Tub. I spoke with some of the sailors 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. -I shall Shy. Thou stick'st a dagger in me;never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting! fourscore ducats! Tub. There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice, that swear 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 showed me a ring, that he had of your daughter for a monkey. Shy. Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal : it was my turquoise : 1 I had it of Leah, when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys. Tub. But Antonio is certainly undone. Go, Shy. Nay, that's true, that's very true. 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, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal. [Exeunt. A precious stone. SCENE II. Belmont. A room in Portia's house. Enter BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, and Por. I pray you, tarry; pause a day or two, But lest you should not understand me well, I speak too long; but 'tis to peize 1 the time; 1 Delay. To eke it, and to draw it out in length, Bas. Let me choose; For, as I am, I live upon the rack. Por. Upon the rack, Bassanio? then confess What treason there is mingled with your love. Bas. 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 snow and fire, as treason and my love. Por. Ay, but, I fear, you speak upon the rack, Where men enforced do speak any thing. Bas. Promise me life, and I'll confess the truth. Por. Well then, confess, and live. Bas. Confess, and love. Had been the very sum of my confession. O happy torment, when my torturer Doth teach me answers for deliverance! But let me to my fortune and the caskets. Por. Away then. I am lock'd in one of them: Let music sound, while he doth make his choice: Fading in music: that the comparison May stand more proper, my eye shall be the stream, That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's ear, Music, whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself. SONG. 1. Tell me, where is fancy 2 bred, 2. It is engender'd in the eyes, All. Let us all ring fancy's knell; I'll begin it,- -Ding, dong, bell. Ding, dong, bell. Bas. So may the outward shows be least them selves. The world is still deceived with ornament. 1 Dignity of mien. 2 Love. * Pleasing. Obscures the show of evil? In religion. To be the dowry of a second head, The scull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled 3 shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf The seeming truth which cunning times put on Nor none of thee, thou pale and common drudge 1 Beard. 2 Curled. Treacherous |