1880How dost thou like the Lord Bassiano's wife?

1881Iessi. Past all expressing, it is very meete

1882The Lord Bassanio liue an vpright life

1883For hauing such a blessing in his Lady,

1884He findes the ioyes of heauen heere on earth,

1885And if on earth he doe not meane it, it

1886Is reason he should neuer come to heauen?

1887Why, if two gods should play some heauenly match,

1888And on the wager lay two earthly women,

1889And Portia one: there must be something else

1890Paund with the other, for the poore rude world

1891Hath not her fellow.

1892Loren. Euen such a husband

1893Hast thou of me, as she is for a wife.

1894Ies. Nay, but aske my opinion to of that?

1895Lor. I will anone, first let vs goe to dinner?

1896Ies. Nay, let me praise you while I haue a stomacke?

1897Lor. No pray thee, let it serue for table talke,

1898Then how som ere thou speakst 'mong other things,

1899I shall digest it?

1900Iessi. Well, Ile set you forth. Exeunt.

1904Duke. What, is Anthonio heere?

1905Ant. Ready, so please your grace?

1906Duke. I am sorry for thee, thou art come to answere

1907A stonie aduersary, an inhumane wretch,

1908Vncapable of pitty, voyd, and empty

1909From any dram of mercie.

1910Ant. I haue heard

1911Your Grace hath tane great paines to qualifie

1912His rigorous course: but since he stands obdurate,

1913And that no lawful meanes can carrie me

1914Out of his enuies reach, I do oppose

1915My patience to his fury, and am arm'd

1916To suffer with a quietnesse of spirit,

1917The very tiranny and rage of his.

1918Du. Go one and cal the Iew into the Court.

1919Sal. He is ready at the doore, he comes my Lord.

1921Du. Make roome, and let him stand before our face.

1922Shylocke the world thinkes, and I thinke so to

1923That thou but leadest this fashion of thy mallice

1924To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought

1925Thou'lt shew thy mercy and remorse more strange,

1926Than is thy strange apparant cruelty;

1927And where thou now exact'st the penalty,

1928Which is a pound of this poore Merchants flesh,

1929Thou wilt not onely loose the forfeiture,

1930But touch'd with humane gentlenesse and loue:

1931Forgiue a moytie of the principall,

1932Glancing an eye of pitty on his losses

1933That haue of late so hudled on his backe,

1934Enow to presse a royall Merchant downe;

1935And plucke commiseration of his state

1936From brassie bosomes, and rough hearts of flints,

1937From stubborne Turkes and Tarters neuer traind

1938To offices of tender curtesie,

1939We all expect a gentle answer Iew?

1940Iew. I haue possest your grace of what I purpose,

1941And by our holy Sabbath haue I sworne

1942To haue the due and forfeit of my bond.

1943If you denie it, let the danger light

1944Vpon your Charter, and your Cities freedome.

1945You'l aske me why I rather choose to haue

1946A weight of carrion flesh, then to receiue

1947Three thousand Ducats? Ile not answer that:

1948But say it is my humor; Is it answered?

1949What if my house be troubled with a Rat,

1950And I be pleas'd to giue ten thousand Ducates

1951To haue it bain'd? What, are you answer'd yet?

1952Some men there are loue not a gaping Pigge:

1953Some that are mad, if they behold a Cat:

1954And others, when the bag-pipe sings i'th nose,

1955Cannot containe their Vrine for affection.

1956Masters of passion swayes it to the moode

1957Of what it likes or loaths, now for your answer:

1958As there is no firme reason to be rendred

1959Why he cannot abide a gaping Pigge?

1960Why he a harmlesse necessarie Cat?

1961Why he a woollen bag-pipe: but of force

1962Must yeeld to such ineuitable shame,

1963As to offend himselfe being offended:

1964So can I giue no reason, nor I will not,

1965More then a lodg'd hate, and a certaine loathing

1966I beare Anthonio, that I follow thus

1967A loosing suite against him? Are you answered?

1968Bass. This is no answer thou vnfeeling man,

1969To excuse the currant of thy cruelty.

1970Iew. I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

1971Bass. Do all men kil the things they do not loue?

1972Iew. Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

1973Bass. Euerie offence is not a hate at first.

1974Iew. What wouldst thou haue a Serpent sting thee

1975twice?

1976Ant. I pray you thinke you question with the Iew:

1977You may as well go stand vpon the beach,

1978And bid the maine flood baite his vsuall height,

1979Or euen as well vse question with the Wolfe,

1980The Ewe bleate for the Lambe:

1981You may as well forbid the Mountaine Pines

1982To wagge their high tops, and to make no noise

1983When they are fretted with the gusts of heauen:

1984You may as well do any thing most hard,

1985As seeke to soften that, then which what harder?

1986His Iewish heart. Therefore I do beseech you

1987Make no more offers, vse no farther meanes,

1988But with all briefe and plaine conueniencie

1989Let me haue iudgement, and the Iew his will.

1990Bas. For thy three thousand Ducates heere is six.

1991Iew. If euerie Ducat in sixe thousand Ducates

1992Were in sixe parts, and euery part a Ducate,

1993I would not draw them, I would haue my bond?

1994Du. How shalt thou hope for mercie, rendring none?

1995Iew. What iudgement shall I dread doing no wrong?

1996You haue among you many a purchast slaue,

1997Which like your Asses, and your Dogs and Mules,

1998You vse in abiect and in slauish parts,

1999Because you bought them. Shall I say to you,

2000Let them be free, marrie them to your heires?

2001Why sweate they vnder burthens? Let their beds

2002Be made as soft as yours: and let their pallats

2003Be season'd with such Viands: you will answer