   <lb ed="F1" n="2229"/>Mark, Jew: O learned judge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2230"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="I">Is that the law?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2231"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Thyself shalt see the act:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2232"/></l><l>For, as thou urgest justice, be assured
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2233"/></l><l>Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desirest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2234"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>O learned judge!   Mark, Jew: a learned judge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2235"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I take this offer, then; pay the bond thrice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2236"/></l><l part="I">And let the Christian go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2237"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Here is the money.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2238"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l n="320">Soft!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>The Jew shall have all justice; soft! no haste:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2239"/></l><l>He shall have nothing but the penalty.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2240"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>O Jew! an upright judge, a learned judge!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2241"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2242"/></l><l>Shed thou no blood, nor cut thou less nor more
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2243"/></l><l>But just a pound of flesh: if thou cut'st more
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2244"/></l><l>Or less than a just pound, be it but so much
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2245"/></l><l>As makes it light or heavy in the substance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2246"/></l><l>Or the division of the twentieth part
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2247"/></l><l>Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn
<lb ed="G" n="331"/><lb ed="F1" n="2248"/></l><l>But in the estimation of a hair,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2249"/></l><l>Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2250"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>A second Daniel, a Daniel, Jew!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2251"/></l><l>Now, infidel, I have you on the hip.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2252"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Why doth the Jew pause? take thy forfeiture.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2253"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Give me my principal, and let me go.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2254"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>I have it ready for thee; here it is.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2255"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>He hath refused it in the open court:
<lb ed="G" n="339"/><lb ed="F1" n="2256"/></l><l>He shall have merely justice and his bond.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2257"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>A Daniel, still say I, a second Daniel!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2258"/></l><l>I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2259"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Shall I not have barely my principal?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2260"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Thou shalt have nothing but the forfeiture,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2261"/></l><l>To be so taken at thy peril, Jew.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2262"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Why, then the devil give him good of it!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2263"/></l><l part="I">I'll stay no longer question.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2264"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Tarry, Jew:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2265"/></l><l>The law hath yet another hold on you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2266"/></l><l>It is enacted in the laws of Venice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2267"/></l><l>If it be proved against an alien
<lb ed="G" n="350"/><lb ed="F1" n="2268"/></l><l>That by direct or indirect attempts
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2269"/></l><l>He seek the life of any citizen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2270"/></l><l>The party 'gainst the which he doth contrive
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2271"/></l><l>Shall seize one half his goods; the other half
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2272"/></l><l>Comes to the privy coffer of the state;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2273"/></l><l>And the offender's life lies in the mercy
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2274"/></l><l>Of the duke only, 'gainst all other voice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2275"/></l><l>In which predicament, I say, thou stand'st;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2276"/></l><l>For it appears, by manifest proceeding,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2277"/></l><l>That indirectly and directly too
<lb ed="G" n="360"/><lb ed="F1" n="2278"/></l><l>Thou hast contrived against the very life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2279"/></l><l>Of the defendant; and thou hast incurr'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2280"/></l><l>The danger formerly by me rehearsed.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2281"/></l><l>Down therefore and beg mercy of the duke.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2282"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Beg that thou mayst have leave to hang thyself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2283"/></l><l>And yet, thy wealth being forfeit to the state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2284"/></l><l>Thou hast not left the value of a cord;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2285"/></l><l>Therefore thou must be hang'd at the state's charge.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2286"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>That thou shalt see the difference of our spirits,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2287"/></l><l>I pardon thee thy life before thou ask it:
<lb ed="G" n="370"/><lb ed="F1" n="2288"/></l><l>For half thy wealth, it is Antonio's;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2289"/></l><l>The other half comes to the general state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2290"/></l><l>Which humbleness may drive unto a fine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2291"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Ay, for the state, not for Antonio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2292"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2293"/></l><l>You take my house when you do take the prop
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2294"/></l><l>That doth sustain my house; you take my life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2295"/></l><l>When you do take the means whereby I live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2296"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>What mercy can you render him, Antonio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2297"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>A halter gratis; nothing else, for God's sake.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2298"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l n="380">So please my lord the duke and all the court
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2299"/></l><l>To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2300"/></l><l>I am content; so he will let me have
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2301"/></l><l>The other half in use, to render it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2302"/></l><l>Upon his death, unto the gentleman
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2303"/></l><l>That lately stole his daughter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2304"/></l><l>Two things provided more, that, for this favor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2305"/></l><l>He presently become a Christian;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2306"/></l><l>The other, that he do record a gift,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2307"/></l><l>Here in the court, of all he dies possess'd,
<lb ed="G" n="390"/><lb ed="F1" n="2308"/></l><l>Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2309"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>He shall do this, or else I do recant
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2310"/></l><l>The pardon that I late pronounced here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2311"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Art thou contented, Jew? what dost thou say?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2312"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l part="I">I am content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2313"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Clerk, draw a deed of gift.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2314"/></l></sp><sp who="shy."><speaker>Shy.</speaker><l>I pray you, give me leave to go from hence;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2315"/></l><l>I am not well: send the deed after me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2316"/></l><l part="I">And I will sign it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2317"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Get thee gone, but do it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2318"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>In christening shalt thou have two godfathers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2319"/></l><l>Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten more,
<lb ed="G" n="400"/><lb ed="F1" n="2320"/></l><l>To bring thee to the gallows, not the font.
