SALARINO

Your mind is tossing on the Ocean, There where your Argosies with portly sail Like Signiors and rich Burghers on the flood, Or as it were the Pageants of the sea, Donc over-peer the petty traffickers That curtsy to them do them reverence As they fly by them with their woven wings. My wind cooling my broth, Would blow me to and ague when I thought What harm a wind too great might do at sea. I should not see the sandy hourglass run But I should think of shallows and of flats, And see my wealthy Andrew docks in sand For saying nothing; when I am very sure If they should speak, would almost dam those ears which hearing them would call their brother's fools, I'll tell thee more of this another time. But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgin, this opinion: Come good Lorenso, faryewell a while, I'll end my exhortation after dinner. We have not spoke us yet of Torchbearers, Why yet it lives there unchecked, that Anthonio 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 car casses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip report be and honest woman of her word. Come, the full stop. I would it might prove the end of his losses. Thats certain, I for my partly knew the Taylor that made the wings she flew withal. Thats certain, if the devil may be her Judge. There is more difference between thy flesh and hers, then between Jet and Iuori, more between your bloods, then there is between read wine and rennish: but tell us, do you hear whither Anthonio have had any lose at sea or no? Why I am sure if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh, what's that good for? We have been up and down to seek him. My Lord, here stays without a messenger with letters from the Doctor, new come from Padua? I marry, isle be gone about it strait. 'Tis good we do so. His hour is almost passed. Oh ten times faster Venus pigeons fly to seal loves bonds new made, then they are wont to keep obliged faith vnforfaited. Here comes Lorenzo, more of this hereafter. Why man I saw Bassanio under sail, with him is Gratiano gone along; and in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not. He came too late, the ship was undersail, But there the Duke was given to understand that in a Gondylo were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Iessica. Beside, Anthonio certified the Duke they were not with Bassanio in his ship. Why all the boys in Venice follow him, crying his stones, his daughter and his ducats. Marry well remembered, I reasond with a Frenchman yesterday, who told me, in the narrow seas that partly the French and English, there miscarried a vessel of our country richly fraught: I thought upon Anthonio when he told me, and wished in silence that it were not his. A kinder gentleman treads not the earth, I saw Bassanio and Anthonio partly, Bassanio told him he would make some speed of his return: he answered, do not so, slumber not business for my sake Bassanio, but stay the very riping of the time, and for the Jews bound which he hath of me let it not enter in your mind of love: be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts to courtship, and such fair ostents of love as shall conveniently become you there, And even there his eye being big with tears, turning his face, he put his hand behind him, and with affection wondrous sensible He wrung Bassanios hand, and so they parted. Do we so. I did my Lord, and I have reason for it, Signior Anthonio commends him to you. Not sick my Lord, unless it be in mind, nor well, unless in mind: his letter there will show you his estate. I would you had wone the fleece that he hath lost. Not one my Lord. Beside, it should appear, that if he had the present money to discharge the Jew, he would not take it: never did I know a creature that did bear the shape of man so keen and greedy to confound a man. He plies the Duke at morning and at night, and does impeach the freedom of the state if they deny him justice. Twenty Merchant's, the Duke himself, and the Magnifico's of greatest port have all persuaded with him, but none can driven him from the envious plea of forfeiture, of justice, and his bound. I am sure the Duke will never grant this forfeiture to hold.