1056Sal. Why man I saw Bassanio vnder sayle,

1057With him is Gratiano gone along;

1058And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.

1059Sol. The villaine Iew with outcries raisd the Duke.

1060Who went with him to search Bassanios ship.

1061Sal. He comes too late, the ship was vndersaile;

1062But there the Duke was giuen to vnderstand

1063That in a Gondilo were seene together

1064Lorenzo and his amorous Iessica.

1065Besides, Anthonio certified the Duke

1066They were not with Bassanio in his ship.

1067Sol. I neuer heard a passion so confusd,

1068So strange, outragious, and so variable,

1069As the dogge Iew did vtter in the streets;

1070My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter,

1071Fled with a Christian, O my Christian ducats!

1072Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter;

1073A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,

1074Of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter,

1075And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,

1076Stolne by my daughter: iustice, finde the girle,

1077She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats.

1078Sal. Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,

1079Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.

1080Sol. Let good Anthonio looke he keepe his day

1081Or he shall pay for this.

1082Sal. Marry well remembred,

1083I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,

1084Who told me, in the narrow seas that part

1085The French and English, there miscaried

1086A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:

1087I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me,

1088And wisht in silence that it were not his.

1089Sol. Yo were best to tell Anthonio what you heare.

1090Yet doe not suddainely, for it may grieue him.

1091Sal. A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,

1092I saw Bassanio and Anthonio part,

1093Bassanio told him he would make some speede

1094Of his returne: he answered, doe not so,

1095Slubber not businesse for my sake Bassanio,

1096But stay the very riping of the time,

1097And for the Iewes bond which he hath of me,

1098Let it not enter in your minde of loue:

1099Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughts

1100To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue

1101As shall conueniently become you there;

1102And euen there his eye being big with teares,

1103Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him,

1104And with affection wondrous sencible

1105He wrung Bassanios hand, and so they parted.

1106Sol. I thinke he onely loues the world for him,

1107I pray thee let vs goe and finde him out

1108And quicken his embraced heauinesse

1109With some delight or other.

1110Sal. Doe we so. Exeunt.