<stage>[Exit Shylock.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2321"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2322"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I humbly do desire your grace of pardon:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2323"/></l><l>I must away this night toward Padua,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2324"/></l><l>And it is meet I presently set forth.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2325"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I am sorry that your leisure serves you not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2326"/></l><l>Antonio, gratify this gentleman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2327"/></l><l>For, in my mind, you are much bound to him.
               <lb ed="F1" n="2328"/><stage>[Exeunt Duke and his train.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2329"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2330"/></l><l>Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted
<lb ed="G" n="410"/><lb ed="F1" n="2331"/></l><l>Of grievous penalties; in lieu whereof,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2332"/></l><l>Three thousand ducats, due unto the Jew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2333"/></l><l>We freely cope your courteous pains withal.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2334"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>And stand indebted, over and above,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2335"/></l><l>In love and service to you evermore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2336"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>He is well paid that is well satisfied;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2337"/></l><l>And I, delivering you, am satisfied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2338"/></l><l>And therein do account myself well paid:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2339"/></l><l>My mind was never yet more mercenary.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2340"/></l><l>I pray you, know me when we meet again:
<lb ed="G" n="420"/><lb ed="F1" n="2341"/></l><l>I wish you well, and so I take my leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2342"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2343"/></l><l>Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2344"/></l><l>Not as a fee: grant me two things, I pray you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2345"/></l><l>Not to deny me, and to pardon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2346"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>You press me far, and therefore I will yield.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2347"/></l><l><stage>[To Ant.]</stage> Give me your gloves, I'll wear them for your sake;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2348"/></l><l><stage>[To Bass.]</stage> And, for your love, I'll take this ring from you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2349"/></l><l>Do not draw back your hand; I'll take no more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2350"/></l><l>And you in love shall not deny me this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2351"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>This ring, good sir, alas, it is a trifle!
<lb ed="G" n="431"/><lb ed="F1" n="2352"/></l><l>I will not shame myself to give you this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2353"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I will have nothing else but only this;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2354"/></l><l>And now methinks I have a mind to it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2355"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>There's more depends on this than on the value.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2356"/></l><l>The dearest ring in Venice will I give you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2357"/></l><l>And find it out by proclamation:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2358"/></l><l>Only for this, I pray you, pardon me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2359"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I see, sir, you are liberal in offers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2360"/></l><l>You taught me first to beg; and now methinks
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2361"/></l><l>You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2362"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="441">Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2363"/></l><l>And when she put it on, she made me vow
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2364"/></l><l>That I should neither sell nor give nor lose it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2365"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2366"/></l><l>An if your wife be not a mad-woman,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2367"/></l><l>And know how well I have deserved the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2368"/></l><l>She would not hold out enemy for ever,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2369"/></l><l>For giving it to me.   Well, peace be with you!
