The comicall Historie of
763760To furni
sh vs; friend
Launcelet whats the newes.
Enter Launcelet. 764761Launcelet. And it
shal plea
se you to breake vp this, it
shal
seeme
766763Loren. I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand,
767764And whiter then the paper it writ on
768765Is the faire hand that writ.
769766Gratia. Loue, newes in faith.
770767Launce. By your leaue
sir.
771768Loren. Whither goe
st thou.
773769Launc. Marry
sir to bid my old Mai
ster the Iewe to
sup to night
774770with my new Mai
ster the Chri
stian.
775771Loren. Hold heere take this, tell gentle
Iessica 776772I will not faile her,
speake it priuatly,
777773Goe Gentlemen, will you prepare you for this ma
ske to night,
778774I am prouided of a Torch-bearer.
Exit Clowne. 779775Sal. I marry, ile be gone about it
straite.
781777Loren. Meete me and
Gratiano at
Gratianos lodging
783779Sal. Tis good we doe
so.
Exit. 784780Gratia. Was not that Letter from faire
Iessica.
785781Loren. I mu
st needes tell thee all,
she hath dire
cted
786782How I
shall take her from her Fathers hou
se,
787783What gold and iewels
she is furni
sht with,
788784What Pages
sute
she hath in readines,
789785Yf ere the Iewe her Father come to heauen,
790786Yt will be for his gentle daughters
sake,
791787And neuer dare mi
sfortune cro
sse her foote,
792788Vnle
sse
she doe it vnder this excu
se,
793789That
she is i
ssue to a faithle
sse Iewe:
794790Come goe with me, perv
se this as thou goe
st,
795791Faire
Jessica shall be my Torch-bearer.
Exit.
796792Enter Iewe and his man that was the Clowne. 797793Iewe. Well, thou
shalt
see, thy eyes
shall be thy iudge,
798794The di
fference of old
Shylocke and
Bassanio;
799795What
Iessica, thou
shalt not gurmandize
As