The Merchant of Venice.This line appears erroneously to have been repeated at the top of this page.How shall I know if I doe choose the right.
Por.
[945]
The one of them containes my picture Prince,If you choose that, then I am yours withall.Mor.Some God direct my iudgement, let me see,I will suruay the inscriptions, backe againe:What saies this leaden casket?
[950]
Who chooseth me, must giue and hazard all he hath.Must giue, for what? for lead, hazard for lead?This casket threatens men that hazard allDoe it in hope of faire aduantages:A golden minde stoopes not to showes of drosse,
[955]
Ile then nor giue nor hazard ought for lead.What saies the Siluer with her virgin hue?Who chooseth me, shall get as much as he deserues.As much as he deserues; pause there
Morocho,
And weigh thy value with an euen hand,
[960]
If thou beest rated by thy estimationThou doost deserue enough, and yet enoughMay not extend so farre as to the Ladie:And yet to be afeard of my deseruing,Were but a weake disabling of my selfe.
[965]
As much as I deserue, why that's the Lady.I doe in birth deserue her, and in fortunes,In graces, and in qualities of breeding:But more then these, in loue I doe deserue.What if I strai'd no farther, but chose here?
[970]
Let's see once more this saying grau'd in gold.Who chooseth me shall gaine what many men desire:Why that's the Lady, all the world desires her:From the foure corners of the earth they comeTo kisse this shrine, this mortall breathing Saint.
[975]
The Hircanion deserts, and the vaste wildesOf wide Arabia are as throughfares nowFor Princes to come view faire
Portia.
The waterie Kingdome, whose ambitious headSpets in the face of heauen, is no barre
[980]
To stop the forraine spirits, but they comeAs ore a brooke to see faire
Portia.
One of these three containes her heauenly picture.Is't like that Lead containes her? 'twere damnationTo thinke so base a thought, it were too grose
[985]
To rib her searecloath in the obscure graue:Or shall I thinke in Siluer she's immur'dBeing ten times vndervalued to tride gold;O sinfull thought, neuer so rich a IemWas set in worse then gold! They haue in England
[990]
A coyne that beares the figure of an AngellStampt in gold, but that's insculpt vpon:But here an Angell in a golden bedLies all within. Deliuer me the key:Here doe I choose, and thriue I as I may.Por.
[995]
There take it Prince, and if my forme lye thereThen I am yours.Mor.O hell! what haue we here, a carrion death,Within whose emptie eye there is a written scroule;Ile reade the writing.
[1000]
All that glisters is not gold,
Often haue you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold;
Guilded timber doe wormes infold:
[1005]
Had you beene as wise as bold,
Yong in limbs,
in
iudgement old
,
Your answere had not beene inscrold,
Fareyouwell,
your suite
is cold
,
Then farewell heate, and welcome frost:Portia adew, I haue too grieu'd a heart
To take a tedious leaue: thus loosers part.Exit.Por.A gentle riddance: draw the curtaines, go:Let all of his complexion choose me so.Exeunt.
[Act 2, Scene 8]
Enter Salarino and
Solanio.
Flo. Cornets.Sal.
[1015]
Why man I saw
Bassanio vnder sayle;
With him is
Gratiano gone along;
And in their ship I am sure
Lorenzo is
not.
Sol.The villaine
Iew with outcries raisd the
Duke.
Who went with him to search
Bassanios
ship.
Sal.
[1020]
He comes too late, the ship was vndersaile;But there the Duke was giuen to vnderstandThat in a Gondilo were seene togetherLorenzo and his amorous
Iessica.
Besides,
Anthonio certified the Duke
[1025]
They were not with
Bassanio in his ship.
Sol.I neuer heard a passion so confusd,So strange, outragious, and so variable,As the dogge
Iew did vtter in the streets;
My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter,
[1030]
Fled with a Christian, O my Christian ducats!Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter;A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter,And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
[1035]
Stolne by my daughter: iustice, finde the girle,She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats.Sal.Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.Sol.Let good
Anthonio looke he keepe his day
[1040]
Or he shall pay for this.Sal.Marry well remembred,I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,Who told me, in the narrow seas that partThe French and English, there miscaried
[1045]
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:I thought vpon
Anthonio when he told me,
And wisht in silence that it were not his.Sol.Yo were best to tell
Anthonio what you
heare.
Yet doe not suddainely, for it may grieue him.Sal.
[1050]
A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,I saw
Bassanio and
Anthonio part,
Bassanio told him he would make some
speede
Of his returne: he answered, doe not so,Slubber not businesse for my sake
Bassanio,
[1055]
But stay the very riping of the time,And for the
Iewes bond which he hath of
me,
Let it not enter in your minde of loue:Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughtsTo courtship, and such faire ostents of loue
[1060]
As shall conueniently become you there;And euen there his eye being big with teares,Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him,And with affection wondrous sencibleHe wrung
Bassanios hand, and so they
parted.
Sol.
[1065]
I thinke he onely loues the world for him,I pray thee let vs goe and finde him outAnd quicken his embraced heauinesseWith some delight or other.Sal.
Doe we so.
Exeunt.
[Act 2, Scene 9]
Enter Nerrissa and a
Seruiture.
