the Merchant of Venice.
17531747that is but a kinde of ba
stard hope neither.
17541748Iessica. And what hope is that I pray thee?
17551749Clowne. Marry you may partly hope that your Father got you
17561750not, that you are not the Iewes daughter.
17571751Iessica. That were a kind of ba
stard hope in deede,
so the
sinnes
17581752of my mother
should be vi
sited vpon me.
17591753Clowne. Truly then I feare you are damnd both by father and
17601754mother: thus when I
shun
Scilla your father, I fall into
Caribdis 17611755your mother; well, you are gone both wayes.
17621756Iessica. I
shall be
sau'd by my hu
sband, he hath made me a Chri
17641758Clowne. Truly the more to blame he, we were Chri
stians enow
17651759before, in as many as could well liue one by another: this making
17661760of Chri
stians will rai
se the price of Hogs, if we grow all to be pork
17671761eaters, we
shall not
shortly haue a ra
sher on the coles for mony.
17691763Iessi. Ile tell my hu
sband
Launcelet what you
say, here he come?
17701764Loren. I
shall grow iealious of you
shortly
Launcelet, if you thus
17721766Iessica. Nay, you neede not feare vs
Lorenzo,
Launcelet and I are
17731767out, he tells me
flatly there's no mercy for mee in heauen, becau
se
17741768I am a Iewes daughter: and he
sayes you are no good member of
17751769the common-wealth, for in conuerting Iewes to Chri
stians, you
17771771Loren. I
shall aun
swere that better to the common-wealth than
17781772you can the getting vp of the Negroes belly: the Moore is
with
17801774Clowne. It is much that the Moore
should be more then rea
- 17811775son: but if
she be le
sse then an hone
st woman,
she is indeede more
17831777Loren. How euery foole can play vpon the word, I thinke the
17841778be
st grace of wit will
shortly turne into
silence, and di
scour
se grow
17851779commendable in none onely but Parrats: goe in
sirra, bid them
17871781Clowne. That is done
sir, they haue all
stomacks?
17881782Loren. Goodly Lord what a wit
snapper are you, than bid them
G2 Clowne.