24922486that you would weare it till your houre of death,

24932487and that it should lie with you in your graue,

24942488though not for me, yet for your vehement oathes,

24952489you should haue beene respectiue and haue kept it.

24962490Gaue it a Iudges Clarke: no Gods my Iudge

24972491the Clarke will nere weare haire ons face that had it.

24982492Gra. He will, and if he liue to be a man.

24992493Nerrissa. I, if a woman liue to be a man.

25002494Gra. Now by this hand I gaue it to a youth,

25012495a kind of boy, a little scrubbed boy,

25022496no higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clarke,

25032497a prating boy that begd it as a fee,

25042498I could not for my hart deny it him.

25052499Por. You were to blame, I must be plaine with you,

25062500to part so slightly with your wiues first gift,

25072501a thing stuck on with oaths vpon your finger,

25082502and so riueted with faith vnto your flesh.

25092503I gaue my Loue a ring, and made him sweare

25102504neuer to part with it, and heere he stands:

25112505I dare be sworne for him he would not leaue it,

25122506nor pluck it from his finger, for the wealth

25132507that the world maisters. Now in faith Gratiano

25142508you giue your wife too vnkind a cause of griefe,

25152509and twere to me I should be mad at it.

25162510Bass. Why I were best to cut my left hand off,

25172511and sweare I lost the ring defending it.

25182512Gra. My Lord Bassanio gaue his ring away

25192513vnto the Iudge that begd it, and indeede

25202514deseru'd it to: and then the boy his Clarke

25212515that tooke some paines in writing, he begd mine,

25222516and neither man nor maister would take ought

25232517but the two rings.

25242518Por. What ring gaue you my Lord?

25252519Not that I hope which you receau'd of me.

25262520Bass. If I could add a lie vnto a fault,

25272521I would deny it: but you see my finger

25282522hath not the ring vpon it, it is gone.