The other, that he do record a gift, Duke. Get thee gone, but do it. Gra. In christening thou shalt have two godfathers; [more, Had I been judge, thou shouldst have had ten To bring thee to the gallows, not the font. [Exit SHYLOCK. Duke. Sir, I entreat you home with me to dinner. [pardon; Por. I humbly do desire your grace of I must away this night toward Padua, And it is meet, I presently set forth. Duke. I am sorry, that your leisure serves Antonio, gratify this gentleman; [you not. For, in my mind, you are much bound to him. [Exeunt Duke, Magnificoes, and Train. Bass. Most worthy gentleman, I and my friend, Have by your wisdom been this day acquitted Por. He is well paid, that is well satisfied; I Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute, Bass. This ring, good sir,-alas, it is a trifle; I will not shame myself to give you this. Por. I will have nothing else but only this; And now, methinks, I have a mind to it. Buss. There's more depends on this, than on the value. The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, Por. I see, sir, you are liberal in offers: You taught me first to beg; and now, methinks, You teach me how a beggar should be answer❜d. Bass. Good sir, this ring was given me by my wife; And, when she put it on, she made me vow, An if your wife be not a mad woman, Come, you and I will thither presently; Enter PORTIA and NERISSA. Por. Inquire the Jew's house out, give him this deed, And let him sign it; we'll away to-night, And be a day before our husband's home: This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo. Enter GRATIANO. Gra. Fair sir, you are well overtaken: My lord Bassanio, upon more advice*, Hath sent you here this ring; and doth entreat Your company at dinner. Por. That cannot be: This ring I do accept most thankfully And so, I pray you, tell him: Furthermore, I pray you, show my youth old Shylock's house. Gra. That will I do. Ner. Sir, I would speak with you:I'll see if I can get my husband's ring, [TO PORTIA Which I did make him swear to keep for ever. Por. Thou mayst, I warrant: We shall have old swearing, That they did give the rings away to men; But we'll outface them, and outswear them too. Away, make haste; thou know'st where 1 will tarry. Ner. Come, good sir, will you show me to this house? [Exeunt SCENE I. Belmont. Avenue to Portia's House. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise; in such a night, Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls, Lor. The moon shines bright:-In such a And sigh'd his soul toward the Grecian tents, Enter LORENZO and JESSICA. night as this, Where Cressid lay that night. Reflection.. Lor. And in such a night, Did pretty Jessica, like a little shrew, Slander her love, and he forgave it her. Jes. I would out-night you, did no body come: But, hark, I hear the footing of a man. Enter STEPHANO. Lor. Who comes so fast in silence of the Steph. A friend. [night? Lor. A friend? what friend? your name, I pray you, friend? [word, Steph. Stephano is my name; and I bring My mistress will before the break of day Be here at Belmont: she doth stray about By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays For happy wedlock hours. I Lor. Who comes with her? Steph. None, but a holy hermit, and her maid. pray you, is my master yet return'd? But go we in, I pray thee, Jessica, Laun. Sola, sola, wo ha, ho, sola, sola! Laun. Sola! did you see master Lorenzo, and mistress Lorenzo! sola, sola! Lor. Leave hollaing, man; here. Laun. Tell him, there's a post come from my master, with his horn full of good news; my master will be here ere morning. [Exit. Lor. Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming. And yet no matter;-Why should we go in? My friend Stephano, signify, I pray you, Within the house, your mistress is at hand; And bring your music forth into the air.[Exit STEPHANO. How sweet the moon-light sleeps upon this bank! [sic Here will we sit, and let the sounds of muCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of sweet harmony. But in his motion like an angel sings, Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn Jes. I am never merry, when I hear sweet Lor. The reason is, your spirits are atten tive: For do but note a wild and wanton herd, Which is the hot condition of their blood; \ feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones, The man that hath no music in himself, sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; Let no such man be trusted. Mark the music. hall. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. [less: Ner. When the moon shone, we did not! see the candle... Por. So doth the greater glory dim te A substitute shines brightly as a king, Until a king be by; and then his state Empties itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Music! hark A Ner. It is your music, madam, of the house. Por. Nothing is good, I see, without respect; [day. Methinks, it sounds much sweeter than by Ner. Silence bestows that virtue on it, ma Por. The crow doth sing as sweetly as the A small flat dish, used in the administration of the Eucharist. How many things by season season'd are Or I am much deceiv'd, of Portia. By the bad voice. Lor. Madam, they are not yet; But there is come a messenger before, f Por. We are no tell-tales, madam; fear you not. i It looks a little paler;1tis a day, Bass. We should hold day with the Anti If you would walk in absence of the sun. But God sort all!