2132And many an error by the same example,

2133Will rush into the state: It cannot be.

2134Iew. A Daniel come to iudgement, yea a Daniel.

2135O wise young Iudge, how do I honour thee.

2136Por. I pray you let me looke vpon the bond.

2137Iew. Heere 'tis most reuerend Doctor, heere it is.

2138Por. Shylocke, there's thrice thy monie offered thee.

2139Shy. An oath, an oath, I haue an oath in heauen:

2140Shall I lay periurie vpon my soule?

2141No not for Venice.

2142Por. Why this bond is forfeit,

2143And lawfully by this the Iew may claime

2144A pound of flesh, to be by him cut off

2145Neerest the Merchants heart; be mercifull,

2146Take thrice thy money, bid me teare the bond.

2147Iew. When it is paid according to the tenure.

2148It doth appeare you are a worthy Iudge:

2149You know the Law, your exposition

2150Hath beene most sound. I charge you by the Law,

2151Whereof you are a well-deseruing pillar,

2152Proceede to iudgement: By my soule I sweare,

2153There is no power in the tongue of man

2154To alter me: I stay heere on my bond.

2155An. Most heartily I do beseech the Court

2156To giue the iudgement.

2157Por. Why then thus it is:

2158you must prepare your bosome for his knife.

2159Iew. O noble Iudge, O excellent yong man.

2160Por. For the intent and purpose of the Law

2161Hath full relation to the penaltie,

2162Which heere appeareth due vpon the bond.

2163Iew. 'Tis verie true: O wise and vpright Iudge,

2164How much more elder art thou then thy lookes?

2165Por. Therefore lay bare your bosome.

2166Iew. I, his brest,

2167So sayes the bond, doth it not noble Iudge?

2168Neerest his heart, those are the very words.

2169Por. It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh the

2170flesh?

2171Iew. I haue them ready.

2172Por. Haue by some Surgeon Shylock on your charge

2173To stop his wounds, least he should bleede to death.

2174Iew. It is not nominated in the bond?

2175Por. It is not so exprest: but what of that?

2176'Twere good you do so much for charitie.

2177Iew. I cannot finde it, 'tis not in the bond.

2178Por. Come Merchant, haue you any thing to say?

2179Ant. But little: I am arm'd and well prepar'd.

2180Giue me your hand Bassanio, fare you well.

2181Greeue not that I am falne to this for you:

2182For heerein fortune shewes her selfe more kinde

2183Then is her custome. It is still her vse

2184To let the wretched man out-liue his wealth,

2185To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow

2186An age of pouerty. From which lingring penance

2187Of such miserie, doth she cut me off:

2188Commend me to your honourable Wife,

2189Tell her the processe of Anthonio's end:

2190Say how I lou'd you; speake me faire in death:

2191And when the tale is told, bid her be iudge,

2192Whether Bassanio had not once a Loue:

2193Repent not you that you shall loose your friend,

2194And he repents not that he payes your debt.

2195For if the Iew do cut but deepe enough,

2196Ile pay it instantly, with all my heart.

2197Bas. Anthonio, I am married to a wife,

2198Which is as deere to me as life it selfe,

2199But life it selfe, my wife, and all the world,

2200Are not with me esteem'd aboue thy life.

2201I would loose all, I sacrifice them all

2202Heere to this deuill, to deliuer you.

2203Por. Your wife would giue you little thanks for that

2204If she were by to heare you make the offer.

2205Gra. I haue a wife whom I protest I loue,

2206I would she were in heauen, so she could

2207Intreat some power to change this currish Iew.

2208Ner. 'Tis well you offer it behinde her backe,

2209The wish would make else an vnquiet house.

2210Iew. These be the Christian husbands: I haue a daugh- (ter

2211Would any of the stocke of Barrabas

2212Had beene her husband, rather then a Christian.

2213We trifle time, I pray thee pursue sentence.

2214Por. A pound of that same marchants flesh is thine,

2215The Court awards it, and the law doth giue it.

2216Iew. Most rightfull Iudge.

2217Por. And you must cut this flesh from off his breast,

2218The Law allowes it, and the Court awards it.

2219Iew. Most learned Iudge, a sentence, come prepare.

2220Por. Tarry a little, there is something else,

2221This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud,

2222The words expresly are a pound of flesh:

2223Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh,

2224But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed

2225One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods

2226Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate

2227Vnto the state of Venice.

2228Gra. O vpright Iudge,

2229Marke Iew, ô learned Iudge.

2230Shy. Is that the law?

2231Por. Thy selfe shalt see the Act:

2232For as thou vrgest iustice, be assur'd

2233Thou shalt haue iustice more then thou desirest.

2234Gra. O learned Iudge, mark Iew, a learned Iudge.

2235Iew. I take this offer then, pay the bond thrice,

2236And let the Christian goe.

2237Bass. Heere is the money.

2238Por. Soft, the Iew shall haue all iustice, soft, no haste,

2239He shall haue nothing but the penalty.

2240Gra. O Iew, an vpright Iudge, a learned Iudge.

2241Por. Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh,

2242Shed thou no bloud, nor cut thou lesse nor more

2243But iust a pound of flesh: if thou tak'st more

2244Or lesse then a iust pound, be it so much

2245As makes it light or heauy in the substance,

2246Or the deuision of the twentieth part

2247Of one poore scruple, nay if the scale doe turne

2248But in the estimation of a hayre,

2249Thou diest, and all thy goods are confiscate.

2250Gra. A second Daniel, a Daniel Iew,

2251Now infidell I haue thee on the hip.

2252Por. Why doth the Iew pause, take thy forfeiture.

2253Shy. Giue me my principall, and let me goe.

2254Bass. I haue it ready for thee, heere it is.

2255Por. He hath refus'd it in the open Court,

2256He shall haue meerly iustice and his bond.

2257Gra. A Daniel still say I, a second Daniel,

2258I thanke thee Iew for teaching me that word.

2259Shy. Shall I not haue barely my principall?

2260Por. Thou shalt haue nothing but the forfeiture,

2261To be taken so at thy perill Iew.

2262Shy. Why then the Deuill giue him good of it:

2263Ile stay no longer question.