Shylock

Well, thou shalt see, thy eyes shall be thy judge,

The difference of old Shylock and Bassanio: —

What, Jessica! — thou shalt not gormandise,

As thou hast done with me: What, Jessica! —

And sleep and snore, and rend apparel out; —

Why, Jessica, I say!

Launcelot

Why, Jessica!

Shylock

Who bids thee call? I do not bid thee call.

Launcelot

Your worship was wont to tell me I could do nothing without bidding.

Jessica

Call you? what is your will?

Shylock

I am bid forth to supper, Jessica:

There are my keys. But wherefore should I go?

I am not bid for love; they flatter me:

But yet I'll go in hate, to feed upon

The prodigal Christian. Jessica, my girl,

Look to my house. I am right loath to go:

There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,

For I did dream of moneybags to-night.

Launcelot

I beseech you, sir, go: my young master doth expect your reproach.

Shylock

So do I his.

Launcelot

An they have conspired together, I will not say you shall see a masque; but if you do, then it was not for nothing that my nose fell ableeding on Black Monday last at six o'clock i' the morning, falling out that year on Ash Wednesday was four year, in the afternoon.

Shylock

What, are there masques? Hear you me, Jessica:

Lock up my doors; and when you hear the drum

And the vile squealing of the wry-necked fife,

Clamber not you up to the casements then,

Nor thrust your head into the public street

To gaze on Christian fools with varnished faces,

But stop my house's ears, I mean my casements:

Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter

My sober house. By Jacob's staff, I swear,

I have no mind of feasting forth to-night:

But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah;

Say I will come.

Launcelot

I will go before, sir. Mistress, look out at window for all this;

Shylock

What says that fool of Hagar's offspring, ha?

Jessica

His words were “Farewell, mistress;” nothing else.

Shylock

The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder;

Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day

More than the wild-cat; drones hive not with me;

Therefore I part with him, and part with him

To one that I would have him help to waste

His borrowed purse. Well, Jessica, go in;

Perhaps I will return immediately:

Do as I bid you; shut doors after you:

Fast bind, fast find;

A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. Exit.

Jessica

Farewell; and if my fortune be not crossed,

I have a father, you a daughter, lost. Exit.