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The Merchant of Venice (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare
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the Merchant of Venice.
Sol. I neuer heard a passion so confusd,
So strange, outragious, and so variable
as the dogge Iew did vtter in the streets,
My daughter, ô my ducats, ô my daughter,
1025Fled with a Christian, ô my Christian ducats.
Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter,
A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats
of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter,
and Iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
1030Stolne by my daughter: iustice, find the girle,
shee hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats.
Sal. Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,
crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.
Sola. Let good Anthonio looke he keepe his day
1035or he shall pay for this.
Sal. Marry well remembred,
I reasond with a Frenchman yesterday,
vvho told me, in the narrow seas that part
the French and English, there miscaried
1040a vessell of our country richly fraught:
I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me,
and wisht in silence that it were not his.
Sol. You were best to tell Anthonio what you heare,
Yet doe not suddainely, for it may greeue him.
1045Sal. A kinder gentleman treades not the earth,
I saw Bassanio and Anthonio part,
Bassanio told him he would make some speede
of his returne: he aunswered, doe not so,
slumber not busines for my sake Bassanio,
1050but stay the very riping of the time,
and for the Iewes bond which he hath of me
let it not enter in your minde of loue:
be merry, and imploy your cheefest thoughts
to courtship, and such faire ostents of loue
1055as shall conueniently become you there,
And euen there his eye being big with teares,
turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
and with affection wondrous sencible
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