1219Sol. Now, what newes on the Ryalto?

1220Sal. Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio

1221hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the

1222Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous

1223flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye

1224buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest wo-

1225man of her word.

1226Sol. I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as euer

1227knapt Ginger, or made her neighbours beleeue she wept

1228for the death of a third husband: but it is true, without

1229any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high-way of

1230talke, that the good Anthonio, the honest Anthonio; ô that

1231I had a title good enough to keepe his name company!

1232Sal. Come, the full stop.

1233Sol. Ha, what sayest thou, why the end is, he hath lost

1234a ship.

1235Sal. I would it might proue the end of his losses.

1236Sol. Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse

1237my praier, for here he comes in the likenes of a Iew. How

1238now Shylocke, what newes among the Merchants?

1240Shy. You knew none so well, none so well as you, of

1241my daughters flight.

1242Sal. That's certaine, I for my part knew the Tailor

1243that made the wings she flew withall.

1244Sol. And Shylocke for his own part knew the bird was

1245fledg'd, and then it is the complexion of them al to leaue

1246the dam.

1247Shy. She is damn'd for it.

1248Sal. That's certaine, if the diuell may be her Iudge.

1249Shy. My owne flesh and blood to rebell.

1250Sol. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it at these yeeres.

1251Shy. I say my daughter is my flesh and bloud.

1252Sal. There is more difference betweene thy flesh and

1253hers, then betweene Iet and Iuorie, more betweene your

1254bloods, then there is betweene red wine and rennish: but

1255tell vs, doe you heare whether Anthonio haue had anie

1256losse at sea or no?

1257Shy. There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, a

1258prodigall, who dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto,

1259a begger that was vsd to come so smug vpon the Mart:

1260let him look to his bond, he was wont to call me Vsurer,

1261let him looke to his bond, he was wont to lend money

1262for a Christian curtsie, let him looke to his bond.

1263Sal. Why I am sure if he forfaite, thou wilt not take

1264his flesh, what's that good for?

1265Shy. To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing

1266else, it will feede my reuenge; he hath disgrac'd me, and

1267hindred me halfe a million, laught at my losses, mockt at

1268my gaines, scorned my Nation, thwarted my bargaines,

1269cooled my friends, heated mine enemies, and what's the

1270reason? I am a Iewe: Hath not a Iew eyes? hath not a

1271Iew hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passi-

1272ons, fed with the same foode, hurt with the same wea-

1273pons, subiect to the same diseases, healed by the same

1274meanes, warmed and cooled by the same Winter and

1275Sommmer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not

1276bleede? if you tickle vs, doe we not laugh? if you poison

1277vs doe we not die? and if you wrong vs shall we not re-

1278uenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you

1279in that. If a Iew wrong a Christian, what is his humility,

1280reuenge? If a Christian wrong a Iew, what should his suf-

1281ferance be by Christian example, why reuenge? The vil-

1282lanie you teach me I will execute, and it shall goe hard

1283but I will better the instruction.

1285Gentlemen, my maister Anthonio is at his house, and

1286desires to speake with you both.

1287Sal. We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him.

1289Sol. Here comes another of the Tribe, a third cannot

1290be matcht, vnlesse the diuell himselfe turne Iew.

1292Shy. How now Tuball, what newes from Genowa? hast

1293thou found my daughter?

1294Tub. I often came where I did heare of ster, but can-

1295not finde her.

1296Shy. Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone

1297cost me two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse ne-

1298uer fell vpon our Nation till now, I neuer felt it till now,

1299two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, preci-

1300ous iewels: I would my daughter were dead at my foot,

1301and the iewels in her eare: would she were hearst at my

1302foote, and the duckets in her coffin: no newes of them,

1303why so? and I know not how much is spent in the search:

1304why thou losse vpon losse, the theefe gone with so

1305much, and so much to finde the theefe, and no satisfa-

1306ction, no reuenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what lights

1307a my shoulders, no sighes but a my breathing, no teares

1308but a my shedding.

1309Tub. Yes, other men haue ill lucke too, Anthonio as I

1310heard in Genowa?

1311Shy. What, what, what, ill lucke, ill lucke.

1312Tub. Hath an Argosie cast away comming from Tri-

1313polis.

1314Shy. I thanke God, I thanke God, is it true, is it true?

1315Tub. I spoke with some of the Saylers that escaped

1316the wracke.

1317Shy. I thanke thee good Tuball, good newes, good

1318newes: ha, ha, here in Genowa.

1319Tub. Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one

1320night fourescore ducats.

1321Shy. Thou stick'st a dagger in me, I shall neuer see my

1322gold againe, fourescore ducats at a sitting, fourescore du-

1323cats.

1324Tub. There came diuers of Anthonios creditors in my

1325company to Venice, that sweare hee cannot choose but

1326breake.

1327Shy. I am very glad of it, ile plague him, ile torture

1328him, I am glad of it,

1329Tub. One of them shewed me a ring that hee had of

1330your daughter for a Monkie.

1331Shy. Out vpon her, thou torturest me Tuball, it was

1332my Turkies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batcheler: I

1333would not haue giuen it for a wildernesse of Monkies.

1334Tub. But Anthonio is certainely vndone.

1335Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true, goe Tuball, see

1336me an Officer, bespeake him a fortnight before, I will

1337haue the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of Ve-

1338nice, I can make what merchandize I will: goe Tuball,

1339and meete me at our Sinagogue, goe good Tuball, at our

1340Sinagogue Tuball. Exeunt.