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.
