255251worth in the English: hee is a proper mans picture, but alas who

256252can conuerse with a dumbe show? how odly hee is suted, I thinke

257253he bought his doublet in Italie, his round hose in Fraunce, his bon-

258254net in Germanie, and his behauiour euery where.

259255Nerrissa. What thinke you of the Scottish Lorde his neigh-

260256bour?

261257Portia. That hee hath a neyghbourlie charitie in him, for hee

262258borrowed a boxe of the eare of the Englishman, 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-

266262nies nephew?

267263Por. Very vildlie in the morning when hee is sober, and most

268264vildly in the afternoone when he is drunke: when he is best, he is

269265a little worse then a man, & when he is worst he is little better then

270266a beast, and the worst fall that euer fell, I hope I shall make shift

271267to goe without him.

272268Ner. Yf hee shoulde offer to choose, and choose the right Cas-

273269ket, you should refuse to performe your Fathers will, if you should

274270refuse to accept him.

275271Portia. Therefore for feare of the worst, I pray thee set a deepe

276272glasse of Reynishe wine on the contrarie Casket, for if the deuill

277273be within, and that temptation without, I knowe hee will choose

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 these

280276Lords, they haue acquainted me with theyr determinations, which

281277is indeede to returne to theyr home, and to trouble you with no

282278more sute, vnlesse you may be wonne by some other sort thē your

283279Fathers imposition, depending on the Caskets.

284280Por. Yf I liue to be as old as Sibilla, I will die as chast as Diana,

285281vnlesse I be obtained by the maner of my Fathers will: I am glad

286282this parcell of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among

287283them but I doate on his very absence: & I pray God graunt them

288284a faire departure.

289285Nerrissa. Doe you not remember Lady in your Fathers time, a

290286Venecian a Scholler & a Souldiour that came hether in companie

291287of the Marquesse of Mountferrat?