<stage>[Exeunt Portia and Nerissa. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2370"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring:
<lb ed="G" n="450"/><lb ed="F1" n="2371"/></l><l>Let his deservings and my love withal
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2372"/></l><l>Be valued 'gainst your wife's commandment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2373"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2374"/></l><l>Give him the ring, and bring him, if thou canst,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2375"/></l><l>Unto Antonio's house: away! make haste.  <stage>[Exit Gratiano.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2376"/></l><l>Come, you and I will thither presently;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2377"/></l><l>And in the morning early will we both
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2378"/></l><l>Fly toward Belmont: come, Antonio. <stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp></div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
<head>SCENE II</head>
<stage type="setting">The same. A street.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2379"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PORTIA and NERISSA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2380"/><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2381"/></l><l>And let him sign it: we'll away to-night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2382"/></l><l>And be a day before our husbands home:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2383"/></l><l>This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
<lb ed="F1" n="2384"/><stage type="entrance">Enter GRATIANO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2385"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Fair sir, you are well o'erta'en:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2386"/></l><l>My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2387"/></l><l>Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2388"/></l><l part="I">Your company at dinner.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2389"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">That cannot be:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2390"/></l><l>His ring I do accept most thankfully:
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2391"/></l><l>And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2392"/></l><l>I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2393"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l part="I">That will I do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2394"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l part="F">Sir, I would speak with you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2395"/></l><l>[Aside to Por.] I'll see if I can get my husband's ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2396"/></l><l>Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2397"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l><stage>[Aside to Ner.]</stage> Thou mayst, I warrant. We shall have old swearing
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2398"/></l><l>That they did give the rings away to men;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2399"/></l><l>But we'll outface them, and outswear them too.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2400"/></l><l><stage>[Aloud]</stage> Away! make haste: thou know'st where I will tarry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2401"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
<lb ed="F1" n="2402"/><stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
  </div1>

  <div1 type="act" n="5">
    <head>ACT V</head><lb ed="F1" n="2403"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Belmont.   Avenue to PORTIA'S house.</stage>
<lb ed="F1" n="2404"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LORENZO and JESSICA. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2405"/><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>The moon shines bright: in such a night as this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2406"/></l><l>When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2407"/></l><l>And they did make no noise, in such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2408"/></l><l>Troilus methinks mounted the Troyan walls
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2409"/></l><l>And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2410"/></l><l part="I">Where Cressid lay that night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2411"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2412"/></l><l>Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2413"/></l><l>And saw the lion's shadow ere himself
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2414"/></l><l part="I">And ran dismay'd away.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2415"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G" n="10"/><lb ed="F1" n="2416"/></l><l>Stood Dido with a willow in her hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2417"/></l><l>Upon the wild sea banks and waft her love
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2418"/></l><l part="I">To come again to Carthage.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2419"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2420"/></l><l>Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2421"/></l><l part="I">That did renew old AEson.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2422"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2423"/></l><l>Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2424"/></l><l>And with an unthrift love did run from Venice
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2425"/></l><l part="I">As far as Belmont.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2426"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2427"/></l><l>Did young Lorenzo swear he loved her well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2428"/></l><l>Stealing her soul with many vows of faith
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2429"/></l><l part="I">And ne'er a true one.

<lb ed="G" n="20"/><lb ed="F1" n="2430"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">In such a night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2431"/></l><l>Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2432"/></l><l>Slander her love, and he forgave it her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2433"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>I would out-night you, did no body come;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2434"/></l><l>But, hark, I hear the footing of a man.
<lb ed="F1" n="2435"/><stage type="entrance">Enter STEPHANO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2436"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Who comes so fast in silence of the night?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2437"/></l></sp><sp who="steph."><speaker>Steph.</speaker><l>A friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2438"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>A friend! what friend? your name, I pray you, friend?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2439"/></l></sp><sp who="steph."><speaker>Steph.</speaker><l>Stephano is my name; and I bring word
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2440"/></l><l>My mistress will before the break of day
<lb ed="G" n="30"/><lb ed="F1" n="2441"/></l><l>Be here at Belmont: she doth stray about
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2442"/></l><l>By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2443"/></l><l part="I">For happy wedlock hours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2444"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Who comes with her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2445"/></l></sp><sp who="steph."><speaker>Steph.</speaker><l>None but a holy hermit and her maid.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2446"/></l><l>I pray you, is my master yet return'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2447"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>He is not, nor we have not heard from him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2448"/></l><l>But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2449"/></l><l>And ceremoniously let us prepare
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2450"/></l><l>Some welcome for the mistress of the house.
<lb ed="F1" n="2451"/><stage type="entrance">Enter LAUNCELOT.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2452"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>Sola, sola! wo ha, ho! sola, sola!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2453"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l n="40">Who calls?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2454"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>Sola! did you see Master Lorenzo?
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Master Lorenzo, sola, sola!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2455"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Leave hollaing, man: here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2456"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><l>Sola! where? where?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2457"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2458"/></l></sp><sp who="laun."><speaker>Laun.</speaker><p>Tell him there's a post come from
<lb ed="G"/>my master, with <lb ed="F1" n="2459"/>his horn full of good news:
<lb ed="G"/>my master will be here ere <lb ed="F1" n="2460"/>morning.  <stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2461"/></p></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming.
<lb ed="G" n="50"/><lb ed="F1" n="2462"/></l><l>And yet no matter: why should we go in?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2463"/></l><l>My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2464"/></l><l>Within the house, your mistress is at hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2465"/></l><l>And bring your music forth into the air.
                            <stage>[Exit Stephano.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2466"/></l><l>How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2467"/></l><l>Here will we sit and let the sounds of music
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2468"/></l><l>Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2469"/></l><l>Become the touches of sweet harmony.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2470"/></l><l>Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2471"/></l><l>Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
<lb ed="G" n="60"/><lb ed="F1" n="2472"/></l><l>There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2473"/></l><l>But in his motion like an angel sings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2474"/></l><l>Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2475"/></l><l>Such harmony is in immortal souls;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2476"/></l><l>But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2477"/></l><l>Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
<stage type="entrance">Enter Musicians.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2478"/></l><l>Come, ho! and wake Diana with a hymn:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2479"/></l><l>With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2480"/></l><l>And draw her home with music. <stage>[Music.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2481"/></l></sp><sp who="jes."><speaker>Jes.</speaker><l>I am never merry when I hear sweet music.
<lb ed="F1" n="2482"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2483"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l n="70">The reason is, your spirits are attentive:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2484"/></l><l>For do but note a wild and wanton herd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2485"/></l><l>Or race of youthful and unhandled colts,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2486"/></l><l>Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2487"/></l><l>Which is the hot condition of their blood;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2488"/></l><l>If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2489"/></l><l>Or any air of music touch their ears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2490"/></l><l>You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2491"/></l><l>Their savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2492"/></l><l>By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet
<lb ed="G" n="80"/><lb ed="F1" n="2493"/></l><l>Did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2494"/></l><l>Since nought so stockish, hard and full of rage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2495"/></l><l>But music for the time doth change his nature.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2496"/></l><l>The man that hath no music in himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2497"/></l><l>Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2498"/></l><l>Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2499"/></l><l>The motions of his spirit are dull as night
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2500"/></l><l>And his affections dark as Erebus:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2501"/></l><l>Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music.
<lb ed="F1" n="2502"/><stage type="entrance">Enter PORTIA and NERISSA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2503"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>That light we see is burning in my hall.
