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Venice. A Street.
Enter SOLANIO and SALERIO.
Solanio Now, what news on the Rialto?
Salerio Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship
of rich lading wracked on the narrow seas; the Goodwins I
think they call the place, a very dangerous flat, and fatal,
where the carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they
say, if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
Solanio I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped
ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death
of a third husband. But it is true, without any slips of
prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk, that the
good Antonio, the honest Antonio - O that I had a title good
enough to keep his name company!-
Salerio Come, the full stop.
Solanio Ha, what sayst thou? Why, the end is he hath lost a ship.
Salerio I would it might prove the end of his losses.
Enter SHYLOCK.
Solanio Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer,
for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew. How now,
Shylock! What news among the merchants?
Shylock You knew - none so well, none so well as you - of my
daughter's flight.
Salerio That's certain. I, for my part, knew the tailor that made
the wings she flew withal.
Solanio And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged;
and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam.
Shylock She is damned for it.
Salerio That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.
Shylock My own flesh and blood to rebel!
Solanio Out upon it, old carrion! Rebels it at these years?
Shylock I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood.
Salerio There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than
between jet and ivory, more between your bloods than there
is between red wine and Rhenish. But tell us, do you hear
whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no?
Shylock There I have another bad match! A bankrupt, a prodigal, who
dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was
used to come so smug upon the mart. Let him look to his
bond! He was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his
bond. He was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy;
let him look to his bond.
Salerio Why, I am sure if he forfeit thou wilt not take his flesh: -
what's that good for?
Shylock To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will
feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half
a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned
my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated
mine enemies; and what's his reason? - I am a Jew. Hath not
a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions,
senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt
with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed
by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and
summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we
not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we
are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a
Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? - Revenge. If a
Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I
will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the
instruction.
Enter a MAN from Antonio.
Servant Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to
speak with you both.
Salerio We have been up and down to seek him.
Enter TUBAL.
Solanio Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be matched,
unless the devil himself turn Jew.
[Exeunt SOLANIO, SALERIO, and MAN.
Shylock How now Tubal! What news from Genoa? Hast thou found my
daughter?
Tubal I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.
Shylock Why there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two
thousand ducats in Frankfurt! The curse never fell upon our
nation till now - I never felt it till now. Two thousand
ducats in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I would
my daughter were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!
Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her
coffin! No news of them? Why, so - and I know not what's
spent in the search. Why thou - loss upon loss, the thief
gone with so much, and so much to find the thief, and no
satisfaction, no revenge, nor no ill luck stirring but what
lights o'my shoulders, no sighs but o'my breathing, no tears
but o'my shedding.
Tubal Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I heard in
Genoa-
Shylock What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
Tubal - hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
Shylock I thank God, I thank God! Is it true, is it true?
Tubal I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wrack.
Shylock I thank thee, good Tubal. Good news, good news! Ha ha!
'Heard in Genoa.'
Tubal Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night,
fourscore ducats.
Shylock Thou stick'st a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold
again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting? Fourscore ducats?
Tubal There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to
Venice, that swear he cannot choose but break.
Shylock I am very glad of it; I'll plague him, I'll torture him. I
am glad of it.
Tubal One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter
for a monkey.
Shylock Out upon her! Thou torturest me Tubal - it was my turquoise.
I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have
given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
Tubal But Antonio is certainly undone.
Shylock Nay, that's true, that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an
officer; bespeak him a fortnight before. I will have the
heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of Venice, I can
make what merchandise I will. Go, Tubal, and meet me at our
synagogue. Go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.
[Exeunt.