15361530of any constant man: what worse and worse?

15371531With leaue Bassanio I am halfe your selfe,

15381532and I must freely haue the halfe of any thing

15391533that this same paper brings you.

15401534Bass. O sweete Portia,

15411535heere are a few of the vnpleasant'st words

15421536that euer blotted paper. Gentle Lady

15431537when I did first impart my loue to you,

15441538I freely told you all the wealth I had

15451539ranne in my vaines, I was a gentleman,

15461540and then I told you true: and yet deere Lady

15471541rating my selfe at nothing, you shall see

15481542how much I was a Braggart, when I told you

15491543my state was nothing, I should then haue told you

15501544that I was worse then nothing; for indeede

15511545I haue ingag'd my selfe to a deere friend,

15521546ingag'd my friend to his meere enemie

15531547to feede my meanes. Heere is a letter Lady,

15541548the paper as the body of my friend,

15551549and euery word in it a gaping wound

15561550issuing life blood. But is it true Salerio

15571551hath all his ventures faild, what not one hit,

15581552from Tripolis, from Mexico and England,

15591553from Lisbon, Barbary, and India,

15601554and not one vessell scape the dreadfull touch

15611555of Merchant-marring rocks?

15621556Sal. Not one my Lord.

15631557Besides, it should appeare, that if he had

15641558the present money to discharge the Iew,

15651559hee would not take it: neuer did I know

15661560a creature that did beare the shape of man

15671561so keene and greedie to confound a man.

15681562He plyes the Duke at morning and at night,

15691563and doth impeach the freedome of the state

15701564if they deny him iustice. Twentie Merchants,

15711565the Duke himselfe, and the Magnificoes

15721566of greatest port haue all perswaded with him,

F3 but