<lb ed="G" n="90"/><lb ed="F1" n="2504"/></l><l>How far that little candle throws his beams!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2505"/></l><l>So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2506"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>When the moon shone, we did not see the candle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2507"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>So doth the greater glory dim the less:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2508"/></l><l>A substitute shines brightly as a king
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2509"/></l><l>Until a king be by, and then his state
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2510"/></l><l>Empties itself, as doth an inland brook
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2511"/></l><l>Into the main of waters. Music! hark!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2512"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>It is your music, madam, of the house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2513"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Nothing is good, I see, without respect:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2514"/></l><l>Methinks it sounds much sweeter than by day.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2515"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l n="101">Silence bestows that virtue on it, madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2516"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2517"/></l><l>When neither is attended, and I think
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2518"/></l><l>The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2519"/></l><l>When every goose is cackling, would be thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2520"/></l><l>No better a musician than the wren.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2521"/></l><l>How many things by season season'd are
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2522"/></l><l>To their right praise and true perfection!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2523"/></l><l>Peace, ho! the moon sleeps with Endymion
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2524"/></l><l part="I">And would not be awaked. <lb ed="F1" n="2525"/><stage>[Music ceases.</stage>

<lb ed="G" n="110"/><lb ed="F1" n="2526"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">That is the voice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2527"/></l><l>Or I am much deceived, of Portia.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2528"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>He knows me as the blind man knows the <lb ed="F1" n="2529"/>cuckoo,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">By the bad voice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2530"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Dear lady, welcome home.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2531"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>We have been praying for our husbands' healths,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2532"/></l><l>Which speed, we hope, the better for our words.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2533"/></l><l part="I">Are they return'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2534"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l part="F">Madam, they are not yet;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2535"/></l><l>But there is come a messenger before,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2536"/></l><l part="I">To signify their coming.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2537"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Go in, Nerissa;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2538"/></l><l>Give order to my servants that they take
<lb ed="G" n="120"/><lb ed="F1" n="2539"/></l><l>No note at all of our being absent hence;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2540"/></l><l>Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.
                <lb ed="F1" n="2541"/><stage>[A tucket sounds.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2542"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Your husband is at hand; I hear his trumpet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2543"/></l><l>We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2544"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>This night methinks is but the daylight sick;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2545"/></l><l>It looks a little paler: 'tis a day,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2546"/></l><l>Such as the day is when the sun is hid.
<lb ed="F1" n="2547"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BASSANIO, ANTONIO, GRATIANO, and their <lb ed="F1" n="2548"/>followers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2549"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>We should hold day with the Antipodes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2550"/></l><l>If you would walk in absence of the sun.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2551"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Let me give light, but let me not be light;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2552"/></l><l>For a light wife doth make a heavy husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2553"/></l><l>And never be Bassanio so for me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2554"/></l><l>But God sort all!   You are welcome home, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2555"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>I thank you, madam. Give welcome to my friend.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2556"/></l><l>This is the man, this is Antonio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2557"/></l><l>To whom I am so infinitely bound.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2558"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>You should in all sense be much bound to him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2559"/></l><l>For, as I hear, he was much bound for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2560"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>No more than I am well acquitted of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2561"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Sir, you are very welcome to our house:
<lb ed="G" n="140"/><lb ed="F1" n="2562"/></l><l>It must appear in other ways than words,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2563"/></l><l>Therefore I scant this breathing courtesy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2564"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l><stage>To Ner.</stage> By yonder moon I swear you do me wrong;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2565"/></l><l>In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2566"/></l><l>Would he were gelt that had it, for my part,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2567"/></l><l>Since you do take it, love, so much at heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2568"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>A quarrel, ho, already what's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2569"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2570"/></l><l>That she did give me, whose posy was
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2571"/></l><l>For all the world like cutler's poetry
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2572"/></l><l>Upon a knife, 'Love me, and leave me not.'

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2573"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>What talk you of the posy or the value?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2574"/></l><l>You swore to me, when I did give it you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2575"/></l><l>That you would wear it till your hour of death
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2576"/></l><l>And that it should lie with you in your grave:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2577"/></l><l>Though not for me, yet for your vehement oaths,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2578"/></l><l>You should have been respective and have kept it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2579"/></l><l>Gave it a judge's clerk! no, God's my judge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2580"/></l><l>The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2581"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>He will, an if he live to be a man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2582"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l n="160">Ay, if a woman live to be a man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2583"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Now, by this hand, I gave it to a youth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2584"/></l><l>A kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2585"/></l><l>No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2586"/></l><l>A prating boy, that begg'd it as a fee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2587"/></l><l>I could not for my heart deny it him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2588"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>You were to blame, I must be plain with you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2589"/></l><l>To part so slightly with your wife's first gift;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2590"/></l><l>A thing stuck on with oaths upon your finger
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2591"/></l><l>And so riveted with faith unto your flesh.
