The Merchant of Venice: ACT II
Introduction ACT I ACT II SCENE I. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house. SCENE II. Venice. A street. SCENE III. The same. A room in SHYLOCK'S house. SCENE IV. The same. A street. SCENE V. The same. Before SHYLOCK'S house. SCENE VI. The same. SCENE VII. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house. SCENE VIII. Venice. A street. SCENE IX. Belmont. A room in PORTIA'S house. ACT III ACT IV ACT V About the Play Feedback			Search: All the plays Hamlet Coriolanus Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Othello Romeo and Juliet Richard II Richard III Titus Andronicus Antony and Cleopatra Timon of Athens Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry the Fifth Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry VIII King John Pericles Troilus and Cressida All's Well... As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Cymbeline A Midsummer... Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure The Merry Wives... Much Ado about Nothing The Merchant of Venice Twelfth Night The Taming of... The Tempest The Two Gentlemen... The Winter's Tale    for: SCENE VIII. Venice. A street. Enter SALARINO and SALANIO SALARINO       Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:       With him is Gratiano gone along;       And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not. SALANIO       The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke, 5     Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship. SALARINO       He came too late, the ship was under sail:       But there the duke was given to understand       That in a gondola were seen together       Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica: 10    Besides, Antonio certified the duke       They were not with Bassanio in his ship. SALANIO       I never heard a passion so confused,       So strange, outrageous, and so variable,       As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: 15    'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!       Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!       Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!       A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,       Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter! 20    And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,       Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;       She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.' SALARINO       Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,       Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats. SALANIO 25    Let good Antonio look he keep his day,       Or he shall pay for this. SALARINO       Marry, well remember'd.       I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,       Who told me, in the narrow seas that part 30    The French and English, there miscarried       A vessel of our country richly fraught:       I thought upon Antonio when he told me;       And wish'd in silence that it were not his. SALANIO       You were best to tell Antonio what you hear; 35    Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him. SALARINO       A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.       I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:       Bassanio told him he would make some speed       Of his return: he answer'd, 'Do not so; 40    Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio       But stay the very riping of the time;       And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,       Let it not enter in your mind of love:       Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts 45    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 50    He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted. SALANIO       I think he only loves the world for him.       I pray thee, let us go and find him out       And quicken his embraced heaviness       With some delight or other. SALARINO 55    Do we so. Exeunt Return to top of page ... or ... Go to next scene