Actus Tertius.
[Act 3, Scene 1]
Enter Solanio and
Salarino.
Sol.
Now, what newes on the Ryalto?
Sal.
Why yet it liues there vncheckt, that
Anthonio
hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas; the
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Goodwins I thinke they call the place, a very dangerous
flat, and fatall, where the carcasses of many a tall ship, lye
buried, as they say, if my gossips report be an honest
wo
man of her word.
Sol.
I would she were as lying a gossip in that, as euer
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knapt
Ginger, or made her neighbours beleeue she wept
for the death
of a third husband: but it is true, without
any slips of
prolixity, or crossing the plaine high‑way of
talke,
that the good
Anthonio, the honest
Anthonio; ô that
I had a title good
enough to keepe his name company!
Sal.
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Come, the full stop.
Sol.
Ha, what sayest thou, why the end is, he hath lost
a ship.
Sal.
I would it might proue the end of his losses.
Sol.
Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse
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my praier, for
here he comes in the likenes of a
Iew. How
now
Shylocke, what newes among the
Merchants?
Enter Shylocke.
Shy.
You knew none so well, none so well as you, of
my daughters
flight.
Sal.
That's certaine, I for my part knew the Tailor
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that made the
wings she flew withall.
Sol.
And
Shylocke for his owne part knew the bird
was
fledg'd, and then it is the complexion of them al to leaue
the dam.
Shy.
She is damn'd for it.
Sal.
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That's certaine, if the diuell may be her Iudge.
Shy.
My owne flesh and blood to rebell.
Sol.
Out vpon it old carrion, rebels it at these yeeres.
Shy.
I say my daughter is my flesh and bloud.
Sal.
There is more difference betweene thy flesh and
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hers, then
betweene Iet and Iuorie, more betweene your
bloods, then there
is betweene red wine and rennish: but
tell vs, doe you heare
whether
Anthonio haue had anie
losse at
sea or no?
Shy.
There I haue another bad match, a bankrout, a
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prodigall, who
dare scarce shew his head on the Ryalto,
a begger that was vsd
to come so smug vpon the Mart:
let him look to his bond, he was
wont to call me Vsurer,
let him looke to his bond, he was wont
to lend money
for a Christian curtsie, let him looke to his
bond.
Sal.
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Why I am sure if he forfaite, thou wilt not take
his flesh,
what's that good for?
Shy.
To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing
else, it will
feede my reuenge; he hath disgrac'd me, and
hindred me halfe a
million, laught at my losses, mockt at
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my gaines, scorned my
Nation, thwarted my bargaines,
cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies, and what's the
reason? I am a
Iewe: Hath not a
Iew eyes? hath not
a
Iew hands, organs, dementions, sences,
affections, passi
ons, fed with the same foode, hurt
with the same wea
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pons, subiect to the same diseases,
healed by the same
meanes, warmed and cooled by the same Winter
and
Sommmer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not
bleede? if you tickle vs, doe we not laugh? if you poison
vs doe we not die? and if you wrong vs shall we not
re
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uenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you
in that. If a
Iew wrong a
Christian, what is his humility,
reuenge? If a
Christian wrong a
Iew, what should his suf
ferance
be by Christian example, why reuenge? The vil
lanie you
teach me I will execute, and it shall goe hard
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but I will
better the instruction.
Enter a man from
Anthonio.
Gentlemen, my maister
Anthonio is at his
house, and
desires to speake with you both.
Sal.
We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him.
Enter Tuball.
Sol.
Here comes another of the Tribe, a third cannot
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be matcht,
vnlesse the diuell himselfe turne
Iew.
Exeunt. Gentlemen.
Shy.
How now
Tuball, what newes from
Genowa? hast
thou found my daughter?
Tub.
I often came where I did heare of
ster
her
, but can
not finde her.
Shy.
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Why there, there, there, there, a diamond gone
cost me two
thousand ducats in Franckford, the curse ne
uer fell
vpon our Nation till now, I neuer felt it till now,
two
thousand ducats in that, and other precious, preci
ous iewels: I would my daughter were dead at my foot,
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and
the iewels in her eare: would she were hearst at my
foote, and
the duckets in her coffin: no newes of them,
why so? and I know
not how much is spent in the search:
why thou losse vpon losse,
the theefe gone with so
much, and so much to finde the theefe,
and no satisfa
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ction, no reuenge, nor no ill luck
stirring but what lights
a my shoulders, no sighes but a my
breathing, no teares
but a my shedding.
Tub.
Yes, other men haue ill lucke too,
Anthonio as
I
heard in Genowa?
Shy.
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What, what, what, ill lucke, ill lucke.
Tub.
Hath an Argosie cast away comming from Tri
polis.
Shy.
I thanke God, I thanke God, is it true, is it true?
Tub.
I spoke with some of the Saylers that escaped
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the wracke.
Shy.
I thanke thee good
Tuball, good newes, good
newes: ha, ha, here in Genowa.
Tub.
Your daughter spent in Genowa, as I heard, one
night fourescore
ducats.
Shy.
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Thou stick'st a dagger in me, I shall neuer see my
gold againe,
fourescore ducats at a sitting, fourescore du
cats.
Tub.
There came diuers of
Anthonios creditors in my
company to Venice, that sweare hee cannot choose but
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breake.
Shy.
I am very glad of it, ile plague him, ile torture
him, I am glad
of it,
Tub.
One of them shewed me a ring that hee had of
your daughter for a
Monkie.
Shy.
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Out vpon her, thou torturest me
Tuball, it was
my Turkies, I had it of
Leah when I was
a Batcheler: I
would not haue giuen it for a wildernesse of
Monkies.
Tub.
But
Anthonio is certainely vndone.
Shy.
Nay, that's true, that's very true, goe
Tuball, see
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me an Officer, bespeake him a fortnight
before, I will
haue the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he
out of Ve
nice, I can make what merchandize I will: goe
Tuball,
and meete me at our
Sinagogue, goe good
Tuball, at our
Sinagogue
Tuball.
Exeunt.
