11711167Solanio. Now what newes on the Ryalto?

11731168Salari. Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio hath a ship

11741169of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the Goodwins I thinke

11751170they call the place, a very dangerous flat, and fatall, where the car-

11761171casses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip report

11771172be an honest woman of her word.

11781173Solanio. I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as euer knapt

11791174Ginger, or made her neighbours beleeue she wept for the death of

11801175a third husband: but it is true, without any slips of prolixity, or

11811176crossing the plaine high way of talke, that the good Anthonio, the

11821177honest Anthonio; ô that I had a tytle good enough to keepe his

11831178name company.

11841179Salari. Come, the full stop.

11851180Solanio. Ha, what sayest thou, why the end is, he hath lost a ship.

11861181Salari. I would it might proue the end of his losses.

11871182Solanio. Let me say amen betimes, least the deuil crosse my prai-

11881183er, for heere he comes in the likenes of a Iewe. How now Shylocke,

11891184what newes among the Merchants? Enter Shylocke.

11901185Shy. You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my daugh-

11911186ters flight.

11921187Salari. Thats certaine, I for my part knew the Taylor that made

11931188the wings she flew withall.

11941189Solan. And Shylocke for his own part knew the bird was flidge,

11951190and then it is the complexion of them all to leaue the dam.

11961191Shy. She is damnd for it.

11971192Salari. Thats certaine, if the deuill may be her Iudge.

11981193Shy. My owne flesh and blood to rebell.

11991194Sola. Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it at these yeeres.

12001195Shy. I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.

12011196Salari. There is more difference betweene thy flesh and hers,

12021197then betweene Iet and Iuorie, more betweene your bloods, then

12031198there is betweene red wine and rennish: but tell vs, doe you heare

12041199whether Anthonio haue had any losse at sea or no?

E2 Shy. There

12051200Shy. There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, a prodigall,

12061201who dare scarce shewe his head on the Ryalto, a begger that was

12071202vsd to come so smug vpon the Mart: let him looke to his bond,

12081203he was wont to call me vsurer, let him looke to his bond, hee was

12091204wont to lende money for a Christian cursie, let him looke to his

12101205bond.

12111206Salari. Why I am sure if he forfaite, thou wilt not take his flesh,

12121207what's that good for?

12141208Shyl. To baite fish with all, if it will feede nothing else, it will

12151209feede my reuenge; hee hath disgrac'd me, and hindred me halfe a

12161210million, laught at my losses, mockt at my gaines, scorned my Na-

12171211tion, thwarted my bargaines, cooled my friends, heated mine ene-

12181212mies, and whats his reason, I am a Iewe: Hath not a Iewe eyes,

12191213hath not a Iewe hands, organs, dementions, sences, affections, passions,

12201214fed with the same foode, hurt with the same weapons, sub-

12211215to the same diseases, healed by the same meanes, warmed and

12221216cooled by the same Winter and Sommer as a Christian is: if you

12231217pricke vs doe we not bleede, if you tickle vs doe wee not laugh, if

12241218you poyson vs doe wee not die, and if you wrong vs shall wee not

12251219reuenge, if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.

12261220If a Iewe wrong a Christian, what is his humillity, reuenge? If a

12271221Christian wrong a Iewe, what should his sufferance be by Christi-

12281222an example, why reuenge? The villanie you teach me I will exe-

12291223cute, and it shall goe hard but I will better the instruction.

12311225Gentlemen, my maister Anthonio is at his house, and desires to

12321226speake with you both.

12331227Saleri. We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him.

12351229Solanio. Heere comes another of the Tribe, a third cannot bee

12361230matcht, vnlesse the deuill himselfe turne Iewe. Exeunt Gentlemen.

12381232Shy. How now Tuball, what newes from Genowa, hast thou

12391233found my daughter?

12401234Tuball. I often came where I did heare of her, but cannot finde

12411235 her.

12421236Shylocke. Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone cost me

12431237two thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse neuer fell vpon our

12441238Nation till now, I neuer felt it till nowe, two thousand ducats in

12451239that, & other precious precious iewels; I would my daughter were

12461240dead at my foote, and the iewels in her eare: would she were hearst

12471241at my foote, and the ducats in her coffin: no newes of them, why

12481242so? and I know not whats spent in the search: why thou losse vpon

12491243losse, the theefe gone with so much, and so much to finde the

12501244theefe, and no satisfaction, no reuenge, nor no ill lucke stirring but

12511245what lights a my shoulders, no sighs but a my breathing, no teares

12521246but a my shedding.

12531247Tuball. Yes, other men haue ill lucke to, Anthonio as I heard

12541248in Genowa?

12551249Shy. What, what, what, ill lucke, ill lucke.

12561250Tuball. Hath an Argosie cast away comming from Tripolis.

12571251Shy. I thank God, I thank God, is it true, is it true.

12581252Tuball. I spoke with some of the Saylers that escaped the wrack.

12591253Shy. I thank thee good Tuball, good newes, good newes: ha ha,

12601254heere in Genowa.

12611255Tuball. Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one night

12621256fourescore ducats.

12631257Shy. Thou stickst a dagger in me, I shall neuer see my gold a-

12641258gaine, foure score ducats at a sitting, foure score ducats.

12651259Tuball. There came diuers of Anthonios creditors in my com-

12661260pany to Venice, that sweare, he cannot choose but breake.

12671261Shy. I am very glad of it, ile plague him, ile torture him, I am

12681262glad of it.

12691263Tuball. One of them shewed mee a ring that hee had of your

12701264daughter for a Monky.

12711265Shy. Out vpon her, thou torturest mee Tuball, it was my Tur-

12721266kies, I had it of Leah when I was a Batcheler: I would not haue

12731267giuen it for a Wildernes of Monkies.

12741268Tuball. But Anthonio is certainly vndone.

12751269Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true, goe Tuball fee me an Offi-

12761270cer, bespeake him a fortnight before, I will haue the hart of him if

12771271he forfeite, for were he out of Venice I can make what merchan-

12781272dize I will: goe Tuball, and meete me at our Sinagogue, goe good

E3 Tuball,

12791273Tuball, at our Sinagogue Tuball. Exeunt.