140141An. I pray you good Bassanio let me know it,

141142And if it stand as you your selfe still doe,

142143within the eye of honour, be assurd

143144My purse, my person, my extreamest meanes

144145Lie all vnlockt to your occasions.

145146Bass. In my schoole dayes, when I had lost one shaft,

146147I shot his fellow of the selfe same flight

147148The selfe same way, with more aduised watch

148149To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both,

149150I oft found both: I vrge this child-hood proofe

150151Because what followes is pure innocence.

151152I owe you much, and like a wilfull youth

152153That which I owe is lost, but if you please

153154To shoote another arrow that selfe way

154155which you did shoote the first, I doe not doubt,

155156As I will watch the ayme or to find both,

156157Or bring your latter hazzard bake againe,

157158And thankfully rest debter for the first.

158159An. You know me well, and heerein spend but time

159160To wind about my loue with circumstance,

160161And out of doubt you doe me now more wrong

161162In making question of my vttermost

162163Then if you had made wast of all I haue:

163164Then doe but say to me what I should doe

164165That in your knowledge may by me be done,

165166And I am prest vnto it: therefore speake.

166167Bass. In Belmont is a Lady richly left,

167168And she is faire, and fairer then that word,

168169Of wondrous vertues, sometimes from her eyes

169170I did receaue faire speechlesse messages:

170171Her name is Portia, nothing vndervallewd

171172To Catos daughter, Brutus Portia,

172173Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth,

173174For the foure winds blow in from euery coast

174175Renowned sutors, and her sunny locks

175176Hang on her temples like a golden fleece,

176177which makes her seat of Belmont Cholchos strond,