ACT 1
Scene 1
Enter Antonio, Salarino, and Solanio.
In sooth I know not why I am so sad.
It wearies me, you say it wearies you.
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff ’tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn.
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me
That I have much ado to know myself.
...upon his merchandise.
Believe me, no. I thank my fortune for it,
My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,
Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate
Upon the fortune of this present year:
Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.
...are in love.
Fie, fie!
...not prevented me.
Your worth is very dear in my regard.
I take it your own business calls on you,
And you embrace th’ occasion to depart.
...are marvelously changed.
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano,
A stage where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.
...own tongue.
Fare you well. I’ll grow a talker for this gear.
...maid not vendible.
Is that anything now?
...worth the search.
Well, tell me now what lady is the same
To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
That you today promised to tell me of?
...debts I owe.
I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Within the eye of honor, be assured
My purse, my person, my extremest means
Lie all unlocked to your occasions.
...for the first.
You know me well, and herein spend but time
To wind about my love with circumstance;
And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
In making question of my uttermost
Than if you had made waste of all I have.
Then do but say to me what I should do
That in your knowledge may by me be done,
And I am prest unto it. Therefore speak.
...questionless be fortunate!
Thou know’st that all my fortunes are at sea;
Neither have I money nor commodity
To raise a present sum. Therefore go forth:
Try what my credit can in Venice do;
That shall be racked even to the uttermost
To furnish thee to Belmont to fair Portia.
Go presently inquire, and so will I,
Where money is, and I no question make
To have it of my trust, or for my sake.
They exit.
Scene 3
...he comes here?
Enter Antonio.
...in our mouths.
Shylock, albeit I neither lend nor borrow
By taking nor by giving of excess,
Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend,
I’ll break a custom. To Bassanio.
Is he yet possessed
How much you would?
...thousand ducats.
And for three months.
...borrow Upon advantage.
I do never use it.
...was the third—
And what of him? Did he take interest?
...steal it not.
This was a venture, sir, that Jacob served for,
A thing not in his power to bring to pass,
But swayed and fashioned by the hand of heaven.
Was this inserted to make interest good?
Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams?
...note me, signior—
aside to Bassanio
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose!
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
...the rate—
Well, Shylock, shall we be beholding to you?
...thus much moneys”?
I am as like to call thee so again,
To spet on thee again, to spurn thee, too.
If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not
As to thy friends, for when did friendship take
A breed for barren metal of his friend?
But lend it rather to thine enemy,
Who, if he break, thou mayst with better face
Exact the penalty.
...body pleaseth me.
Content, in faith. I’ll seal to such a bond,
And say there is much kindness in the Jew.
...in my necessity.
Why, fear not, man, I will not forfeit it!
Within these two months—that’s a month before
This bond expires—I do expect return
Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
...wrong me not.
Yes, Shylock, I will seal unto this bond.
...be with you.
Hie thee, gentle Jew.
The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind.
...a villain’s mind.
Come on, in this there can be no dismay;
My ships come home a month before the day.
They exit.
ACT 2
Scene 6
...for us stay.
Enter Antonio.
Who’s there?
... Signior Antonio?
Fie, fie, Gratiano, where are all the rest?
’Tis nine o’clock! Our friends all stay for you.
No masque tonight; the wind is come about;
Bassanio presently will go aboard.
I have sent twenty out to seek for you.
...and gone tonight.
They exit.
ACT 3
Scene 3
...’twixt us twain.
Enter Shylock, the Jew, and Solanio, and Antonio, and the Jailer.
...look to him.
Hear me yet, good Shylock—
...at his request.
I pray thee, hear me speak—
...kept with men.
Let him alone.
I’ll follow him no more with bootless prayers.
He seeks my life. His reason well I know:
I oft delivered from his forfeitures
Many that have at times made moan to me.
Therefore he hates me.
...forfeiture to hold.
The Duke cannot deny the course of law,
For the commodity that strangers have
With us in Venice, if it be denied,
Will much impeach the justice of the state,
Since that the trade and profit of the city
Consisteth of all nations. Therefore go.
These griefs and losses have so bated me
That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh
Tomorrow to my bloody creditor.—
Well, jailer, on.—Pray God Bassanio come
To see me pay his debt, and then I care not.
They exit.
ACT 4
Scene 1
...set you forth.
Enter the Duke, the Magnificoes, Antonio, Bassanio, Salerio, and Gratiano, with Attendants.
...is Antonio here?
Ready, so please your Grace.
...dram of mercy.
I have heard
Your Grace hath ta’en great pains to qualify
His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate,
And that no lawful means can carry me
Out of his envy’s reach, I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am armed
To suffer with a quietness of spirit
The very tyranny and rage of his.
...sting thee twice?
to Bassanio
I pray you, think you question with the Jew.
You may as well go stand upon the beach
And bid the main flood bate his usual height;
You may as well use question with the wolf
Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb;
You may as well forbid the mountain pines
To wag their high tops and to make no noise
When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;
You may as well do anything most hard
As seek to soften that than which what’s harder?—
His Jewish heart. Therefore I do beseech you
Make no more offers, use no farther means,
But with all brief and plain conveniency
Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.
...drop of blood!
I am a tainted wether of the flock,
Meetest for death. The weakest kind of fruit
Drops earliest to the ground, and so let me.
You cannot better be employed, Bassanio,
Than to live still and write mine epitaph.
...you not?
Ay, so he says.
...confess the bond?
I do.
...on my bond.
Most heartily I do beseech the court
To give the judgment.
...anything to say?
But little. I am armed and well prepared.—
Give me your hand, Bassanio. Fare you well.
Grieve not that I am fall’n to this for you,
For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom: it is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty, from which ling’ring penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.
Commend me to your honorable wife,
Tell her the process of Antonio’s end,
Say how I loved you, speak me fair in death,
And when the tale is told, bid her be judge
Whether Bassanio had not once a love.
Repent but you that you shall lose your friend
And he repents not that he pays your debt.
For if the Jew do cut but deep enough,
I’ll pay it instantly with all my heart.
...for God’s sake!
So please my lord the Duke and all the court
To quit the fine for one half of his goods,
I am content, so he will let me have
The other half in use, to render it
Upon his death unto the gentleman
That lately stole his daughter.
Two things provided more: that for this favor
He presently become a Christian;
The other, that he do record a gift,
Here in the court, of all he dies possessed
Unto his son Lorenzo and his daughter.
...courteous pains withal.
And stand indebted, over and above,
In love and service to you evermore.
...be with you.
My Lord Bassanio, let him have the ring.
Let his deservings and my love withal
Be valued ’gainst your wife’s commandment.
...toward Belmont.—Come, Antonio.
They exit.
ACT 5
Scene 1
...sun is hid.
Enter Bassanio, Antonio, Gratiano, and their followers.
...bound for you.
No more than I am well acquitted of.
...young clerk’s pen.
I am th’ unhappy subject of these quarrels.
...oath with thee.
I once did lend my body for his wealth,
Which but for him that had your husband’s ring
Had quite miscarried. I dare be bound again,
My soul upon the forfeit, that your lord
Will never more break faith advisedly.
...Give him this,
Giving Antonio a ring.
...than the other.
Here, Lord Bassanio, swear to keep this ring.
...this letter soon.
Handing him a paper.
...on this letter.
I am dumb.
...with my wife.
Sweet lady, you have given me life and living;
For here I read for certain that my ships
Are safely come to road.
...safe Nerissa’s ring.
They exit.