Portia, adieu! I have too grieved a heart [Exit. [Exeunt. Por. A gentle riddance:- -Draw the curtains, go;Let all of his complexion choose me so. SCENE VII-Venice. A Street. Enter SALARINO and SALANIO. Salar. Why man, I saw Bassanio under sail; With him is Gratiano gone along; And in their ship, I am sure, Lorenzo is not. Salan. The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke; Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship. Salar. He came too late, the ship was under sail: But there the duke was given to understand, That in a gondola were seen together They were not with Bassanio in his ship. Salan. I never heard a passion so confused, My daughter!-O my ducats!-O my daughter! Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter! Salar. Why, all the boys in Venice follow him, Salar. Marry, well remember'd: I reason'd* with a Frenchman yesterday; Salan. You were best to tell Antonio what you hear; Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him. Salar. A kinder gentleman treads not the earth. I saw Bassanio and Antonio part: Bassanio told him, he would make some speed Of his return; he answer'd-Do not so, And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me, Be merry; and employ your chiefest thoughts *Conversed. †To slubber, is to do a thing carelessly. To courtship, and such fair ostents* of love He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. Salar. Do we so. [Exeunt. SCENE VIII.-Belmont. A Room in PORTIA'S House. Enter NERISSA, with a Servant. Ner. Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain straight; The prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath, And comes to his election presently. Flourish of Cornets. Enter the PRINCE OF ARRAGON, PORTIA, If and their Trains. Por. Behold, there stand the caskets, noble prince: you choose that wherein I am contain❜d, Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized; But if you fail, without more speech, my lord, You must be gone from hence immediately. Ar. I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things: Which casket 'twas I chose; next, if I fail Por. To these injunctions every one doth swear, Ar. And so have I address'd me: Fortune now * Shows. + Prepared. + The heaviness he cultivates. § Power. Tell me once more what title thou dost bear: To cozen fortune, and be honourable Without the stamp of merit! Let none presume O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Were not derived corruptly! and that clear honour How much low peasantry would then be glean'd From the true seed of honour? and how much honour To be new varnish'd? Well, but to my choice: Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserves. I will assume desert;-Give me a key for this, And instantly unlock my fortunes here. Por. Too long a pause for that which you find there. Ar. What's here? the portrait of a blinking idiot, Presenting me a schedule? I will read it. How much unlike art thou to Portia ! How much unlike my hopes, and my deservings! Is that my prize? are my deserts no better? Ar. What is here? The fire seven times tried this; With one fool's head I came to woo, Sweet, adieu! I'll keep my oath, [Exeunt ARRAGON and Train. Por. Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. Ner. The ancient saying is no heresy ;- * Know. Enter a SERVANT. Serv. Where is my lady? Por. Here; what would my lord? Serv. Madam, there is alighted at your gate A day in April never came so sweet, Por. No more, I pray thee; I am half afeard, Quick Cupid's post, that comes so mannerly. АСТ III. SCENE I-Venice. A Street. Enter SALANIO and SALARINO. Salan. Now, what news on the Rialto? [Exeunt. Salar. Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd, that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wreck'd on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip report be an honest woman of her word. Salan. I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as ever knapp'dt ginger, or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband: But it is true,-without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plain highway of talk,-that the good Antonio, the honest Antonio,- O that I had a title good enough to keep his name company! Salar. Come, the full stop. Salan. Ha,-what say'st thou ?-Why, the end is, he hath lost a ship. Salar. I would it might prove the end of his losses! Salan. Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer; for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. Enter SHYLOCK. How now, Shylock? what news among the merchants? Shy. You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter's flight. Salar. That's certain; I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal. Salan. And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shy. She is damn'd for it. Salar. That's certain, if the devil may be her judge. Salan. Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years? Salar. There is more difference between thy flesh and hers, than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods, than there is between red wine and Rhenish:-But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no? Shy. There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto;-a beggar, that used to come so snug upon the mart;-let him look to his bond: he was wont to call me usurer ;-let him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy ;-let him look to his bond. Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh; What's that good for? Shy. To bait fish_withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me of half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge: If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. Enter a SERVANT. Serv. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both. Salar. We have been up and down to seek him. Enter TUBAL. Salan. Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew. [Exeunt SALAN. SALAR. and SERVANT. Shy. How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? hast thou found my daughter? Tub. I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her. Shy. Why there, there, there, there! a diamond gone, cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till now:-two thousand ducats in that; and other precious, precious jewels.—I would, |