<lb ed="G" n="170"/><lb ed="F1" n="2592"/></l><l>I gave my love a ring and made him swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2593"/></l><l>Never to part with it; and here he stands;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2594"/></l><l>I dare be sworn for him he would not leave it
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2595"/></l><l>Nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2596"/></l><l>That the world masters.   Now, in faith, Gratiano,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2597"/></l><l>You give your wife too unkind a cause of grief:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2598"/></l><l>An 'twere to me, I should be mad at it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2599"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l><stage>[Aside]</stage> Why, I were best to cut my left hand off
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2600"/></l><l>And swear I lost the ring defending it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2601"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>My Lord Bassanio gave his ring away
<lb ed="G" n="180"/><lb ed="F1" n="2602"/></l><l>Unto the judge that begg'd it and indeed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2603"/></l><l>Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2604"/></l><l>That took some pains in writing, he begg'd mine;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2605"/></l><l>And neither man nor master would take aught
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2606"/></l><l part="I">But the two rings.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2607"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">What ring gave you, my lord?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2608"/></l><l>Not that, I hope, which you received of me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2609"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>If I could add a lie unto a fault,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2610"/></l><l>I would deny it; but you see my finger
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2611"/></l><l>Hath not the ring upon it; it is gone.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2612"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Even so void is your false heart of truth.
<lb ed="G" n="190"/><lb ed="F1" n="2613"/></l><l>By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2614"/></l><l part="I">Until I see the ring.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2615"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l part="F">Nor I in yours
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Till I again see mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2616"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Sweet Portia,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2617"/></l><l>If you did know to whom I gave the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2618"/></l><l>If you did know for whom I gave the ring
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2619"/></l><l>And would conceive for what I gave the ring
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2620"/></l><l>And how unwillingly I left the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2621"/></l><l>When nought would be accepted but the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2622"/></l><l>You would abate the strength of your displeasure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2623"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>If you had known the virtue of the ring,
<lb ed="G" n="200"/><lb ed="F1" n="2624"/></l><l>Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2625"/></l><l>Or your own honor to contain the ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2626"/></l><l>You would not then have parted with the ring.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2627"/></l><l>What man is there so much unreasonable,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2628"/></l><l>If you had pleased to have defended it
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2629"/></l><l>With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2630"/></l><l>To urge the thing held as a ceremony?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2631"/></l><l>Nerissa teaches me what to believe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2632"/></l><l>I'll die for't but some woman had the ring.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2633"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>No, by my honor, madam, by my soul,
<lb ed="G" n="210"/><lb ed="F1" n="2634"/></l><l>No woman had it, but a civil doctor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2635"/></l><l>Which did refuse three thousand ducats of me
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2636"/></l><l>And begg'd the ring; the which I did deny him
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2637"/></l><l>And suffer'd him to go displeased away;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2638"/></l><l>Even he that did uphold the very life
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2639"/></l><l>Of my dear friend.   What should I say, sweet lady?
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2640"/></l><l>I was enforced to send it after him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2641"/></l><l>I was beset with shame and courtesy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2642"/></l><l>My honor would not let ingratitude
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2643"/></l><l>So much besmear it. Pardon me, good lady;
<lb ed="G" n="220"/><lb ed="F1" n="2644"/></l><l>For, by these blessed candles of the night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2645"/></l><l>Had you been there, I think you would have begg'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2646"/></l><l>The ring of me to give the worthy doctor.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2647"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2648"/></l><l>Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2649"/></l><l>And that which you did swear to keep for me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2650"/></l><l>I will become as liberal as you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2651"/></l><l>I'll not deny him any thing I have,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2652"/></l><l>No, not my body nor my husband's bed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2653"/></l><l>Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:
<lb ed="G" n="230"/><lb ed="F1" n="2654"/></l><l>Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2655"/></l><l>If you do not, if I be left alone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2656"/></l><l>Now, by mine honor, which is yet mine own,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2657"/></l><l>I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2658"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>And I his clerk; therefore be well advised
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2659"/></l><l>How you do leave me to mine own protection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2660"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Well, do you so: let not me take him, then;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2661"/></l><l>For if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2662"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I am the unhappy subject of these quarrels.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2663"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Sir, grieve not you; <lb ed="F1" n="2664"/>you are welcome notwithstanding.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2665"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="240">Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2666"/></l><l>And, in the hearing of these many friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2667"/></l><l>I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2668"/></l><l part="I">Wherein I see myself--

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2669"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">Mark you but that!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2670"/></l><l>In both my eyes he doubly sees himself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2671"/></l><l>In each eye, one: swear by your double self,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2672"/></l><l part="I">And there's an oath of credit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2673"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, but hear me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2674"/></l><l>Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2675"/></l><l>I never more will break an oath with thee.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2676"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>I once did lend my body for his wealth;
<lb ed="G" n="250"/><lb ed="F1" n="2677"/></l><l>Which, but for him that had your husband's ring,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2678"/></l><l>Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2679"/></l><l>My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2680"/></l><l>Will never more break faith advisedly.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2681"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Then you shall be his surety. Give him this
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2682"/></l><l>And bid him keep it better than the other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2683"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Here, Lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2684"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>By heaven, it is the same I gave the doctor!

