365361An. Shylocke, albeit I neither lend nor borrow

366362By taking nor by giuing of excesse,

367363Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend,

368364Ile breake a custome: is hee yet possest

369365How much ye would?

370366Shy.JI, I, three thousand 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

375371Vpon aduantage.

376372Ant. I doe neuer vse it.

377373Shy. When Iacob grazd his Vncle Labans Sheepe,

378374This Iacob from our holy Abram was

379375(As his wise mother wrought in his behalfe)

380376The third possesser; I, he was the third.

381377Ant. And what of him, did he take interrest?

382378Shyl. No, not take interest, not as you would say

383379Directly intrest, marke what Iacob did,

384380When Laban and himselfe 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 these wolly breeders in the act,

390386The skilful sheepheard pyld me certaine wands,

391387And in the dooing of the deede of kind

392388He stuck them vp before the fulsome Ewes,

393389Who then conceauing, did in eaning time

394390Fall party-colourd lambs, and those were Iacobs.

395391This was a way to thriue, and he was blest:

396392And thrift is blessing if men steale it not.

397393An. This was a venture sir that Iacob serud for,

398394A thing not in his power to bring to passe,

399395But swayd and fashiond by the hand of heauen.

400396Was this inserted to make interrest good?

401397Or is your gold and siluer ewes and rammes?

B3. Shy.