Act III, Scene 1

Venice. A street.

[Enter SALANIO and SALARINO]

• Salanio. Now, what news on the Rialto?

• Salarino. Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath 1240
  a ship of rich lading wrecked 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. 1245

• Salanio. 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 1250
  honest Antonio,—O that I had a title good enough
  to keep his name company!—

• Salarino. Come, the full stop.

• Salanio. Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath
  lost a ship. 1255

• Salarino. I would it might prove the end of his losses.

• Salanio. Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my
  prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
  [Enter SHYLOCK]
  How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants? 1260

• Shylock. You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my
  daughter's flight.

• Salarino. That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor
  that made the wings she flew withal.

• Salanio. And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was 1265
  fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all
  to leave the dam.

• Shylock. She is damned for it.

• Salanio. That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.

• Shylock. My own flesh and blood to rebel! 1270

• Salanio. Out upon it, old carrion! rebels it at these years?

• Shylock. I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.

• Salarino. 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 1275
  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 1280
  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.

• Salarino. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take 1285
  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 1290
  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 1295
  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 1300
  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 villany you 1305
  teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
  will better the instruction.

[Enter a Servant]

• Servant. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and
  desires to speak with you both. 1310

• Salarino. We have been up and down to seek him.

[Enter TUBAL]

• Salanio. Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be
  matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.

[Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant]

• 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 Frankfort! The curse 1320
  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 1325
  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 in luck stirring but what lights on my 1330
  shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears
  but of my shedding.

• Tubal. Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I
  heard in Genoa,—

• Shylock. What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck? 1335

• Tubal. Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.

• Shylock. I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?

• Tubal. I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.

• Shylock. I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!
  ha, ha! where? in Genoa? 1340

• Tubal. Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, in one
  night fourscore ducats.

• Shylock. Thou stickest a dagger in me: I shall never see my
  gold again: fourscore ducats at a sitting!
  fourscore ducats! 1345

• 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 1350
  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. 1355

• 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, go, Tubal, and meet me at our synagogue; 1360
  go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.

[Exeunt]