cute; and it fhall go hard, but I will better the inftruc tion. Enter a SERVANT. SERV. Gentlemen, my mafter Antonio is at his house, and defires to speak with you both. SALAR. We have been up and down to seek him. SALAN. Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew. [Exeunt SALAN. SALAR. and SERVANT. SHY. How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? haft thou found my daughter? * TUB. I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her. SHY. Why there, there, there, there! a diamond gone, coft me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curfe 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 fhe were hears'd at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news of them? Why, fo:-and I know not what's spent in the search: Why, thou loss upon lofs! the thief gone with so much, and fo much to find the thief; and no fatiffaction, no revenge: nor no ill luck stirring, 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; Antonio, as I heard in Genoa, SHr. What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck? TUB.-hath an argofy caft away, coming from Tripolis. SHr. I thank God, I thank God:-Is it true? is it true? TUB. I spoke with some of the failors that escaped the wreck. SHY. I thank thee, good Tubal;-Good news, good news ha ha!-Where? in Genoa? TUB. Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourscore ducats. :. SHY. Thou ftick'ft a dagger in me I fhall never fee my gold again: Fourfcore ducats at a fitting! fourfcore ducats! TUB. There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice, that fwear he cannot choose but break. SHY. I am very glad of it: I'll plague him; I'll torture him; I am glad of it. TUB. One of them fhowed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. SHY. Out upon her! Thou tortureft me, Tubal: it was my turquoife; I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor: I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkies. TUB. But Antonio is certainly undone. Sнr. 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 merchandize I will: Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our fynagogue; go, good Tubal; at our fynagogue, Tubal. [Exeunt SCENE II. Belmont. A Room in PORTIA's Houfe. Enter BASSANIO, PORTIO, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and Attendants. The cafkets are fet out. POR. I pray you, tarry; pause a day or two, Before you hazard; for, in choofing wrong, I lofe your company; therefore, forbear a while; But left you should not understand me well, I speak too long; but 'tis to peize the time ; BASS. Let me choose ; For, as I am, I live upon the rack. POR. Upon the rack, Bassanio? then confefs What treason there is mingled with your love. BASS. None, but that ugly treason of mistrust, Which makes me fear the enjoying of my love: There may as well be amity and life Tween fnow and fire, as treason and my love. POR. Ay, but, I fear, you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak any thing. BASS. Promifę me life, and I'll confefs the truth. POR. Well then, confefs, and live. BASS. Confefs, and love, Had been the very fum of my confeffion : If POR. Away then: I am lock'd in one of them; Neriffa, and the reft, ftand all aloof. Let mufick found, while he doth make his choice; May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream, SONG. 1. Tell me, where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? Reply. BASS. How begot, how nourished? 2. It is engender'd in the eyes, SO may the outward shows be leaft themselves; The world is ftill deceiv'd with ornament. To be the dowry of a fecond head, The fcull that bred them, in the fepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled fhore |