18641858to offices of tender curtesie:

18651859We all expect a gentle aunswere Iewe?

18661860Iewe. I haue possest your grace of what I purpose,

18671861and by our holy Sabaoth haue I sworne

18681862to haue the due and forfet of my bond,

18691863if you deny it, let the danger light

18701864vpon your charter and your Citties freedome?

18711865Youle aske me why I rather choose to haue

18721866a weight of carrion flesh, then to receaue

18731867three thousand ducats: Ile not aunswer that?

18741868But say it is my humour, is it aunswerd?

18751869What if my house be troubled with a Rat,

18761870and I be pleasd to giue ten thousand ducats

18771871to haue it baind? what, are you aunswerd yet?

18781872Some men there are loue not a gaping pigge?

18791873Some that are mad if they behold a Cat?

18801874And others when the bagpipe sings ith nose,

18811875cannot containe their vrine for affection.

18821876Maisters of passion swayes it to the moode

18831877of what it likes or loathes, now for your aunswer:

18841878As there is no firme reason to be rendred

18851879why he cannot abide a gaping pigge?

18861880why he a harmelesse necessarie Cat?

18871881why he a woollen bagpipe: but of force

18881882must yeeld to such in euitable shame,

18891883as to offend himselfe being offended:

18901884So can I giue no reason, nor I will not,

18911885more then a lodgd hate, and a certaine loathing

18921886I beare Anthonio, that I follow thus

18931887a loosing sute against him? are you aunswered?

18941888Bass. This is no aunswer thou vnfeeling man,

18951889to excuse the currant of thy cruelty?

18961890Iewe. I am not bound to please thee with my answers?

18971891Bass. Doe all men kill the things they doe not loue?

18981892Iewe. Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

18991893Bass. Euery offence is not a hate at first?

19001894Iewe. What wouldst thou haue a serpent sting thee twice?