the Merchant of Venice.
365361An. Shylocke, albeit
I neither lend nor borrow
366362By taking nor by giuing of exce
sse,
367363Yet to
supply the ripe wants of my friend,
368364Ile breake a cu
stome: is hee yet po
sse
st 370366Shy.JI,
I, three thou
sand ducats.
371367Ant. And for three months.
372368Shyl. I had forgot, three months, you told me
so.
373369Well then, your bond: and let me
see, but heare you,
374370Me thoughts you
said, you neither lend nor borrow
376372Ant. I doe neuer v
se it.
377373Shy. When
Iacob grazd his Vncle
Labans Sheepe,
378374This
Iacob from our holy
Abram was
379375(As his wi
se mother wrought in his behalfe)
380376The third po
sse
sser;
I, he was the third.
381377Ant. And what of him, did he take interre
st?
382378Shyl. No, not take intere
st, not as you would
say
383379Dire
ctly intre
st, marke what
Iacob did,
384380When
Laban and him
selfe were compremyzd
385381That all the eanelings which were
streakt and pied
386382Should fall as
Iacobs hier, the Ewes being ranck
387383In end of Autume turned to the Rammes,
388384And when the worke of generation was
389385Betweene the
se wolly breeders in the a
ct,
390386The
skilful
sheepheard pyld me certaine wands,
391387And in the dooing of the deede of kind
392388He
stuck them vp before the ful
some Ewes,
393389Who then conceauing, did in eaning time
394390Fall party-colourd lambs, and tho
se were
Iacobs.
395391This was a way to thriue, and he was ble
st:
396392And thrift is ble
ssing if men
steale it not.
397393An. This was a venture
sir that
Iacob serud for,
398394A thing not in his power to bring to pa
sse,
399395But
swayd and fa
shiond by the hand of heauen.
400396Was this in
serted to make interre
st good?
401397Or is your gold and
siluer ewes and rammes?
B3. Shy.