-You are welcome home, Ner. What talk you of the posy, or the You swore to me, when I did give it you, Gra. He will, an if he live to be a man. A kind of boy; a little scrubbed boy, To part so slightly with your wife's first gift; And swear, I lost the ring defending it. Buss. I thank you, madam: give welcome! to my friend This is the man, this is Antonio, To whom I am so infinitely bound. Por. You should in all sense be much For, as I hear, he was much bound for you. It must appear in other ways than words, Gra. By yonder moon, I swear, you do 'me wrong; In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk: matter? Gra. About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring A flourish on a trumpet. mine: [aught And neither man, nor master, would take But the two rings. Por. What ring gave you, my lord? Por. Even so void is your false heart of Nor I in yours, Sweet Portia, By heaven, I will ne'er come in your bed [ring Verbal, complimentary form. Regardful. What man is there so much unreasonable, me, I was enforc'd to send it after him; T So much besinear it: Pardon me, good lady; The ring of me to give the worthy doctor. Por. Let not that doctor e'er come near my house: Since he hath got the jewel that I lov'd, Ner. And I his clerk; therefore be well advis'd, How you do leave me to mine own protection. Gru. Well, do you so: let not me take him then ; [wrong; Bass. Portia, forgive me this enforced And, in the hearing of these many friends, I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes, Wherein 1 see myself, Por: Mark you but that! In both my eyes he doubly sees himself; In each eye one swear by your double self, And there's an oath of credit. Bass. 998 Nay, but hear me: Pardon this fault, and by my soul I swear, I never more will break an oath, with thee.. Ant. I once did lend my body for his wealth*; Which, but for him that had your husband's ring, h [TO PORTIA. Had quite miscarried: I dare be bound again, My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord Will never more break faith advisedly. Por. Then you shall be his surety: Give him this; And bid him keep it better than the other. Ant. Here, lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring. [the doctor! Bass. By heaven, it is the same I gave Por. I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio; For by this ring the doctor lay with me. Ner. And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano; For that same scrubbed boy, the doctor's clerk, In lieu of this, last night did lie with me. Gro. Why, this is like the mending of highways 1 In summer, where the ways are fair enough: When I am absent, then lie with my wife. Ant. Sweet lady, you have given me life, and living; For here I read for certain, that my ships Por. Por. It is almost morning, And yet, I am sure, you are not satisfied Of these events at full: Let us go in ; And charge us there upon inter'gatories, And we will answer all things faithfully. Gra. Let it be so: The first inter'gatory, That my Nerissa shall be sworn on, is, Whether till the next night she had rather stay; Or go to bed now, being two hours to day: But were the day come, I should wish it dark That I were conching with the doctor's clerk. Well, while I live, I'll fear no other thing So sore, as keeping safe Nerissa's ring. • Advantage. [Exeunt. sons of Sir Rowland de Bois. ADAM, } servants to Oliver. ENNIS, TOUCHSTONE, a clown. WILLIAM, a country fellow, in love with A Person representing Hymen, ROSALIND, daughter to the banished Duke. AUDREY, a country wench. Lords belonging to the two Dukes; Pages, Foresters, and other Attendants. The Scene lies, first, near Oliver's House: afterwards, partly in the Usurper's Court, and partly in the forest of Arden. ACT I. Enter ORLANDO and ADAM. Orl. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me: By will, but a poor thousand crowns; and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, on his blessing, to breed me well: and there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit: for my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak more properly, stays me here at home unkept: For call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that differs not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred better; for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, and to that end riders dearly hired: but I, his brother, gain nothing under him but growth; for the which his animals on his dung-hills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing that he so plentifully gives me, the something that nature gave me, his countenance seems to take from me he lets me feed with his hinds, bars nie the place of a brother, and, as much as in him lies, mines my gentility with my education. This is it, Adamn, that grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude: I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise remedy how to avoid it. Enter OLIVER. Orl. Go apart, Adam, and thou shalt hear how he will shake me up. Oli. Now, sir! what make you here? Orl: Nothing: I am not taught to make any thing. Oli. What mar you then, sir? Orl. Marry, sir, I am helping you to mar that which God made, a poor unworthy brother of yours, with idleness. Oli. Marry, sir, be better employ'd, and be naught awhile. Orl. Shall I keep your hogs, and eat husks with them? What prodigal portion have I spent, that I should come to such penury? Oli. Know you where you are, sir? Orl. Ay, better than he I am before knows me. I know, you are my eldest brother; and, in the gentle condition of blood, you should so know me: The courtesy of nations allows you my better, in that you are the firstborn; but the same tradition takes not away my blood, were there twenty brothers betwixt us: I have as much of my father in me, as you; albeit, I confess, your coming before me is nearer to his reverence. Oli. What, boy! Ort. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this. Oli. Wilt thou lay hands on me, villain? Orl. I am no villaint: I am the youngest son of sir Rowland de Bois; he was my father; and he is thrice a villain, that says, such a Adam, Yonder comes, my master, your father begot villains: Wert thou not my brother, • What do you here? brother, I would not take this hand from thy + Villain is used in a double sense; by Oliver for a worthless fellow, and by Orlando for a man of base extraction. |