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1

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

565

[Enter LAUNCELOT]

2

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

566

Certainly my conscience will serve me to run from
this Jew my master. The fiend is at mine elbow and
tempts me saying to me 'Gobbo, Launcelot Gobbo, good
Launcelot,' or 'good Gobbo,' or good Launcelot
Gobbo, use your legs, take the start, run away. My
conscience says 'No; take heed,' honest Launcelot;
take heed, honest Gobbo, or, as aforesaid, 'honest
Launcelot Gobbo; do not run; scorn running with thy
heels.' Well, the most courageous fiend bids me
pack: 'Via!' says the fiend; 'away!' says the
fiend; 'for the heavens, rouse up a brave mind,'
says the fiend, 'and run.' Well, my conscience,
hanging about the neck of my heart, says very wisely
to me 'My honest friend Launcelot, being an honest
man's son,' or rather an honest woman's son; for,
indeed, my father did something smack, something
grow to, he had a kind of taste; well, my conscience
says 'Launcelot, budge not.' 'Budge,' says the
fiend. 'Budge not,' says my conscience.
'Conscience,' say I, 'you counsel well;' ' Fiend,'
say I, 'you counsel well:' to be ruled by my
conscience, I should stay with the Jew my master,
who, God bless the mark, is a kind of devil; and, to
run away from the Jew, I should be ruled by the
fiend, who, saving your reverence, is the devil
himself. Certainly the Jew is the very devil
incarnal; and, in my conscience, my conscience is
but a kind of hard conscience, to offer to counsel
me to stay with the Jew. The fiend gives the more
friendly counsel: I will run, fiend; my heels are
at your command; I will run.

3

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Old Gobbo

609

By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit. Can
you tell me whether one Launcelot,
that dwells with him, dwell with him or no?

4

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

612

Talk you of young Master Launcelot?
[Aside]
Mark me now; now will I raise the waters. Talk you
of young Master Launcelot?

5

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

619

Well, let his father be what a' will, we talk of
young Master Launcelot.

6

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Old Gobbo

621

Your worship's friend and Launcelot, sir.

7

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

622

But I pray you, ergo, old man, ergo, I beseech you,
talk you of young Master Launcelot?

8

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Old Gobbo

624

Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership.

9

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

625

Ergo, Master Launcelot. Talk not of Master
Launcelot, father; for the young gentleman,
according to Fates and Destinies and such odd
sayings, the Sisters Three and such branches of
learning, is indeed deceased, or, as you would say
in plain terms, gone to heaven.

10

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Old Gobbo

646

Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not
Launcelot, my boy.

11

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

648

Pray you, let's have no more fooling about it, but
give me your blessing: I am Launcelot, your boy
that was, your son that is, your child that shall
be.

12

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Launcelot Gobbo

653

I know not what I shall think of that: but I am
Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your
wife is my mother.

13

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

Old Gobbo

656

Her name is Margery, indeed: I'll be sworn, if thou
be Launcelot, thou art mine own flesh and blood.
Lord worshipped might he be! what a beard hast thou
got! thou hast got more hair on thy chin than
Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.

14

Merchant of Venice
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

730

[Exeunt Launcelot and Old Gobbo]

15

Merchant of Venice
[II, 3]

(stage directions)

775

[Enter JESSICA and LAUNCELOT]

16

Merchant of Venice
[II, 3]

Jessica

776

I am sorry thou wilt leave my father so:
Our house is hell, and thou, a merry devil,
Didst rob it of some taste of tediousness.
But fare thee well, there is a ducat for thee:
And, Launcelot, soon at supper shalt thou see
Lorenzo, who is thy new master's guest:
Give him this letter; do it secretly;
And so farewell: I would not have my father
See me in talk with thee.

17

Merchant of Venice
[II, 3]

Jessica

790

Farewell, good Launcelot.
[Exit Launcelot]
Alack, what heinous sin is it in me
To be ashamed to be my father's child!
But though I am a daughter to his blood,
I am not to his manners. O Lorenzo,
If thou keep promise, I shall end this strife,
Become a Christian and thy loving wife.

18

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Lorenzo

807

'Tis now but four o'clock: we have two hours
To furnish us.
[Enter LAUNCELOT, with a letter]
Friend Launcelot, what's the news?

19

Merchant of Venice
[II, 4]

Lorenzo

821

Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica
I will not fail her; speak it privately.
Go, gentlemen,
[Exit Launcelot]
Will you prepare you for this masque tonight?
I am provided of a torch-bearer.

20

Merchant of Venice
[II, 5]

(stage directions)

846

[Enter SHYLOCK and LAUNCELOT]