The comicall Historie of
255251worth in the Engli
sh: hee is a proper mans pi
cture, but alas
who
256252can conuer
se with a dumbe
show? how odly hee is
suted,
I thinke
257253he bought his doublet in
Italie, his round ho
se in Fraunce, his bon
- 258254net in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where.
259255Nerrissa. What thinke you of the Scotti
sh Lorde his neigh
- 261257Portia. That hee hath a neyghbourlie charitie in him, for hee
262258borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Engli
shman, and
swore hee
263259would pay him againe when he was able:
I think the Frenchman
264260became his
suretie, and
seald vnder for another.
265261Ner. How like you the young Germaine, the Duke of Saxo
- 267263Por. Very vildlie in the morning when hee is
sober, and mo
st 268264vildly in the afternoone when he is drunke: when he is be
st, he is
269265a little wor
se then a man, & when he is wor
st he is little better then
270266a bea
st, and the wor
st fall that euer fell, I hope I
shall make
shift
272268Ner. Yf hee
shoulde o
ffer to choo
se, and choo
se the right Ca
s- 273269ket, you
should refu
se to performe your Fathers will, if you
should
275271Portia. Therefore for feare of the wor
st,
I pray thee
set a deepe
276272gla
sse of Reyni
she
wine on the contrarie Ca
sket, for if the deuill
277273be within, and that temptation without, I knowe hee will choo
se
278274it. I will doe any thing
Nerrissa ere
I will be married to a
spunge.
279275Nerrissa. You neede not feare Ladie the hauing anie of the
se
280276Lords, they haue acquainted me with theyr determinations, which
281277is indeede to returne to theyr home, and to trouble you with no
282278more
sute, vnle
sse you may be wonne by
some other
sort thē your
283279Fathers impo
sition, depending on the Ca
skets.
284280Por. Yf I liue to be as old as Sibilla,
I will die as cha
st as Diana,
285281vnle
sse I be obtained by the maner of my Fathers will: I am glad
286282this parcell of wooers are
so rea
sonable, for there is not one among
287283them but
I doate on his very ab
sence: &
I pray God graunt them
289285Nerrissa. Doe you not remember Lady in your Fathers time, a
290286Venecian a Scholler & a Souldiour that came hether in companie
291287of the Marque
sse of Mountferrat?
Portia.