Ner.
[1070]
Quick, quick I pray thee, draw the curtain strait,P2The
[Act 2, Scene 8]
Enter Salarino and
Solanio.
Flo. Cornets.Sal.
[1015]
Why man I saw
Bassanio vnder sayle;
With him is
Gratiano gone along;
And in their ship I am sure
Lorenzo is
not.
Sol.The villaine
Iew with outcries raisd the
Duke.
Who went with him to search
Bassanios
ship.
Sal.
[1020]
He comes too late, the ship was vndersaile;But there the Duke was giuen to vnderstandThat in a Gondilo were seene togetherLorenzo and his amorous
Iessica.
Besides,
Anthonio certified the Duke
[1025]
They were not with
Bassanio in his ship.
Sol.I neuer heard a passion so confusd,So strange, outragious, and so variable,As the dogge
Iew did vtter in the streets;
My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter,
[1030]
Fled with a Christian, O my Christian ducats!Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter;A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,Of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter,And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
[1035]
Stolne by my daughter: iustice, finde the girle,She hath the stones vpon her, and the ducats.Sal.Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.Sol.Let good
Anthonio looke he keepe his day
[1040]
Or he shall pay for this.Sal.Marry well remembred,I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,Who told me, in the narrow seas that partThe French and English, there miscaried
[1045]
A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:I thought vpon
Anthonio when he told me,
And wisht in silence that it were not his.Sol.Yo were best to tell
Anthonio what you
heare.
Yet doe not suddainely, for it may grieue him.Sal.
[1050]
A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,I saw
Bassanio and
Anthonio part,
Bassanio told him he would make some
speede
Of his returne: he answered, doe not so,Slubber not businesse for my sake
Bassanio,
[1055]
But stay the very riping of the time,And for the
Iewes bond which he hath of
me,
Let it not enter in your minde of loue:Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughtsTo courtship, and such faire ostents of loue
[1060]
As shall conueniently become you there;And euen there his eye being big with teares,Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him,And with affection wondrous sencibleHe wrung
Bassanios hand, and so they
parted.
Sol.
[1065]
I thinke he onely loues the world for him,I pray thee let vs goe and finde him outAnd quicken his embraced heauinesseWith some delight or other.Sal.
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<l n="1020">He comes too late, the ship was vndersaile;</l>
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<l n="1026">I neuer heard a passion so confusd,</l>
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<l n="1029">My daughter, O my ducats, O my daughter,</l>
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<l n="1031">Iustice, the law, my ducats, and my daughter;</l>
<l n="1032">A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,</l>
<l n="1033">Of double ducats, stolne from me by my daughter,</l>
<l n="1034">And iewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,</l>
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<l n="1037">Why all the boyes in Venice follow him,</l>
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<speaker rend="italic">Sol.</speaker>
<l n="1039">Let good<hi rend="italic">Anthonio</hi>looke he keepe his day</l>
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<sp who="#F-mv-slr">
<speaker rend="italic">Sal.</speaker>
<l n="1041">Marry well remembred,</l>
<l n="1042">I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,</l>
<l n="1043">Who told me, in the narrow seas that part</l>
<l n="1044">The French and English, there miscaried</l>
<l n="1045">A vessell of our countrey richly fraught:</l>
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<l n="1047">And wisht in silence that it were not his.</l>
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<speaker rend="italic">Sol.</speaker>
<l n="1048">Yo were best to tell<hi rend="italic">Anthonio</hi>what you heare.</l>
<l n="1049">Yet doe not suddainely, for it may grieue him.</l>
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<sp who="#F-mv-slr">
<speaker rend="italic">Sal.</speaker>
<l n="1050">A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth,</l>
<l n="1051">I saw<hi rend="italic">Bassanio</hi>and<hi rend="italic">Anthonio</hi>part,</l>
<l n="1052">
<hi rend="italic">Bassanio</hi>told him he would make some speede</l>
<l n="1053">Of his returne: he answered, doe not so,</l>
<l n="1054">Slubber not businesse for my sake<hi rend="italic">Bassanio</hi>,</l>
<l n="1055">But stay the very riping of the time,</l>
<l n="1056">And for the<hi rend="italic">Iewes</hi>bond which he hath of me,</l>
<l n="1057">Let it not enter in your minde of loue:</l>
<l n="1058">Be merry, and imploy your chiefest thoughts</l>
<l n="1059">To courtship, and such faire ostents of loue</l>
<l n="1060">As shall conueniently become you there;</l>
<l n="1061">And euen there his eye being big with teares,</l>
<l n="1062">Turning his face, he put his hand behinde him,</l>
<l n="1063">And with affection wondrous sencible</l>
<l n="1064">He wrung<hi rend="italic">Bassanios</hi>hand, and so they parted.</l>
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<sp who="#F-mv-sln">
<speaker rend="italic">Sol.</speaker>
<l n="1065">I thinke he onely loues the world for him,</l>
<l n="1066">I pray thee let vs goe and finde him out</l>
<l n="1067">And quicken his embraced heauinesse</l>
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<speaker rend="italic">Sal.</speaker>
<p n="1069">Doe we so.</p>
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