19381932Come heere to day?

19391933Salerio. My Lord, heere stayes without

19401934a messenger with letters from the Doctor,

19411935new come from Padua?

19421936Duke. Bring vs the letters? call the Messenger?

19431937Bass. Good cheere Anthonio? what man, courage yet:

19441938The Iew shall haue my flesh, blood, bones and all,

19451939ere thou shalt loose for me one drop of blood?

19461940Antho. I am a tainted weather of the flocke,

19471941meetest for death, the weakest kind of fruite

19481942drops earliest to the ground, and so let me;

19491943You cannot better be imployd Bassanio,

19501944then to liue still and write mine Epitaph?

19521946Duke. Came you from Padua from Bellario?

19531947Ner. From both? my L. Bellario greetes your grace?

19541948Bass. Why doost thou whet thy knife so earnestly?

19551949Iewe. To cut the forfaiture from that bankrout there?

19561950Gratia. Not on thy soule: but on thy soule harsh Iew

19571951thou makst thy knife keene: but no mettell can,

19581952no, not the hangmans axe beare halfe the keenenesse

19591953of thy sharpe enuie: can no prayers pearce thee?

19601954Iewe. No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.

19611955Gratia. O be thou damnd, inexecrable dogge,

19621956And for thy life let iustice be accusd;

19631957Thou almost mak'st me wauer in my faith,

19641958to hold opinion with Pythagoras,

19651959that soules of Animalls infuse themselues

19661960into the trunks of men: Thy currish spirit

19671961gouernd a Woolfe, who hangd for humaine slaughter

19681962euen from the gallowes did his fell soule fleete,

19691963and whilest thou layest in thy vnhallowed dam;

19701964infusd it selfe in thee: for thy desires

19711965are woluish, bloody, staru'd, and rauenous.

19721966Iewe. Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond,

19731967Thou but offendst thy lungs to speake so loud:

19741968Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall