19011895Anth. I pray you think you question with the Iewe,

19021896you may as well goe stand vpon the Beach

19031897and bid the maine flood bate his vsuall height,

19041898you may as well vse question with the Woolfe

19051899the Ewe bleake for the Lambe:

19061900You may as well forbid the mountaine of Pines

19071901to wag their high tops, and to make no noise

19081902when they are fretten with the gusts of heauen:

19091903You may as well doe any thing most hard

19101904as seeke to soften that then which what's harder:

19111905his Iewish hart? therefore I doe beseech you

19121906make no moe offers, vse no farther meanes,

19131907but with all briefe and plaine conueniencie

19141908let me haue iudgement, and the Iewe his will?

19151909Bass. For thy three thousand ducats heere is sixe?

19161910Iewe. If euery ducat in sixe thousand ducats

19171911were in sixe parts, and euery part a ducat,

19181912I would not draw them, I would haue my bond?

19191913Duk. How shalt thou hope for mercy rendring none?

19201914Iewe. What iudgment shall I dread doing no wrong?

19211915you haue among you many a purchast slaue,

19221916which like your Asses, and your Dogs and Mules

19231917you vse in abiect and in slauish parts,

19241918because you bought them, shall I say to you,

19251919let them be free, marry them to your heires?

19261920why sweat they vnder burthens, let their beds

19271921be made as soft as yours, and let their pallats

19281922be seasond with such viands, you will aunswer

19291923the slaues are ours, so doe I aunswer you:

19301924The pound of flesh which I demaund of him

19311925is deerely bought, as mine and I will haue it:

19321926if you deny me, fie vpon your Law,

19331927there is no force in the decrees of Venice:

19341928I stand for iudgement, aunswer, shall I haue it?

19351929Duke. Vpon my power I may dismisse this Court,

19361930vnlesse Bellario a learned Doctor,

19371931whom I haue sent for to determine this