25292523Por. Euen so voyd is your false hart of truth.

25302524By heauen I will nere come in your bed

25312525vntill I see the ring?

25322526Ner. Nor I in yours

25332527till I againe see mine?

25342528Bass. Sweet Portia,

25352529if you did know to whom I gaue the ring,

25362530if you did know for whom I gaue the ring,

25372531and would conceaue for what I gaue the ring,

25382532and how vnwillingly I left the ring,

25392533when naught would be accepted but the ring,

25402534you would abate the strength of your displeasure?

25412535Por. If you had knowne the vertue of the ring,

25422536or halfe her worthines that gaue the ring,

25432537or your owne honour to containe the ring,

25442538you would not then haue parted with the ring:

25452539what man is there so much vnreasonable

25462540if you had pleasd to haue defended it

25472541with any termes of zeale: wanted the modesty

25482542to vrge the thing held as a ceremonie:

25492543Nerrissa teaches me what to beleeue,

25502544ile die for't, but some woman had the ring?

25512545Bass. No by my honour Madam, by my soule

25522546no woman had it, but a ciuill Doctor,

25532547which did refuse three thousand ducats of me,

25542548and begd the ring, the which I did denie him,

25552549and sufferd him to goe displeasd away,

25562550euen he that had held vp the very life

25572551of my deere friend. What should I say sweet Lady,

25582552I was inforc'd to send it after him,

25592553I was beset with shame and curtesie,

25602554my honour would not let ingratitude

25612555so much besmere it: pardon me good Lady,

25622556for by these blessed candels of the night,

25632557had you been there, I think you would haue begd

25642558the ring of me to giue the worthy Doctor?

25652559Por. Let not that Doctor ere come neere my house