Act+III,+Scene+1

ACT III. SCENE I.**
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Solanio and Salarino gossip about Antonio's misfortune, and tease a rather distraught Shylock, who tells them he fully intends to claim a pound of Antonio's flesh if he doesn't pay him back. Tubal (read: "//the only person in the entire play at all sympathetic to Shylock//") enters, and Antonio's posse leaves with a final jab as Tubal tells Shylock what he's found out about Jessica (which is not much). //Enter// **SOLANIO** //and// **SALARINO**

Now, what news on the Rialto?
 * SOLANIO**.

Why, it lives there uncheck'd Antonio hath a ship of rich lading wreck'd on the narrow seas; the Goodwins I think they call the place, a very dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcases of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my //5// gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
 * SALARINO**.

I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapp'd 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 //10// honest Antonio- O that I had a title good enough to keep his name company!--
 * SOLANIO**.

Come, the full stop.
 * SALARINO**.

Ha! What sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath lost a ship. //15//
 * SOLANIO**.

I would it might prove the end of his losses.
 * SALARINO**.

Let me say amen betimes, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
 * SOLANIO**.

//Enter// **SHYLOCK** How now, Shylock? What news among the merchants?

You knew, none so well, none so well as you, of my //20// daughter's flight.
 * SHYLOCK**.

That's certain; I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal.
 * SALARINO**.

And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was flidge; and then it is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. //25//
 * SOLANIO**.

She is damn'd for it.
 * SHYLOCK**.

That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.
 * SALARINO**.

My own flesh and blood to rebel!
 * SHYLOCK**.

Out upon it, old carrion! Rebels it at these years?
 * SOLANIO**.

I say my daughter is my flesh and my blood. //30//
 * SHYLOCK**.

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?
 * SALARINO**.

There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a prodigal, //35// who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a beggar, that was us'd 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.
 * SHYLOCK**.

Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his //40// flesh. What's that good for?
 * SALARINO**.

To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine 45 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 //50// 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 //55// 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.
 * SHYLOCK**.

//Enter a// **MAN** //from// **ANTONIO**

Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to //60// speak with you both.
 * MAN**.

We have been up and down to seek him.
 * SALARINO**.

//Enter// **TUBAL**

Here comes another of the tribe; a third cannot be match'd, unless the devil himself turn Jew.
 * SOLANIO**.

//Exeunt// **SOLANIO**, **SALERIO**, //and// **MAN**

How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast thou found my //65// daughter? 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 //75// 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!
 * SHYLOCK**.

Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I heard in Genoa- //80//
 * TUBAL**.

What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
 * SHYLOCK**.

Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
 * TUBAL**.

I thank God, I thank God. Is it true, is it true?
 * SHYLOCK**.

I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.
 * TUBAL**.

I thank thee, good Tubal. Good news, good news- ha, ha!- //85// heard in Genoa.
 * SHYLOCK**.

Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one night, fourscore ducats.
 * TUBAL**.

Thou stick'st a dagger in me- I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats at a sitting! Fourscore ducats! 90
 * SHYLOCK**.

There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but break.
 * TUBAL**.

I am very glad of it; I'll plague him, I'll torture him; I am glad of it.
 * SHYLOCK**.

One of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter 95 for a monkey.
 * TUBAL**.

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.
 * SHYLOCK**.

But Antonio is certainly undone.//100//
 * TUBAL**.

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.//105//
 * SHYLOCK**. Nay, that's true; that's very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an

//Exeunt//