Venice. VIII. [Exeunt. Enter Salaring and Salanio. Sal. Why, man, I faw Baffanio under fail; With him is Gratiano gone along; And in their thip, I am fure, Lorenzo is not. Sala. The villain Jew with outcries rais'd the duke; Whe went with him to fearch Baffanio's thip. Sal. He came too late, the fhip was under fail: But there the duke was given to underftand, That in a gondola were feen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jellica: Befides, Anthonio certify'd the duke, They were not with Baffanio in his ship. Sali. I never heard a patlion fo confus'd, Softrange, outrageous, and fo variable, As the dog Jew did utter in the ftreets: My daughter!-0 my dac its '-—0 my daughter! Fled with a Chriftian?—0 my Chriftian d'uats!Fate the law! my ducats, and my daughter ! alid bag, two fealed bags of ducats, Of double ducats, flun from me by my daughter! And jewels; two stones, two rich and precisas ftones, Stol'n by my daughter! Juftice! find the girl! She bath the fonts upon be, and the ducats! Sal. Why, all the boys in Venice follow him, Crying, his ftones, his daughter, and his ducats. Sala. Let good Anthonio look he keep his day, Or he shall pay for this. Sal. Marry, well remember'd: I thought upon Anthonio, when he told me; SCENE Belmont. [Exeunt. IX. Enter Neriffa, with a Servant. Ner. Quick, quick, I pray thee, draw the curtain The prince of Arragon hath ta'en his oath, [ftraight; And comes to his election preiently. Enter Arragon, his train; Portia, with hers. Flourijh of cornets. Por. Behold, there ftand the cafkets, noble prince: If you chufe that wherein I am contain'd, Straight fhall our nuptial-rites be folemniz'd; But it you fail, without more fpeech, my lord, You muit be gone from hence immediately. Ar. I am enjoin'd by oath to obferve three things: Firit, never to unfold to any one Which caiket 'twas I chote; next, if I fail Por. To thefe injunctions every one doth fwear, That comes to hazard for my worthlefs felf. Ar. And fo have I addreit me: Fortune now To my heart's hope --Gold, filver, and base lead. I will not chufe what many men defire, Sala. You were beft to tell Anthonio what you hear: Why, then to thee, thou filver treasure-house; To cozen fortune, and be honourable O, that estates, degrees, and offices, Pick'd from the chaff and ruin of the times, [there. Por. Too long a paufe for that which you find How much unlike my hopes, and my defervings! Ar. What is here? The fire feven times tried this; Take what wife you will to bed, I will ever be your head: Ar. Still more fool I thall appear But I go away with two- Patiently to bear my wroth 2. Por. Thus hath the candle fing'd the moth. Ner. The ancient faying is no herefy;→→ Serv. Where is my lady? Par. Here; what would my lord? Por. No more, I pray thee; I am half afeard, Quick Cupid's poft, that comes fo mannerly. Ner. Ballanio, lord Love, if thy will it be! [Excunt. SCENE I. A Street in Venice. ACT Enter Salanio and Salarino. Sala. Sal. N III. Sal. Come the full stop. Sala. Ha,-what fay'it thou?-Why the end is, he hath loft a fhip. Sal. I would it might prove the end of his loffes! Sala. Let me fay amen betimes, left the devil cross thy prayer; for here he comes in the likeness of a Enter Shylock. TOW, what news on the Rialto? Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd,' Jew.that Anthonio hath a ship of rich lading wreck'd | on the narrow feas; the Goodwins, I think they How now, Shylock what news among the mercall the place; a very dangerous flat, and fatal, chants? where the carcafes of many a tall fhip lie buried, as they fay, if my goffip Report be an honest woman of her word. Sala. I would the were as lying a goffip in that, as ever knapt 4 ginger, or made her neighbours be Shy. You knew, none fo well, none fo well as you, of my daughter's flight. Sal. That's certain; 1, for my part, knew the taylor that made the wings the flew withal. Sala. And Shylock, for his own part, knew the lieve the wept for the death of a third husband: But bird was fledge; and then it is the complexion of it is true, without any flips of prolixity, or croffing the plain high-way of talk,-that the good Anthonjo, the honest Anthonio,- -O that I had a title good enough to keep his name company!—— them all to leave the dam. Shy. She is damn'd for it. Sal. That's certain, if the devil may be her judge. Shy. My own flesh and blood to rebel! That is, I know. 2 i. e. my misfortune. 3 i. e. falutations. 4 To knap is to break short. Sala. Sala. Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at thefe years? Shy. I fay, my daughter is my flesh and blood. Sal. There is more difference between thy floth and hers, than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods, than there is between red wine! and Rhenith:-But tell us, do you hear, whether Anthonio have had any lofs at fea, or no? but what lights o' my shoulders; no fighs, but o' ` my breathing; no tears, but o' my fhedding. Tub. Yes, other men have ill luck too; Anthonio, as I heard in Geno3, Shy. What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck? Shy. I thank God, I thank God:-Is it true? is the wreck. Shy. There I have another bad match: a bank-it true? rupt, a prodigal, who dare fcarce thew his head on Tub. I fpoke with fome of the failors that escaped the Rialto;-a beggar, that us'd to come fo fmug upon the mart;-let him look to his bond: he was wont to call me ufurer;-let him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a Chriftian courtefy;-let him look to his bond. Sal. Why, I am fure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh; What's that good for? Shy. I thank thee, good Tubal:-Good news, good news: ha! ha! Where? in Genoa? Tub. Your daughter fpent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourfcore ducats. Shy. Thou ftick'ft a dagger in me :-I shall never fee my gold again: Fourfcore ducats at a fitting! fourscore ducats! Tub. There came divers of Anthonio's creditors in my company to Venice, that fwear he cannot chufe but break. Shy. I am glad of it; I'll plague him; Ill torture him; I am glad of it. Tub. One of them fhewed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. Shy. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal: it was my turquoife; I had it of Leah, when I was a batchelor: I would not have given it for a wildernefs of monkies. Shy. To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing elfe, it will feed my revenge. He hath difgrac'd me, and hinder'd me of half a million; laugh'd at my Ioffes, mock'd at my gains, fcorn'd my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; And what's his reafon? I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands; organs, dimenfions, fenfes, aflections, pallions? fed with the fame food, hurt with the fame weapons, fubject to the fame difeafes, heal'd by the fame means, warm'd and cool'd by the fame winter and fummer, as a Chriftian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poifon us, do we not die? and if you wrong Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true: Go, us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the Tubal, fee me an officer, befpeak him a fortnight rett, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew before: I will have the heart of him, if he forfeit ; wrong a Chriftian, what is his humility? revenge: for were he out of Venice, I can make what mcIf a Chriftian wrong a Jew, what thould his fuf-chandize I will: Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at ferance be by Chriftian example? why, revenge. our fynagogue; go, good Tubal; at our fynagogue, The villamy, you teach me, I will execute; and it Tubal. [Exeunt. fhall go hard, but I will better the inftruction. Enter a Servant. Serv. Gentlemen, my mafter Anthonio is at his houfe, and defires to speak with you both. Sul. We have been up and down to feek him. Enter Tubal. Sala. Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be match'd, unless the devil himself turn Jew. [Exeunt Sal, and Salan. Sky. How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? halt thou found my daughter? Tab. But Anthonio is certainly undone. SCENE II. Belmont. Enter Bafanio, Portia, Gratiano, and Attendants. Per. I pray you, tarry; paufe a day or two, Tab. I often came where I did hear of her, but But left you should not understand me well, cannot find her. (And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought) Sky. Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond I would detain you here fome month or two, gone, coft me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! Before you venture for me. I could teach you the curfe never fell upon our nation 'till now; I How to chufe right, but I am then forfworn; never felt it 'till now:-two thoufand ducats in So will I never be fo you may mifs me: that; and other precious, precious jewels.-I would, But if you do, you'll make me with a fin, my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels That I had been forfworn. Befhrew your eyes, in her ear! 'would fhe were hears'd at my foot, They have o'er-look'd me, and divided me; and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them?-One half of me is yours, the other half yours, Why, fo-and I know not what's fpent in the fearch: Why, thou lofs upon lofs! the thief gone with fo much, and so much to find the thief; and no fatisfaction, no revenge: nor no ill luck ftirring, Mine own, I would fay; but if mine, then yours, Ler Let fortune go to hell for it,-not I 1. Baff. Let me chufe; For, as I am, I live upon the rack. Por. Upon the rack, Baffanio? then confefs What treafon there is mingled with your love. Baff. None, but that ugly treafon of mistrust, Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love: There may as well be amity and life 'Tween now and fire, as treafon and my love. Par. Ay, but I fear, you speak upon the rack, Had been the very fun of my confeffion: Por. Away then: I am lock'd in one of them; Tell me, where is fancy bred, All. In the cradle where it lies: Baff. So may the outward fhows be leaft them- To be the dowry of a fecond head, Por. How all the other paffions fleet to air, Bay. What find I here? 1 The author of the REVISAL of Shakspeare's text affigns the following meaning to this difficult pallage -If the worlt I fear fhould happen, and it fhould prove in the event, that I, who am jultly yours by the free donation I have made you or myfeli, fhould yet not be yours in confequence of an unlucky choice, let fortune go to hell for robbing you of your juft due, not I for violating my oath.” 2 To peize comes from pefer, Fr. which fignifics to retard. 3 Meaning, with no lefs dignity of mien. 4 i. e. curled. 5 i. the treacherous flore. 6 Counterfeit here means a likeness, a refemblance. In underprizing it, fo far this fhadow Gra. My lord Baffanio, and my gentle lady, Doth limp behind the fubitance.-Here's the fcroll,I with you all the joy that you can with; The continent and fummary of my fortune. You that chufe not by the view, Since this fortune falls to you, For, I am fure, you can with none from me: Baff. With all my heart, fo thou can't get a wife. No more pertains to me, my lord, than you. [Killing ber. Your fortune stood upon the cafket there; I come by note, to give, and to receive. Por. You fee me, lord Baffanio, where I ftand, But the may learn; and happier than this, Baff. Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Ner. My lord and lady, it is now our time, Por. Is this true, Neriffa? Ner. Madam, it is, so you stand pleas'd withal. Baff. Our feat shall be much honour'd in your Gra. We'll play with them, the first boy for a thoufand ducats. Ner. What, and stake down? Gra. No; we shall ne'er win at that sport, and ftake down,—————— But who comes here? Lorenzo, and his infidel? Enter Lorenzo, Felica, and Salerio. Gra. Neriffa, cheer yon' stranger; bid her wel- That is, blended. 2 Intermiffion here means paufe, delay. P 2 Could |