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2685"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio;
<lb ed="G" n="259"/><lb ed="F1" n="2686"/></l><l>For, by this ring, the doctor lay with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2687"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2688"/></l><l>For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2689"/></l><l>In lieu of this last night did lie with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2690"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Why, this is like the mending of highways
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2691"/></l><l>In summer, where the ways are fair enough:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2692"/></l><l>What, are we cuckolds ere we have deserved it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2693"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l>Speak not so grossly.   You are all amazed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2694"/></l><l>Here is a letter; read it at your leisure;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2695"/></l><l>It comes from Padua, from Bellario:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2696"/></l><l>There you shall find that Portia was the doctor,
<lb ed="G" n="270"/><lb ed="F1" n="2697"/></l><l>Nerissa there her clerk: Lorenzo here
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2698"/></l><l>Shall witness I set forth as soon as you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2699"/></l><l>And even but now return'd; I have not yet
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2700"/></l><l>Enter'd my house. Antonio, you are welcome;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2701"/></l><l>And I have better news in store for you
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2702"/></l><l>Than you expect: unseal this letter soon;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2703"/></l><l>There you shall find three of your argosies
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2704"/></l><l>Are richly come to harbor suddenly:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2705"/></l><l>You shall not know by what strange accident
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2706"/></l><l part="I">I chanced on this letter.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2707"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l part="F">I am dumb.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2708"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l n="280">Were you the doctor and I knew you not?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2709"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l>Were you the clerk that is to make me cuckold?

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2710"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l>Ay, but the clerk that never means to do it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2711"/></l><l>Unless he live until he be a man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2712"/></l></sp><sp who="bass."><speaker>Bass.</speaker><l>Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2713"/></l><l>When I am absent, then lie with my wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2714"/></l></sp><sp who="ant."><speaker>Ant.</speaker><l>Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2715"/></l><l>For here I read for certain that my ships
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2716"/></l><l part="I">Are safely come to road.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2717"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">How now, Lorenzo!
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2718"/></l><l>My clerk hath some good comforts too for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2719"/></l></sp><sp who="ner."><speaker>Ner.</speaker><l n="290">Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2720"/></l><l>There do I give to you and Jessica,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2721"/></l><l>From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2722"/></l><l>After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2723"/></l></sp><sp who="lor."><speaker>Lor.</speaker><l>Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2724"/></l><l part="I">Of starved people.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2725"/></l></sp><sp who="por."><speaker>Por.</speaker><l part="F">It is almost morning.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2726"/></l><l>And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2727"/></l><l>Of these events at full. Let us go in;
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2728"/></l><l>And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2729"/></l><l>And we will answer all things faithfully.

<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2730"/></l></sp><sp who="gra."><speaker>Gra.</speaker><l n="300">Let it be so: the first inter'gatory
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2731"/></l><l>That my Nerissa shall be sworn on is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2732"/></l><l>Whether till the next night she had rather stay
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2733"/></l><l>Or go to bed now, being two hours to day:
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2734"/></l><l>But were the day come, I should wish it dark,
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2735"/></l><l>That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2736"/></l><l>Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing
<lb ed="G"/><lb ed="F1" n="2737"/></l><l>So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
                                   <lb ed="F1" n="2738"/><stage>[Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
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